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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455023803321

Autore

Gramm Kent

Titolo

Somebody's darling [[electronic resource] ] : essays on the Civil War / / Kent Gramm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-06294-8

9786612062940

0-253-10913-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

973.7

Soggetti

Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863

Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864

Electronic books.

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Influence

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Literature and the war

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Gettysburg nobody knows -- Somebody's darling -- Ghosts of Gettysburg -- A ghost story -- American Iliad -- The song of god -- Wilderness -- The real war -- "nothing but omnipotence" -- A soldier's grave -- A soldier's bones -- Face-to-face -- Witness -- " . . . you cannot refine it" -- The road to Gettysburg.

Sommario/riassunto

In his latest book, Kent Gramm examines the meaning of the Civil War                experience in our lives and explores philosophical and personal aspects of the War                that lie outside the scope of traditional historical study. He probes the meaning of                Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Antietam; the lives of U. S. Grant, Robert E. Lee,                O. O. Howard, and Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce; and the legacy of the unknown                participant, ""somebody's darling,"" for whom the war would come to                encompass all things. The Iron Brigade a