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Autore |
Hardin David <1940-> |
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After the war [[electronic resource] ] : the lives and images of major Civil War figures after the shooting stopped / / David Hardin |
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Chicago, : Ivan R. Dee, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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9786612960949 |
1-61578-024-6 |
1-282-96094-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (509 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Biography |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Influence |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The daughter of the confederacy : Winnie Davis -- The conqueror's son : Tom Sherman -- The general's last battle : Ulysses S. Grant -- The diarist : Mary Boykin Chesnut -- The crippled knight : John Bell Hood -- That devil Forrest : Nathan Bedford Forrest -- The mad woman : Mary Todd Lincoln -- The good hater : Joseph E. Johnston -- The legend : Robert E. Lee -- The turncoat : George H. Thomas -- Libbie's husband : Elizabeth and George A. Custer. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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""Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy,"" said F. Scott Fitzgerald. Perhaps no event in American history better illustrates this view than the Civil War and its principal players in the years after the conflict. David Hardin's stories of eleven Civil War figures are revealing and touching. Whether Northerner or Southerner, their lives did not end at Appomattox. Their dissimilar outcomes are a feast of irony and, collectively, a portrait of national change. With eleven black-and-white photographs.<br |
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