02843nam 2200625 a 450 991078573890332120200520144314.097866129609491-61578-024-61-282-96094-6(CKB)2670000000262317(EBL)795612(OCoLC)699720778(SSID)ssj0000776866(PQKBManifestationID)12346595(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000776866(PQKBWorkID)10748538(PQKB)10359519(SSID)ssj0000542932(PQKBManifestationID)11347503(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542932(PQKBWorkID)10519529(PQKB)11672588(MiAaPQ)EBC795612(Au-PeEL)EBL795612(CaPaEBR)ebr10480801(CaONFJC)MIL296094(EXLCZ)99267000000026231720100301d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfter the war[electronic resource] the lives and images of major Civil War figures after the shooting stopped /David HardinChicago Ivan R. Deec20101 online resource (509 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-56663-859-3 1-56663-967-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.""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.<brUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865BiographyUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Influence973.7092/2BHardin David1940-1512204MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785738903321After the war3745997UNINA