LEADER 02843nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910785738903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612960949 010 $a1-61578-024-6 010 $a1-282-96094-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000262317 035 $a(EBL)795612 035 $a(OCoLC)699720778 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000776866 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12346595 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000776866 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10748538 035 $a(PQKB)10359519 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000542932 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11347503 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542932 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10519529 035 $a(PQKB)11672588 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC795612 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL795612 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10480801 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL296094 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000262317 100 $a20100301d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfter the war$b[electronic resource] $ethe lives and images of major Civil War figures after the shooting stopped /$fDavid Hardin 210 $aChicago $cIvan R. Dee$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (509 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-56663-859-3 311 $a1-56663-967-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $a""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.