The Civil War generation / Norman K. Risjord.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Risjord, Norman K.

Series:

Risjord, Norman K. Representative Americans

Representative Americans

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.

United States.

United States--History--1849-1877--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 371 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]

Summary:

Americans in the middle decades of the nineteenth century were a people with boundless energy capable of heroic deeds, monumental achievements, and tragic errors. In The Civil War Generation, his newest volume in The Representative Americans series, noted scholar Norman K. Risjord uses biographical sketches to create a composite portrait of the United States during and immediately after the Civil War. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Contents:

Part 1 The Coming of War

1. Stephen A. Douglas: The Struggle to Prevent a (Needless?) War 3

2. Frederick Douglass: The Case for a Just War 29

3. Harriet Tubman: Moses to Her People 57

Part 2 The Warriors

4. Stonewall Jackson: Christian Soldier 79

5. James Anderson: Infantryman in Blue 109

6. William Tecumseh Sherman: "War Is Hell" 129

Part 3 Wartime Politics

7. William H. Seward: The Politician as Statesman 159

8. Judah P. Benjamin: Inside the Confederacy 187

9. Thaddeus Stevens: Avenging Idealist 207

10. Robert Smalls: From Slavery to Congress 235

Part 4 On the Perimeter of War

11. Clara Barton: The Medical War 261

12. Cornelius Vanderbilt: Capitalists at War 283

13. Crazy Horse: A Way of Life Gone Forever 307

14. John Wesley Powell and Clarence King: Charting the Virgin West 335.

Notes:

"A Madison House book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742521680

0742521699

OCLC:

49773706