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After the war : the lives and images of major Civil War figures after the shooting stopped / David Hardin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hardin, David, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.
- United States.
- History.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 345 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2010.
- Summary:
- "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 E. 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781566638593
- 1566638593
- OCLC:
- 505421263
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