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- author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

United States.

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

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (509 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2011.

Place of Publication:

[Chicago] : Ivan R. Dee, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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 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

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-332) and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-41736-1

979-82-16-36278-4

9786612960949

1-61578-024-6

1-282-96094-6

OCLC:

699720778