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Gettysburg heroes : perfect soldiers, hallowed ground / Glenn W. LaFantasie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- LaFantasie, Glenn W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863--Influence.
- Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
- Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863--Biography.
- Generals--United States--Biography.
- Generals.
- Soldiers--United States--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863--Social aspects.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Civil War generation saw its world in ways startlingly different from our own. In these essays, Glenn W. LaFantasie examines the lives and experiences of several key personalities who gained fame during the war and after. The battle of Gettysburg is the thread that ties these Civil War lives together. Gettysburg was a personal turning point, though each person was affected differently. Largely biographical in its approach, the book captures the human drama of the war and shows how this group of individuals-including Abraham Lincoln, James Longstreet, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, William
- Contents:
- Lee's old war horse
- Frank A. Haskell : tragic hero of the Union
- Becoming Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the American dream
- Finding William C. Oates
- An Alabamian's Civil War
- Hell in Haymarket
- William C. Oates and the death of General Farnsworth
- Mr. Lincoln's victory at Gettysburg
- Lincoln and the Gettysburg awakening
- Memories of Little Round Top
- Ike and Monty take Gettysburg
- The many meanings of Gettysburg
- Feeling the past at Gettysburg.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611726430
- 9781281726438
- 1281726435
- 9780253000170
- 0253000173
- OCLC:
- 248522681
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