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The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole's America : A Tale of Manhood, Sex, and Ambition in the Civil War Era / Michael deGruccio.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- deGruccio, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murderers--United States--Biography.
- Murderers.
- Men--United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Men.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Army--Officers--Biography.
- Cole, George W. (George Washington), 1827-1875.
- Cole, George W.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (388 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "This book offers a gripping tale of ambition, self-making, and tragedy set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and its aftermath. This meticulously researched microhistory of a pained veteran explores how increasing rights for women, the end of slavery, expanding access to market goods, burgeoning towns and cities, the madness of war, and the congealing corruption in government and business brought a new birth of fraught freedom"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue. A Domestic Tragedy (in an American Hotel)
- Part I Bred in the Bone
- Chapter 1 America, Republic without Grace
- Chapter 2 To See Ourselves as Others See Us
- Chapter 3 The False Dawn of Seneca Falls
- Part II Delusions of Manhood
- Chapter 4 Fog of War
- Chapter 5 George Washington, Town Destroyer
- Chapter 6 Below the Beast
- Chapter 7 Tears for Uncle Tom
- Chapter 8 A Good Deal of Trouble
- Chapter 9 No Return
- Chapter 10 The Resurrectionists
- Chapter 11 Mutiny
- Chapter 12 Family, the Inflammatory Stimulus
- Part III Odyssey after War
- Chapter 13 Homecoming
- Chapter 14 Killing for Union
- Chapter 15 Rising Men (Who Nearly Needed God)
- Chapter 16 The Domesticated Prisoner
- Chapter 17 Confessions
- Chapter 18 Mary. Wife. Self.
- Chapter 19 Life Imitates Art
- Chapter 20 Some Magnetic Power
- Chapter 21 Heroic Wounds
- Chapter 22 Rings and Friends
- Chapter 23 Schemes and Smoke
- Chapter 24 Buried on the Brow of a Hill
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Key to Sources Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781421451558
- 1421451557
- OCLC:
- 1506885247
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