A worse place than hell: how the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg changed a nation

"In December 1862, the Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and threatened to break apart Abraham Lincoln's government. Five extraordinary individuals experienced Fredericksburg's cataclysmic repercussions -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, John...

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1. Verfasser: Matteson, John 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. [2021]
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:"In December 1862, the Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and threatened to break apart Abraham Lincoln's government. Five extraordinary individuals experienced Fredericksburg's cataclysmic repercussions -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, John Pelham, and Arthur Fuller. Guided by duty, driven by desire, they moved toward lofty destinies: a young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, a gay Brooklyn poet condemned by guardians of propriety, a struggling writer desperate to serve the cause and gain her philosopher father's admiration, a West Point cadet from Alabama excelling in artillery tactics, and a one-eyed minister seeking to prove his manhood. Because of what they saw and suffered, America, too, would never be the same."--
Beschreibung:xvii, 510 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations, map 25 cm
ISBN:9780393247077

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