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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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition |
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| Summary: | "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."-- |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 510 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm xvii, 510 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 486-498) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-498) and index |
| ISBN: | 0393247074 9780393247077 |