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Matteson, John, author.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.
Pelham, John, 1838-1863.
Fuller, Arthur B. (Arthur Buckminster), 1822-1862.
Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862 -- Social aspects.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
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A worse place than hell : how the civil war battle of Fredericksburg changed a nation / John Matteson.
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Matteson, John, author.
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Subjects
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.
Pelham, John, 1838-1863.
Fuller, Arthur B. (Arthur Buckminster), 1822-1862.
Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862 -- Social aspects.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
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9780393247077 (hardcover) :
0393247074 (hardcover) :
Description:
xvii, 510 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits; 24 cm
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First Edition.
Contents:
The poet's son -- The blond artillerist -- Burnside's bridge and a Broadway bar -- An army in crisis -- A man of God -- "The most beautiful girl runner" -- "Beauty" and "Sallie" -- "Believe me, we shall never lick 'em" -- Caroline Street -- Pelham does first rate -- The stone wall -- Southbound trains -- "A worse place than hell" -- The prince of patients -- "Death itself has lost all its terrors" -- "Our fearful journey home" -- The song of the hermit thrush -- St. Patrick's Day, 1863 -- "The duty of fighting has ceased for me" -- "To act with enthusiasm and faith."
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"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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