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Imperfect union : a father's search for his son in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg
- Title
- Imperfect union : a father's search for his son in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg / Chuck Raasch.
- Author
- Raasch, Charles
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Stackpole Books, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 402 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Buffalo (N.Y.) > Biography
- Wilkeson, Samuel, 1817-1889
- Fathers and sons > New York (State) > Buffalo > Biography
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Casualties
- Wilkeson, Bayard, 1844-1863
- Battle casualties > Pennsylvania > Gettysburg
- Biographies
- War correspondents > New York (State) > Buffalo > Biography
- Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: the probable truth -- Angels above him -- A deathlike stillness -- A nettlesome pain -- You should have seen him -- Jove! What a dish! -- To conscientiously and manfully perform the duties of a journalist -- A self-made man who worships his creator -- If I have watermelons and whiskey ready -- A fanatical, impertinent, revolutionary fellow -- Now General Sherman, tell us your troubles -- A changed man was he -- The yeast which overflows in many columns -- I am 17 years and six months of age -- He was pure in thought and word -- True, steadfast and gentle -- They string you up to a tree damned quick -- A country redeemed, saved, baptized -- In search of captains and children -- The most persistent news hunter in Washington -- An unusually gauzy mystery of enchantment -- Mr. Wilkeson has been constantly attacking the administration -- Howard's Cowards -- They are just like our people -- The sun shining on a piece of hot iron -- Pandemonium! -- Hard times at Gettysburg -- The war devil is in him -- The most fortunate hazard of the day -- I have spiked the gun for them -- A terrible but incredibly fascinating scene -- The marvel is that any of them escaped -- The ground shook -- There was neither vanity or bravado -- Whether living now or dead he could not tell -- Death was in every one of them -- Pursuing his duty with a heavy heart -- A butcher's pen -- Hateful ravages -- They came by the thousands -- How beautiful he looked at her out of his eyes -- I would rather hear he was dead than that he had disgraced himself -- Who can write the history? -- The blood of a brave son printing upon his tortured heart -- More than his proportionate part -- You will almost want to kill him -- Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh -- He stood at my side -- I know what I saw distinctly with my own eyes -- He would have rather died that way than any other -- Sorrowful joy and profound gratitude.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-2653
- ISBN
- 9780811718936
- 081171893X
- LCCN
- 2016012456
- OCLC
- 944568450
- Author
- Raasch, Charles, author.
- Title
- Imperfect union : a father's search for his son in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg / Chuck Raasch.
- Publisher
- Lanham, Maryland : Stackpole Books, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-2653