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Heroes, martyrs, and survivors of the Civil War : the generation that fought the war and its legacy / by Arthur J. Amchan.
- Title
- Heroes, martyrs, and survivors of the Civil War : the generation that fought the war and its legacy / by Arthur J. Amchan.
- Author
- Amchan, Arthur J.
- Publication
- Alexandria, Va. : Amchan Publications, c1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E467 .A43 1991 | Off-site |
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- Description
- iii, 323 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-323) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the great survivor -- Paul Joseph Revere, killed at Gettysburg, 1863 -- Robert Gould Shaw, a most willing martyr -- killed at Fort Wagner, South Carolina, 1863 -- Charles Russell Lowel, Jr., a life of unlimited promise -- killed at Cedar Creek, 1864 -- Josephine Shaw Lowell, a saint dressed in black
- Henry L. Abbott, killed at the Willderness, 1864 -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a prophet who fought and survived -- U.S. Grant, abject failure to national savior -- Rutherford B. Hayes, a well-established family man finds happiness in mortal combat -- James A. Garfield, heroism and intrigue at Chickamauga -- Benjamin Harrison, storming the way to Atlanta
- William McKinley, from boy soldier to champion of sound money -- Julius Peter Garesche, killed at Stone's River 1862 -- Charles Schurz, hero of the German revolution, Union general, political reformer -- Robert E. Lee, the paragon of Southern virtue -- Nathan Bedford Forest, the devil incarnate -- Wade Hampton, the redeemer of South Carolina
- James Longstreet, the Confederate apostate -- Major General Joseph Wheeler, the Confederate general who commanded the American cavalry in Cuba -- Nelson A. Miles, the Boston crockery clerk who became commanding general of the U.S. Army
- The first General MacArthur and our first war in Asia -- Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph B. Foraker, the last of the black Republicans -- Did the United States Army "Massacre" Sioux civilians at Wounded Knee one hundred years ago?
- ISBN
- 0961713224 :
- LCCN
- ^^^90085281^
- OCLC
- 24509994
- SCSB-12760988
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library