"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy," said F. Scott Fitzgerald. Perhaps no event in American history better illustrates this view than the Civil War and its principal players in the years after the conflict. David E. Hardin's stories of eleven Civil War figures are revealing and touching. Whether Northerner or Southerner, their lives did not end at Appomattox. Their dissimilar outcomes are a feast of irony and, collectively, a portrait of national change. With eleven black-and-white photographs.
"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy," said F. Scott Fitzgerald. Perhaps no event in American history better illustrates this view than the Civil War and its principal players in the years after the conflict. David E. Hardin's stories of eleven Civil War figures are revealing and touching. Whether Northerner or Southerner, their lives did not end at Appomattox. Their dissimilar outcomes are a feast of irony and, collectively, a portrait of national change. With eleven black-and-white photographs.
Chapter 1: The Daughter of the Confederacy: Winnie Davis Chapter 2: The Conqueror's Son: Tom Sherman Chapter 3: The General's Last Battle: Ulysses S. Grant Chapter 4: The Diarist: Mary Boykin Chesnut Chapter 5: The Crippled Knight: John Bell Hood Chapter 6: That Devil Forrest: Nathan Bedford Forrest Chapter 7: The Mad Woman: Mary Todd Lincoln Chapter 8: The Good Hater: Joseph E. Johnston Chapter 9: The Legend: Robert E. Lee Chapter 10: The Turncoat: George H. Thomas Chapter 11: Libbie's Husband: Elizabeth and George A. Custer
Chapter 1: The Daughter of the Confederacy: Winnie Davis Chapter 2: The Conqueror's Son: Tom Sherman Chapter 3: The General's Last Battle: Ulysses S. Grant Chapter 4: The Diarist: Mary Boykin Chesnut Chapter 5: The Crippled Knight: John Bell Hood Chapter 6: That Devil Forrest: Nathan Bedford Forrest Chapter 7: The Mad Woman: Mary Todd Lincoln Chapter 8: The Good Hater: Joseph E. Johnston Chapter 9: The Legend: Robert E. Lee Chapter 10: The Turncoat: George H. Thomas Chapter 11: Libbie's Husband: Elizabeth and George A. Custer
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