Bibliograph

Type

Label

Marching home, union veterans and their unending Civil War, Brian Matthew Jordan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-354) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Marching home

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

898206054

Responsibility statement

Brian Matthew Jordan

Sub title

union veterans and their unending Civil War

Summary

For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative. These veterans--tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning for paltry pensions--tragically realized that they stood as unwelcome reminders to a new America eager to heal, forget, and embrace the freewheeling bounty of the Gilded Age. Mining previously untapped archives, Jordan uncovers anguished letters and diaries, essays by amputees, and gruesome medical reports, all deeply revealing of the American psyche

Table Of Contents

Introduction: When this cruel war was "over" -- A day for songs and contests -- Stranger at the gates -- Ithaca at last -- Living monuments -- Captive memories -- A debt of honor -- This degradation of souls -- Epilogue: parade rest

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