Marching home : Union veterans and their unending Civil War /

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 ne...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jordan, Brian Matthew, 1986- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Parade rest.