A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation write by John Matteson. This book was released on 2021-02-09. A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America. December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country’s law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American. Guided by patriotism, driven by desire, all five moved toward singular destinies. A young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. confronted grave challenges to his concept of duty. The one-eyed army chaplain Arthur Fuller pitted his frail body against the evils of slavery. Walt Whitman, a gay Brooklyn poet condemned by the guardians of propriety, and Louisa May Alcott, a struggling writer seeking an authentic voice and her father’s admiration, tended soldiers’ wracked bodies as nurses. On the other side of the national schism, John Pelham, a West Point cadet from Alabama, achieved a unique excellence in artillery tactics as he served a doomed and misbegotten cause. A Worse Place Than Hell brings together the prodigious forces of war with the intimacy of individual lives. Matteson interweaves the historic and the personal in a work as beautiful as it is powerful.
Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front
Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front write by Chris Mackowski. This book was released on 2013-05-01. Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book-length study of two overlooked engagements that helped turned the tide of a pivotal Civil War battle. By May of 1863, the stone wall at the base of Marye’s Heights above Fredericksburg, Virginia, loomed large over the Army of the Potomac, haunting its men with memories of slaughter from their crushing defeat there the previous December. They would assault it again with a very different result the following spring. This time the Union troops wrested the wall and high ground from the Confederates and drove west into the enemy’s rear. The inland drive stalled in heavy fighting at Salem Church. Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front is the first book to examine Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church and the central roles they played in the final Southern victory. Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White have long appreciated the pivotal roles these engagements played in the Chancellorsville campaign, and just how close the Southern army came to grief—and the Union army to stunning success. Together they seamlessly weave their extensive newspaper, archival, and firsthand research into a compelling narrative to better understand these combats, which usually garner little more than a footnote to the larger story of Stonewall Jackson’s march and fatal wounding. Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front offers a thorough examination of the decision-making, movements, and fighting that led to the bloody stalemate at Salem Church, as Union soldiers faced the horror of an indomitable wall of stone—and an undersized Confederate division stood up to a Union juggernaut.
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father write by John Matteson. This book was released on 2010-08-13. Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and fame. The other prize she deeply coveted—her father's understanding—seemed hardest to win. This story of Bronson and Louisa's tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters.
Hallowed Ground
Hallowed Ground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hallowed Ground write by James M. McPherson. This book was released on 2015-05-06. Hallowed Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this fully illustrated edition of "Hallowed Ground," James M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Battle Cry of Freedom," and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world, walks readers through the Gettysburg battlefield-the site of the most consequential battle of the Civil War.
Louisa May's Battle
Louisa May's Battle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Louisa May's Battle write by Kathleen Krull. This book was released on 2013-03-05. Louisa May's Battle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recounts the author's experiences as a young woman caring for wounded Union soldiers in Washington, D.C. during the Civil War and the impact that these experiences had on her development as an author.
