Last of the Blue and Gray - 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 Last of the Blue and Gray write by Richard A. Serrano. This book was released on 2013-10-08. Last of the Blue and Gray available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, pens a story of two veterans. In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota, hospital, his memories as a Yankee drummer boy slowly dimming. Walter Williams, at 117 blind and deaf and bedridden in his daughter's home in Houston, Texas, no longer could tell of his time as a Confederate forage master. The last of the Blue and the Gray were drifting away; an era was ending. Unknown to the public, centennial officials, and the White House too, one of these men was indeed a veteran of that horrible conflict and one according to the best evidence nothing but a fraud. One was a soldier. The other had been living a great, big lie.
Last of the Blue and Gray
Last of the Blue and Gray - 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 Last of the Blue and Gray write by Richard A. Serrano. This book was released on 2013-10-08. Last of the Blue and Gray available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, pens a story of two veterans. In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota, hospital, his memories as a Yankee drummer boy slowly dimming. Walter Williams, at 117 blind and deaf and bedridden in his daughter's home in Houston, Texas, no longer could tell of his time as a Confederate forage master. The last of the Blue and the Gray were drifting away; an era was ending. Unknown to the public, centennial officials, and the White House too, one of these men was indeed a veteran of that horrible conflict and one according to the best evidence nothing but a fraud. One was a soldier. The other had been living a great, big lie.
A Soldier to the Last
A Soldier to the Last - 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 Soldier to the Last write by Edward G. Longacre. This book was released on 2011. A Soldier to the Last available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of only two Confederate generals who are buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Behind the Blue and Gray
Behind the Blue and Gray - 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 Behind the Blue and Gray write by Delia Ray. This book was released on 1997-09. Behind the Blue and Gray available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. History of the Civil War series.
Blue and Gray Diplomacy
Blue and Gray Diplomacy - 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 Blue and Gray Diplomacy write by Howard Jones. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Blue and Gray Diplomacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this examination of Union and Confederate foreign relations during the Civil War from both European and American perspectives, Howard Jones demonstrates that the consequences of the conflict between North and South reached far beyond American soil. Jones explores a number of themes, including the international economic and political dimensions of the war, the North's attempts to block the South from winning foreign recognition as a nation, Napoleon III's meddling in the war and his attempt to restore French power in the New World, and the inability of Europeans to understand the interrelated nature of slavery and union, resulting in their tendency to interpret the war as a senseless struggle between a South too large and populous to have its independence denied and a North too obstinate to give up on the preservation of the Union. Most of all, Jones explores the horrible nature of a war that attracted outside involvement as much as it repelled it. Written in a narrative style that relates the story as its participants saw it play out around them, Blue and Gray Diplomacy depicts the complex set of problems faced by policy makers from Richmond and Washington to London, Paris, and St. Petersburg.
