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A worse place than hell, how the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg changed a nation, John Matteson

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A worse place than hell, how the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg changed a nation, John Matteson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 486-498) and index

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contains biographical information

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A worse place than hell

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bibliography

Oclc number

1156994284

Responsibility statement

John Matteson

Sub title

how the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg changed a nation

Summary

Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their ineradicable legacy for America. In December 1862, the Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and threatened to break apart Abraham Lincoln's government. Five extraordinary individuals experienced Fredericksburg's cataclysmic repercussions--Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, John Pelham, and Arthur Fuller. Guided by duty, driven by desire, they moved toward lofty destinies: a young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, a gay Brooklyn poet condemned by guardians of propriety, a struggling writer desperate to serve the cause and gain her philosopher father's admiration, a West Point cadet from Alabama excelling in artillery tactics, and a one-eyed minister seeking to prove his manhood. Because of what they saw and suffered, America, too, would never be the same. John Matteson creates a gripping tale of the Civil War and profound cultural transformation

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