Representative Americans The Civil War Generation

Name: Representative Americans The Civil War Generation
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ISBN: 9780742521698

ISBN-10: 0742521699

ISBN-13: 9780742521698

Edition: 2002

Authors: Norman K. Risjord

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Americans in the middle decades of the nineteenth century were a people with boundless energy capable of heroic deeds, monumental achievements, and tragic errors. In The Civil War Generation, his newest volume in The Representative Americans series, noted scholar Norman K. Risjord uses biographical sketches to create a composite portrait of the United States during and immediately after the Civil War. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/23/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.80" wide x 9.02" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface



The Coming of War



Stephen A. Douglas: The Struggle to Prevent a (Needless?) War



Frederick Douglass: The Case for a Just War



Harriet Tubman: Moses to Her People



The Warriors



Stonewall Jackson: Christian Soldier



James Anderson: Infantryman in Blue



William Tecumseh Sherman: "War Is Hell"



Wartime Politics



William H. Seward: The Politician as Statesman



Judah P. Benjamin: Inside the Confederacy



Thaddeus Stevens: Avenging Idealist



Robert Smalls: From Slavery to Congress



On the Perimeter of War



Clara Barton: The Medical War



Cornelius Vanderbilt: Capitalists at War



Crazy Horse: A Way of Life Gone Forever



John Wesley Powell and Clarence King: Charting the Virgin West


Index


About the Author