Bibliograph

Hymns of the Republic, the story of the final year of the American Civil War, S.C. Gwynne

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Hymns of the Republic, the story of the final year of the American Civil War, S.C. Gwynne

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hymns of the Republic

Oclc number

1085219983

Responsibility statement

S.C. Gwynne

Sub title

the story of the final year of the American Civil War

Summary

"S.C. Gwynne's Hymns of the Republic addresses the period from Ulysses S. Grant's appointment as general of all Union armies in March 1864 to the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox a year later.", --Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The end begins -- With malice toward all -- Armies of spring -- A wilderness of pain -- Shovels and other weapons of war -- One additional horror -- Battlefield angel -- A circus of ineptitude -- The persuasive logic of gunpowder -- An elaborate slaughter -- The man who lost everything -- The mind of Ulysses S. Grant -- The war against Lincoln -- Politics of the not-quite-real -- Valley of fire -- Backroads to fame -- The moralist from hell -- Uncle Billy's book of moments -- Death ahead of them, death behind them -- Richmond is burning -- This bitter glory -- The unbearable weight of history -- Hell itself

resource.variantTitle

Story of the final year of the American Civil War

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