The Civil War generation / Norman K. Risjord.
- Title
- The Civil War generation / Norman K. Risjord.
- Published by
- Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, c2002.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- x, 371 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--Back cover.
- Series statement
- Representative Americans
- Risjord, Norman K. Representative Americans
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Contents
- pt. 1. The Coming of War -- 1. Stephen A. Douglas: The Struggle to Prevent a (Needless?) War -- 2. Frederick Douglass: The Case for a Just War -- 3. Harriet Tubman: Moses to Her People -- pt. 2. The Warriors -- 4. Stonewall Jackson: Christian Soldier -- 5. James Anderson: Infantryman in Blue -- 6. William Tecumseh Sherman: "War Is Hell" -- pt. 3. Wartime Politics -- 7. William H. Seward: The Politician as Statesman -- 8. Judah P. Benjamin: Inside the Confederacy -- 9. Thaddeus Stevens: Avenging Idealist -- 10. Robert Smalls: From Slavery to Congress -- pt. 4. On the Perimeter of War -- 11. Clara Barton: The Medical War -- 12. Cornelius Vanderbilt: Capitalists at War -- 13. Crazy Horse: A Way of Life Gone Forever.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Note
- "A Madison House book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain