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Author:

Howard, Hugh, 1952- author.

Title:

Houses of Civil War America : the homes of Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, and others who shaped the era / by Hugh Howard ; original photography by Roger Straus III.

Edition:

First ed.

Publisher:

LittleBrown and Company,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

250 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Dwellings--United States.
Historic buildings--United States.
Architecture, Domestic--United States.
United States--History, Local.
United States--Social aspects.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

Other Authors:

Straus, Roger. photographer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial House -- Rail stop at Rokeby --John C. Calhoun's Fort Hill -- Cassius Clay's White Hall -- Abraham Lincoln Home -- John Brown farm and gravesite -- General Beauregard visits the Edmonston-Alston House -- Robert E. Lee and Arlington House -- Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson House -- Eldress Nancy Moore and South Union SHaker Village -- Haller and Julia Nutt at Longwood -- Mary Conrad Weeks Moore and Shadows-on-the-Teche -- President Lincoln's cottage -- Jefferson Davis and the White House of the Confederacy -- Horace Greeley House -- General Sherman occupies the Green-Meldram House -- William Henry Seward House -- Generals Grant and Lee at the Wilmer McLean house -- Frederick Douglass's Cedar Hill -- Clara Barton house -- Ulysses S. Grant cottage -- Harriet Beecher STowe house -- Alexander H. Stephens's Liberty Hall -- Jefferson Davis's Beauvoir.

ISBN:

9780316227988 (hardcover)
0316227986 (hardcover) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)871788507

LCCN:

2014934463

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

KOPC446 -- H.J. Nugen Public Library (New London)