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Author:

Gwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.), 1953- author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Scribner,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

395 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The end begins -- With malice toward all -- The armies of spring -- A wilderness of pain -- Shovels and other weapons of war -- One additional horror -- A 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.

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.

ISBN:

1501116231
9781501116230
1501116223
9781501116223

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1085219983

LCCN:

2019017038

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