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Title Statement | Hymns of the Republic: the story of the final year of the American Civil War / S.C. Gwynne. |
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Author | Gwynne, S. C.(Samuel C.), 1953- |
Publication | New York: Scribner,2019. |
Edition | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
Extent of Item | xii, 395 pages |
ISBN | 1501116223 9781501116223 |
Other Number | 3629369 |
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 -- 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. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
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By Location | United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 |