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Biographies of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and more, edited by Sherman Hollar

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Biographies of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and more, edited by Sherman Hollar

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

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illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Biographies of the Civil War and Reconstruction

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bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

795695236

Responsibility statement

edited by Sherman Hollar

Series statement

Impact on America: Collective Biographies

Sub title

Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and more

Summary

Nowhere can intricacies of the ideological, regional, and economic tensions that erupted into the American Civil War be better seen than in the individual actors who fought both on and off the battlefields and on either side for what they believed. While some vigorously struggled for emancipation, others vehemently resisted such a notion, while still others were motivated primarily by regional loyalties and the desire to preserve the only way of life they knew. This penetrating volume profiles many of the soldiers, generals, political leaders, and social activists who left indelible marks on t

Table Of Contents

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Millard Fillmore; Chapter 2 Franklin Pierce; Chapter 3 James Buchanan; Chapter 4 Dred Scott; Chapter 5 Thaddeus Stevens; Chapter 6 Sojourner Truth; Chapter 7 John Brown; Chapter 8 David Farragut; Chapter 9 Robert E. Lee; Chapter 10 Joseph E. Johnston; Chapter 11 Jefferson Davis; Chapter 12 Abraham Lincoln; Chapter 13 Andrew Johnson; Chapter 14 Harriet Beecher Stowe; Chapter 15 Horace Greeley; Chapter 16 Wendell Phillips; Chapter 17 Stephen A. Douglas; Chapter 18 George G. Meade; Chapter 19 Jubal A. EarlyChapter 20 Benjamin F. ButlerChapter 21 Julia Ward Howe; Chapter 22 William Tecumseh Sherman; Chapter 23 Harriet Tubman; Chapter 24 James Longstreet; Chapter 25 Nathan Bedford Forrest; Chapter 26 Clara Barton; Chapter 27 Ulysses S. Grant; Chapter 28 Hiram R. Revels; Chapter 29 Mathew Brady; Chapter 30 Mary Chesnut; Chapter 31 Stonewall Jackson; Chapter 32 Winfield Scott Hancock; Chapter 33 George B. Mcclellan; Chapter 34 Philip Sheridan; Chapter 35 Petroleum V. Nasby; Chapter 36 Jeb Stuart; Chapter 37 John Wilkes Booth; Chapter 38 Robert Smalls; Chapter 39 Sarah Edmonds; Conclusion; GlossaryFor More InformationFor Further Reading; Index; Back Cover

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juvenile

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