| Description |
xii, 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The end begins -- With malice toward all -- 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 -- Back roads 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 (pages 355-368) 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. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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| Added Title |
Story of the final year of the American Civil War |
| ISBN |
9781501116223 (hardcover) |
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