Hymns of the Republic : the story of the final year of the American Civil War

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

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."

Record details

ISBN: 9781501116223
ISBN: 1501116223
ISBN: 9781501116230
ISBN: 1501116231
ISBN: 9781501116247
Physical Description: print
xii, 395 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-368) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.