Gettysburg Heroes: Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed GroundThe Civil War generation saw its world in ways startlingly different from our own. In these essays, Glenn W. LaFantasie examines the lives and experiences of several key personalities who gained fame during the war and after. The battle of Gettysburg is the thread that ties these Civil War lives together. Gettysburg was a personal turning point, though each person was affected differently. Largely biographical in its approach, the book captures the human drama of the war and shows how this group of individuals—including Abraham Lincoln, James Longstreet, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, William C. Oates, and others—endured or succumbed to the war and, willingly or unwillingly, influenced its outcome. At the same time, it shows how the war shaped the lives of these individuals, putting them through ordeals they never dreamed they would face or survive. |
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... American National Standard for Information SciencesiPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.4871984. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress CatalogingeinePublication Data LaFantasie, Glenn W ...
... American Dream 68 5. Finding William C. Oates 9o 6. An Alabamian's Civil War 102 7. Hell in Haymarket 119 8. William C. Oates and the Death of General Farnsworth 132 9. Mr. Lincoln's Victory at Gettysburg 148 10. Lincoln and the ...
... Americans who participated in the nation's worst—and bloodiest— cataclysm. I even have something to say about Lincoln, and not all of it is necessarily complimentary, although my esteem for him—the greatest of all American presidents ...
... Americans and as individuals. Seeing what men “can be and do,” as Emerson put it, has impressed, as— tounded, and humbled ... American society. I have immensely enjoyed the company of these men, even when that has meant coping with the ...
... tricks in the country anymore. The best way is to own up that you got drunk, passed out on the tracks, and got in the way of a train.”1 Ever since 1863, Americans—and not just one-legged hobos—have often tried Introduction.
Contents
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Tragic Hero of the Union | 35 |
3 Becoming Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain | 49 |
4 Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the American Dream | 68 |
5 Finding William C Oates | 90 |
6 An Alabamians Civil War | 102 |
7 Hell in Haymarket | 119 |
10 Lincoln and the Gettysburg Awakening | 160 |
11 Memories of Little Round Top | 172 |
12 Ike and Monty Take Gettysburg | 192 |
13 The Many Meanings of Gettysburg | 207 |
14 Feeling the Past at Gettysburg | 217 |
Notes | 229 |
Index | 271 |
back cover | 281 |
8 William C Oates and the Death of General Farnsworth | 132 |
9 Mr Lincolns Victory at Gettysburg | 148 |