Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil WarCritical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes prove Wilson to be the consummate witness to the most eloquently recorded era in American history. |
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
Ulysses S Grant | 131 |
William T Sherman | 174 |
Frederick L Olmsted | 219 |
Charlotte Forten | 239 |
Kate Stone Sarah | 258 |
William | 336 |
Alexander H Stephens | 380 |
The Myth of the Old South Sidney Lanier | 438 |
Albion | 529 |
Ambrose Bierce on the Owl Creek Bridge | 617 |
The Chastening of American Prose Style John | 635 |
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes | 743 |
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