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The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle

Door Margaret S. Creighton

Categorie
Geschiedenis Noord-Amerika
Boeknummer
#327769-XE3
Titel
The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle
Auteur
Creighton, Margaret S.
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Basic Books
Jaar van uitgave
2005
ISBN10
0465014569
ISBN13
9780465014569
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Gettysburg has been written about and studied in great detail over the last 140 years, but there are still many participants whose experiences have been overlooked. In augmenting this incomplete history, Margaret Creighton presents a new look at the decisive battle through the eyes of Gettysburg's women, immigrant soldiers, and African Americans. An academic with a superb flair for storytelling, Creighton draws on memoirs, letters, diaries, and newspapers to get to the hearts of her subjects. Mag Palm, a free black woman living with her family outside of town on Cemetery Ridge, was understandably threatened by the arrival of Lee's Confederate Army; slavers had tried to capture her three years before. Carl Schurz, a political exile who had fled Germany after the failed 1848 revolution, brou... (Lees verder)ght a deeply held fervor for abolitionism to the Union Army. Sadie Bushman, a nine-year-old cabinetmaker's daughter, was commandeered by a Union doctor to assist at a field hospital. In telling the stories of these and a dozen other participants, Margaret Creighton has written a stunningly fluid work of original history--a narrative that is sure to redefine the Civil War's most essential battle.
Pagina's
321
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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