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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	#327800-XE4
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	New York : Basic Books
Jaar van uitgave	2005
ISBN10	0465014569
ISBN13	9780465014569
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original gilt lettered half cloth, dust jacket, some b/w maps, 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	€ 10,00

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