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After the War: The Lives and Images of Major Civil War Figures After the Shooting Stopped
After the War The Lives and Images of Major Civil War Figures After the Shooting Stopped Author:David E. Hardin Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy, said F. Scott Fitzgerald. Perhaps no event in American history better illustrates this view than the Civil War and its principal players in the years after the conflict. The value of military glory and ties to greatness would turn toward the tragic even among the victors-like earthquake survivors st... more »umbling into another world, simply trying to make a new life. Their struggle would be a constant tug back toward a destroyed past, and a confrontation with the reality of being strangers in their own land.« less