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Author : Barbara L. Bellows
Release : 1995
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Book Synopsis God and General Longstreet: The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind by : Barbara L. Bellows
Download or read book God and General Longstreet: The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind written by Barbara L. Bellows. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Lawrence Connelly
Release : 1995-03
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis God and General Longstreet by : Thomas Lawrence Connelly
Download or read book God and General Longstreet written by Thomas Lawrence Connelly. This book was released on 1995-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a century after Appomattox, the Civil War and the idea of the "Lost Cause" remain at the center of the southern mind. God and General Longstreet traces the persistence and the transformation of the Lost Cause from the first generation of former Confederates to more recent times, when the Lost Cause has continued to endure in the commitment of southerners to their regional culture. Southern writers from the Confederate period through the southern renascence and into the 1970s fostered the Lost Cause, creating an image of the South that was at once romantic and tragic. By examining the work of these writers, Thomas Connelly and Barbara Bellows explain why the nation embraced this image and outline the evolution of the Lost Cause mentality from its origins in the South's surrender to its role in a centurylong national expression of defeat that extended from 1865 through the Vietnam War. As Connelly and Bellows demonstrate, the Lost Cause was a realization of mortality in an American world striving for perfection, an admission of failure juxtaposed against a national faith in success.
Author : Jeffry D. Wert
Release : 2015-05-26
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 786/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis General James Longstreet by : Jeffry D. Wert
Download or read book General James Longstreet written by Jeffry D. Wert. This book was released on 2015-05-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General James Longstreet fought in nearly every campaign of the Civil War, from Manassas (the first battle of Bull Run) to Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Gettysburg, and was present at the surrender at Appomattox. Yet, he was largely held to blame for the Confederacy's defeat at Gettysburg. General James Longstreet sheds new light on the controversial commander and the man Robert E. Lee called “my old war horse.”
Author : Michael Shaara
Release : 2004-11-02
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Killer Angels by : Michael Shaara
Download or read book The Killer Angels written by Michael Shaara. This book was released on 2004-11-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “remarkable” (Ken Burns), “utterly absorbing” (Forbes) Civil War classic that inspired the film Gettysburg, with more than three million copies in print “My favorite historical novel . . . a superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant.”—James M. McPherson In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation’s history, two armies fought for two conflicting dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love. And far more than men fell on those Pennsylvania fields. Bright futures, untested innocence, and pristine beauty were also the casualties of war. Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece is unique, sweeping, unforgettable—the dramatic story of the battleground for America’s destiny.
Author : Jeffry D. Wert
Release : 1994-12
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis General James Longstreet by : Jeffry D. Wert
Download or read book General James Longstreet written by Jeffry D. Wert. This book was released on 1994-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Longstreet was unfairly blamed for the defeat at Gettysburg.
