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Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War

Brian Matthew Jordan

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Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War

Marching Home won the Gov. John Andrew Award (Union Club of Boston) and was a Pulitzer Prize in History finalist. For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative of the fate of Union veterans, who won the war but couldn't bear the peace. These veterans—tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning for paltry pensions—tragically realized that they stood as unwelcome reminders to a new America eager to heal, forget, and embrace the freewheeling bounty of the Gilded Age. Mining previously untapped archives, Jordan uncovers anguished letters and diaries, essays by amputees, and gruesome medical reports, all deeply revealing of the American psyche. Marching Home makes almost unbearably personal the rage and regret of Union veterans. Their untold stories are critically relevant today.

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Publisher
Liveright
Year
2015
ISBN-13
9780871407818
Genre
History
Topics
Civil War veteransReconstruction era societyWar trauma and disability

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