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The tangled web of the Civil War and Reconstruction, readings and writings from a novelist's perspective, David Madden

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The tangled web of the Civil War and Reconstruction, readings and writings from a novelist's perspective, David Madden

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The tangled web of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

908146063

Responsibility statement

David Madden

Sub title

readings and writings from a novelist's perspective

Table Of Contents

For the new millennium, new perspectives on the Civil War and Reconstruction (as of 1997) -- Fletcher Pratt's A short history of the Civil War: ordeal by fire -- On James McPherson's For cause and comrades: why men fought in the Civil War -- Classics of Civil War fiction -- William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: Quentin! Listen! -- Rediscovering a major Civil War novel : Joseph Stanley Pennell's The history of Rome Hanks and kindred matters -- The innocent stare at the Civil War : Madison Jones's Nashville 1864: the dying of the light -- O. Henry's Civil War surprises -- The last American epic : the Civil War novels of father and son, Michael and Jeff Shaara -- The simultaneous burning of nine bridges in east Tennessee -- The sinking of the Sultana : a meditation on loss and forgetfulness -- Willis Carr, sharpshooter, at Bleak House, Knoxville -- Willis Carr meditates on the act of sketching : hair trigger pencil lines -- Willis Carr, sharpshooter, meditates on photographs -- A fever of dying : Henrietta Ramsey Lenoir and General William Price Sanders -- The incendiary at the forks of the river -- Fragments found on the field : Parson Brownlow and Dr. James Gettys Ramsey -- Lincoln's second Gettysburg Address

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