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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. 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.In the model of twenty-first-century histories like Drew Gilpin Faust’s This Republic of Suffering or Maya Jasanoff ’s Liberty’s Exiles that illuminate the plight of the common man, Marching Home makes almost unbearably personal the rage and regret of Union veterans. Their untold stories are critically relevant today.
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- EditoreLiveright Pub Corp
- Data di pubblicazione2015
- ISBN 10 0871407817
- ISBN 13 9780871407818
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- Numero di pagine374
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. Beginning where most Civil War histories end, Brian Matthew Jordan's groundbreaking reinterpretation of post-Civil War society reveals the desperate fate that awaited Union veterans after demobilization. While Confederate troops returned to homes that shared their sense of defeat and wounded pride., Union soldiers encountered northern civilians who were determined to shield themselves from the grisly realities of the battlefield-'eager to put the War behind them. On May 23, 1865, the victorious Union army paraded through the streets of Wasington, D.C., marking an end to the bloody Civil War. The soldiers were cheered and feted, hailed with a banner that read, "The Only National Debt We Owe Our Victorious Union Soldiers." For generations, this romantic vision of Union veterans as the celebrated heroes of a bitterly won peace has dominated our understanding of the war's legacy. Beginning with the restless weeks that followed Appomattox, Jordan recalls Billy Yank's grueling homeward journey and the looming threat of criminals attempting to steal hard-won pensions. In a remarkable feat of historical detection, Jordan has uncovered voluminous archives of veterans' correspondence, medical records, pension files, and neglected veteran newspaper accounts that fundamentally alter our rosette perception. Citing the anguished correspondence they left behind., Jordan recovers startling details of Union veterans' fraught reintegration into civilian routines: one lieutenant used his diary to painstakingly rewrite his War experience each day instead of documenting his new life; another drilled his bulldog by moonlight to perform the familiar motions of battle. Many veterans simply could not forget, could not move on, and found little sympathy in a nation ready to look ahead. In creating a new historical synthesis, Jordan provides a perspective on the psychological burdens that few previous historians have explored. His masterful account demonstrates that while northerners were willing to salute the heroism of Union soldiers, they remained terribly ill-equipped to mitigate the challenges of their homecoming. Battling physical pain and psychic trauma that was barely understood. Codice articolo 841
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