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Title: The Nation Reunited: War's Aftermath (Civil War Series) by Richard W. Murphy, Time-Life Books, Thomas Flaherty ISBN: 0809447924 Publisher: Time Life Pub. Date: May, 1989 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Summary: The Time-Life Civil War series reaches a poignant conclusion
Comment: Where do we end the story of the Civil War? With the assassination of Abraham Lincoln? The surrender of the last Confederate troops? The Grand Review of the Union armies at Washington, D.C.? Because the Time-Life series on the Civil War was able to devote over two-dozen volumes to the subject, "The Nation Reunited: War's Aftermath" is able to end with the death of the last Confederate soldier in 1959. This has a certain resonance for me, because I live in the city where the last Union soldier died in 1956 and often see his statue down in Canal Park.
Richard W. Murphy divides the Civil War's aftermath into five chapters after a prologue of "An Unforgettable Last Hurrah," when President Andrews Johnson ordered the Union armies to stage a grand review on May 23-24, 1865. "The North Divided" deals with the political turmoil over how the rebellious Southern states should be dealt with now that the war was over. In addition to covering the efforts of the Radical Republicans and those who wanted to follow Lincoln's example, the chapter has sidebars on the fate of Jefferson Davis, the trial of the commandant of Andersonville Prison Captain Henry Wirz, and how the former slaves were "Free--but Far from Equal." "The Radicals Ascendant" deals with the impeachment trial of President Johnson with a sidebar on the final years of Robert E. Lee. "A Wild Rush for Riches" covers the great migration that followed the Civil War as the West opened up, looking at what "Soldering on the Frontier" meant for the veterans from both sides who continued to fight.
"A Presidency Scarred by Scandal" looks at the troubles of the two administration of President Grant, with over a dozen wonderful Thomas Nast cartoons. "Retreat from Reconstruction" concludes the tale with President Hayes keeping to his promise to remove all troops from the South and how the dead and living veterans of the war came to be honored no matter which side they fought upon during the Civil War. The epilogue to "The Nation Reunited" is a pictorial on the "Twilight for the Blue of Gray," which covers the thousands of monuments honoring wartime deeds of valor, the formalization of Memorial Day in 1868 to honor those who fell in battle, the Soldier's Homes built to take care of elderly and infirmed veterans, and the reunions held at old battlefield, including the 7th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1938. The book's final photograph are survivors of the Philadelphia Brigade and Pickett's division shaking hands across teh stone wall on Cemetery Ridge. Certainly there could have been no more poignant or fitting final image for this epic series of volumes on the great American tragedy of the Civil War.
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Title: The Struggle for Tennessee: Tupelo to Stones River (The Civil War) by James, Jr. Street, Time-Life Books Editors ISBN: 0809447606 Publisher: Time Life Pub. Date: July, 1986 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: War on the Frontier (Civil War Series) by Alvin M., Jr. Josephy, Time-Life Books ISBN: 0809447800 Publisher: Time Life Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Rebels Resurgent: Fredericksburg to Chancellorsville (Civil War) by William K. Goolrick, Time-Life Books Editors, Time-Life Books ISBN: 0809447487 Publisher: Time Life Pub. Date: April, 1987 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Battles for Atlanta (Civil War) by Ronald H. Bailey, Time-Life Books ISBN: 0809447738 Publisher: Time Life Pub. Date: October, 1989 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Twenty Million Yankees: The Northern Home Front (Civil War) by Donald Dale Jackson, Time-Life Books Editors, Time-Life Books ISBN: 0809447525 Publisher: Time Life Pub. Date: May, 1989 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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