Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War

by Brian Matthew Jordan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871407817
• ISBN13: 9780871407818
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"