Imperfect Union : a Father's Search for His Son in the Aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg /

This vivid exploration of one of Gettysburg's most famous stories--the story of a father and a son, the son's courage under fire, and the father's search for his son in the bloody aftermath of battle--reconstructs Bayard Wilkeson's wounding and death, which have been shrouded in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Raasch, Charles (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Stackpole Books, [2016]
Temas:
Wilkeson, Bayard, > 1844-1863.
Wilkeson, Samuel, > 1817-1889.
Wilkeson, Bayard, > 1844-1863
Wilkeson, Samuel, > 1817-1889
1861-1865
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 > Biography.
Fathers and sons > New York (State) > Buffalo > Biography.
War correspondents > New York (State) > Buffalo > Biography.
Battle casualties > Pennsylvania > Gettysburg.
Bataille de Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Penns., 1863 > Biographies.
Pères et fils > New York (État) > Buffalo > Biographies.
Correspondants de guerre > New York (État) > Buffalo > Biographies.
Batailles > Pertes > Pennsylvanie > Gettysburg.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Battle casualties
Fathers and sons
War correspondents
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Casualties.
Buffalo (N.Y.) > Biography.
New York (State) > Buffalo
Pennsylvania > Gettysburg
United States
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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  • Introduction: the probable truth
  • Angels above him
  • A deathlike stillness
  • A nettlesome pain
  • You should have seen him
  • Jove! What a dish!
  • To conscientiously and manfully perform the duties of a journalist
  • A self-made man who worships his creator
  • If I have watermelons and whiskey ready
  • A fanatical, impertinent, revolutionary fellow
  • Now General Sherman, tell us your troubles
  • A changed man was he
  • The yeast which overflows in many columns
  • I am 17 years and six months of age
  • He was pure in thought and word
  • True, steadfast and gentle
  • They string you up to a tree damned quick
  • A country redeemed, saved, baptized
  • In search of captains and children
  • The most persistent news hunter in Washington
  • An unusually gauzy mystery of enchantment
  • Mr. Wilkeson has been constantly attacking the administration
  • Howard's Cowards
  • They are just like our people
  • The sun shining on a piece of hot iron
  • Pandemonium!
  • Hard times at Gettysburg
  • The war devil is in him
  • The most fortunate hazard of the day
  • I have spiked the gun for them
  • A terrible but incredibly fascinating scene
  • The marvel is that any of them escaped
  • The ground shook
  • There was neither vanity or bravado
  • Whether living now or dead he could not tell
  • Death was in every one of them
  • Pursuing his duty with a heavy heart
  • A butcher's pen
  • Hateful ravages
  • They came by the thousands
  • How beautiful he looked at her out of his eyes
  • I would rather hear he was dead than that he had disgraced himself
  • Who can write the history?
  • The blood of a brave son printing upon his tortured heart
  • More than his proportionate part
  • You will almost want to kill him
  • Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh
  • He stood at my side
  • I know what I saw distinctly with my own eyes
  • He would have rather died that way than any other
  • Sorrowful joy and profound gratitude.

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