Oracle of Lost Causes : John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War /

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"John Newman Edwards was a soldier, a father, a husband, and a noted author. He was also a virulent alcoholic, a duelist, a culture warrior, and a man perpetually at war with the modernizing world around him. From the sectional crisis of his boyhood and the battlefields of the western borderlan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hulbert, Matthew C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Edwards, John N. > (John Newman), > 1839-1889.
Veterans.
Journalists.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers.
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Journalists > Missouri > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Veterans > Biography.
Veterans > Confederate States of America > Biography.
United States > Confederate States of America.
Missouri.
Missouri > Biography.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface: Coming of Age in an Age of Crisis
  • Introduction: A Man at War with the World
  • 1: Into the Forge
  • 2: A Brigade of Iron
  • 3: The Costs of Valor
  • 4: In Quest of Camelot
  • 5: War by Other Means
  • 6: Architect
  • 7: The Ghost and the Monster
  • Epilogue: Fallen Prince
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index .

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