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Imperfect union : a father's search for his son in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg / Chuck Raasch.
Author
Raasch, Charles
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Lanham, Maryland : Stackpole Books, [2016]
Description
xiv, 402 pages ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
E475.53 .R223 2016
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Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
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Biography
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Fathers and sons
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New York (State)
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Buffalo
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Biography
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War correspondents
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New York (State)
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Buffalo
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Biography
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Battle casualties
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Pennsylvania
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Gettysburg
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United States
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History
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Civil War, 1861-1865
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Casualties
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Buffalo (N.Y.)
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Biography
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Wilkeson, Bayard 1844-1863
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Wilkeson, Samuel 1817-1889
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Biographies
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Summary note
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 myth and legend, and sheds light on Civil War era journalism, battlefield medicine, and the good death.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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ISBN
9780811718936 (hardcover)
081171893X (hardcover)
LCCN
2016012456
OCLC
944568450
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