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Author
Publisher
Whipporwill
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
512 p.
Language
English
Description
A chronological summary and record of every engagement between the troops of the Union and of the Confederacy and showing the total losses and casualties together with war maps of localities compiled from the official records of the War Department. Illustrated with fac-simile photographic reproductions of the official war photographs taken at the time by Mathew B. Brady. Originally published: A history of the Civil War, 1861-65. Charles F. Johnson....
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
c1961, c1918
Physical Desc
xxiv, 517 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James....