Sing Not War: The Lives of Union & Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America

Sing Not War: The Lives of Union & Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America
ISBN-10
0807834769
ISBN-13
9780807834763
Category
History
Pages
339
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
Univ of North Carolina Press
Author
James Alan Marten

Description

In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the nineteenth century's "Greatest Generation" attempted to blend back into society and how their experiences were treated by non-veterans. --from publisher description

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