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Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War

Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War

Furgurson, Ernest B.

Paperback

Series: Vintage Civil War Library

Presidents & Heads of StateCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 0375704094
ISBN13: 9780375704093
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Nov 8 2005
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.12
Height: 1.06 Width: 5.07 Depth: 8.14
Language: English
In this luminous portrait of wartime Washington, Ernest B. Furgurson-author of the widely acclaimed Chancellorsville 1863, Ashes of Glory, and Not War but Murder--brings to vivid life the personalities and events that animated the Capital during its most tumultuous time. Here among the sharpsters and prostitutes, slaves and statesmen are detective Allan Pinkerton, tracking down Southern sympathizers; poet Walt Whitman, nursing the wounded; and accused Confederate spy Antonia Ford, romancing her captor, Union Major Joseph Willard. Here are generals George McClellan and Ulysses S. Grant, railroad crew boss Andrew Carnegie, and architect Thomas Walter, striving to finish the Capitol dome. And here is Abraham Lincoln, wrangling with officers, pardoning deserters, and inspiring the nation. Freedom Rising is a gripping account of the era that transformed Washington into the world's most influential city.

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