Every Drop of Blood
Title | Every Drop of Blood PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Achorn |
Publisher | Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages | 490 |
Release | 2020-03-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 080214876X |
This vividly rendered Civil War history presents “a lively guided tour of Washington during the 24 hours or so around Lincoln’s swearing-in” (Adam Goodheart, Washington Post). By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had left intractable wounds on the nation. Tens of thousands crowded Washington’s Capitol grounds that day to see Abraham Lincoln take the oath for a second term—and witness what was perhaps the greatest inaugural address in American history. Lincoln stunned the nation by arguing that both sides had been wrong, and that the war’s unimaginable horrors might have been God’s just verdict on the national sin of slavery. In Every Drop of Blood, Edward Achorn reveals the nation’s capital on that momentous day—with its mud, sewage, and saloons, its prostitutes, spies, reporters, social-climbing spouses and power-hungry politicians. Swirling around the complex figure of Lincoln, a host of characters are brought to life, from grievously wounded Union colonel Selden Connor to the embarrassingly drunk new vice president, Andrew Johnson, to poet-journalist Walt Whitman; from soldiers’ advocate Clara Barton and African American leader Frederick Douglass to conflicted actor John Wilkes Booth. In indelible scenes, Achorn captures the frenzy and division in the nation’s capital at this crucial moment in America’s history. His story offers new understanding of our great national crisis, and echoes down the decades to resonate in our own time.
The North American Review
Title | The North American Review PDF eBook |
Author | Jared Sparks |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 594 |
Release | 1840 |
Genre | American fiction |
ISBN |
Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
The Medical Gazette
Title | The Medical Gazette PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 1871 |
Genre | |
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The Friend
Title | The Friend PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 440 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | Society of Friends |
ISBN |
The Literary Digest
Title | The Literary Digest PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Jewitt Wheeler |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 850 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | Literature |
ISBN |
Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World
Title | Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Jewitt Wheeler |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 834 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Summer of Beer and Whiskey
Title | The Summer of Beer and Whiskey PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Achorn |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 342 |
Release | 2013-04-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1610392604 |
Describes how a German-born biergarten owner who knew nothing about baseball bought the St. Louis Browns baseball team in an effort to sell more beer and unwittingly formed the American League and revitalized the sport.