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The Civil War Lover's Guide to New York City (Paperback)
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The Civil War Lover's Guide to New York City (Paperback)
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List price R421
Loot Price R338
Discovery Miles 3 380
You Save R83 (20%)
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Few Americans associate New York City with the Civil War, but the
most populated metropolitan area in the nation, then and now, is
filled with scores of monuments, historical sites, and resources
directly related to those four turbulent years. Veteran author Bill
Morgan's The Civil War Lover's Guide to New York City examines more
than 150 of these largely overlooked and often forgotten historical
gems. New York City has always been full of surprises. Not only was
it largely sympathetic to the South, but its citizens twice voted
overwhelmingly against Abraham Lincoln and the mayor refused to fly
the American flag over city hall on the day of his inauguration.
The USS Monitor, the country's first ironclad, was designed and
built here, and General Meade sent troops to the city straight from
the Gettysburg battlefield to put down the bloodiest civil
rebellion in our history. Morgan's book takes readers on a nearly
endless journey of historical discovery. Walk inside the church
where Stonewall Jackson was baptized (which still holds services),
visit the building where Lincoln delivered his famous"Cooper Union
Speech," and marvel that the church built by the great abolitionist
Henry Ward Beecher is still used for worship. A dozen Civil War era
forts still stand (the star-shaped bastion upon which the Statue of
Liberty rests was a giant supply depot), and one of them sent
relief supplies to besieged Fort Sumter in Charleston. After the
war, New York honored the brave men who fought by erecting some of
the nation's most beautiful memorials in honor of William T.
Sherman, Admiral David Farragut, and Abraham Lincoln. These and
many others still grace parks and plazas around the city. Complete
with full-color photos and maps, Morgan's lavishly illustrated and
designed The Civil War Lover's Guide to New York City is a
must-have book for every student of the Civil War and for every
visitor to New York City.
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