For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have
concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers
returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges
sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian
Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative. These
veterans tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning
for paltry pensions tragically realized that they stood as
unwelcome reminders to a new America eager to heal, forget, and
embrace the freewheeling bounty of the Gilded Age. Mining
previously untapped archives, Jordan uncovers anguished letters and
diaries, essays by amputees, and gruesome medical reports, all
deeply revealing of the American psyche.
In the model of twenty-first-century histories like Drew Gilpin
Faust s This Republic of Suffering or Maya Jasanoff s Liberty s
Exiles that illuminate the plight of the common man, Marching Home
makes almost unbearably personal the rage and regret of Union
veterans. Their untold stories are critically relevant today."
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