
After the War
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David Hardin's stories of eleven such figures are revealing and touching: the explosive romance between Jefferson Davis's daughter and the grandson of a Yankee abolitionist; the struggle between the irreligious William T. Sherman and his devout Catholic wife for the soul of their unstable son; the bankrupt Ulysses Grant's heroic race to complete his memoirs and provide for his family while dying of cancer. These are among the stories and people in After the War, which also includes the Southern diarist Mary Chesnut, the luckless Confederate John Bell Hood, the sometimes Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest, the shopaholic Mary Lincoln, the gentlemanly Joe Johnston, the mythological Robert E. Lee, the underappreciated Union general George Thomas, and the plucky Libbie Custer, who defended her husband best known for his reckless disaster.
Whether Northerner or Southerner, their lives did not end at Appomattox. Their dissimilar outcomes are a feast of irony and, collectively, a portrait of national change. With eleven black-and-white photographs.
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Chapter 2: The Conqueror's Son: Tom Sherman
Chapter 3: The General's Last Battle: Ulysses S. Grant
Chapter 4: The Diarist: Mary Boykin Chesnut
Chapter 5: The Crippled Knight: John Bell Hood
Chapter 6: That Devil Forrest: Nathan Bedford Forrest
Chapter 7: The Mad Woman: Mary Todd Lincoln
Chapter 8: The Good Hater: Joseph E. Johnston
Chapter 9: The Legend: Robert E. Lee
Chapter 10: The Turncoat: George H. Thomas
Chapter 11: Libbie's Husband: Elizabeth and George A. Custer
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