Wars Within A War: Controversy and Conflict Over the American Civil War: Twelve Leading Scholars on the Meaning of the War and its Memory (Joan Waugh, Gary W. Gallagher - CH) night and in the brutal battles

and in the brutal battles waged during the Battle of the Bulge and during the final combats along the borders of the collapsing Reich

Contemporary concerns have distorted the reality of nineteenth-century Americans

as they fled to Union lines in the disloyal South

he came into office with practically no experience in military strategy and tactics

the crisis of the war forced a reconfiguration of the emotional worlds of the men who took up arms for the South

Wars Within A War: Controversy and Conflict Over the American Civil War: Twelve Leading Scholars on the Meaning of the War and its Memory (Joan Waugh, Gary W. Gallagher - CH) night and in the brutal battlesComprised of essays from twelve leading scholars, this volume extends the discussion of Civil War controversies far past the death of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865. Contributors address, among other topics, Walt Whitmans poetry, the handling of the Union and Confederate dead, the treatment of disabled and destitute northern veterans, Ulysses S. Grants imposing tomb, and Hollywoods long relationship with the Lost Cause narrative. The