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In his introduction to Patriotic Gore, Edmund Wilson asks, 'Has there ever been another historical crisis of the magnitude of 1861-1865 in which so many people were so articulate?' Regarded by many critics as Wilson's greatest book, Patriotic Gore more than proves the point, brilliantly portraying the vast political, spiritual, and material crisis of the Civil War as reflected in the lives and writings of some thirty representative Americans.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotic_Gore Includes material on Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's cabin, the Battle hymn of the Republic, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Frederick L. Olmstead; Mary Chesnut, John S. Mosby, Robert E. Lee, Alexander H. Stephens, Sidney Lanier, Albion W. Tourgee, George W. Cable, Kate Chopin, Thomas Nelson Page, Ambrose Bierce, and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, among others.Contents:Harriet Beecher Stowe --Calvin Stowe; Francis Grierson; The battle hymn of the republic; The union as religious mysticism --Abraham Lincoln --Northern soldiers: Ulysses S. Grant --Northern soldiers: William T. Sherman --Northerners in the South: Frederick L. Olmsted, John T. Trowbridge --Northerners in the

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Author

Edmund Wilson

Publisher

New York : Oxford University Press

Published

1962

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195006667

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.16 / 5 (176 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14