Representative Americans

Americans in the middle decades of the nineteenth century were a people with boundless energy capable of heroic deeds, monumental achievements, and tragic errors. In The Civil War Generation, his newest volume in The Representative Americans series, noted scholar Norman K. Risjord uses biographical sketches to create a composite portrait of the United States during and immediately after the Civil War. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Norman K. Risjord is emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught for more than three decades. He is the author of thirteen books on American history

Preface

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Part 1: The Coming of War

Stephen A. Douglas: The Struggle to Prevent a (Needless?) War

3

(26)

Frederick Douglass: The Case for a Just War

29

(28)

Harriet Tubman: Moses to Her People

57

(22)

Part 2: The Warriors

Stonewall Jackson: Christian Soldier

79

(30)

James Anderson: Infantryman in Blue

109

(20)

William Tecumesh Sherman: ``War Is Hell''

129

(30)

Part 3: Wartime Politics

William H. Seward: The Politician as Statesman

159

(28)

Judah P. Benjamin: Inside the Confederacy

187

(20)

Thaddeus Stevens: Avenging Idealist

207

(28)

Robert Smalls: From Slavery to Congress

235

(26)

Part 4: On the Perimeter of War

Clara Barton: The Medical War

261

(22)

Cornelius Vanderbilt: Capitalists at War

283

(24)

Crazy Horse: A Way of Life Gone Forever

307

(28)

John Wesley Powell and Clarence King: Charting the Virgin West

335

(26)

Index

361

(12)

About the Author

373

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Representative Americans

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

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