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Автор: Kevin Hillstrom, Laurie Collier Hillstrom
Издательство: Gale
Год издания: 2003
isbn: 0-7876-3821-8
Количество страниц: 277
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Размер: 6 Мб
Каталожный номер: 1433
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American Civil War: Biographies presents biographies of sixty men and women who participated in or were affected by the Civil War. These two volumes profile a diverse mix of personalities from both the North and the South, including military leaders, politicians, abolitionists, artists, spies,and escaped slaves. Detailed biographies of major Civil War figures (such as Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S.Grant, Frederick Douglass, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson)are included. But American Civil War: Biographies also provides biographical information on lesser-known but nonetheless important and fascinating men and women of that era. Examples include Thaddeus Lowe, the daring commander of the Union’s manned balloon corps; Mathew Brady, the famed Civil War photographer; and Rose O’Neal Greenhow, a Confederate spy who drowned during an attempt to smuggle gold into the South in the hoops of her dress.
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