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These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory

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These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory - Desjardin, Thomas A
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Ever since the guns of Gettysburg fell silent, and Lincoln delivered his famous two-minute speech four months after the battle, the story of this three-day conflict has become an American legend. We remember Gettysburg as, perhaps, the biggest, bloodiest, and most important battle ever fought-the defining conflict in American history. But how much truth is behind the legend?In These Honored Dead , Thomas A. Desjardin, a prominent Civil War historian and a perceptive cultural observer, demonstrates how flawed our knowledge ...

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These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory 2004, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780306813825

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These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory 2003, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780306812675

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