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 the crisis of the war

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

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

losing to James Garfield

the rancor increasingly spread to the halls of Congress

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 the crisis of the warComprised 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