![]() ![]() The book will be published in November by Doubleday and Company, in the “Mainstream of America” series. presumably, had won the war.”ĪMERICAN HERITAGE herewith presents selected portions of the final chapters of This Hallowed Ground, a history of the Civil War from the Northern viewpoint, by Bruce Cation. What mattered was to give the people of the North a solid group picture of the men who had taken the headlines A A and who. That all of these individuals were never gathered together in one cavalcade mattered not at all. Ole Peter Hanseu Hailing, who rendered a famous painting of Grant and His Generals. Depining these, artists were often able to reach rare heights ol unreality: among them. However, there were also the generals: and these could be (and almost always were) shown as highly picturesque individuals who galloped about on blooded horses across scenic battlefields on which no one really got urt very badly. He rarely bothered to strike an attitude, and although artists forever tried to giorify him he mostly was an unglamourous individual who did the best he could, kept his mouth shut, and paid the price lor what lias since become known as a very romantic and picturesque war. dust, rain, sleet, blistering sunshine, or other uncomfortable conditions. “The man who really fought the Civil War, whether he tame from the North or from the South, was pretty largely a sweaty private in a somewhat heterogeneous uniform, a man who could get by on parade when he had to hut who spent most of his time slogging it out in mud. ![]()
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