Ashes of glory :
Furgurson, Ernest B., 1929-
Ashes of glory : Richmond at war / - 1st ed. - New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996. - xi, 419 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-404) and index.
Who are not for us are against us -- Save Virginia, and we save the Union -- Blood before night -- We shall smite the smiter -- We have broken the spirit of the North -- The perfection of true womanhood -- Our affairs in the hands of noodles -- The horrors of a political capital -- You'll have your hands full -- Shell and be damned! -- The dazzle of it in their eyes -- Can't you wait until we're dead? -- At which Angels might weep -- A scheme so atrocious -- All the patriotism is in the army -- The awful hour has come again -- God has broken our idol -- Thousands of barefooted men -- The biting frosts of Winter -- To destroy the hateful city -- Rats, if fat, are as good as squirrels -- A question of fearful magnitude -- And now they will repent -- Who will answer for the slain? -- We may never meet again -- The Earth seemed to writhe in agony -- Our soul bowed down to the dust -- Epilogue: the company of kings.
0679422323 (hc) 9780679422327 (hc)
95049591
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
Dagelijks leven.
Richmond (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
F234.R557 / F87 1996
975.5/451043
Ashes of glory : Richmond at war / - 1st ed. - New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996. - xi, 419 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-404) and index.
Who are not for us are against us -- Save Virginia, and we save the Union -- Blood before night -- We shall smite the smiter -- We have broken the spirit of the North -- The perfection of true womanhood -- Our affairs in the hands of noodles -- The horrors of a political capital -- You'll have your hands full -- Shell and be damned! -- The dazzle of it in their eyes -- Can't you wait until we're dead? -- At which Angels might weep -- A scheme so atrocious -- All the patriotism is in the army -- The awful hour has come again -- God has broken our idol -- Thousands of barefooted men -- The biting frosts of Winter -- To destroy the hateful city -- Rats, if fat, are as good as squirrels -- A question of fearful magnitude -- And now they will repent -- Who will answer for the slain? -- We may never meet again -- The Earth seemed to writhe in agony -- Our soul bowed down to the dust -- Epilogue: the company of kings.
0679422323 (hc) 9780679422327 (hc)
95049591
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
Dagelijks leven.
Richmond (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
F234.R557 / F87 1996
975.5/451043