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After the thunder

by Wilmer L. Jones · 2000

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Examines the post-war lives of fourteen men, both Union and Confederate, who continued to serve in leadership roles after the Civil War, including Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and John Bell Hood.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Themes
presidentspresidentsMore like thisLess of this
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19th century19th centuryMore like thisLess of thiscivil warcivil warMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 385 pages

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