Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (David W. Blight - CH) Smith Tucker recounts the story of

Tucker recounts the story of Custer at Gettysburg with verve

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All the other regiments of Hood’s Texas Brigade would suffer over a 50 percent casualty rate at the battle

Based upon extensive primary source material and featuring original maps by cartographer Steven Stanley

In the fall of 1858

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (David W. Blight - CH) Smith Tucker recounts the story ofby David W. Blight Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Winner of the Merle Curti award Winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race