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A groundbreaking investigation evaluating the destiny of Union veterans who earned the warfare but couldn't endure the calmness. For more than a century, traditional Civil Battle histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly earned calmness and Union troops coming back triumphantly home. In a very landmark work that issues sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil Battle historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative. These veterans - tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning for paltry pensions - tragically realized that they stood as unwelcome reminders to a new America eager to heal, forget, and accept the freewheeling bounty of the Gilded Age. Mining recently untapped archives, Jordan uncovers anguished characters and diaries, essays by amputees, and gruesome medical reports, all deeply revealing of the American psyche. In the model of 21st century histories like Drew Gilpin Faust's This Republic of Anguish or Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles that illuminate the plight of the normal man, Marching Home makes almost unbearably personal the rage and regret of Union veterans. Their untold tales are critically relevant today.
