U.S. Civil War - Confederate Soldiers - Military Biography, United States Army, United States Army - Military Biography, Historical Biography - United States - 19th Century, Confederate States of America - Armed Forces, Presidents of the United States - B
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Overview
Beginning with the fall of Richmond and Lee's surrender at Appomattox, After the Thunder examines in detail the aftermath of the Civil War, following the lives of the leaders in the conflict as they found their way home from the battlefield to forge a new future from their war-ravaged past. Wilmer Jones profiles fourteen figures, revealing in intimate detail the characters who shaped the postwar Union while Americans on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line faced the hardships of Reconstruction.
Editorials
Civil War News
Biography is the backbone of history, and this book provides an interesting and informative read.The Civil War News
Biography is the backbone of history, and this book provides an interesting and informative read.Publishers Weekly -
A more accurate subtitle for this opinionated portrait of Civil War-era fighters and statesmen might have been "Military Heroes of the Civil War." Jones, a member of the Baltimore Civil War Roundtable, studied the conflict for 40 years and became curious about its aftermath: "What happened to the participants after the war?" Here he presents a collection of colorful portraits of a range of Southern and Northern men--including Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman, Andrew Johnson and George Custer. Johnson was "in almost every way unfit to be president" in Jones's damning (and debatable) view; he also opines that Grant's most important contribution as president was shattering the Ku Klux Klan and that Confederate president Jefferson Davis "treated his slaves leniently..., had a false notion of what slavery was and never fully understood its evil." At times far too sympathetic and adulatory of Lost Cause heroes, Jones nearly veers off into hagiography in his chapter on Lee. However, this vibrant narrative, strikingly illustrated with period photographs, bristles with telling details and memorable anecdotes and portrays vividly the pathos of the war and its aftermath. (Apr.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|Book Details
Published
June 8, 2026
Publisher
Dallas, Tex. : Taylor Pub., c2000.
Pages
368
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780878331765