Visions of Glory

Company

Library of Congress

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$34.95

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Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War. The essays in this collection reveal how wartime women and men created both written accounts and a visual register to make sense of this pivotal period. T he collection proceeds chronologically, providing a nuanced history by highlighting the multiple meanings an assorted group of writers and readers discern from the same set of circumstances. In so doing, this volume assembles contingent and fractured visions of…