Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War by Ernest B. Furgurson

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Author:	Ernest B. Furgurson	Format:	--
Publisher:	Alfred a Knopf Inc	Edition:	1
ISBN-10:	0679422323	ISBN-13:	9780679422327
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Publication Year:	--	Subject:	--
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Ernest B. Furgurson portrays both the governmental leaders and the regular citizens of the Confederacy's capital in this study of Richmond during the Civil War. Richmond retained its pride despite the privations of war, and the stories of its residents are the centerpiece of this portrait of a city under siege.
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Length:	419 pages
Height:	9.8 in.
Width:	6.8 in.
Thickness:	1.5 in.
Weight:	30.4 oz.

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In Ashes of Glory, Ernest B. Furgurson conjures up wartime Richmond in vivid detail. We meet not only with such luminaries as Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson but with a strikingly broad spectrum of the community: preachers, nurses, newspapermen, bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, slaves, slave dealers, bootleggers, actors, spies, prostitutes, prisoners of war, refugees, handsome widows, eager debutantes, and swarms of enlisted men and officers from all over the South. Furgurson ushers us into the legendary Spotswood Hotel, where generals and gentry communed amid gossip and bourbon. He admits us to the hospitals crammed with amputees and infested by rats. He plunges us into a bread riot involving several hundred citizens and spurred by a "woman huckster". He shows us that, despite universal hardship, Richmond fairly crackled with spirit: theater manager John Hill Hewitt kept melodrama flowing on the city's popular stages; taffy parties, faro parlors, and sewing circles kept various other constituencies entertained; Colonel Thomas E. Rose of Pennsylvania and dozens more tunneled out of notorious Libby Prison; the genteel Union sympathizer Elizabeth Van Lew conducted an elaborate and extraordinarily successful campaign of espionage. Meanwhile, beneath the surface, a compound of defiance, despair, and paranoia preyed on the nerves of everyone from President Davis on down, turning a stunned and battered, once-glamorous society virtually inside out. Telling the story of the Confederacy's capital, from July of 1861 to the end of the Civil War, Ashes of Glory portrays not only such luminaries as Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee but also the rank and file of Richmond: the preachers, merchants, matrons, nurses, newspapermen, POWs, prostitutes, bootleggers, and spies, who kept the city bustling even when its destiny seemed most grim. 16 pp. of photos. 3 maps.
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"The narrow focus [of the book] brings out some points very sharply. Mr. Ferguson, a journalist and the author of 'Chancellorsville 1863', is not a historian who draws attention to his literary strategy, but it is clearly no accident that he devotes much space to those Richmonders who remained loyal to the Union. And one's overall impression is that his purpose is to show men and women paying a hideous price for the pleasures of self-deception." New York Times Book Review - Hugh Brogan (09/29/1996) "Furgurson has done the impossible: told us a Civil War story we haven't heard before." Ad - Roger Mudd

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Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War

Ernest B. Furgurson

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Binding:	Hardcover
Book Condition:	Good
Jacket Condition:	Good

ISBN:	0679422323
Publication Date:	1996-09-24
Publisher:	Knopf

Pages:	419
Height:	1.5000 inches
Width:	6.7500 inches
Weight:	1.8600 pounds

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