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A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation

byJohn Matteson

In A Worse Place Than Hell, John Matteson presents a biographical portrait centered on how the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation. By tracing causes alongside consequences, the narrative gives readers both a grounded account and a route into the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. Together, these elements make A Worse Place Than Hell an accessible guide to the subject and the questions it continues to raise.

Publisher

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

480

ISBN

9780393247077