Pictorial field book of the Civil War : journeys through the battlefields in the wake of conflict /
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| Author / Creator: | Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891. |
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| Edition: | Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed. |
| Imprint: | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. |
| Description: | 3 v. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2796394 |
| Summary: | Before the rise of professional academic history, there were devoted Brahmins of a literary bent (George Bancroft, Francis Parkman and Henry Adams) and skilled researchers and chroniclers, men such as J. Thomas Scharf of Maryland history fame and - the most prolific of all - Ben Lossing of New York, who, since they made their living by writing history, could rightly be labelled professional after all. Every literate history lover in the mid-to-late 19th century knew of Lossing and his work; he may not have been academically trained, but he knew where to look for evidence, did the digging we would expect him to do, and wrote with a flair for the dramatic. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: Hartford : T. Belknap, 1870 (v. 2), 1874 (v. 3), 1876 (v. 1) |
| Physical Description: | 3 v. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0801856698 080185671X 0801856728 |
