Brian Matthew Jordan, Marching Home: Union Veterans and their Unending Civil War. 1st Ed., Signed on Bookplate

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Brian Jordan’s Marching Home describes the life-long struggles of the veterans who saved the union.

“Billy Yank’s Civil War did not end with Appomattox. Rather, as Brian Matthew Jordan shows in his beautifully crafted book, the homeward journey of the Union soldier was a long and bitter one. Racked by painful recollections of the battlefield, unprepared for the ways of civilian life, and greeted with suspicion wherever they went, the shell-shocked veterans lived out their lives unable to let go of the memories of a war that their neighbors seemed determined to forget. Framed as a Homeric odyssey, Jordan’s tale of the Union soldier combines unflinching honesty with generous humanity.” –James Oakes.

Lightly crunched dust jacket; else very good. Signed on bookplate.

Jordan, Brian Matthew. Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War. New York: Liveright, 2014. 1st edition, 374p., frontispiece, illustrations.