Name: Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier: The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston (en Inglés)
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Author: Dunkelman, Mark H. ; Morris, Errol
ISBN: 9781734627602

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Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier: The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Mark H. Dunkelman

Prefacio de

Errol Morris

Editorial

Gettysburg Publishing

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.68 kg.

ISBN13

9781734627602

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
C. 1800-c. 1861 (época de la exploración y la expansión en estados unidos)
1861-1877 (período de la guerra civil estadounidense y época de la reconstrucción)
Biografía: histórica, política y militar
Historias reales de guerra y combate
Historia de américa
Historia militar

Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier: The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston (en Inglés)

Mark H. Dunkelman (Autor) · Errol Morris (Prefacio de) · Gettysburg Publishing · Tapa Blanda

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Lying dead in Gettysburg in 1863, a solitary Union soldier lacked any standard means of identification. Only a single clue was clutched in his fingers: an ambrotype of his three young children.With this photograph the single clue to his identity, a publicity campaign to locate the soldier's family swept the North. Within a month, his grieving widow and children would be located in Portville, New York. The soldier, a devoted husband and father, was revealed as Sergeant Amos Humiston of the 154th New York Volunteers. Using many previously untapped sources, noted historian Mark H. Dunkelman recreates the fascinating story of 19th-century war, sentiment, and popular culture in full detail.The Humiston story touched deep emotions in Civil War America, inspiring a wave of prose, poetry, and song. Amid the outpouring of public sympathy, a charitable drive grew to assist the bereft family. At the end of the war, the crusade was expanded to establish a home in Gettysburg for orphans of deceased soldiers, The Homestead. The first residents of the institution were Amos Humiston's widow Philinda and her three children: Franklin, Alice, and Frederick. In this extensive account, a full portrait emerges of Amos Humiston, the husband and father destined to be remembered for his death tableau, and of his family, the widow and orphans who struggled for the rest of their lives with celebrity born of tragedy.This paperback reprint edition is updated with a new introduction by the author, as well as a foreword by Academy award-winning film director Errol Morris.