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Imperfect Union: A Father's Search for His Son in the Aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg Hardcover - 2016

by Chuck Raasch


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On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, Union artillery lieutenant Bayard Wilkeson fell while bravely spurring his men to action. His father, Sam, a New York Times correspondent, was already on his way to Gettysburg when he learned of his son's wounding but had to wait until the guns went silent before seeking out his son, who had died at the town's poorhouse. Sitting next to his dead boy, Sam Wilkeson then wrote one of the greatest battlefield dispatches in American history. This vivid exploration of one of Gettysburg's most famous stories--the story of a father and a son, the son's courage under fire, and the father's search for his son in the bloody aftermath of battle--reconstructs Bayard Wilkeson's wounding and death, which have been shrouded in myth and legend, and sheds light on Civil War-era journalism, battlefield medicine, and the "good death."

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  • Title Imperfect Union: A Father's Search for His Son in the Aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg
  • Author Chuck Raasch
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stackpole Books
  • Date 2016
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780811718936 / 081171893X
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.2 x 1.3 in (22.86 x 15.75 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Library of Congress subjects Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863, Buffalo (N.Y.)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016012456
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Chuck Raasch is the chief Washington correspondent for the St. Louis Post Dispatch. He was one of the five original long-form writers for USA Today when it began in 1982 and a national correspondent for Gannett News Service for twenty-five years. A graduate of South Dakota State University, Raasch completed a journalism fellowship at Stanford and is a member of the National Press Club and the Gridiron Club. He lives in the Washington, D.C., metro area.
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