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Book Review of Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War

Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War
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The Civil War is the American "Iliad". Lincoln, Stonewall Jackson, Grant, and Lee still stand as heroic ideals, as stirring to our national memory as were the legendary Achilles and Hector to the world of the ancient Greeks. Within the story our "Iliad", one battle stands forth above all others: Gettysburg.