TY  - BOOK
AU  - Raasch,Charles
TI  - Imperfect Union: A Father's Search for His Son in the Aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg 
SN  - 9780811765466
AV  - E475 .I474 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Lanham, Maryland
PB  - Stackpole Books
KW  - Wilkeson, Bayard,
KW  - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
KW  - Biography
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - Buffalo
KW  - War correspondents
KW  - Battle casualties
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Gettysburg
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: the probable truth --; Angels above him --; A deathlike stillness --; A nettlesome pain --; You should have seen him --; Jove! What a dish! --; To conscientiously and manfully perform the duties of a journalist --; A self-made man who worships his creator --; If I have watermelons and whiskey ready --; A fanatical, impertinent, revolutionary fellow --; Now General Sherman, tell us your troubles --; A changed man was he --; The yeast which overflows in many columns --; I am 17 years and six months of age --; He was pure in thought and word --; True, steadfast and gentle --; They string you up to a tree damned quick --; A country redeemed, saved, baptized --; In search of captains and children --; The most persistent news hunter in Washington --; An unusually gauzy mystery of enchantment --; Mr. Wilkeson has been constantly attacking the administration --; Howard's Cowards --; They are just like our people --; The sun shining on a piece of hot iron --; Pandemonium! --; Hard times at Gettysburg --; The war devil is in him --; The most fortunate hazard of the day --; I have spiked the gun for them --; A terrible but incredibly fascinating scene --; The marvel is that any of them escaped --; The ground shook --; There was neither vanity or bravado --; Whether living now or dead he could not tell --; Death was in every one of them --; Pursuing his duty with a heavy heart --; A butcher's pen --; Hateful ravages --; They came by the thousands --; How beautiful he looked at her out of his eyes --; I would rather hear he was dead than that he had disgraced himself --; Who can write the history? --; The blood of a brave son printing upon his tortured heart --; More than his proportionate part --; You will almost want to kill him --; Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh --; He stood at my side --; I know what I saw distinctly with my own eyes --; He would have rather died that way than any other --; Sorrowful joy and profound gratitude; 2; b
N2  - 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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