Bloody Promenade
Subtitle: Reflections on a Civil War Battle (The American South Series)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: February 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780813920412
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Battles & campaigns; Civil war; History; Fiction - General; Biography/Autobiography; USA; General; Literary; Military - United States
First sentence: AT THE LAST light before home, waiting for a left-turn arrow, I have a minute or two to lift my eyes to the hills above the shopping center on my right, above signs for the bank and burger place, car wash and insurance agency, and to find, if the leaves have fallen, the white dome of Monticello, which from this angle looks nothing like the back of a nickel.