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Hymns of the Republic

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Hymns of the Republic
Full titleHymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
AuthorS. C. Gwynne
Published2019
Pages406
RecommendedOnce
BuyAmazon
Why it’s on the listThe last year of the Civil War — Grant against Lee, Sherman’s march, the 1864 election, the collapse — narrated at close range.

Where I heard about it

  • Replies to @typesfast — recommended in the replies when he asked on X “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025.

Connections

  • What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
  • Abraham Lincoln · History — where this sits in the corpus.
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