John Matteson with A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation

When:
Tuesday, Mar 23, 2021 6:00p -
7:00p

Where:
Online event
99-101 Newbury St
Boston, MA 02116

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
History, Virtual & Streaming

Event website:
https://wgbh.zoom.us/webinar/register/2016135970720/WN_l0xaJmRKQP-GtRezkJPOLA

December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., army chaplain Arthur Fuller, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, and John Pelham, a West Point cadet on the other side of the national schism. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country’s law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Don’t miss hearing about their lives and this new work that interweaves the historic and the personal beautifully and powerfully.

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