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Brian Matthew Jordan

Biography

Brian Matthew Jordan

Brian Matthew Jordan holds a PhD in history from Yale University and is lecturer of Civil War Era studies at Gettysburg College. He lives with his wife in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a stone’s throw from the battlefield.

Brian Matthew Jordan

Books by Brian Matthew Jordan

Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
by Brian Matthew Jordan - History, Nonfiction

Following the Civil War, Union veterans --- tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning for paltry pensions --- tragically realized that they stood as unwelcome reminders to a new America eager to heal, forget and embrace the freewheeling bounty of the Gilded Age. Mining previously untapped archives, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan uncovers anguished letters and diaries, essays by amputees, and gruesome medical reports, all deeply revealing of the American psyche.