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Johns Hopkins University Press

The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole's AmericaA Tale of Manhood, Sex, and Ambition in the Civil War Era\nAuthor(s): Michael deGruccio\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States\nImprint: Johns Hopkins University Press\nISBN-13: 9781421451541, 978-1421451541\nSynopsis\nA gripping tale of determination, betrayal, and the struggle for dignity amid societal and personal chaos.\n\nIn The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole's America, historian Michael deGruccio offers a gripping tale of ambition, self-making, and tragedy set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and its aftermath. George Cole was a once-hopeful Union soldier whose dreams of heroism and societal recognition unraveled in the chaos of war and personal betrayal at home. Haunted by the war's brutalities, Cole struggled to reclaim his dignity in a post-war nation that, in his mind, had forsaken the most deserving.\n\nWhen he returned home to upstate New York after the war, .