Hope Never to See It
A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence During the American Civil War
Illustrator: Carman, Anderson
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"Hope Never to See It illustrates two exceptional incidents of guerrilla violence in Missouri during the American Civil War: (1) a Union spy's two-week-long murder spree targeting civilians, and; (2) pro-Confederate guerrillas' mutilation of over 150 U.S. troops. The men leading the atrocities weren't so different; the Union spy (Jacob Terman, alias Harry Truman) and the infamous guerrilla ("Bloody" Bill Anderson) both claimed to be avenging the deaths of their families, they both operated under orders from military officials, and they both drank hard. The book's unique medium-sequential art-d...
"Hope Never to See It illustrates two exceptional incidents of guerrilla violence in Missouri during the American Civil War: (1) a Union spy's two-week-long murder spree targeting civilians, and; (2) pro-Confederate guerrillas' mutilation of over 150 U.S. troops. The men leading the atrocities weren't so different; the Union spy (Jacob Terman, alias Harry Truman) and the infamous guerrilla ("Bloody" Bill Anderson) both claimed to be avenging the deaths of their families, they both operated under orders from military officials, and they both drank hard. The book's unique medium-sequential art-displays these grisly realities to mute the war's glorification and to help prompt a modern, meaningful reconciliation with the war-something historians and a politically-divided public are clamoring for. The book's moral ambiguities call into question our understanding of the laws of war and the ends of wars"--
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