Matteson, John. A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation. New York: Norton, 2021. Matteson adroitly sets the warp on this beautiful tapestry with the parallel lives of Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., John Pelham, and Chaplain Arthur Fuller. The weft is the CivilContinue reading “A REVIEW: A Worse Place Than Hell”