Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War is a 1962 book of historical and literary criticism written by Edmund Wilson. It consists of 26 chapters about the works and lives of almost 30 writers, includingAmbrose Bierce,George Washington Cable‡,Mary Boykin Chesnut,Kate Chopin,John William De Forest‡ (who, as Henry Steele Commager puts it, "surprisingly gets more space than any other writer, North or South"),Charlotte Forten,Ulysses Grant‡, Francis Grierson‡,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Hinton Rowan Helper,Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.‡, Henry James,Sidney Lanier,Abraham Lincoln,John S. Mosby,Frederick Law Olmsted,Thomas Nelson Page,Harriet Beecher Stowe‡,Albion W. TourgéeJohn Townsend Trowbridge,Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman. In addition to De Forest, Wilson pays particular att