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17 produkter
Men of Color to Arms!
Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality
Inbunden, 2010
588 kr
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In 1863, at the height of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass promised African Americans that serving in the military offered a sure path to freedom. Once a black man became a soldier, Douglass declared, “there is no power on earth or under the earth which can deny that he has earned the right to …
Yankee Women
Gender Battles in the Civil War
Häftad, 1995
349 kr
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Yankee Woman examines the experiences of women in the Civil War and, in particular, the lives of three courageous and independent women: one a frontline nurse, the second a community organizer, and the third the only woman to serve as a Union army surgeon in the war. Elizabeth Leonard’s in-depth …
All the Daring of the Soldier
Women of the Civil War Armies
Häftad, 1999
317 kr
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Historian Elizabeth Leonard has combed archives, memoirs, and histories to unearth the stories of the hidden and forgotten women who risked their lives for the blue or the gray. These women spied for their cause, remained on the front lines as daughters of the regiments, and even dressed as men and …
Men of Color to Arms!
Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality
Häftad, 2012
225 kr
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In 1863, at the height of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass promised African Americans that serving in the military offered a sure path to freedom. More than 180,000 black men heeded his call to defend the Union, only to find that the path to equality would not be so straightforward. Drawing on …
Lincoln's Forgotten Ally
Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky
E-bok, 2011
294 kr
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Joseph Holt, the stern, brilliant, and deeply committed Unionist from Kentucky, spent the first several months of the American Civil War successfully laboring to maintain Kentucky’s loyalty to the Union and then went on to serve as President Lincoln’s judge advocate general. In Lincoln’s Forgotten …
Slaves, Slaveholders, and a Kentucky Community's Struggle Toward Freedom
E-bok, 2019
551 kr
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Countless lives were transformed by the war that split the nation, and many stories are yet to be revealed about how the Civil War and the Reconstruction era affected Kentuckians. One such narrative is that of Sandy Holt, who, in the summer of 1864, joined tens of thousands of former slaves and …
Slaves, Slaveholders, and a Kentucky Community's Struggle Toward Freedom
E-bok, 2019
539 kr
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Countless lives were transformed by the war that split the nation, and many stories are yet to be revealed about how the Civil War and the Reconstruction era affected Kentuckians. One such narrative is that of Sandy Holt, who, in the summer of 1864, joined tens of thousands of former slaves and …
Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy
A Woman's Adventures in the Union Army
Av Sarah Emma Edmonds, Elizabeth Leonard m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
232 kr
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Among the hundreds of women who, in disguise, enlisted to serve as men during the Civil War, only Sarah Edmonds is known to have written a memoir recounting her experiences. As "Franklin Thompson," she joined the 2nd Michigan Infantry Regiment in 1861, then fought in some of the bloodiest struggles …
Lincoln's Forgotten Ally
Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky
E-bok, 2011
1103 kr
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Joseph Holt, the stern, brilliant, and deeply committed Unionist from Kentucky, spent the first several months of the American Civil War successfully laboring to maintain Kentucky''s loyalty to the Union and then went on to serve as President Lincoln''s judge advocate general. In Lincoln''s …
Lincoln's Forgotten Ally
Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky
Häftad, 2015
399 kr
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Joseph Holt, the stern, brilliant, and deeply committed Unionist from Kentucky, spent the first several months of the American Civil War successfully laboring to maintain Kentucky's loyalty to the Union and then went on to serve as President Lincoln's judge advocate general. In Lincoln's Forgotten …
Benjamin Franklin Butler
A Noisy, Fearless Life
Inbunden, 2022
437 kr
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Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important and controversial military and political leaders of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Remembered most often for his uncompromising administration of the Federal occupation of New Orleans during the war, Butler reemerges in this lively …
Benjamin Franklin Butler
A Noisy, Fearless Life
E-bok, 2022
2409 kr
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Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important and controversial military and political leaders of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Remembered most often for his uncompromising administration of the Federal occupation of New Orleans during the war, Butler reemerges in this lively …
Lincoln's Forgotten Ally
Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky
E-bok, 2011
286 kr
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Joseph Holt, the stern, brilliant, and deeply committed Unionist from Kentucky, spent the first several months of the American Civil War successfully laboring to maintain Kentucky’s loyalty to the Union and then went on to serve as President Lincoln’s judge advocate general. In Lincoln’s Forgotten …
Benjamin Franklin Butler
A Noisy, Fearless Life
E-bok, 2022
405 kr
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Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important and controversial military and political leaders of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Remembered most often for his uncompromising administration of the Federal occupation of New Orleans during the war, Butler reemerges in this lively …
Benjamin Franklin Butler
A Noisy, Fearless Life
E-bok, 2022
2482 kr
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Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important and controversial military and political leaders of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Remembered most often for his uncompromising administration of the Federal occupation of New Orleans during the war, Butler reemerges in this lively …
Lincoln's Forgotten Ally
Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky
E-bok, 2011
1043 kr
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Joseph Holt, the stern, brilliant, and deeply committed Unionist from Kentucky, spent the first several months of the American Civil War successfully laboring to maintain Kentucky’s loyalty to the Union and then went on to serve as President Lincoln’s judge advocate general. In Lincoln’s Forgotten …
Lincoln's Avengers
Justice, Revenge, and Reunion after the Civil War
Häftad, 2005
147 kr
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On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was murdered by John Wilkes Booth, and Secretary of State William H. Seward was brutally stabbed. Clearly a conspiracy was afoot. Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt was put in charge of the investigation and trial. He first set out to punish all of Booth's …
