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Civilian War
Confederate Women and Union Soldiers During Sherman's March
Häftad, 2022
399 kr
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The Civilian War explores home front encounters between elite Confederate women and Union soldiers during Sherman's March, a campaign that put women at the center of a Union army operation for the first time. Ordered to crush the morale as well as the military infrastructure of the Confederacy, …
Animal Histories of the Civil War Era
Av Earl J. Hess
Inbunden, 2022
524 kr
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Animals mattered in the Civil War. Horses and mules powered the Union and Confederate armies, providing mobility for wagons, pulling artillery pieces, and serving as fighting platforms for cavalrymen. Drafted to support the war effort, horses often died or suffered terrible wounds on the …
Tainted Breeze
The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862
Häftad, 1997
283 kr
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Winner of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Book Prize and a Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History In the early morning hours of October 1, 1862, state militia arrested more than two hundred alleged Unionists from five North Texas counties and brought …
Justice of Shattered Dreams
Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court During the Civil War Era
Häftad, 2003
411 kr
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Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816-1890) served on the nation's highest tribunal for twenty-eight tumultuous years and holds a place in legal history as one of the Court's most influential justices. Michael A. Ross creates a …
Lee in the Shadow of Washington
Häftad, 2004
351 kr
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Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table's Laney Prize and the Virginia Historical Society's Richard L. Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia BiographyWhile most historians agree that Robert E. Lee's loyalty to Virginia was the key factor in his decision to join the Confederate cause, Richard …
Railroads in the Civil War
The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat
Av John E. Clark Jr, T Michael Parrish
Häftad, 2004
341 kr
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By the time of the Civil War, the railroads had advanced to allow the movement of large numbers of troops even though railways had not yet matured into a truly integrated transportation system. Gaps between lines, incompatible track gauges, and other vexing impediments remained in both the North …
Loyalty and Loss
Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Häftad, 2004
341 kr
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Though slavery was widespread and antislavery sentiment rare in Alabama, there emerged a small loyalist population, mostly in the northern counties, that persisted in the face of overwhelming odds against their cause. Margaret M. Storey's welcome study uncovers and explores those Alabamians who …
Walker's Texas Division, C.S.a.
Greyhounds of the Trans-Mississippi
Av Richard Lowe
Häftad, 2006
399 kr
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Colourfully known as the ""Greyhound Division"" for its lean and speedy marches across thousands of miles in three states, Major General John G. Walker's infantry division in the Confederate army was the largest body of Texans -- about 12,000 men at its formation -- to serve in the American Civil …
Black Patriot and a White Priest
Andre Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans
Häftad, 2006
449 kr
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Stephen J. Ochs chronicles the intersecting lives of the first black military Civil War hero, Captain André Cailloux of the 1st Louisiana Native Guards, and the lone Catholic clerical voice of abolition in New Orleans, the Reverend Claude Paschal Maistre. Their paths converged in July 1863, when …
Undaunted Radical
The Selected Writings and Speeches of Albion W. Tourgée
Av Mark Elliott, John David Smith
Häftad, 2010
445 kr
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A leading proponent of racial equality in the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century, Albion W. Tourgée (1838-1905) served as the most articulate spokesman of the radical wing of the Republican party, and he continued to advocate for its egalitarian ideals long after …
Lincoln and Citizens' Rights in Civil War Missouri
Balancing Freedom and Security
Inbunden, 2011
582 kr
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During the Civil War, the state of Missouri presented President Abraham Lincoln, United States military commanders, and state officials with an array of complex and difficult problems. Although Missouri did not secede, a large minority of residents owned slaves, sympathised with secession, or …
Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites
Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction
Häftad, 2010
341 kr
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After the American Civil War, several movements for ethnic separatism and political self-determination significantly shaped the course of Reconstruction. The Union Leagues mobilised African Americans to fight for their political rights and economic security while the Ku Klux Klan used intimidation …
Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory
Häftad, 2011
283 kr
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At the now-peaceful spot of Tennessee's Fort Pillow State Historic Area, a horrific incident in the nation's bloodiest war occurred on April 12, 1864. Just as a high bluff in the park offers visitors a panoramic view of the Mississippi River, John Cimprich's absorbing book affords readers a new …
Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War
The Trials of John Merryman
Häftad, 2011
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In the spring of 1861, Union military authorities arrested Maryland farmer John Merryman on charges of treason against the United States for burning railroad bridges around Baltimore in an effort to prevent northern soldiers from reaching the capital. From his prison cell at Fort McHenry, Merryman …
Executing Daniel Bright
Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865
Häftad, 2011
283 kr
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On December 18, 1863, just north of Elizabeth City in rural northeastern North Carolina, a large group of white Union officers and black enlisted troops under the command of Brigadier General Edward Augustus Wild executed a local citizen for his involvement in an irregular resistance to Union army …
William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini
Abolition, Democracy, and Radical Reform
Inbunden, 2013
541 kr
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William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini, two of the foremost radicals of the nineteenth century, lived during a time of profound economic, social, and political transformation in America and Europe. Both born in 1805, but into dissimilar family backgrounds, the American Garrison and Italian …
Bleeding Borders
Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas
Häftad, 2013
341 kr
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In Bleeding Borders, Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel offers a fresh, multifaceted interpretation of the quintessential sectional conflict in pre-Civil War Kansas. Instead of focusing on the white, male politicians and settlers who vied for control of the Kansas territorial legislature, Oertel explores the …
Loathing Lincoln
An American Tradition from the Civil War to the Present
Inbunden, 2014
540 kr
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While most Americans count Abraham Lincoln among the most beloved and admired former presidents, a dedicated minority has long viewed him not only as the worst president in the country's history, but also as a criminal who defied the Constitution and advanced federal power and the idea of racial …
Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln
Inbunden, 2014
722 kr
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The Union army's overwhelming vote for Abraham Lincoln's reelection in 1864 has led many Civil War scholars to conclude that the soldiers supported the Republican Party and its effort to abolish slavery. In Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln, Jonathan W. White …
Corps Commanders in Blue
Union Major Generals in the Civil War
Inbunden, 2014
582 kr
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The outcomes of campaigns in the Civil War often depended on top generals having the right corps commanders in the right place at the right time. Mutual trust and respect between generals and their corps commanders, though vital to military success, was all too rare: Corps commanders were often …
Broken Regiment
The 16th Connecticut's Civil War
Inbunden, 2014
793 kr
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A Broken Regiment recounts the tragic history of one of the Civil War's most ill-fated Union military units. organised in the late summer of 1862, the 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was unprepared for battle a month later, when it entered the fight at Antietam. The results were catastrophic: …
Across the Bloody Chasm
The Culture of Commemoration Among Civil War Veterans
Inbunden, 2014
524 kr
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Long after the Civil War ended, one conflict raged on: the battle to define and shape the war's legacy. Across the Bloody Chasm deftly examines Civil War veterans' commemorative efforts and the concomitant -- and sometimes conflicting -- movement for reconciliation.Though former soldiers from both …
Patrick Henry Jones
Irish American, Civil War General, and Gilded Age Politician
Inbunden, 2015
541 kr
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Patrick Henry Jones's obituary vowed that ""his memory shall not fade among men."" Yet in little more than a century, history has largely forgotten Jones's considerable accomplishments in the Civil War and the Gilded Age that followed. In this masterful biography, Mark H. Dunkelman resurrects …
Reforging the White Republic
Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898
Häftad, 2015
387 kr
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During Reconstruction, former abolitionists in the North had a golden opportunity to pursue true racial justice and permanent reform in America. But after the sacrifice made by thousands of Union soldiers to arrive at this juncture, the moment soon slipped away, leaving many whites throughout the …
Citizen-Officers
The Union and Confederate Volunteer Junior Officer Corps in the American Civil War
Inbunden, 2015
582 kr
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From the time of the American Revolution, most junior officers in the American military attained their positions through election by the volunteer soldiers in their company, a tradition that reflected commitment to democracy even in times of war. By the outset of the Civil War, citizen-officers had …
Confederate Political Economy
Creating and Managing a Southern Corporatist Nation
Inbunden, 2016
568 kr
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In Confederate Political Economy, Michael Bonner suggests that the Confederate nation was an expedient corporatist state -- a society that required all sectors of the economy to work for the national interest, as defined by a partnership of industrial leaders and a dominant government. As Bonner …
Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America
Inbunden, 2016
793 kr
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In Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America, Robin C. Sager probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses shedding light on the nature of marriage and violence in the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. analysing over 1,500 divorce records that reveal intimate details of marriages in …
Extreme Civil War
Guerrilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier
Inbunden, 2016
529 kr
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During the American Civil War the western Trans-Mississippi frontier was host to harsh environmental conditions, irregular warfare, and intense racial tensions that created extraordinarily difficult conditions for both combatants and civilians. Matthew M. Stith's Extreme Civil War focuses on …
Slaveholding Crisis
Fear of Insurrection and the Coming of the Civil War
Inbunden, 2017
582 kr
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In December 1860, South Carolinians voted to abandon the Union, sparking the deadliest war in American history. Led by a proslavery movement that viewed Abraham Lincoln's place at the helm of the federal government as a real and present danger to the security of the South, southerners, both …
Rebels on the Border
Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri
Av Aaron Astor
Häftad, 2017
457 kr
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Rebels on the Border offers a remarkably compelling and significant study of the Civil War South's highly contested and bloodiest border states: Kentucky and Missouri. By far the most complex examination to date, the book sharply focuses on the ""borderland"" between the free North and the …
