Mr. Flick, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, Submitted the Following Adverse Report: [To Accompany S. 533.]
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Release : 1892
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Release : 1892
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Author : Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1108754643
This volume narrates the major battles and campaigns of the conflict, conveying the full military experience during the Civil War. The military encounters between Union and Confederate soldiers and between both armies and irregular combatants and true non-combatants structured the four years of war. These encounters were not solely defined by violence, but military encounters gave the war its central architecture. Chapters explore well-known battles, such as Antietam and Gettysburg, as well as military conflict in more abstract places, defined by political qualities (like the border or the West) or physical ones (such as rivers or seas). Chapters also explore the nature of civil-military relations as Union armies occupied parts of the South and garrison troops took up residence in southern cities and towns, showing that the Civil War was not solely a series of battles but a sustained process that drew people together in more ambiguous settings and outcomes.
Author : Douglas Deur
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Lewis and Clark National Historical Park (Or. and Wash.)
ISBN : 9780692421741
This book "illuminates the history of the many people who together have called this region home, and their relationships with the park landscapes, waters, and natural resources that continue to set the Columbia-Pacific region apart."--Cover.
Author : William Shurtleff
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 2012
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Author : Richard Handfield Titherington
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 42,12 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Spanish-American War, 1898
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Author : United States
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 41,79 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Soldiers
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Author : United States. Army. Ordnance Department
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Page : 924 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 1878
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Author : Henrietta Keddie
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Page : 896 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 1852
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Release : 1897
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Author : Gary Clayton Anderson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0806166029
In August 1862 the worst massacre in U.S. history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what has come to be known as the Dakota War, the most violent ethnic conflict ever to roil the nation. When it was over, between six and seven hundred white settlers had been murdered in their homes, and thirty to forty thousand had fled the frontier of Minnesota. But the devastation was not all on one side. More than five hundred Indians, many of them women and children, perished in the aftermath of the conflict; and thirty-eight Dakota warriors were executed on one gallows, the largest mass execution ever in North America. The horror of such wholesale violence has long obscured what really happened in Minnesota in 1862—from its complicated origins to the consequences that reverberate to this day. A sweeping work of narrative history, the result of forty years’ research, Massacre in Minnesota provides the most complete account of this dark moment in U.S. history. Focusing on key figures caught up in the conflict—Indian, American, and Franco- and Anglo-Dakota—Gary Clayton Anderson gives these long-ago events a striking immediacy, capturing the fears of the fleeing settlers, the animosity of newspaper editors and soldiers, the violent dedication of Dakota warriors, and the terrible struggles of seized women and children. Through rarely seen journal entries, newspaper accounts, and military records, integrated with biographical detail, Anderson documents the vast corruption within the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the crisis that arose as pioneers overran Indian lands, the failures of tribal leadership and institutions, and the systemic strains caused by the Civil War. Anderson also gives due attention to Indian cultural viewpoints, offering insight into the relationship between Native warfare, religion, and life after death—a nexus critical to understanding the conflict. Ultimately, what emerges most clearly from Anderson’s account is the outsize suffering of innocents on both sides of the Dakota War—and, identified unequivocally for the first time, the role of white duplicity in bringing about this unprecedented and needless calamity.