RUINS of HAMPTON. Virginia
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Author : Megan Kate Nelson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 28,23 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 082034379X
During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers’ bodies were transformed into “dead heaps of ruins,” novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did Americans—northern and southern, black and white, male and female—make of this proliferation of ruins? Ruin Nation is the first book to bring together environmental and cultural histories to consider the evocative power of ruination as an imagined state, an act of destruction, and a process of change. Megan Kate Nelson examines the narratives and images that Americans produced as they confronted the war’s destructiveness. Architectural ruins—cities and houses—dominated the stories that soldiers and civilians told about the “savage” behavior of men and the invasions of domestic privacy. The ruins of living things—trees and bodies—also provoked discussion and debate. People who witnessed forests and men being blown apart were plagued by anxieties about the impact of wartime technologies on nature and on individual identities. The obliteration of cities, houses, trees, and men was a shared experience. Nelson shows that this is one of the ironies of the war’s ruination—in a time of the most extreme national divisiveness people found common ground as they considered the war’s costs. And yet, very few of these ruins still exist, suggesting that the destructive practices that dominated the experiences of Americans during the Civil War have been erased from our national consciousness.
Author : Alice Matthews Erickson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1625847017
From its beginning as a Tidewater town in the 1600s, Hampton, Virginia, has weathered many storms, including the disastrous effects of the Civil War and the difficulties of Reconstruction. The city's picturesque harbors have witnessed the rise of a thriving seafood industry, the growth of educational opportunity and the plight of Hampton's African American community. Author Alice Erickson uses her own family, the Hickman family, as a vehicle to unite compelling vignettes of Hampton's most storied era. Discover the intricacies of the Virginia secession, the turmoil of Federal occupation and the revitalization of Hampton out of the ashes of conflict. Follow along Erickson's tragic and adventurous story, whose ending has yet to be written.
Author : Henry J. Browne
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Release : 2017-11
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Photographic survey of numerous significant ruins in Virginia including residences, train stations, slave quarters, kilns and forges, canals and locks, villages, viaducts, bridges, mills, springs, and churches.
Author : Robert Underwood Johnson
Publisher : Book Sales Inc
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 18,45 MB
Release : 2010-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780890095706
/Robert Underwood Johnson Opens with the siege and capture of Fort Pulaski, the capture of New Orleans, and a summary of operations in the far southwest. Chronicled are Lee's campaign against the second Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, and finally the battles at Luka and Cori
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Author : Roberta Baxter
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1432939181
Describes life in the southern United States during the Civil War, discussing life on farms, plantations, and in cities and the roles played by women, children, and slaves.
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