St. Louis, Our Civil War Heritage
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Page : 182 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Missouri
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Page : 182 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Missouri
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Author : Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861-1865. Julia Dent Grant Tent no. 16 (St. Louis, Missouri)
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Page : pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 1992
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Author : Louis S. Gerteis
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
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St Louis played a key role as a strategic staging ground for the Union Army in the American Civil War. This is a portrait of a war-torn city, encompassing a wide range of events such as the murder of publisher Elijah Lovejoy, the infamous Dred Scott saga, battles in the city, and more.
Author : NiNi Harris
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1935806556
During the Civil War, St. Louis was under martial law. The city was divided to the core. A Most Unsettled State conveys this precarious dynamic through the pens of those who experienced it. Author NiNi Harris collects memoirs, letters, sermons, and accounts that reveal a critical time in a volatile place. Learn firsthand about the women who nursed wounded soldiers, the ministers who were appalled by slavery, and Southern sympathizers whose resentment grew as the Union gained control of St. Louis. The book contains eyewitness accounts of significant events that occurred in the streets, not to mention the writers' insights and feelings. Learn firsthand how Julia Dent Grant responded to the news about the Siege of Vicksburg and how her "neighbors were all Southern in sentiment and could not believe that [she] was not." Experience Camp Jackson through the eyes of then-civilian William Tecumseh Sherman, who, with his seven-year-old son Willie at his side, "heard the balls cutting the leaves above our heads, and saw several men and women running in all directions, some of whom were wounded."
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Page : 469 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Missouri
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Author : Adam Arenson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2011-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0674052889
In the battles to determine the destiny of the United States in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, St. Louis, then at the hinge between North, South, and West, was ideally placed to bring these sections together. At least, this was the hope of a coterie of influential St. Louisans. But their visions of re-orienting the nation's politics with Westerners at the top and St. Louis as a cultural, commercial, and national capital crashed as the country was tom apart by convulsions over slavery, emancipation, and Manifest Destiny. While standard accounts frame the coming of the Civil War as strictly a conflict between the North and the South who were competing to expand their way of life, Arenson shifts the focus to the distinctive culture and politics of the American West, recovering the region’s importance for understanding the Civil War and examining the vision of western advocates themselves, and the importance of their distinct agenda for shaping the political, economic, and cultural future of the nation.
Author : Peter Downs
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,71 MB
Release : 2022-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1467152722
The Monuments of a Divided State St. Louis was at the center of several key Civil War events from the Dred Scott decision through the Mississippi Campaign that cut the Confederate States in two. Visit the site from which enslaved people tried to cross the Mississippi River to the free state of Illinois. Discover how hundreds of lawsuits by enslaved people set the stage for the Dred Scott decision that lit the fuse to the Civil War. See the military base that produced over 200 Civil War generals and the arsenal that secessionists and unionists fought to control. Author Peter Downs goes behind the monuments and historic sites to explore the people, relationships and events that influenced the course of civil war in St. Louis and the nation.
Author : Dawn Dupler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1439644799
On May 10, 1861, Union troops surrounded Camp Jackson, a military encampment where Confederate leaders were accused of conspiring to seize the St. Louis Arsenal, the largest store of munitions west of the Mississippi. The state militia, which numbered more than 600 men, answered the call of Missouris pro-Southern governor Claiborne Fox Jackson to assemble but found themselves outnumbered 10 to 1 and were forced to surrender. As federal forces marched them through St. Louis, an angry crowd gathered. Gunfire crackled, leaving more than 24 people dead. St. Louis epitomized the growing tensions between the North and South. The citys strategic position enabled James Eadss shipyards to build ironclads, Jefferson Barracks to muster troops, and Gratiot Street Prison to hold POWs. The list of notables with ties to St. Louis reads like a whos who of the Civil War: Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, William T. Sherman, Nathaniel Lyon, James Longstreet, George Pickett, and others.
Author : Amy Laurel Fluker
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0826274447
In this important new contribution to the historical literature, Amy Fluker offers a history of Civil War commemoration in Missouri, shifting focus away from the guerrilla war and devoting equal attention to Union, African American, and Confederate commemoration. She provides the most complete look yet at the construction of Civil War memory in Missouri, illuminating the particular challenges that shaped Civil War commemoration. As a slaveholding Union state on the Western frontier, Missouri found itself at odds with the popular narratives of Civil War memory developing in the North and the South. At the same time, the state’s deeply divided population clashed with one another as they tried to find meaning in their complicated and divisive history. As Missouri’s Civil War generation constructed and competed to control Civil War memory, they undertook a series of collaborative efforts that paved the way for reconciliation to a degree unmatched by other states. Acts of Civil War commemoration have long been controversial and were never undertaken for objective purposes, but instead served to transmit particular values to future generations. Understanding this process lends informative context to contemporary debates about Civil War memory.
Author : William C. Winter
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9781883982058
This work considers the complex interaction between human and natural forces in the St Louis region from prehistoric times to the present. Drawing upon original documents, and taking a multidisciplinary approach, the authors show how past decisions led to the successes and problems of today.