Author : William C. Davis
Publisher : First Glance Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN :
The second volume in William C. Davis's Civil War trilogy The Imperiled Union: 1861-1865 takes up the story after its first world-shaking and bloody eighteen months. Mr. Davis shows that by mid-1862 (nobody had expected that the war would last so long), the war had become at once a civil war and a revolution, a circumstance that would forever alter the way Americans saw each other as well as the world's perception of the United States.
Author : Arthur B. Carter
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781572330474
"The tarnished Cavalier is more than a story of scandal. Carter sheds new light on Confederate conduct of the war in the western theater during 1861 and 1862, revisits the pivotal battles of Pea Ridge and Corinth - both of which are important to understanding the loss of the upper South - and introduces new perspectives on the defense of Vicksburg and the Middle Tennessee operations of early 1863."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Elizabeth D. Samet
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804747257
This book highlights obedience as an American cultural motif by examining the ways in which citizens understand and dramatize the struggle between autonomy and allegiance. Willing Obedience tells the story of Americans who worked out the simultaneous demands of liberty and obedience in fiction, military memoir, and political writing from the Revolution through the nineteenth century. In contrast to the European model of a subject's blind obedience to a monarch, Americans imagined an allegiance that preserved autonomy even as they consented to the constraints of a new republic. In particular, the book considers the case of the soldier, whose surprisingly complex relationship to authority is in fact representative of the situation of all citizens in a republic.
Author : David A. Ward
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1476668515
The 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers infantry regiment was formed in 1861--its ranks filled by nearly 1,200 Irish and German immigrants from Schuylkill County responding to Lincoln's call for troops. The men saw action for three years with the Army of the Potomac's VI Corps, participating in engagements at Gaines' Mill, Crampton's Gap, Salem Church and Spotsylvania. Drawing on letters, diaries, memoirs and other accounts, this comprehensive history documents their combat service from the point of view of the rank-and-file soldier, along with their views on the war, slavery, emancipation and politics.
Author : Richard H. Clow
Publisher : American Book Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1589827139
Author : George Stephens
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252067907
Stephens was a black reporter for the black newspaper Weekly Anglo-African when the Civil War broke out. He joined the 54th Massachusetts, the first black Union regiment. Promoted to sergeant, he stormed Battery Wagner with his regiment. Surviving the Union defeat, Stephens served with the 54th through the end of the war.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 35,74 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Louisiana
ISBN :
Author : Donald B. Jenkins
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 2018-10-21
Category : History
ISBN :
On a crisp fall day in October of 1862, a precocious seventeen-year-old boy went into a bookshop in his hometown of Hagerstown, Maryland, and purchased a composition book. Into his new diary, John R. King would steadfastly record what he did, saw and heard daily, as the Civil War raged around him. During May of 1862, after learning the photography trade, John took portraits of Union soldiers stationed in the Shenandoah Valley. Then, on May 23, 1862, when he heard the sounds of battle, he attempted to flee on a wagon. He was soon captured by Stonewall Jackson's troops. His treasured diary was taken. Force marched to a Confederate prison, John vowed revenge. Two weeks after escaping from captivity, John joined the Union Army. He fought with fury, courage and valor, was wounded three times and became a war hero. Later, John was not only appointed by two presidents to prestigious positions in the Pension Bureau, but he also became leader of the Grand Army of the Republic. After being lost for 150 years, his diary was recently discovered and is now being published.
Author : James Henry Gooding
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
"Our correspondent, 'J.H.G., ' is a member of Co. C., of the 54th Massachusetts regiment. He is a colored man belonging to this city, and his letters are printed by us, verbatim et literatim, as we receive them. He is a truthful and intelligent correspondent, and a good soldier." -- The Editors, New Bedford (Massachusetts) Mercury, August 1863.
Author : Jeffrey Hummel
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0812698436
Combines a sweeping narrative history of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war's significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America's turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution. A unique feature of the book is the bibliographical essays which follow every chapter. Here the author surveys the literature and points out where his own interpretation fits into the continuing clash of viewpoints which informs historical debate on the Civil War.
