Frank Blair in the American Civil War
Author : David L. Sontag
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Missouri
ISBN :
Author : David L. Sontag
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Missouri
ISBN :
Author : William Earl Parrish
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826211569
A biography of a member of one of the most prominent and powerful political families in America during the 19th century, known for his fearlessness in both the political arena and the battlefield. Of interest to specialists in 19th-century America, students of Missouri history, and Civil War buffs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Leonard B. Wurthman
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 1969
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : William Ernest Smith
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 1969-11-21
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth Blair Lee
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252068591
Elizabeth Blair Lee was raised in Washington's political circles, and her husband, Samuel Phillips Lee, third cousin to Robert E. Lee, commanded the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. When they married, Elizabeth promised to write every day they were apart. Of the hundreds of letters with which she kept her promise, Virginia Jeans Laas has edited a choice selection that illuminates the functioning of a nineteenth-century family and the Mrs. Lee's unique perspective on the political and military affairs of the nation's beleaguered capital.
Author : Francis Preston Blair (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 39,93 MB
Release : 1862
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : William Alan Blair
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1469614057
With Malice toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era
Author : Paul D. Escott
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0813936209
The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic confrontation was Abraham Lincoln. By the time this Illinois politician had risen to the office of president, the dilemma of slavery had expanded to the question of all African Americans’ future. In this fascinating new book Paul Escott considers the evolution of the president’s thoughts on race in relation to three other, powerful--and often conflicting--voices. Lincoln’s fellow Republicans Charles Sumner and Montgomery Blair played crucial roles in the shaping of their party. While both Sumner and Blair were opposed to slavery, their motivations reflected profoundly different approaches to the issue. Blair’s antislavery stance stemmed from a racist dedication to remove African Americans from the country altogether. Sumner, in contrast, opposed slavery as a crusader for racial equality and a passionate abolitionist. Lincoln maintained close personal relationships with both men as he wrestled with the slavery question. In addition to these antislavery voices, Escott also weaves into his narrative the other extreme, of which Lincoln was politically aware: the virulent racism and hierarchical values that motivated not only the Confederates but surprisingly many Northerners and which were embodied by the president’s eventual assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Sumner, Blair, and violent racists like Booth each represent forces with which Lincoln had to contend as he presided over a brutal civil war and faced the issues of slavery and equality lying at its root. Other books and films have provided glimpses of the atmosphere in which the president created his Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln’s Dilemma evokes more fully and brings to life the men Lincoln worked with, and against, as he moved racial equality forward. A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era
Author : Willis Lee Betts
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Sebastian N. Page
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 110714177X
The first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America's efforts to resettle African Americans outside the United States.