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Author
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
165 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"By today's standards, Lincoln's adherence to the laws of war could be considered questionable, and his critics, past and present, have not hesitated to charge him as a war criminal. His apologists, however, defend his actions as reasonable and humane. Is it possible that Lincoln could be condemned as a war criminal based on the accepted standards and customs of warfare of his time? Noted scholar Burrus M. Carnahan resolves this question in Lincoln...
Author
Series
Historical handbook volume no. 39
Publisher
United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service
Pub. Date
1966.
Physical Desc
56 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"...Here, within a radius of 17 miles, occurred over 100,000 American casualties in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Court House, all involving strategy and tactics beyond the understanding of the average soldier. The park preserves and interprets some of the scenes of those four great Civil War battles. The quiet, peaceful woods and fields are a constant reminder of how much we owe to the sacrifice of...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1864, President Lincoln feared that he might not be able to save the Union. The Army of the Potomac had performed poorly over the previous two years, and many Northerners were understandably critical of the war effort. Lincoln assumed he'd lose the November election, and he firmly believed a Democratic successor would seek peace immediately, spelling an end to the Union. A Fire in the Wilderness tells the story of that perilous time...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln said both North and South "read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other." Lincoln quoted several biblical texts in this address - which, according to Frederick Douglass, "sounded more like a sermon than a state paper." The Bible, as Lincoln's famous speech illustrated, saturated the Civil War. In this book, James Byrd offers the most thorough analysis yet...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Wartime is often thought of through the eyes of those who fought on the battlefield, but war affects everyone in a nation-including kids! This volume covers what life was like for kids who lived through the American Civil War. Readers learn about Civil War-era clothes, schools, and the differences of life in the Northern and Southern states. Historical images complement the age-appropriate content and language to aid comprehension. Fact boxes add...
4568) Sick from freedom: African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xiv, 264 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people. In Sick from Freedom, Downs recovers the untold story of one of the...
4569) Cold Mountain
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.
Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
xviii, 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Silas T. Grisamore was born in Indiana in 1825 and moved to Louisiana in 1846, settling first in Napoleonville and then in Thibodaux. He engaged in a variety of occupations but found most success as a merchant, selling goods from a flatboat that plied the waterways of the southern part of the state. When the Civil War began, Grisamore enlisted with the Lafourche Creoles, soon to become Company G of the 18th Louisiana Infantry Regiment. Because of...
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Civil War is a much plumbed area of scholarship, so much so that at times it seems there is no further work to be done in the field. However, the experience of children and youth during that tumultuous time remains a relatively unexplored facet of the conflict. Children and Youth during the Civil War Era seeks a deeper investigation into the historical record by and giving voice and context to their struggles and victories during this critical...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
499 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Soldiers in the Union Army volunteered for many reasons--to reunite the country, to put down the southern rebellion. For most, however, slavery was a peripheral issue. Sympathy for slaves often came only after the soldiers actually witnessed their plight. In November 1863, thirty-eight men of the Minnesota Ninth Regiment responded to a fugitive slave's desperate plea by holding a train at gunpoint and liberating his wife, five children, and three...
Publisher
Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
vi, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The social changes and human and economic costs of the Civil War led to profound legal and constitutional developments after it ended, not least of which were the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and the many laws devised to protect the civil rights of newly freed African Americans. These amendments and laws worked for a while, but they were ineffective or ineffectively enforced for more than a century. In Ending the Civil War and the Consequences...
Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
xiv, 140 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Early in the Civil War, Louisiana's Confederate government sanctioned a militia unit of black troops, the Louisiana Native Guards. Intended as a response to demands from members of New Orleans' substantial free black population that they be permitted to participate in the defense of their state, the unit was used by Confederate authorities for public display and propaganda purposes but was not allowed to fight. After the fall of New Orleans, General...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 219
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
ix, 880 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the pre-dawn hours of April 12, 1861 James Chesnut Jr. hand-delivered a message to Major Robert Anderson, the U.S. Army commander at Fort Sumter. Chesnut informed Anderson that Confederate guns would commence the bombardment of the fort within the hour. Chesnut then piloted a small skiff across the dark waters of Charleston Harbor and delivered a fateful order to the batteries stationed on James Island. They were to open fire on Fort Sumter. Chesnut...
4577) The reconstruction of Mark Twain: how a Confederate bushwhacker became the Lincoln of our literature
Author
Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xiii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Confederate Forces Fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, thousands of patriotic southerners rushed to enlist for the Confederate cause. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who grew up in the border state of Missouri in a slave-holding family, was among them. Clemens, who later achieved fame as the writer Mark Twain, served as second lieutenant in a Confederate militia, but only for two weeks, leading many to describe his loyalty to the Confederate cause...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xiii, 237 pages : maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Guerrilla warfare, border fights, and unorganized skirmishes are all too often the only battles associated with Missouri during the Civil War. Combined with the state's distance from both sides' capitals, this misguided impression paints Missouri as an insignificant player in the nation's struggle to define itself. Such notions, however, are far from an accurate picture of the Midwest state's contributions to the war's outcome. Though traditionally...
4579) The horse soldiers
Series
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A faithful representation of one of the most daring cavalry exploits in history tells the rousing tale of a troop of Union soldiers who force their way deep into Southern territory to destroy a rebel stronghold at Newton Station. In command is hardbitten Colonel Marlowe, a man who is strikingly contrasted by the company's gentle surgeon and the beautiful but crafty Southern belle who's forced to accompany the Union raiders on perhaps the most harrowing...
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