The Town That Started The Civil War
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The Town That Started The Civil War
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Author : Nat Brandt
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1990-04-01
The Town That Started The Civil War written by Nat Brandt and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-04-01 with History categories.
Discusss the rescue of a kidnapped slave in 1858 by the residents of Oberlin, Ohio, and the repercussions.
The Town That Started The Civil War
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Author : Nat Brandt
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 1991-07-01
The Town That Started The Civil War written by Nat Brandt and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-07-01 with History categories.
Before the War Between the States, there was the war between the U.S. government and Oberlin, Ohio. . . . “A fascinating, gripping narrative.”—James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom On a crisp autumn day in Ohio, 1858, two Kentucky slave hunters were closing in on a runaway slave named John Price. Federal law said they had the right to bring the man back across state lines. But to the people of Oberlin, Ohio, the law was wrong—and they were willing to prove it with their sweat and blood. In this fascinating, spirited telling of one of the most extraordinary confrontations in U.S. history, Nat Brandt gives a blow-by-blow account of how a small but passionate army of students, farmers, former slaves, a bookstore owner, a professor, a preacher, and a cobbler risked their lives to rescue a man they didn’t know—and ignited a furious conflict with a wavering U.S. government. From its first blows to the controversial trials that followed, the Oberlin Rescue was an act of uncommon heroism and courage—and a true battle for the conscience of a land.
The Town Of Wayland In The Civil War Of 1861 1865
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Author : Wayland (Mass.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
The Town Of Wayland In The Civil War Of 1861 1865 written by Wayland (Mass.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with United States categories.
Defend This Old Town
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Author : Carol Kettenburg Dubbs
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2004-10-01
Defend This Old Town written by Carol Kettenburg Dubbs and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-01 with History categories.
Defend This Old Town is a riveting war epic of local scale and human dimensions. Taking its title from the cry raised in Williamsburg as the Federal army approached in 1862, Carol Dubbs's narrative sweeps us into the lives of residents of this small historic city from the secession of Virginia in 1861 to Lee's surrender four years later. Williamsburg's Civil War ordeal has never before been told in such depth. Located midway on the only land route between Richmond and the Union-held Fort Monroe, on the tip of the Virginia Peninsula, Williamsburg hosted Confederate troops for the first year of war while defensive earthworks were built across the area. After the Battle of Williamsburg on May 5, 1862 -- a bloody clash neither side sought but each claimed as victor -- Union forces began an occupation of the town that lasted with only short interruptions until the end of the war. Those residents who had not fled remained to stubbornly defend their homes. Dubbs scripts a compelling chronicle of these events, interweaving quotes from diaries, letters, memoirs, and military memoranda to bring immediacy to her subject. Balancing the grim experiences of combat, shortages, tending the dead and wounded, the college's burning, restive servants, typhoid breakout, and isolation from the rest of the Confederacy are some lighter interludes: the Union marshal who arrived with his saddlebags packed with shoes and dresses to win the good opinion of the town's females; the first taste of freedom for blacks; and the issuance of travel passes -- including one to an especially sharp-tongued matron, with the order never to return. Maps, period photographs, order of battle, and a bibliography complete this substantial, comprehensive, and entertaining work. Defend This Old Town is certain to engage anyone who enjoys good history.
Confederate Cities
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Author : Andrew L. Slap
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-12-01
Confederate Cities written by Andrew L. Slap and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with History categories.
When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of the Wilderness. One reason this picture has persisted is that few urban historians have studied the war, even though cities hosted, enabled, and shaped Southern society as much as they did in the North. Confederate Cities, edited by Andrew L. Slap and Frank Towers, shifts the focus from the agrarian economy that undergirded the South to the cities that served as its political and administrative hubs. The contributors use the lens of the city to examine now-familiar Civil War–era themes, including the scope of the war, secession, gender, emancipation, and war’s destruction. This more integrative approach dramatically revises our understanding of slavery’s relationship to capitalist economics and cultural modernity. By enabling a more holistic reading of the South, the book speaks to contemporary Civil War scholars and students alike—not least in providing fresh perspectives on a well-studied war.
The Town Of Wayland In The Civil War Of 1861 1865
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Author : Wayland Massachusetts
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-01-18
The Town Of Wayland In The Civil War Of 1861 1865 written by Wayland Massachusetts and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-18 with History categories.
Excerpt from The Town of Wayland in the Civil War of 1861-1865: As Represented in the Army and Navy of the American Union The suggestion was cordially met and acted on by the town in the choice of a Committee, to whom the whole subject was intrusted. In prosecuting their duties, unexpected delays occurred, which, by permitting a lapse in the memory of some of the soldiers, and the loss of documents (particularly letters from the army) that would have been available at an earlier day, have rendered the results of their efforts less satisfactory than could have been desired. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Lincolnites And Rebels
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Author : Robert Tracy McKenzie
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-09
Lincolnites And Rebels written by Robert Tracy McKenzie and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-09 with History categories.
At the start of the Civil War, Knoxville, Tennessee, with a population of just over 4,000, was considered a prosperous metropolis little reliant on slavery. Although the surrounding countryside was predominantly Unionist in sympathy, Knoxville itself was split down the middle, with Union and Confederate supporters even holding simultaneous political rallies at opposite ends of the town's main street. Following Tennessee's secession, Knoxville soon became famous (or infamous) as a stronghold of stalwart Unionism, thanks to the efforts of a small cadre who persisted in openly denouncing the Confederacy. Throughout the course of the Civil War, Knoxville endured military occupation for all but three days, hosting Confederate troops during the first half of the conflict and Union forces throughout the remainder, with the transition punctuated by an extended siege and bloody battle during which nearly forty thousand soldiers fought over the town. In Lincolnites and Rebels, Robert Tracy McKenzie tells the story of Civil War Knoxville-a perpetually occupied, bitterly divided Southern town where neighbor fought against neighbor. Mining a treasure-trove of manuscript collections and civil and military records, McKenzie reveals the complex ways in which allegiance altered the daily routine of a town gripped in a civil war within the Civil War and explores the agonizing personal decisions that war made inescapable. Following the course of events leading up to the war, occupation by Confederate and then Union soldiers, and the troubled peace that followed the war, Lincolnites and Rebels details in microcosm the conflict and paints a complex portrait of a border state, neither wholly North nor South.
Civil War Richmond The Last Citadel
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Author : Jack Trammell
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2021
Civil War Richmond The Last Citadel written by Jack Trammell and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
Few American cities have experienced the trauma of wartime destruction. As the capital of the new Confederate States of America, situated only ninety miles from the enemy capital at Washington, D.C., Richmond was under constant threat. The civilian population suffered not only shortage and hardship but also constant anxiety. During the war, the city more than doubled in population and became the industrial center of a prolonged and costly war effort. The city transformed with the creation of a massive hospital system, military training camps, new industries and shifting social roles for everyone, including women and African Americans. Local historians Jack Trammell and Guy Terrell detail the excitement, and eventually bitter disappointment, of Richmond at war.
The Town Of Wayland In The Civil War Of 1861 1865 As Represented In The Army And Navy Of The American Union
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Author : Wayland (Mass ).
language : en
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Release Date : 2018-11-13
The Town Of Wayland In The Civil War Of 1861 1865 As Represented In The Army And Navy Of The American Union written by Wayland (Mass ). and has been published by Franklin Classics Trade Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-13 with History categories.
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The Civil War Begins
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Government Printing Office
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Although over one hundred fifty years have passed since the start of the American Civil War, that titanic conflict continues to matter. The forces unleashed by that war were immensely destructive because of the significant issues involved: the existence of the Union, the end of slavery, and the very future of the nation. The war remains our most contentious, and our bloodiest, with over six hundred thousand killed in the course of the four-year struggle. Most civil wars do not spring up overnight, and the American Civil War was no exception. The seeds of the conflict were sown in the earliest days of the republic’s founding, primarily over the existence of slavery and the slave trade. Although no conflict can begin without the conscious decisions of those engaged in the debates at that moment, in the end, there was simply no way to paper over the division of the country into two camps: one that was dominated by slavery and the other that sought first to limit its spread and then to abolish it. Our nation was indeed “half slave and half free,” and that could not stand. Regardless of the factors tearing the nation asunder, the soldiers on each side of the struggle went to war for personal reasons: looking for adventure, being caught up in the passions and emotions of their peers, believing in the Union, favoring states’ rights, or even justifying the simple schoolyard dynamic of being convinced that they were “worth” three of the soldiers on the other side. Nor can we overlook the factor that some went to war to prove their manhood. This has been, and continues to be, a key dynamic in understanding combat and the profession of arms. Soldiers join for many reasons but often stay in the fight because of their comrades and because they do not want to seem like cowards. Whatever the reasons, the struggle was long and costly and only culminated with the conquest of the rebellious Confederacy, the preservation of the Union, and the end of slavery. These campaign pamphlets on the American Civil War, prepared in commemoration of our national sacrifices, seek to remember that war and honor those in the United States Army who died to preserve the Union and free the slaves as well as to tell the story of those American soldiers who fought for the Confederacy despite the inherently flawed nature of their cause. The Civil War was our greatest struggle and continues to deserve our deep study and contemplation.