Download or read book Among the Cotton Thieves written by Edward Bacon and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1867 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiences of the author as officer and later commander of the 6th regiment. Michigan volunteers, near New Orleans and at Port Hudson; sharply criticizing his commanding officers, Gens. Thomas Williams and William Dwight and Col. T.S. Clark.
Download or read book The 6th Michigan Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War written by Eric R. Faust and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 6th Michigan Volunteer Infantry first deployed to Baltimore, where the soldiers' exemplary demeanor charmed a mainly secessionist population. Their subsequent service along the Mississippi River was a perfect storm of epidemic disease, logistical failures, guerrilla warfare, profiteering, martinet West Pointers and scheming field officers, along with the doldrums of camp life punctuated by bloody battles. The Michiganders responded with alcoholism, insubordination and depredations. Yet they saved the Union right at Baton Rouge and executed suicidal charges at Port Hudson. This first modern history of the controversial regiment concludes with a statistical analysis, a roster and a brief summary of its service following conversion to heavy artillery.
Download or read book The Longest Siege written by Russell W. Blount, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, control of the Mississippi River was hotly contested by both the Union and Confederate armies. By late 1862, the South held only a 110-mile stretch of this vital waterway. Determined to defend this critical span, the Confederacy built two fortresses to defend it--Vicksburg on the north end, Port Hudson on the south. Drawing on the letters and memoirs of soldiers and officers on both sides, this book chronicles the brutal struggle for Port Hudson, Louisiana, beginning with Admiral Farragut's costly naval attack by the Union fleet, through the furious infantry assaults ordered by General Nathaniel Banks--including the first charge made by black troops in the Civil War--and finally to the 48-day siege itself. Among the most tragic campaigns of the war, it is recognized by historians as the longest siege in American military history.
Download or read book Capitalism s Hidden Worlds written by Kenneth Lipartito and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic social history of shadow capitalism spanning the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries Observers see free markets, the relentless pursuit of profit, and the unremitting drive to commodify everything as capitalism's defining characteristics. These most visible economic features, however, obscure a range of other less evident, often unmeasured activities that occur on the margins and in the concealed corners of the formal economy. The range of practices in this large and diverse hidden realm encompasses traders in recycled materials and the architects of junk bonds and shadow banking. It includes the black and semi-licit markets that allow wealthy elites to avoid taxes and the unmeasured domestic and emotional labor of homemakers and home care workers. By some estimates, the unmeasured economic activity that occurs within the household, informal market, and underground economy amounts to a substantial portion of all economic activity in the world, as much as 30 percent in some countries. Capitalism's Hidden Worlds sheds new light on this shadowy economic landscape by reexamining how we think about the market. In particular, it scrutinizes the missed connections between the official, visible realm of exchange and the uncounted and invisible sectors that border it. While some hidden markets emerged in opposition to the formal economy, much of the obscured economy described in this volume operates as the other side of the legitimate, state-sanctioned marketplace. A variety of historical actors—from fortune tellers and forgers to tax lawyers and black market consumers—have constructed this unseen world in tandem with the observable public world of transactions. Others, such as feminist development economists and government regulators, have worked to bring the darkened corners of the economy to light. The essays in Capitalism's Hidden Worlds explore how the capitalist marketplace sustains itself, how it acquires legitimacy and even prestige, and how the marginalized and the dispossessed find ways to make ends meet. Contributors: Bruce Baker, Eileen Boris, Eli Cook, Hannah Frydman, James Hollis, Owen Hyman, Anna Kushkova, Christopher McKenna, Kenneth Mouré, Philip Scranton, Bryan Turo.
Download or read book Pistols and Politics written by Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-06-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pistols and Politics, Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., reveals the reasons behind the remarkable levels of violence in Louisiana’s Florida parishes in the nineteenth century. This updated and expanded edition deftly brings the analysis forward to account for the continuation of violence and mayhem in the region in the early twentieth century. Numerous pockets of small communities formed in the nineteenth-century South with cultures and values independent from those of the dominant planter class. As Hyde shows, one such area was the Florida parishes of southeastern Louisiana, where peculiar conditions com-bined to create an enclave of white yeomen, and where in the years after the Civil War, levels of conflict escalated to a state of chronic anar-chy. His careful study of a society that degenerated into utter chaos illuminates the factors that allowed these conditions to arise and triumph. Additional material reveals the ongoing impact of a culture riddled with suspicion and bitterness well into the Jim Crow era.
Download or read book Humour of birbal written by Anindya Roy and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book 'Humour of Birbal' is a unique collection of very interesting and popular stories which are full of humour and Birbal's witty respones. Birbal was the brightest jewel of king Akbar. Due to his witty responses, it would be better to call these stories as 'humorous tales'. Each story is presented in a nice way, as the courtiers always tried to plot his downfall but Birbal was such a clever fellow that he was the winner, always. This book is a unique narration of all the stories in such a way that how Birbal use to give sharp, intelligent and witty responses in houmorous manner, and are based on 'Coversation'. This book promises our readers to always be happy and smiling by going through these stories. We have also given illustrations to make stories alive. Moreover, every story is going to tickle you thus act as 'laughing medicine' to all of you. So go ahead with this unique book- 'Humour of Birbal' and laugh a lot, make your life stress free. And also going to help you to acquire winning and positive attitude, always.
Download or read book The Guns of Port Hudson The investment siege and reduction written by David C. Edmonds and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cotton Stealing written by J. E. Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cotton Stealing written by J. E. Chamberlain and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Download or read book The Story of Cole Younger written by Cole Younger and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missouri guerrilla, Confederate officer, bank robber, notorious outlaw, Wild West showman -- Cole Younger's life was the stuff of myth and legend. He tells his story in his own words after his parole from prison at the age of 59.
Download or read book The South in the Building of the Nation Political history ed by F L Riley written by Franklin Lafayette Riley and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Cole Younger Civil War Memoir written by Thomas Coleman Younger and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt: "In this account I propose to set out the little good that was in my life, at the same time not withholding in any way the bad, with the hope of setting right before the world a family name once honored, but which has suffered disgrace by being charged with more evil deeds than were ever its rightful share."
Download or read book The Story of Cole Younger An Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw written by Thomas Coleman Younger and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-07-20 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders, politicians, nurses and civilians amidst the war. "In this account I propose to set out the little good that was in my life, at the same time not withholding in any way the bad, with the hope of setting right before the world a family name once honored, but which has suffered disgrace by being charged with more evil deeds than were ever its rightful share."
Download or read book Amongst Thieves written by Quentin Carter and published by Vickie Stringer Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Released from prison after fifteen years, Ramon Delay heads back to Kansas City and finds himself back with his old gang while being pursued by two women with their own agendas.
Download or read book Youth s Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The South in the Building of the Nation written by Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Youth s Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes songs for solo voice with piano accompaniment.
