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Book A Thousand May Fall An Immigrant Regiment s Civil War

Download or read book A Thousand May Fall An Immigrant Regiment s Civil War written by Brian Matthew Jordan and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict. The Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, yet our nation remains fiercely divided over its enduring legacies. In A Thousand May Fall, Pulitzer Prize finalist Brian Matthew Jordan returns us to the war itself, bringing us closer than perhaps any prior historian to the chaos of battle and the trials of military life. Creating an intimate, absorbing chronicle from the ordinary soldier’s perspective, he allows us to see the Civil War anew—and through unexpected eyes. At the heart of Jordan’s vital account is the 107th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was at once representative and exceptional. Its ranks weathered the human ordeal of war in painstakingly routine ways, fighting in two defining battles, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, each time in the thick of the killing. But the men of the 107th were not lauded as heroes for their bravery and their suffering. Most of them were ethnic Germans, set apart by language and identity, and their loyalties were regularly questioned by a nativist Northern press. We so often assume that the Civil War was a uniquely American conflict, yet Jordan emphasizes the forgotten contributions made by immigrants to the Union cause. An incredible one quarter of the Union army was foreign born, he shows, with 200,000 native Germans alone fighting to save their adopted homeland and prove their patriotism. In the course of its service, the 107th Ohio was decimated five times over, and although one of its members earned the Medal of Honor for his daring performance in a skirmish in South Carolina, few others achieved any lasting distinction. Reclaiming these men for posterity, Jordan reveals that even as they endured the horrible extremes of war, the Ohioans contemplated the deeper meanings of the conflict at every turn—from personal questions of citizenship and belonging to the overriding matter of slavery and emancipation. Based on prodigious new research, including diaries, letters, and unpublished memoirs, A Thousand May Fall is a pioneering, revelatory history that restores the common man and the immigrant striver to the center of the Civil War. In our age of fractured politics and emboldened nativism, Jordan forces us to confront the wrenching human realities, and often-forgotten stakes, of the bloodiest episode in our nation’s history.

Book Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Harrison and Carroll Ohio Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Early Settled Families

Download or read book Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Harrison and Carroll Ohio Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Early Settled Families written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Military Bibliography of the Civil War Volume 4

Download or read book Military Bibliography of the Civil War Volume 4 written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume IV: Compiled and revised by Silas Felton. 1063 pp., revised with books missed in vols. I,II, and III, regimental publications, personal narratives, biographies, campaigns and battles, Northern and Southern. Felton?s new compilation is without peer. He covers the subject from five different perspectives: Regimental Publications and Personal Narratives, Union and Confederate Biographies, General References, Armed Forces and Campaigns and Battles.And, making the work extremely useful, the last 236 pages contain a complete Index of Authors of Volumes I through IV as well as a new Index of Titles in the Revised Volume IV.Furthermore, to clear up confusion created by the multiple names often used by Confederate units during the war ? artillery batteries in particular ? which carried a state designation but were commonly known by the battery commander?s name, Felton has cited a written work with a single number designation but indexed and listed it under its common appellation to aid the researcher and eliminate confusion.

Book Zoar in the Civil War

Download or read book Zoar in the Civil War written by Philip E. Webber and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the response of the Zoar community to the Civil War Zoar Village, located in Ohio's Tuscarawas Valley, functioned from 1817 to 1898 as a communal society. Formed by German separatists seeking religious freedom, Zoar became one of the most successful experiments in communal living in America's history. One cardinal principle in the Zoarite's faith and practice was the refusal to bear arms. In the 1860s, with the rise of the Civil War, conflict emerged between the community's pacifist stance and its strong support for the Union cause and for the abolition of slavery. Some Zoarites continued on the path of conscientious objection; others chose the path of conscientious participation in the Union army. Zoar in the Civil War traces the ways that the Zoar community dealt graciously with the war as a difficult yet inescapable event in its history. Based primarily on unpublished material from archives and collections of the Ohio Historical Society and the Western Reserve Historical Society, this study draws together the largest gathering to date of previously untapped Zoar records. Following a brief and informative introduction, Webber allows these eloquent and fascinating primary sources to tell the story, thereby offering a unique perspective on the American Civil War.

Book The Biographical Record of Champaign County Ill

Download or read book The Biographical Record of Champaign County Ill written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book County by County in Ohio Genealogy

Download or read book County by County in Ohio Genealogy written by Ohio State Library and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Biographical Record of Knox County Ohio

Download or read book The Biographical Record of Knox County Ohio written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen and Van Wert Counties Ohio Containing Biographical Sketches of Many Prominent and Representative Citizens Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States and Biographies of the Governors of Ohio

Download or read book A Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen and Van Wert Counties Ohio Containing Biographical Sketches of Many Prominent and Representative Citizens Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States and Biographies of the Governors of Ohio written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biographical

Download or read book Biographical written by Samuel Peter Orth and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Periodical Source Index

Download or read book Periodical Source Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commemorative Biographical Record Harrison Ohio

Download or read book Commemorative Biographical Record Harrison Ohio written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: