Download or read book Citizens of Augusta and Richmond County Georgia During the Civil War 1860 1865 written by Arthur Ray Rowland and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confederate City written by Florence Fleming Corley and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONFEDERATE CITY: AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 1860-1865 by Dr. Florence Fleming Corley is one of Augusta's most valued historical works. Dr. Corley's book draws on exhaustive research in public records, newspaper files, books, personal correspondence & diaries. She gives detailed information & drawings of the great Ammunitions Center located in Augusta, the Confederate Powder Works & paints vivid pictures of the area hospitals, refugees & conditions confronting the women of Augusta during the war. CONFEDERATE CITY: AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 1860-1865 is a must for every Civil War buff's library. CONFEDERATE CITY: AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 1860-1865 is available through the Richmond County Historical Society, c/o Reese Library, Augusta College, 2500 Walton Way, Augusta, GA 30904-2200. $35.00 & $2.50 postage. Also available through the society are: THE STORY OF AUGUSTA by Dr. Ed Cashin ($35.00 & $2.50 postage); AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CITY IN ARMS, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 1861-1865, by Berry Fleming ($20.00 & $2.50 postage); SUMMERVILLE: A PICTORIAL HISTORY by Dr. Helen Callahan ($45.00 & $2.50 postage); & JOURNAL OF ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, ESQ., AN EXPEDITION AGAINST THE REBELS OF GEORGIA IN NORTH AMERICA, 1778, edited by Colin Campbell ($25.00 & $2.50 postage).
Download or read book Confederate City Augusta Georgia 1860 1865 With Illustrations Including Portraits written by Florence Fleming CORLEY and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Georgians During the War Between the States written by Charles Colcock Jones (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work details the political, social and economic effects the Civil War had on Georgia.
Download or read book Berry Benson s Civil War Book written by Berry Benson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confederate scout and sharpshooter Berry Greenwood Benson witnessed the first shot fired on Fort Sumter, retreated with Lee's Army to its surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, and missed little of the action in between. This memoir of his service is a remarkable narrative, filled with the minutiae of the soldier's life and paced by a continual succession of battlefield anecdotes. Three main stories emerge from Benson's account: his reconnaissance exploits, his experiences in battle, and his escape from prison. Though not yet eighteen years old when he left his home in Augusta, Georgia, to join the army, Benson was soon singled out for the abilities that would serve him well as a scout. Not only was he a crack shot, a natural leader, and a fierce Southern partisan, but he had a kind of restless energy and curiosity, loved to take risks, and was an instant and infallible judge of human nature. His recollections of scouting take readers within arm's reach of Union trenches and encampments. Benson recalls that while eavesdropping he never failed to be shocked by the Yankees' foul language; he had never heard that kind of talk in a Confederate camp! Benson's descriptions of the many battles in which he fought--including Cold Harbor, The Seven Days, Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg--convey the desperation of a full frontal charge and the blind panic of a disorganized retreat. Yet in these accounts, Benson's own demeanor under fire is manifest in the coolly measured tone he employs. A natural writer, Benson captures the dark absurdities of war in such descriptions as those of hardened veterans delighting in the new shoes and other equipment they found on corpse-littered battlefields. His clothing often torn by bullets, Benson was also badly bruised a number of times by spent rounds. At one point, in May 1863, he was wounded seriously enough in the leg to be hospitalized, but he returned to the field before full recuperation. Benson was captured behind enemy lines in May 1864 while on a scouting mission for General Lee. Confined to Point Lookout Prison in Maryland, he escaped after only two days and swam the Potomac to get back into Virginia. Recaptured near Washington, D.C., he was briefly held in Old Capitol Prison, then sent to Elmira Prison in New York. There he joined a group of ten men who made the only successful tunnel escape in Elmira's history. After nearly six months in captivity or on the run, he rejoined his unit in Virginia. Even at Appomattox, Benson refused to surrender but stole off with his brother to North Carolina, where they planned to join General Johnston. Finding the roads choked with Union forces and surrendered Confederates, the brothers ultimately bore their unsurrendered rifles home to Augusta. Berry Benson first wrote his memoirs for his family and friends. Completed in 1878, they drew on his--and partially on his brother's--wartime diaries, as well as on letters that both brothers had written to family members during the war. The memoirs were first published in book form in 1962 but have long been unavailable. This edition, with a new foreword by the noted Civil War historian Herman Hattaway, will introduce this compelling story to a new generation of readers.
Download or read book The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender written by LeeAnn Whites and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender is the last vantage point from which the Civil War has yet to be examined in-depth, says LeeAnn Whites. Gender concepts and constructions, Whites says, deeply influenced the beliefs underpinning both the Confederacy and its vestiges to which white southerners clung for decades after the Confederacy's defeat. Whites's arguments and observations, which center on the effects of the conflict on the South's gender hierarchy, will challenge our understanding of the war and our acceptance of its historiography.
Download or read book Autobiography of a City in Arms written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Never for Want of Powder written by C. L. Bragg and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated with seventy-four color plates and fifty black-and-white photographs and drawings, Never for Want of Powder tells the story of a world-class munitions factory constructed by the Confederacy in 1861, the only large-scale permanent building project undertaken by a government often characterized as lacking modern industrial values. In this comprehensive examination of the powder works, five scholars--a historian, physicist, curator, architectural historian, and biographer--bring their combined expertise to the task of chronicling gunpowder production during the Civil War. In doing so, they make a major contribution to understanding the history of wartime technology and Confederate ingenuity. Early in the war President Jefferson Davis realized the Confederacy's need to supply its own gunpowder. Accordingly Davis selected Col. George Washington Rains to build a gunpowder factory. An engineer and West Point graduate, Rains relied primarily on a written pamphlet rather than on practical experience in building the powder mill, yet he succeeded in designing a model of efficiency and safety. He sited the facilities at Augusta, Georgia, because of the city's central location, canal transportation, access to water power, railroad facilities, and relative security from attack. As much a story of people as of machinery, Never for Want of Powder recounts the ingenuity of the individuals involved with the project. A cadre of talented subordinates--including Frederick Wright, C. Shaler Smith, William Pendleton, and Isadore P. Girardey--assisted Rains to a degree not previously appreciated by historians. This volume also documents the coordinated outflow of gunpowder and ammunition, and Rains's difficulty in preparing for the defense of Augusta. Today a lone chimney along the Savannah River stands as the only reminder of the munitions facility that once occupied that site. With its detailed reproductions of architectural and mechanical schematics and its expansive vista on the Confederacy, Never for Want of Powder restores the Augusta Powder Works to its rightful place in American lore.
Download or read book Slave Owners in the City of Augusta and Richmond County Georgia written by Arthur Ray Rowland and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confederate Soldiers from Augusta and Richmond County Georgia written by Arthur Ray Rowland and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Lost Arcadia written by Walter A. Clark and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Hephzibah, GA, a community in Richmond County, south of Augusta. The author, Walter A. Clark was a Civil War Veteran who wrote this book about 1910. There are many books of many kinds and this volume properly classified would probably belong to the "sui generis," "sic trasit gloria mundi" variety. If the reader has grown a little rusty on classic Latin I do not mind saying to him further that the latter phrase has been sometimes translated, "My glorious old aunt has been sick ever since Monday," but I do not think that this revised version has been generally accepted as strictly orthodox. This book cannot be said to have been written without rhyme or reason for its pages hold more rhyme than poetry and three reasons at least, have conspired to give it literary existence. First, I have written it to please my friends, who hear personal kinship to its records. I Second, I have hoped to please myself by making some little contribution to a bank account. whose surplus has never been a burden. Third, a hundred years and more from now it may be that some far descendant of the author, while fingering the musty shelves of some old library, may find some modest satisfaction in the thought that his ancient sire had "writ" a book.
Download or read book Fleming Berry Autobiography of a City in Arms Augusta Georgia 1861 1865 written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Promise and Perils of Reconstruction written by Kevin Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines Reconstruction in Augusta, Georgia, particularly focusing on how the city's Whiggish history impacted the trajectory of the post-war era. The city's commitment to Henry Clay's American System of internal improvements resulted in the construction of a canal in 1847, which supported a variety of early manufacturing ventures. With this foundation in place, Augusta was already in position to capitalize on the post-war push for a New South, and industrial boosters promised that the city would soon become {esc}(3z{esc}(Bthe Lowell of the South.{esc}(3y{esc}(B Many of the men behind this program of industrialization built on Augusta's tradition of political moderation, and in some areas, experienced success. For a brief period, a coalition of unionists and African Americans combined to create a Republican party that dominated local and state government. The city's economy quickly recovered from the shock of the Civil War, and industrial boosters backed an ambitious canal enlargement project to further increase the city's manufacturing potential. Educational reformers finally completed a long-standing push to create a public education system that was free to all of Augusta's budding pupils, and private and religious ventures expanded higher education opportunities as well. Despite these successes, inherent weaknesses and contradictions ultimately limited the overall scope of these reform efforts. Political factionalism crippled the Republican Party and erased its early gains in just two short years. Promises of a soon to come industrial utopia proved to be just as ephemeral, while efforts at interracial cooperation were likewise hampered by paternalism, factionalism, and racism. While gains were made in the area of public education, at no time was there a push for integrated classrooms, leaving Augusta's African American schools separate but unequal. Black commemorations of emancipation and independence survived into the twentieth century, but were muted by white celebrations of the Lost Cause and reconciliation. Considering these shortcomings, the Reconstruction era in Augusta was at best a middling economic experience. Unlike other Southern cities that experienced rapid ascension or swift busts, Augusta lost some, but not all, of its regional significance. In short, Reconstruction in Augusta was neither the dark period of economic ruin and carpetbagger rule of popular memory, nor the industrial utopia promised by its industrial boosters.
Download or read book Confederate City Augusta Georgia 1860 1865 written by Florence Fleming Corley and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Georgians During the War Between the States An Address Delivered Before the Confederate Survivors Association in Augusta Georgia on the Occasion written by Charles Colcock Jones and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops written by Susie King Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Georgia in the Confederacy 1861 1866 written by James Horace Bass and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
