Download or read book Connecticut in the American Civil War written by Matthew Warshauer and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Serves as a model of what a state-level survey of the Civil War can achieve . . . a potent combination of description and analysis.” —The Civil War Monitor Connecticut in the American Civil War offers a remarkable window into the state’s involvement in a conflict that challenged and defined the unity of a nation. The arc of the war is traced through the many facets and stories of battlefield, home front, and factory. Matthew Warshauer masterfully reveals the varied attitudes toward slavery and race before, during, and after the war; Connecticut’s reaction to the firing on Fort Sumter; the dissent in the state over whether or not the sword and musket should be raised against the South; the raising of troops; the sacrifice of those who served on the front and at home; and the need for closure after the war. This book is a concise, amazing account of a complex and troubling war. No one interested in this period of American history can afford to miss reading this important contribution to our national and local stories.
Download or read book A Broken Regiment written by Lesley J. Gordon and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Broken Regiment recounts the tragic history of one of the Civil War's most ill-fated Union military units. Organized in the late summer of 1862, the 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was unprepared for battle a month later, when it entered the fight at Antietam. The results were catastrophic: nearly a quarter of the men were killed or wounded, and Connecticut's 16th panicked and fled the field. In the years that followed, the regiment participated in minor skirmishes before surrendering en masse in North Carolina in 1864. Most of its members spent months in southern prison camps, including the notorious Andersonville stockade, where disease and starvation took the lives of over one hundred members of the unit. The struggles of the 16th led survivors to reflect on the true nature of their military experience during and after the war, and questions of cowardice and courage, patriotism and purpose, were often foremost in their thoughts. Over time, competing stories emerged of who they were, why they endured what they did, and how they should be remembered. By the end of the century, their collective recollections reshaped this troubling and traumatic past, and the "unfortunate regiment" emerged as the "Brave Sixteenth," their individual memories and accounts altered to fit the more heroic contours of the Union victory. The product of over a decade of research, Lesley J. Gordon's A Broken Regiment illuminates this unit's complex history amid the interplay of various, and often competing, voices. The result is a fascinating and heartrending story of one regiment's wartime and postwar struggles.
Download or read book Connecticut Yankees at Antietam written by John Banks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of New England soldiers who perished in this bloody battle, based on their diaries and letters. The Battle of Antietam, in September 1862, was the single bloodiest day of the Civil War. In the intense conflict and its aftermath across the farm fields and woodlots near Sharpsburg, Maryland, more than two hundred men from Connecticut died. Their grave sites are scattered throughout the Nutmeg State, from Willington to Madison and Brooklyn to Bristol. Here, author John Banks chronicles their mostly forgotten stories using diaries, pension records, and soldiers’ letters. Learn of Henry Adams, a twenty-two-year-old private from East Windsor who lay incapacitated in a cornfield for nearly two days before he was found; Private Horace Lay of Hartford, who died with his wife by his side in a small church that served as a hospital after the battle; and Captain Frederick Barber of Manchester, who survived a field operation only to die days later. This book tells the stories of these and many more brave Yankees who fought in the fields of Antietam. Includes photos
Download or read book Inside Connecticut and the Civil War written by Matthew Warshauer and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of nine original essays provides a rich new understanding of Connecticut’s vital role in the Civil War. The book’s nine chapters address an array of individual topics that together weave an intricate fabric depicting the state’s involvement in this tumultuous period of American history. In-depth examinations of subjects as diverse as the abolitionist movement in Windham County, the shipbuilding industry in Mystic, and post-traumatic stress disorder in Connecticut veterans serve as an excellent companion to Matthew Warshauer’s earlier book on the subject, Connecticut in the American Civil War: Slavery, Sacrifice, and Survival. Contributors include David C. W. Batch, Luke G. Boyd, James E. Brown, Michael Conlin, Emily E. Gifford, Todd Jones, Diana Moraco, Carol Patterson-Martineau, and Michael Sturges. Ebook Edition Note: 6 illustrations have been redacted.
Download or read book The History of the Fifteenth Connecticut Volunteers in the War for the Defense of the Union 1861 1865 written by Sheldon Brainerd Thorpe and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hidden History of Connecticut Union Soldiers written by John Banks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over fifty thousand Connecticut soldiers served in the Union army during the Civil War, yet their stories are nearly forgotten today. Among the regiments that served, at least forty sets of brothers perished from battlefield wounds or disease. Little known is the 16th Connecticut chaplain who, as prisoner of war, boldly disregarded a Rebel commander's order forbidding him to pray aloud for President Lincoln. Then there is the story of the 7th Connecticut private who murdered a fellow soldier in the heat of battle and believed the man's ghost returned to torment him. Seven soldiers from Connecticut tragically drowned two weeks after the war officially ended when their ship collided with another vessel on the Potomac. Join author John Banks as he shines a light on many of these forgotten Connecticut Yankees.
Download or read book History of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers written by Bernard F. Blakeslee and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil War Regiments from Connecticut 1861 1865 written by eBooksOnDisk. com and published by Ebooksondisk.Com. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outbreak of the Civil War, Connecticut was one of the smallest states in the Union, but that did not prevent its citizens from joining the Union cause in large numbers. In "Civil War Regiments from Connecticut," the history of each regiment raised for service from the Constitution State is given. Each history names the senior officers, the battles in which the regiments fought, the commands in which it served, the number of men who enlisted, and the casualties it sustained in killed, wounded, missing throughout the war. Connecticut regiments fought primarily in the Eastern Theater. Some, however, saw service along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and in the Western Theater while attached to Burnsides' Corps. Five Connecticut regiments-the Second Heavy Artillery, and the Seventh, Tenth, Eleventh, and Fourteenth Infantry-made William F. Fox's list of 300 Fighting Regiments, which can be found in "Regimental Losses in the American Civil War." Connecticut sent over 45,000 of its men to fight, losing nearly 2,000 in killed and mortally wounded and another 3,400 by disease. "Civil War Regiments from Connecticut" is a great reference source for any Civil War enthusiast or historian and a necessary volume for anyone studying Connecticut or New England history.
Download or read book History of the Second Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery written by Theodore Frelinghuysen Vaill and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heroes for All Time written by Dione Longley and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling first-hand accounts of the war, lavishly illustrated with rare period photos Winner of the Bruce Fraser Award (2016) Voices of Civil War soldiers rise from the pages of Heroes for All Time. This book presents the war straight from the minds and pens of its participants; rich passages from soldiers' letters and diaries complement hundreds of outstanding period photographs, most previously unpublished. The soldiers' moving experiences, thoughts, and images animate each chapter. Written accounts by nurses and doctors, soldiers' families, and volunteers on the home front add intriguing details to our picture of the struggle, which claimed roughly 6,000 Connecticut lives. Rare war artifacts—a bone ring carved on the battlefield or a wad of tobacco acquired from a rebel picket—connect the reader to the men and boys who once owned them. From camp life to battle, from Virginia to Louisiana, from the opening shot at Bull Run to the cheering at Appomattox, Heroes for All Time tells the story of the war through vivid, personal portrayals.
Download or read book History of Connecticut Civil War Regiments Artillery Cavalry and Infantry written by Christopher Cox and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-09-22 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has information of all Connecticut Civil War Regiment. This is a research base book to find the information about one or more of the Connecticut Regiments all in one place. The information is: who the commanding officers were are the organization (mustering in) of the regiment; what battles the regiment was involved in; the armies the regiment belonged to; total enrolled and break down of causalities; and when and where the regiment was organized and mustered out.
Download or read book Civil War Volunteer Sons of Connecticut written by Blaikie Hines and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Connecticut Yankees at Gettysburg written by Charles P. Hamblen and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, dramatic narrative is interwoven with excerpts from the letters and diaries of Connecticut's fighting ranks to produce an extended overview of the battle of Gettysburg that should appeal to Civil War enthusiasts, students new to the Civil War and those interested in Connecticut history.
Download or read book The Eighth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War written by William A. Liska and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eighth Connecticut Infantry was one of the longest-serving Union volunteer regiments in the Civil War and saw action throughout the Eastern Theater, from Burnside's expedition in North Carolina to the battles at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Cold Harbor and Petersburg, and campaigns throughout Virginia. Drawing on soldiers' letters and diaries, this first-ever regimental history of the Eighth chronicles four years of combat service, with maps newly created from historical accounts.
Download or read book New Haven s Civil War Hospital written by Ira Spar, M.D. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Civil War's toll mounted, an antiquated medical system faced a deluge of sick and wounded soldiers. In response, the United States created a national care system primarily funded and regulated by the federal government. When New Haven, Connecticut, was chosen as the site for a new military hospital, Pliny Adams Jewett, next in line to become chief of surgery at Yale, sacrificed his private practice and eventually his future in New Haven to serve as chief of staff of the new thousand-bed Knight U.S. General Hospital. The "War Governor," William Buckingham, personally financed hospital construction while supporting needy soldiers and their families. He appointed state agents to scour battlefields and hospitals to ensure his state's soldiers got the best care while encouraging their transfer to the hospital in New Haven. This history of the hospital's construction and operation during the war discusses the state of medicine at the time as well as the administrative side of providing care to sick and wounded soldiers.
Download or read book The County Regiment written by Dudley Landon Vaill and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Connecticut Fights written by Daniel W. Strickland and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.
