Download or read book Ella Mayfield s Pawpaw Militia written by Fay Risner and published by booksbyfay. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strong willed, independent woman, all Ella Mayfield wanted was to help her widowed mother and siblings survive during the Civil War. Invasions by Union soldiers and Kansas Jawhawkers into Vernon Co. Missouri forced Ella to join a Bushwhacker band. Brave and daring, Ella dressed like a man, was a crack shot and superb horseman. Her dangerous exploits are legendary while she served as a spy and faught to protect her home near Montevallo, Mo.
Download or read book Women Making War written by Thomas F. Curran and published by Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partisan activities of disloyal women and the Union army’s reaction During the American Civil War, more than four hundred women were arrested and imprisoned by the Union Army in the St. Louis area. The majority of these women were fully aware of the political nature of their actions and had made conscious decisions to assist Confederate soldiers in armed rebellion against the U.S. government. Their crimes included offering aid to Confederate soldiers, smuggling, spying, sabotaging, and, rarely, serving in the Confederate army. Historian Thomas F. Curran’s extensive research highlights for the first time the female Confederate prisoners in the St. Louis area, and his thoughtful analysis shows how their activities affected Federal military policy. Early in the war, Union officials felt reluctant to arrest women and waited to do so until their conduct could no longer be tolerated. The war progressed, the women’s disloyal activities escalated, and Federal response grew stronger. Some Confederate partisan women were banished to the South, while others were held at Alton Military Prison and other sites. The guerilla war in Missouri resulted in more arrests of women, and the task of incarcerating them became more complicated. The women’s offenses were seen as treasonous by the Federal government. By determining that women—who were excluded from the politics of the male public sphere—were capable of treason, Federal authorities implicitly acknowledged that women acted in ways that had serious political meaning. Nearly six decades before U.S. women had the right to vote, Federal officials who dealt with Confederate partisan women routinely referred to them as citizens. Federal officials created a policy that conferred on female citizens the same obligations male citizens had during time of war and rebellion, and they prosecuted disloyal women in the same way they did disloyal men. The women arrested in the St. Louis area are only a fraction of the total number of female southern partisans who found ways to advance the Confederate military cause. More significant than their numbers, however, is what the fragmentary records of these women reveal about the activities that led to their arrests, the reactions women partisans evoked from the Federal authorities who confronted them, the impact that women’s partisan activities had on Federal military policy and military prisons, and how these women’s experiences were subsumed to comport with a Lost Cause myth—the need for valorous men to safeguard the homes of defenseless women.
Download or read book Butterfly and Angel Wings written by Fay Risner and published by booksbyfay. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays about Grandmothers, mothers and single women, born early in the twentieth century. Hard working, faith filled courageous women, each with a story to tell.
Download or read book Neighbor Watchers written by Fay Risner and published by booksbyfay. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An American version of Miss Marple, Gracie Evans tries to resign herself to the fact that she now lives in Moser Mansion a rest home for women in Locked Rock, Iowa. She wrestles with feelings of boredom. Her only diversion is rocking on the front porch while she watches the neighbors. What starts out as harmless snooping turns into a dangerous past time."--Cover.
Download or read book The Rainbow s End written by Fay Risner and published by booksbyfay. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amish simple way of life based on faith, convictions and honesty is entwined in this love story between an English woman and an Amish man. Hallie Lindstrom, Home Health Nurse, has copper-red hair, a fondness for jeans and owns a copper sedan which inhibits the Amish community's acceptance of her. Struggling with her decision to convert to Amish, Hallie realizes if she is allowed to marry John Lapp the worldly possessions she values have to go.
Download or read book Small Feet s Many Moon Journey written by Fay Risner and published by booksbyfay. This book was released on 2010-10-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fay Risner has brought Stringbean Hooper to life again with the second story in the Stringbean Hooper series about his adventures in the West. Looking forward to a journey across country to San Jose, California, Stringbean and his wife, Theo, have no idea just how much trouble they can get into. Mishaps, upset Indians, a flood, a mad bear, and more happen to the Hoopers. Through it all, Stringbean meets the challenges with his usual sense of humor, but he notices as the journey drags out that Theo is getting crankier by the minute. He sure hopes she lightens up by the time they get to her brother's wedding in San Jose. It didn't help to have warning advice freely handed out to Theo, known as Small Feet, by Indian shaman Matilda Vinci about being careful around Stringbean, Sioux name Walking Dead, so he doesn't get her killed.
Download or read book The Civil War in Kentucky written by Lowell Harrison and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " The Civil War scene in Kentucky, site of few full-scale battles, was one of crossroad skirmishes and guerrilla terror, of quick incursions against specific targets and equally quick withdrawals. Yet Kentucky was crucial to the military strategy of the war. For either side, a Kentucky held secure against the adversary would have meant easing of supply problems and an immeasurably stronger base of operations. The state, along with many of its institutions and many of its families, was hopelessly divided against itself. The fiercest partisans of the South tended to be doubtful about the wisdom of secession, and the staunchest Union men questioned the legality of many government measures. What this division meant militarily is made clear as Lowell H. Harrison traces the movement of troops and the outbreaks of violence. What it meant to the social and economic fabric of Kentucky and to its postwar political stance is another theme of this book. And not forgotten is the life of the ordinary citizen in the midst of such dissension and uncertainty.
Download or read book Sermons Addresses and Reminiscences and Important Correspondence written by E. C. Morris and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of sermons, addresses, question and answer formatted lessons, catechisms, and other documents addressed to the members and officers of the National Baptist Convention. There is a section containing biographical sketches of prominent Baptists, as well as an autobiographical sketch of Morris' life and works. The book contains a directory of ordained African-American ministers in the Southern states and territories.
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Download or read book The Descendants of Charles Glidden of Portsmouth and Exeter New Hampshire written by Lucia Glidden Strong and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Glidden (ca. 1632-1707), was probably born in the parish of Buckland-Brewer, coucnty of Devon, England. He married Eunice Shore in 1658 and they came to Boston ca. 1660. They later moved to New Hampshire. Descendants lived in New Hampshire, Maine, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Massachusetts, Québec, Washington, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Louisiana and elsewhere.
Download or read book Genealogy of the Descendants of John Deming of Wethersfield Connecticut written by Judson Keith Deming and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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