Download or read book Incidents in Dixie written by O. H. Bixby and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Incidents in Dixie written by J. Young and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Download or read book Stories of Dixie written by James William Nicholson and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII THE STORY OF EVENTS OF THE WAR Minor Incidents Many things occur in wars of which history makes no mention. As a rule, it tells of the greater and not of the smaller events. Yet the latter are the happenings that young people like most to hear about. Stories of little incidents of the camp, the march, and the battle not only make pleasant reading, but give one a good idea of the temper of the soldiers and the kind of men they were. The idea of war which one gets from history is that it is a series of severe ills and toils. This is true, and probably no soldiers ever realized it more keenly than the Confederates during the War between the States. Yet old soldiers say they had as many hearty laughs during that war as they ever had in any other four years of their lives. So war must have something of an amusing as well as a serious side. Fortunate is the soldier who has the "saving grace of humor" through and by which this funny side is discernible. Few armies have had a greater number of wits than the Confederate. However tired, hungry, and thirsty the men might be, however long the march, or hard the battle, or gloomy the outlook, some one would see the "funny side" of it, and so express it as to put the others to smiling if not laughing. No doubt this reviving and stimulating of the spirits and morale of the men went far to supply the want of food and medicine. Indeed, it is believed that this merriment had much to do in making the Dixie boys the splendid soldiers they were--enabling them to prolong the struggle against such great odds and with such scanty means. A regiment was once passing through a small village. The men had been marching and fighting, more or less, for several days. They were not only tired, thirsty, and...

Download or read book Dixie Spirits written by Christopher K. Coleman and published by Cumberland House Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixty-two stories in Dixie Spirits are based on factual, historical incidents involving real people and places. It also includes ghost tours, haunted hotels, and other fun and mysterious travel spots.

Download or read book The Fall of the House of Dixie written by Bruce C. Levine and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist history of the radical transformation of the American South during the Civil War examines the economic, social and political deconstruction and rebuilding of Southern institutions as experienced by everyday people. By the award-winning author of Confederate Emancipation.

Download or read book The Rebellion Record a Diary of American Events with Documents Narratives Illustrative Incidents Poetry Etc written by Frank Moore and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dixie after the War written by Myrta Lockett Avary and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Dixie after the War by Myrta Lockett Avary

Download or read book Dixie s Italians written by Jessica Barbata Jackson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tens of thousands of Southern Italians and Sicilians immigrated to the American Gulf South. Arriving during the Jim Crow era at a time when races were being rigidly categorized, these immigrants occupied a racially ambiguous place in society: they were not considered to be of mixed race, nor were they “people of color” or “white.” In Dixie’s Italians: Sicilians, Race, and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South, Jessica Barbata Jackson shows that these Italian and Sicilian newcomers used their undefined status to become racially transient, moving among and between racial groups as both “white southerners” and “people of color” across communal and state-monitored color lines. Dixie’s Italians is the first book-length study of Sicilians and other Italians in the Jim Crow Gulf South. Through case studies involving lynchings, disenfranchisement efforts, attempts to segregate Sicilian schoolchildren, and turn-of-the-century miscegenation disputes, Jackson explores the racial mobility that Italians and Sicilians experienced. Depending on the location and circumstance, Italians in the Gulf South were sometimes viewed as white and sometimes not, occasionally offered access to informal citizenship and in other moments denied it. Jackson expands scholarship on the immigrant experience in the American South and explorations of the gray area within the traditionally black/white narrative. Bridging the previously disconnected fields of immigration history, southern history, and modern Italian history, this groundbreaking study shows how Sicilians and other Italians helped to both disrupt and consolidate the region’s racially binary discourse and profoundly alter the legal and ideological landscape of the Gulf South at the turn of the century.

Download or read book This Is Not Dixie written by Brent M.S. Campney and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-08-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere. Brent M. S. Campney explodes the notion of the Midwest as a so-called land of freedom with an in-depth study of assaults both active and threatened faced by African Americans in post–Civil War Kansas. Campney's capacious definition of white-on-black violence encompasses not only sensational demonstrations of white power like lynchings and race riots, but acts of threatened violence and the varied forms of pervasive routine violence--property damage, rape, forcible ejection from towns--used to intimidate African Americans. As he shows, such methods were a cornerstone of efforts to impose and maintain white supremacy. Yet Campney's broad consideration of racist violence also lends new insights into the ways people resisted threats. African Americans spontaneously hid fugitives and defused lynch mobs while also using newspapers and civil rights groups to lay the groundwork for forms of institutionalized opposition that could fight racist violence through the courts and via public opinion. Ambitious and provocative, This Is Not Dixie rewrites fundamental narratives on mob action, race relations, African American resistance, and racism's grim past in the heartland.

Download or read book Dixie After the War written by Myrta Lockett Avary and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dixie After the War" by Myrta Lockett Avary. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book Dixie s Last Stand written by John Ferak and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true crime author of Body of Proof investigates the case of an Iowa woman charged with murder for killing her abusive husband. Scott and Dixie Shanahan lived in a gray ranch along Third Avenue in the sleepy Midwestern town of Defiance, Iowa. With a population of less than 400, everyone in Defiance knew the home for its recurring episodes of screaming, mayhem, and horrific domestic violence. Then one day, Scott Shanahan was gone. Some thought the abusive husband had packed his bags and left town. After months went by with still no sign of the volatile wife beater, people began to ask questions. But what really happened to him was so shocking that even long-time law enforcement officials were aghast by the sight and awful smell. When Dixie was arrested for Scott’s murder, she made a credible claim of self-defense. But how did she manage to live with her husband’s rotting body inside her master bedroom for fourteen months? In Dixie’s Last Stand, investigative journalist John Ferak explores a tragic tale of marital abuse to ask: did Dixie Shanahan deserve to be convicted of murder?

Download or read book Bad Carma on the Dixie Dieway written by Jada Ryker and published by . This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body was found. Meet me at the Bloated Body Bridge on the Dixie Dieway under the next Blue Moon at midnight. If you don't, I'll post your dirty secrets. Tell no one.Gina's new life is built on lies and secrets. To keep it from crashing and burning, she has to meet the shadowy person behind the email at the Bloated Body Bridge. Locals gave the Kentucky bridge the grisly tag due to so many motorists spinning off the bridge and into the murky depths of the Ohio River. The infamous bridge spans a remote section of Dixie Highway, known as the Dixie Dieway.On the way to the meeting with the blackmailer, Gina is attacked. The shadowy driver is intent on hurling her into the water.An unexpected knight on a steel steed roars to her rescue. Convinced he'll disappear into the mist, she insists on his name. The man on the powerful motorcycle answers, "They call me The Guardian Angel of the Dixie Dieway, but I'm more devil than angel." Feeling the heated stirrings of more than gratitude for her mysterious rescuer, she vows to unearth his identity.With the blue Kentucky moon on the rise, Gina must meet with the blackmailer. He's a no-show. She discovers that he had the best excuse in the world. He was dead before the rendezvous. He's ostensibly a victim of the Dixie Dieway, the latest to join the road's impossibly high body count.Was his death really an accident? Or was he silenced? What about the sudden uptick in fatal accidents on the Dixie Dieway? Are they accidents, or is a shadowy figure manipulating events?Gina crashes a party at the notorious Mountain Lions biker club in the remote town of Dead Horse Holler. It triggers events with tendrils that reach back to the past and hold deadly consequences in the present. Is Klaws, the charismatic biker leader, a heartless criminal, or the key to Gina's heart? What about the blackmailer's handsome attorney, determined to prove she's a cold-blooded adventuress involved in his client's death? Does he want to prosecute her? Or does he want to protect her? Is the handsome, small-town doctor hiding explosive secrets as he wages a war on her defenses? As Gina grapples with her feelings, she can't forget the mysterious Guardian Angel. Is he a hero, helping people in danger, or a villain, helping them to their deaths?Her lies exposed and accused of murder, Gina faces the Mountain Lions' special brand of Dead Horse Holler justice. Will she solve the crimes in time? Or will the man she loves risk everything to rescue her?SPECIAL BONUS: As a reader appreciation gift, "Two Tickets to Paradise" is included FREE at the end of the book. In the fun Macey Malloy Mysteries prequel, Macey risks her life when she's embroiled in a brutal murder and meets her feline, crime-solving partner.

Download or read book Justice Denied written by Bobbye Sikes Wicke and published by Bobbye Sikes Wicke. This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "He-Coon" is former U. S. Congressman Bob Sikes, once the most powerful figure in Florida's Panhandle. When he died with a diagnosis of malnutrition and a new secret will surfaced, his daughter retraced his final years and the hijacking of his estate by his new, much younger third wife. She found that during the darkened, helpless final years of his long bout with Alzheimer's disease, Bob Sikes was deprived of medical care, isolated from friends and family, and threatened with being sent to a nursing home if he didn't behave - which made him cry; meanwhile, his wife secretly transferred his assets into her name - with the help of his doctor (a state senator), his secretary, the town mayor, and her friends and her sister. During a decade of court battles, the children and grandchildren of the He-Coon learned that despite copious documentation of evidence, records, and perjury, despite legal precedents and statutes, justice follows political connections and deep pockets.

Download or read book A Personal Odyssey written by Thomas Sowell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place. The vignettes of the people and places that made an impression on Thomas Sowell at various stages of his life range from the poor and the powerless to the mighty and the wealthy, from a home for homeless boys to the White House, as well as ranging across the United States and around the world. It also includes Sowell's startling discovery of his own origins during his teenage years. If the child is father to the man, this memoir shows the characteristics that have become familiar in the public figure known as Thomas Sowell already present in an obscure little boy born in poverty in the Jim Crow South during the Great Depression and growing up in Harlem. His marching to his own drummer, his disregard of what others say or think, even his battles with editors who attempt to change what he has written, are all there in childhood. More than a story of the life of Sowell himself, this is also a story of the people who gave him their help, their support, and their loyalty, as well as those who demonized him and knifed him in the back. It is a story not just of one life, but of life in general, with all its exhilaration and pain.

Download or read book Lynching Beyond Dixie written by Michael J. Pfeifer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-03-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction. However, the lynching violence that occurred in American regions outside the South, where hundreds of persons, including Hispanics, whites, African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans died at the hands of lynch mobs, has received less attention. This collection of essays by prominent and rising scholars fills this gap by illuminating the factors that distinguished lynching in the West, the Midwest, and the Mid-Atlantic. The volume adds to a more comprehensive history of American lynching and will be of interest to all readers interested in the history of violence across the varied regions of the United States. Contributors are Jack S. Blocker Jr., Brent M. S. Campney, William D. Carrigan, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Dennis B. Downey, Larry R. Gerlach, Kimberley Mangun, Helen McLure, Michael J. Pfeifer, Christopher Waldrep, Clive Webb, and Dena Lynn Winslow.

Download or read book The Grayjackets and how They Lived Fought and Died for Dixie written by A Confederate and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dixie s Dirty Secret written by James Dickerson and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1998 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954 mandated the desegregation of schools nationwide, the legislature in the state of Mississippi created the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, the basic mission of which was to prevent integration in that state. This book is an investigative history of the Commission, other government agencies (including the FBI), and organized crime, all of which conspired to break the law in dealing with civil-rights and antiwar activists during the 1950s and 1960s. The author uncovers new information about the efforts of FBI agents to combat integration and exposes the longest-running conspiracy in American history.