Download or read book John A Mitchell Civil War Letters written by John A. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection consists of biographical materials and two letters written by Mitchell while he was in Arkansas.
Download or read book The Civil War Letters of the Gouge Family of Mitchell County written by Sarah Gouge McKee and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yours Till Death written by John Cotton and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1951 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These letters from a yeoman farmer in the Confederate Army to his wife in Coosa County, Alabama, will be of interest to historians not only for the light shed upon the life of the Confederate soldier, but also for frequent allusions to rural life and the operation of the farm in Cotton's absence. He enlisted at Pinckneyville, Alabama, on April 1, 1862, and was paroled at Talladega on May 25, 1865. During the intervening years he saw action in Tennessee and Kentucky, in the Dalton-Atlanta campaign, briefly again in Tennessee, then in Georgia against the forces of Sherman, moving finally into South Carolina.... These letters constitute an authentic record of a typical Confederate soldier's experience," ---Journal of Southern History
Download or read book Yours for the Union written by John Webster Chase and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of his letters, 172 that have survived are included in this book; they cover a four-year period from October 1861 until the war ended in April 1865. The letters are divided into chapters covering the different arenas where Chase served during the war, from Alexandria, the Peninsula Campaign, Maryland, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville to Gettysburg, Warrenton and Brandy Station, the Overland Campaign, the Shenandoah Valley - and, finally, to Petersburg.
Download or read book George A Mitchell Letters written by George Mitchell (Sr., A.) and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters from George A. Mitchell to his parents and brother, dated between April 28, 1861 and Feb. 24, 1865. He describes camp life, battles, illness and marching orders during his time in the 5th New York Infantry Regiment and Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War.
Download or read book Civil War Soldiers written by Reid Mitchell and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1989 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unpublished letters and diaries of soldiers of the Civil War examine the reasons men fought in the war and what it was like to be in battle.
Download or read book Civil War Letters of William Nazareth Mitchell written by William Nazareth Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letter from John Mitchell Borrow to James N Blackmore with Annotations by James Blackmore November 20 1868 written by John Mitchell Borrow and published by . This book was released on with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With annotations by James Blackmore and others.
Download or read book John W Mitchell Letters written by John Wroughton Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters to Mitchell from his cousin Thomas C. Marshall of Charleston (S.C.) concern Marshall's attempts to sell his slave James, family property on Broad Street, financial problems, difficulties with his sister Caroline (whom he accuses of immoral conduct), his repayments of a debt owed to Mitchell, his drinking, economic conditions in Charleston, and other matters. Marshall writes about his supposed recovery from alcoholism (being "dead unto intemperance") and then with cynical humor closes his letter with "As pants the hart for cooling streams, when heated in the chase, so long I for a glass of Number Six. With your permission I will adjourn and take a drink." In a farcical letter (1840 March 6) signed "Tom Chandler," Marshall announces his own death, with "no tombstone to mark his grave, and to say to the passing traveler, here lies the remains of poor Tom Puss Cat, nevertheless, he had this to console him in his dying moments, that he had caught two of St. Philip's Church mice."
Download or read book Yours Till Death written by John Weaver Cotton and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maryland Voices of the Civil War written by Charles W. Mitchell and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most contentious event in our nation's history, the Civil War deeply divided families, friends, and communities. Both sides fought to define the conflict on their own terms -- Lincoln and his supporters struggled to preserve the Union and end slavery, while the Confederacy waged a battle for the primacy of local liberty or "states' rights." But the war had its own peculiar effects on the four border slave states that remained loyal to the Union. Internal disputes and shifting allegiances injected uncertainty, apprehension, and violence into the everyday lives of their citizens. No state better exemplified the vital role of a border state than Maryland -- where the passage of time has not dampened debates over issues such as the alleged right of secession and executive power versus civil liberties in wartime. In Maryland Voices of the Civil War, Charles W. Mitchell draws upon hundreds of letters, diaries, and period newspapers to portray the passions of a wide variety of people -- merchants, slaves, soldiers, politicians, freedmen, women, clergy, civic leaders, and children -- caught in the emotional vise of war. Mitchell reinforces the provocative notion that Maryland's Southern sympathies -- while genuine -- never seriously threatened to bring about a Confederate Maryland. Maryland Voices of the Civil War illuminates the human complexities of the Civil War era and the political realignment that enabled Marylanders to abolish slavery in their state before the end of the war.
Download or read book Margaret Mitchell John Marsh written by Marianne Walker and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on almost 200 previously unpublished letters and extensive interviews with their closest associates, Walker's biography of Margaret Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, offers a new look into a devoted marriage and fascinating partnership that ultimately created a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. This edition of Walker's biography celebrates the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gone With the Wind in 1936. In lively extracts from their letters to family and friends, John and Margaret, who also went by Peggy, describe the stormy years of their courtship, their bohemian lifestyle as a young married couple, the arduous but fulfilling years when Peggy was writing her famous novel, the thrill of its acceptance for publication and its literary success, and the excitement of the making of the movie. In telling the private side of this twenty-four-year marriage, author Marianne Walker reveals a long-suspected truth: Gone With the Wind might have never been written were it not for John Marsh. He was Peggy's best friend and constant champion, and he became her editor, proofreader, researcher, business manager, and the inspiration and motivation behind her writing. At every point, including the turbulent years of Mitchell's first marriage to Red Upshaw, it was John who provided the intellectual stimulation, emotional support, and editorial insights that allowed Peggy to channel her talents into the creation of her astounding Civil War epic. From years of meticulous research, Marianne Walker details the intimate and moving love story between a husband and wife, and between a writer and her editor.
Download or read book To See the Elephant written by John A. McKee and published by Leathers Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Extreme Civil War written by Matthew M. Stith and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the American Civil War, the western Trans-Mississippi frontier was host to harsh environmental conditions, irregular warfare, and intense racial tensions that created extraordinarily difficult conditions for both combatants and civilians. Matthew M. Stith's Extreme Civil War focuses on Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Indian Territory to examine the physical and cultural frontiers that challenged Confederate and Union forces alike. A disturbing narrative emerges where conflict indiscriminately beset troops and families in a region that continually verged on social and political anarchy. With hundreds of small fights disbursed over the expansive borderland, fought by civilians— even some women and children—as much as by soldiers and guerrillas, this theater of war was especially savage. Despite connections to the political issues and military campaigns that drove the larger war, the irregular conflict in this border region represented a truly disparate war within a war. The blend of violence, racial unrest, and frontier culture presented distinct challenges to combatants, far from the aid of governmental services. Stith shows how white Confederate and Union civilians faced forces of warfare and the bleak environmental realities east of the Great Plains while barely coexisting with a number of other ethnicities and races, including Native Americans and African Americans. In addition to the brutal fighting and lack of basic infrastructure, the inherent mistrust among these communities intensified the suffering of all citizens on America's frontier. Extreme Civil War reveals the complex racial, environmental, and military dimensions that fueled the brutal guerrilla warfare and made the Trans-Mississippi frontier one of the most difficult and diverse pockets of violence during the Civil War.
Download or read book A Civil War Soldier of Christ and Country written by John Rodgers Meigs and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of letters and documents offers a rare glimpse into a young officer's interesting but short life. Mary A. Giunta's A Civil War Soldier of Christ and Country tells the story of the relationships between the headstrong John Rodgers Meigs and his family and friends; his heartwarming eagerness to please his demanding parents; his West Point experiences that include a meeting with Abraham Lincoln; and his life as a combatant in the Civil War. John Rodgers Meigs was the son of Union Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs, and his official correspondence reveals much about his duties as a military engineer and aide-de-camp to Union generals. The private correspondence between him and his father and mother is especially compelling. Approximately forty of the letters were written in an early version of Pitman shorthand and are here transcribed for the first time. Collectively, they provide an intimate picture of the young Meigs, uncover the concerns of a family with high expectations, and offer a unique look at a devastating war.
Download or read book Copy of Letter from John Mitchell to Charles Kean Monday December 7 1857 written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitchell has twice met with Col. Phipps, who seems unwilling to adopt Mitchell's suggestions. A note below attributed "C. Kean" reads "The suggestions I presume were to communicate with me." Copy possibly in the hand of Charles Kean.
Download or read book Citizen Officers written by Andrew S. Bledsoe and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time of the American Revolution, most junior officers in the American military attained their positions through election by the volunteer soldiers in their company, a tradition that reflected commitment to democracy even in times of war. By the outset of the Civil War, citizen-officers had fallen under sharp criticism from career military leaders who decried their lack of discipline and efficiency in battle. Andrew S. Bledsoe’s Citizen-Officers explores the role of the volunteer officer corps during the Civil War and the unique leadership challenges they faced when military necessity clashed with the antebellum democratic values of volunteer soldiers. Bledsoe’s innovative evaluation of the lives and experiences of nearly 2,600 Union and Confederate company-grade junior officers from every theater of operations across four years of war reveals the intense pressures placed on these young leaders. Despite their inexperience and sometimes haphazard training in formal military maneuvers and leadership, citizen-officers frequently faced their first battles already in command of a company. These intense and costly encounters forced the independent, civic-minded volunteer soldiers to recognize the need for military hierarchy and to accept their place within it. Thus concepts of American citizenship, republican traditions in American life, and the brutality of combat shaped, and were in turn shaped by, the attitudes and actions of citizen-officers. Through an analysis of wartime writings, post-war reminiscences, company and regimental papers, census records, and demographic data, Citizen-Officers illuminates the centrality of the volunteer officer to the Civil War and to evolving narratives of American identity and military service.
