Download or read book Recollections Grave and Gay written by Mrs. Burton Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Recollections Grave and Gay written by Burton Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1911, these are the Mrs. Burton Harrison's recollections of Virginia before and during the Civil War.

Download or read book Bugles Blow No More written by Clifford Dowdey and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-13 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “YOU WON’T FORGET ME...” Mildred knew that Brose was right. She would never forget him—his hard, black eyes—his manner of clam assurance. Ever since their first meeting so long ago, she had thought of him unceasingly. He was different from any man she had ever met. There was something about him that was evil—and yet she had to have him... Brose Kirby came up through the ranks. He was a man born to make a name. Tough, driving—a man who would stop at nothing to get what he wanted. And he wanted Mildred Wade. But she was the daughter of one of Richmond’s greatest families—and Brose—Brose was scum... This is one of the truly great novels of the Civil War. Powerful, vivid—panoramic in scope, it is a brilliant picture of the scorched and bloody days that helped to form today’s America.

Download or read book The Confederate Carpetbaggers written by Daniel E. Sutherland and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1988-06-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the American Civil War, many former Confederates fled their southern homeland. Some became expatriates, settling in Canada, Europe, Mexico, South America, and Asia. Others mi-grated to the western United States, seeking fresh starts in the newly forming territories. But a third, somewhat more audacious group invaded the land of their Yankee foe. Settling in northeastern and midwestern towns and cities, these "Confederate carpetbaggers" believed that northern economic and educational opportunities offered the quickest means of rebuilding shattered fortunes and lives. In The Confederate Carpetbaggers, Daniel E. Sutherland examines the lives of those southern men and women who moved north between 1865 and 1880. Dealing with their various motives for moving north, problems of adaptation to northern society, attempts to find new identities, and efforts to maintain personal ties with other Confederates in the North as well as with old friends in the South, Sutherland provides a detailed and illuminating account of the contributions these displaced southerners made to the financial, literary, artistic, and political life of the nation. The principal characters in Sutherland’s story are Burton Norvell Harrison, who served as private secretary to Jefferson Davis, and his wife, Constance Cary Harrison, a popular belle in wartime Richmond. In 1867 the Harrisons moved to New York City, where they remained for four decades. Their exploits, beliefs, and emotions serve as a prism through which to view the successes and failures of other Confederate carpetbaggers. Although some emigrants returned to the South after brief, unpleasant northern sojourns, others spent the remainder of their lives in the North. Some became millionaires; others suffered poverty and ill health. Some became famous; most settled into tolerable, unobtrusive lives as productive citizens in a reunited nation. Sutherland’s study breaks new and significant ground in explaining the complexities of Reconstruction and late nineteenth-century American life. Traditional approaches to Reconstruction history concentrate on the South, particularly on the plight of freedmen and on the political battle for control of state governments. Some scholars have made passing references to the most prominent Confederates in the North, but until now no one has explored the lives of these men and women in detail. In this entertaining and well-written account, Sutherland suggests that while the Confederate carpetbaggers were relatively few in number, they made significant contributions to American progress in the years following the war—contributions they might not have made had they remained in the South.

Download or read book Virginia at War 1865 written by William C. Davis and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume in this comprehensive history of Confederate Virginia examines the end of the Civil War in the Old Dominion. By January 1865, most of Virginia's schools were closed, many newspapers had ceased publication, businesses suffered, and food was scarce. Having endured major defeats on their home soil and the loss of much of the state's territory to the Union army, Virginia's Confederate soldiers began to desert at higher rates than at any other time in the war, returning home to provide their families with whatever assistance they could muster. It was a dark year for Virginia. Virginia at War, 1865 presents a striking depiction of a state ravaged by violence and destruction. In the final volume of the Virginia at War series, editors William C. Davis and James I. Robertson Jr. have once again assembled an impressive collection of essays covering topics that include land operations, women and families, wartime economy, music and entertainment, the demobilization of Lee's army, and the war's aftermath. The volume ends with the final installment of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire's popular and important Diary of a Southern Refugee during the War.

Download or read book Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The New International Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New International Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Readers Guide to Periodical Literature written by Anna Lorraine Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An author subject index to selected general interest periodicals of reference value in libraries.

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Download or read book Varina Howell Wife of Jefferson Davis written by Eron Rowland and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1927 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of this Biography has received flattering reviews from critics on the staff of the Nation, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Boston Transcript and the London Times. Both Gamaliel Bradford and William E. Dodd have been warm in their commendation of the second volume. In this volume Mrs. Rowland had written a charming and accurate historical narrative of the Southern Confederacy in which the wife of Jefferson Davis played a part that holds and fascinates the reader. The narrative written in an easy, graceful yet frank and forceful style, places the work among the year's important contributions to American biography.

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Download or read book Scribner s Magazine written by Edward Livermore Burlingame and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report written by Weston (Mass. : Town) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reports of the Library Trustees and the Librarian and a List of Accessions to the Library for the Year Ending written by Weston Public Library (Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Joseph E Johnston A Civil War Biography written by Craig L. Symonds and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994-06-17 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Riveting. . . . A thoughtful biography." —New York Times Book Review General Joseph E. Johnston was in command of Confederate forces at the South's first victory—Manassas in July 1861—and at its last—Bentonville in April 1965. Many of his contemporaries considered him the greatest southern field commander of the war; others ranked him second only to Robert E. Lee. But Johnston was an enigmatic man. His battlefield victories were never decisive. He failed to save Confederate forces under siege by Grant at Vicksburg, and he retreated into Georgia in the face of Sherman's march. His intense feud with Jefferson Davis ensured the collapse of the Confederacy's western campaign in 1864 and made Johnston the focus of a political schism within the government. Now in this rousing narrative of Johnston's dramatic career, Craig L. Symonds gives us the first rounded portrait of the general as a public and private man.