Download or read book Seven Months a Prisoner written by John Vestal Hadley and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seven Months a Prisoner written by John Vestal Hadley and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 50 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. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... VI Our principal want the first few days out was meat. We could get from the negroes almost everything else we needed in sufficient quantities, but of meat we got none of any kind, from the fact that they had none themselves, nor had they, as a general rule, had any for two years, in consequence of the demands of the army. Our appetites cruelly teased us night and day for something to supply muscle. To meet this demand, two or three times, we visited hen-roosts with ' felonious intent," but were each time disturbed by dogs, and out of distinguished consideration for the rest and quietude of these quadrupeds, we forebore any further enterprises of that sort. But a capital idea struck Goode one night, as we came upon a flock of geese sitting in the road. "Say, boys! let's have a goose for tomorrow." We could almost taste the savory "sentinel of Rome" in the very mention of him. Certainly, everybody was agreed, and the leader led us back the road to prepare for a capture. The geese were sitting so close to a house that it was thought safer for us to drive them up the road out of hearing of the people. So at it we went, whispering "shoow, shoow, shoow," but the offended family, instead of walking quietly off at command, set up an uproarious "hut, tut, tut, tut," which succeeded in repulsing us completely. We fell back a few rods for another council, and this time it was decided that we should walk up abreast and simultaneously fire a volley of clubs into their ranks. Our walking-sticks were the very things, heavy enough to be deadly, and they were used. Whiz went the canes, bang agafnst the fence one or two of them, and off went the geese, noisier than before, not one of them harmed. It was too bad, but enough to frighten us all away but...
Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh 1895 1902 written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Finding Lists Issued by the War Department Library 1 Serial Publications 2 Principal Reference Works 3 Important Accessions 1898 1903 written by United States. War Department. Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains three finding lists put out by the U.S. War Department Library for locating and identifying resources in their library.
Download or read book Haunted by Atrocity written by Benjamin G. Cloyd and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, approximately 56,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in enemy military prison camps. Even in the midst of the war's shocking violence, the intensity of the prisoners' suffering and the brutal manner of their deaths provoked outrage, and both the Lincoln and Davis administrations manipulated the prison controversy to serve the exigencies of war. As both sides distributed propaganda designed to convince citizens of each section of the relative virtue of their own prison system -- in contrast to the cruel inhumanity of the opponent -- they etched hardened and divisive memories of the prison controversy into the American psyche, memories that would prove difficult to uproot. In Haunted by Atrocity, Benjamin G. Cloyd deftly analyzes how Americans have remembered the military prisons of the Civil War from the war itself to the present, making a strong case for the continued importance of the great conflict in contemporary America. Throughout Reconstruction and well into the twentieth century, Cloyd shows, competing sectional memories of the prisons prolonged the process of national reconciliation. Events such as the trial and execution of CSA Captain Henry Wirz -- commander of the notorious Andersonville prison -- along with political campaigns, the publication of prison memoirs, and even the construction of monuments to the prison dead all revived the painful accusations of deliberate cruelty. As northerners, white southerners, and African Americans contested the meaning of the war, these divisive memories tore at the scars of the conflict and ensured that the subject of Civil War prisons remained controversial. By the 1920s, the death of the Civil War generation removed much of the emotional connection to the war, and the devastation of the first two world wars provided new contexts in which to reassess the meaning of atrocity. As a result, Cloyd explains, a more objective opinion of Civil War prisons emerged -- one that condemned both the Union and the Confederacy for their callous handling of captives while it deemed the mistreatment of prisoners an inevitable consequence of modern war. But, Cloyd argues, these seductive arguments also deflected a closer examination of the precise responsibility for the tragedy of Civil War prisons and allowed Americans to believe in a comforting but ahistorical memory of the controversy. Both the recasting of the town of Andersonville as a Civil War village in the 1970s and the 1998 opening of the National Prisoner of War Museum at Andersonville National Historic Site reveal the continued American preference for myth over history -- a preference, Cloyd asserts, that inhibits a candid assessment of the evils committed during the Civil War. The first study of Civil War memory to focus exclusively on the military prison camps, Haunted by Atrocity offers a cautionary tale of how Americans, for generations, have unconsciously constructed their recollections of painful events in ways that protect cherished ideals of myth, meaning, identity, and, ultimately, a deeply rooted faith in American exceptionalism.
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Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Pittsburgh, Pa. Carnegie Free Library of Alleghany and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil War in Appalachia written by Kenneth W. Noe and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unlike many collections of original essays, this one is consistently fresh, coherent, and excellent. It reflects the combined scholarly excitement of ... the cultural history of the Civil War and the social history of Appalachia. As the editors point out in their introduction, this collection revises two false cliches - uniform Unionism in a region filled with cultural savages."
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Download or read book Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia written by Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia written by Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes some House documents as appendices.
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Download or read book Cold Mountain written by Charles Frazier and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.
Download or read book Catalog 1903 written by Indiana State Library and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classified Catalogue written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
