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Book The Civil War Diary of John Milton Shields 1861 1865

Download or read book The Civil War Diary of John Milton Shields 1861 1865 written by Geraldine Adams and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Personal Diary of a Union Soldier from the Pennsylvania Volunteer Reserves

Book Civil War Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cheryl A. Wells
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2012-06-01
  • ISBN : 082034396X
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book Civil War Time written by Cheryl A. Wells and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In antebellum America, both North and South emerged as modernizing, capitalist societies. Work bells, clock towers, and personal timepieces increasingly instilled discipline on one’s day, which already was ordered by religious custom and nature’s rhythms. The Civil War changed that, argues Cheryl A. Wells. Overriding antebellum schedules, war played havoc with people’s perception and use of time. For those closest to the fighting, the war’s effect on time included disrupted patterns of sleep, extended hours of work, conflated hours of leisure, indefinite prison sentences, challenges to the gender order, and desecration of the Sabbath. Wells calls this phenomenon “battle time.” To create a modern war machine military officers tried to graft the antebellum authority of the clock onto the actual and mental terrain of the Civil War. However, as Wells’s coverage of the Manassas and Gettysburg battles shows, military engagements followed their own logic, often without regard for the discipline imposed by clocks. Wells also looks at how battle time’s effects spilled over into periods of inaction, and she covers not only the experiences of soldiers but also those of nurses, prisoners of war, slaves, and civilians. After the war, women returned, essentially, to an antebellum temporal world, says Wells. Elsewhere, however, postwar temporalities were complicated as freedmen and planters, and workers and industrialists renegotiated terms of labor within parameters set by the clock and nature. A crucial juncture on America’s path to an ordered relationship to time, the Civil War had an acute effect on the nation’s progress toward a modernity marked by multiple, interpenetrating times largely based on the clock.

Book Mr  Lincoln s Forts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin Franklin Cooling
  • Publisher : Scarecrow Press
  • Release : 2009-10-06
  • ISBN : 0810863073
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Mr Lincoln s Forts written by Benjamin Franklin Cooling and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the American Civil War, Washington, D.C. was the most heavily fortified city in North America. As President Abraham Lincoln's Capital, the city became the symbol of Union determination, as well as a target for Robert E. Lee's Confederates. As a Union army and navy logistical base, it contained a complex of hospitals, storehouses, equipment repair facilities, and animal corrals. These were in addition to other public buildings, small urban areas, and vast open space that constituted the capital on the Potomac. To protect Washington with all it contained and symbolized, the Army constructed a shield of fortifications: 68 enclosed earthen forts, 93 supplemental batteries, miles of military roads, and support structures for commissary, quartermaster, engineer, and civilian labor force, some of which still exist today. Thousands of troops were held back from active operations to garrison this complex. And the Commanders of the Army of the Potomac from Irvin McDowell to George Meade, and informally U.S. Grant himself, always had to keep in mind their responsibility of protecting this city, at the same time that they were moving against the Confederate forces arrayed against them. Revised in style, format, and content, the new edition of Mr. Lincoln's Forts is the premier historical reference and tour guide to the Civil War defenses of Washington, D.C.

Book The Civil War Diary of Pvt  John Flory

Download or read book The Civil War Diary of Pvt John Flory written by John Flory and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Shield and Hiding Place

Download or read book A Shield and Hiding Place written by Gardiner H. Shattuck and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to compare the religious life of the Union and the Confederate armies. It also offers shrewd insight into the nature of Northern and Southern society. Describes the way that military defeat helped rejuvenate the religious tradition of the South. Provides fresh evidence of the difference between Northern and Southern society. The author's analysis of the different roles religion played in the two armies shows why cultural analysis is essential to understanding both Northern victory and Southern response to defeat. "A useful beginning point for reevaluating the intellectual history of Civil War America." Illustrated.

Book Diary from March 4  1861  to November 12  1862   Boston 1862

Download or read book Diary from March 4 1861 to November 12 1862 Boston 1862 written by Adam Gurowski and published by Trieste Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, photographs, or missing pages. It is highly unlikely that this would occur with one of our books. Our extensive quality control ensures that the readers of Trieste Publishing's books will be delighted with their purchase. Our staff has thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the collection, repairing, or if necessary, rejecting titles that are not of the highest quality. This process ensures that the reader of one of Trieste Publishing's titles receives a volume that faithfully reproduces the original, and to the maximum degree possible, gives them the experience of owning the original work.We pride ourselves on not only creating a pathway to an extensive reservoir of books of the finest quality, but also providing value to every one of our readers. Generally, Trieste books are purchased singly - on demand, however they may also be purchased in bulk. Readers interested in bulk purchases are invited to contact us directly to enquire about our tailored bulk rates.

Book The Civil War Diary of Captain Edward O  Guerrant  C S A   1861 1865

Download or read book The Civil War Diary of Captain Edward O Guerrant C S A 1861 1865 written by Edward Owings Guerrant and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subject Guide to Books in Print

Download or read book Subject Guide to Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 3054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Louisiana History

Download or read book Louisiana History written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Papers of Jefferson Davis

Download or read book The Papers of Jefferson Davis written by Jefferson Davis and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2003-11-07 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last nine months of the Civil War, virtually all of the news reports and President Jefferson Davis’s correspondence confirmed the imminent demise of the Confederate States, the nation Davis had striven to uphold since 1861. But despite defeat after defeat on the battlefield, a recalcitrant Congress, nay-sayers in the press, disastrous financial conditions, failures in foreign policy and peace efforts, and plummeting national morale, Davis remained in office and tried to maintain the government—even after the fall of Richmond on April 2—until his capture by Union forces on May 10, 1865. The eleventh volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis follows these tumultuous last months of the Confederacy and illuminates Davis’s policies, feelings, ideas, and relationships, as well as the viewpoints of hundreds of southerners—critics and supporters—who asked favors, pointed out abuses, and offered advice on myriad topics. Printed here for the first time are many speeches and a number of new letters and telegrams. In the course of the volume, Robert E. Lee officially becomes general in chief, Joseph E. Johnston is given a final command, legislation is enacted to place slaves in the army as soldiers, and peace negotiations are opened at the highest levels. The closing pages chronicle Davis’s dramatic flight from Richmond, including emotional correspondence with his wife as the two endeavor to find each other en route and make plans for the future in the wreckage of their lives. The holdings of seventy different manuscript repositories and private collections in addition to numerous published sources contribute to Volume 11, the fifth in the Civil War period.

Book Prices of Clothing

Download or read book Prices of Clothing written by John M. Curran and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Book Publishing Record

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1977-03-31 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's quick access to more than 490,000 titles published from 1970 to 1984 arranged in Dewey sequence with sections for Adult and Juvenile Fiction. Author and Title indexes are included, and a Subject Guide correlates primary subjects with Dewey and LC classification numbers. These cumulative records are available in three separate sets.

Book River Run Red

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Ward
  • Publisher : Viking Adult
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 578 pages

Download or read book River Run Red written by Andrew Ward and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2005 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fast-paced narrative vividly depicts the incompetence and corruption of Union occupation in Tennessee, the horrors of guerrilla warfare, and the rage that found its release at Fort Pillow.

Book Colorado Territory Civil War Volunteer Records

Download or read book Colorado Territory Civil War Volunteer Records written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Diary from Dixie

Download or read book A Diary from Dixie written by Mary Boykin Chesnut and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War.

Book America  History and Life

Download or read book America History and Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.