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Book In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead

Download or read book In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead written by James L. Burke and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1994-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime fiction.

Book For the Confederate Dead

Download or read book For the Confederate Dead written by Kevin Young and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning “lively and excellent collection” (Los Angeles Times) about the South and its legacy, about African-American griefs and passages, from the author of Jelly Roll and Black Maria, a poet who has “set himself apart from his peers with his supple, variable, blues-inflected lines” (Publishers Weekly).

Book This Republic of Suffering

Download or read book This Republic of Suffering written by Drew Gilpin Faust and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Book Southerners at Rest

Download or read book Southerners at Rest written by Chris Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work corrects many errors contained within the 1869 register and publication by the Ladies Hollywood Memorial Association originally published in booklet form as: Register of the Confederate Dead.

Book Honoring the Civil War Dead

Download or read book Honoring the Civil War Dead written by John R. Neff and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his estimation, Northerners were just as active as Southerners in myth-making after the war. Crafting a "Cause Victorious" myth that was every bit as resonant and powerful as the much better-known "Lost Cause" myth cherished by Southerners, the North asserted through commemorations the existence of a loyal and reunified nation long before it was actually a fact. Neff reveals that as Northerners and Southerners honored their separate dead, they did so in ways that underscore the limits of reconciliation between Union and Confederate veterans, whose mutual animosities lingered for many decades after the need of the war. Ultimately, Neff argues that the process of reunion and reconciliation that has been so much the focus of recent literature either neglects or dismisses the persistent reluctance of both Northerners and Southerners to "forgive and forget," especially where their dead were concerned.

Book Burying the Dead but Not the Past

Download or read book Burying the Dead but Not the Past written by Caroline E. Janney and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women were peripheral to the Lost Cause movement until the 1890s, Caroline Janney restores these women as the earliest creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition. Long before national groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the United Daughters of the Confederacy were established, Janney shows, local LMAs were earning sympathy for defeated Confederates. Her exploration introduces new ways in which gender played a vital role in shaping the politics, culture, and society of the late nineteenth-century South.

Book The Confederate Dead   Two Addresses

Download or read book The Confederate Dead Two Addresses written by William C. P. Breckinridge and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Register of the Confederate dead  interred in Hollywood Cemetery  Richmond  Va

Download or read book Register of the Confederate dead interred in Hollywood Cemetery Richmond Va written by Hollywood Memorial Association of Richmond (Va.) and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1869-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis

Download or read book The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis written by Donald E. Collins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Civil War ended, Jefferson Davis had fallen from the heights of popularity to the depths of despair. In this fascinating new book, Donald E. Collins explores the resurrection of Davis to heroic status in the hearts of white Southerners culminating in one of the grandest funeral processions the nation had ever seen. As schools closed and bells tolled along the thousand mile route, Southerners appeared en masse to bid a final farewell to the man who championed Southern secession and ardently defended the Confederacy.

Book In Memory of the Confederate Dead

Download or read book In Memory of the Confederate Dead written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Register of the Confederate Dead  Interred in Hollywood Cemetery  Richmond  Va

Download or read book Register of the Confederate Dead Interred in Hollywood Cemetery Richmond Va written by Hollywood Memorial Association Of (Va.) and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book Cities of the Dead

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  • Author : William A. Blair
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2011-01-20
  • ISBN : 0807876232
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Cities of the Dead written by William A. Blair and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the history of Civil War commemorations from both sides of the color line, William Blair places the development of memorial holidays, Emancipation Day celebrations, and other remembrances in the context of Reconstruction politics and race relations in the South. His grassroots examination of these civic rituals demonstrates that the politics of commemoration remained far more contentious than has been previously acknowledged. Commemorations by ex-Confederates were intended at first to maintain a separate identity from the U.S. government, Blair argues, not as a vehicle for promoting sectional healing. The burial grounds of fallen heroes, known as Cities of the Dead, often became contested ground, especially for Confederate women who were opposed to Reconstruction. And until the turn of the century, African Americans used freedom celebrations to lobby for greater political power and tried to create a national holiday to recognize emancipation. Blair's analysis shows that some festive occasions that we celebrate even today have a divisive and sometimes violent past as various groups with conflicting political agendas attempted to define the meaning of the Civil War.

Book Gettysburg s Confederate Dead

Download or read book Gettysburg s Confederate Dead written by Gregory Coco and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At least 10,000 Union and Confederates soldiers lost their lives as a result of the Battle of Gettysburg. Their journey of the Confederate dead to a peaceful afterlife, explains historian Gregory Coco, was a much longer and lonely experience.

Book The Confederate Dead

Download or read book The Confederate Dead written by William Campbell Preston Breckinridge and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Confederate Dead

Download or read book The Confederate Dead written by William C. P. Breckinridge and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Confederate Dead: Two Addresses In this lovely and sacred city of the dead are buried the beautiful, the learned, the wise, and the loved. Around you on every side are holy graves in which lie until the resurrection morn the bodies of the mourned, and over which have been placed memorials of love and grief. Among these dead are men who gave honor to the great city whose spires and ascending smoke, the rising incense of profitable industry, are in our sight; men whose virtues were living epistles read of all who came in contact with them, and whose lives were fit exemplars for your children to imitate. And still more precious, scattered every where, are graves of pious mothers, idolized wives, of children whose death broke your hearts, of friends still mourned. And yet, all these honored and loved graves are passed by to-day, and this multitudinous throng of women and men, turning from grave of father and mother, of husband and wife, of child and sister and friend, of statesman, philanthropist, and sage, turning from the family group where the heart-pangs of the living can be read in the names of the dead, is gathered around these rows of mounds, and upon them have strewn fragrant flowers, and in honor of them have left home and the duties of arduous life. Why this unusual honor? Why this resounding music, these exquisite flowers, this more significant gathering? Whose graves are these to which this mournful but beautiful homage is rendered? Some stranger in our midst - another Anacharsis - a modern Herodotus, having just reached this city in his pilgrimage, turns to some grave gray-headed man bearing flowers, and asks with eager but restrained curiosity, "What is the meaning of this striking scene?" What answer will you give, middle-aged man of business and care? Or, if he should chance to ask you, fair matron, what reply would you return? What reply can we to-day return to such question, when not another but our own hearts ask it? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Confederacy of the Dead

Download or read book Confederacy of the Dead written by Richard Gilliam and published by Roc. This book was released on 1995-07-20 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five original Civil War stories include tales of horror and dark fantasy by such writers as Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, William S. Burroughs, S. P. Somtow, Anne McCaffrey, and Brad Strickland. Reprint.