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Book The Jackson County War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel R. Weinfeld
  • Publisher : University of Alabama Press
  • Release : 2012-03-19
  • ISBN : 0817317457
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book The Jackson County War written by Daniel R. Weinfeld and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why citizens of Jackson County, Florida, slaughtered close to one hundred of their neighbors during the Reconstruction period following the end of the Civil War; focusing on the Freedman's Bureau, the development of African-American political leadership, and the emergence of white "Regulators."

Book The History of Jackson County  Florida

Download or read book The History of Jackson County Florida written by Dale Cox and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Volume 2 of his acclaimed series on the history of Jackson County, Florida, author and historian Dale Cox focuses on the county's role in the War Between the States. From details on plantations and slavery to secession and the county's contributions to the South's effort during the Civil War, the book is the most detailed account ever written of the role of what was then one of Florida's most populous counties in the great conflict. With details on troops, Civil War casualties, life on the home front and the Battle of Marianna, the book is an outstanding contribution to scholarship on the history of the Civil War in Florida.

Book The Destruction of Jackson County  Missouri  in the Civil War

Download or read book The Destruction of Jackson County Missouri in the Civil War written by Paul Debry and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War and suffering began in Jackson and surrounding counties of Missouri in the early 1830's with the persecution and expulsion from the state of the Mormons. Then in the 1850's the Border War broke out with between the remaining inhabitants and those living in eastern Kansas. When the Border War came to a close the U.S. Civil War began. In 1865 when that war ended for the rest of the country, Jackson and surrounding counties continued to suffer from the "Bushwhackers" who terrified, pillaged, killed, and destroyed the people and the countryside until the 1880's. One writer wrote, "Nowhere during the Civil War did people suffer such terror and tribulation as those unfortunate enough to reside in the guerrilla-infested regions of Missouri." [Jackson and surrounding Counties] “Compared to what they experienced, the civilians who were in the path of Sherman's famed March to the Sea through Georgia got off lightly.”

Book  They Wouldn t Let Us Win

Download or read book They Wouldn t Let Us Win written by Ronald H. Dykes and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackson County, Alabama, Veterans Relive the Vietnam War.

Book The History of Jackson County  Missouri

Download or read book The History of Jackson County Missouri written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blood on the Streets

Download or read book Blood on the Streets written by Ralph A. Monaco and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Civil War in the Jackson Purchase  1861 1862

Download or read book The Civil War in the Jackson Purchase 1861 1862 written by Dan Lee and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jackson Purchase is the far western section of Kentucky. In 1861, it was a rich agricultural and iron producing region. It also controlled the mouths of the Ohio, Cumberland, and Tennessee rivers, as well as that middle stretch of the mighty Mississippi where it transitions from a northern to a southern river. The Purchase was the riverine gateway to the Deep South. The obvious military importance of the region caused both the Federal and Confederate governments to pour material resources and military talent into the Purchase in an effort to hold it and defend it against the incursions of their enemies. The Jackson Purchase was the Civil War training ground of such army officers as U.S. Grant, C.F. Smith, Leonidas Polk, Lloyd Tilghman, and the navy's own Andrew H. Foote, commander of the Federal "Brown Water Navy." Four major amphibious battles were fought for control of the area: Columbus-Belmont, Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, and Island Number Ten. This book tells the story of the bloody years 1861 and 1862 and the tense, contested Union occupation that followed in the region known as "The South Carolina of Kentucky."

Book Fighting the Just War

Download or read book Fighting the Just War written by Paint Rock River Press and published by . This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In-depth interviews with a number of WW II veterans in Jackson County, Alabama, eliciting their remembrances of often harrowing months and years of encounters with the enemy. Ronald H. Dykes hopes to rekindle interest in the importance of the war and the contributions of the soldiers who fought in it, and he considers these men to be heroes of the highest order, and the reader most likely will arrive at the same conclusion after perusing their stories.

Book The Battle of Marianna  Florida

Download or read book The Battle of Marianna Florida written by Dale Cox and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On September 27, 1864, Union and Confederate forces battled for control of the Northwest Florida city of Marianna. A vital road junction and the home of Governor John Milton, Marianna was the last remaining Confederate post in Northwest Florida at the time of the encounter. Sometimes called "Florida's Alamo," the Battle of Marianna was a short but fierce confrontation that culminated the deepest penetration of Confederate Florida by Union troops during the entire Civil War."--Page 4 of cover.

Book Rebel Yell

    Book Details:
  • Author : S. C. Gwynne
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-09-30
  • ISBN : 1451673302
  • Pages : 704 pages

Download or read book Rebel Yell written by S. C. Gwynne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson became a great and tragic national hero. Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon—even Robert E. Lee—he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered, without argument, one of our country’s greatest military figures. In April 1862, however, he was merely another Confederate general in an army fighting what seemed to be a losing cause. But by June he had engineered perhaps the greatest military campaign in American history and was one of the most famous men in the Western world. Jackson’s strategic innovations shattered the conventional wisdom of how war was waged; he was so far ahead of his time that his techniques would be studied generations into the future. In his “magnificent Rebel Yell…S.C. Gwynne brings Jackson ferociously to life” (New York Newsday) in a swiftly vivid narrative that is rich with battle lore, biographical detail, and intense conflict among historical figures. Gwynne delves deep into Jackson’s private life and traces Jackson’s brilliant twenty-four-month career in the Civil War, the period that encompasses his rise from obscurity to fame and legend; his stunning effect on the course of the war itself; and his tragic death, which caused both North and South to grieve the loss of a remarkable American hero.

Book The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson

Download or read book The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson written by Chris Mackowski and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhaustive look at the final hours of the Confederacy’s most audacious general. May 1863. The Civil War was in its third spring, and Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson stood at the peak of his fame. He had risen from obscurity to become “Old Stonewall,” adored across the South and feared and respected throughout the North. On the night of May 2, however, just hours after Jackson executed the most audacious maneuver of his career and delivered a crushing blow against an unsuspecting Union army at Chancellorsville, disaster struck. The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson recounts the events of that fateful night—considered one of the most pivotal moments of the war—and the tense vigil that ensued as Jackson struggled with a foe even he could not defeat. From Guinea Station, where Jackson crosses the river to rest under the shade of the trees, the story follows Jackson’s funeral and burial, the strange story of his amputated arm, and the creation and restoration of the building where he died (now known as the Stonewall Jackson Shrine). This newly revised and expanded second edition features more than 50 pages of fresh material, including almost 200 illustrations, maps, and eye-catching photos. New appendices allow readers to walk in Jackson’s prewar footsteps through his adopted hometown of Lexington, Virginia; consider the ways Jackson’s memory has been preserved through monuments, memorials, and myths; and explore the misconceptions behind the Civil War’s great What-If: “What if Stonewall had survived his wounds?” With the engaging prose of master storytellers, Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White make The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson a must-read for Civil War novices and buffs alike.

Book Victory

Download or read book Victory written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Jackson County  Missouri  Containing a History of the County  Its Cities  Towns  Etc   Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens  Jackson County in the Late War  General and Local Statistics  Portraits of Early Setlers and Prominent Men  Histor

Download or read book The History of Jackson County Missouri Containing a History of the County Its Cities Towns Etc Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens Jackson County in the Late War General and Local Statistics Portraits of Early Setlers and Prominent Men Histor written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-25 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Book Lock Down

    Book Details:
  • Author : David W. Jackson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9780974136561
  • Pages : 189 pages

Download or read book Lock Down written by David W. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This commemorative souvenir documents the origin and evolution of the oldest structure on the historic Independence Courthouse Square-the 1859 Jackson County Jail and Marshal's Home (and its 19th Century predecessors). "Captured" here is an in-depth study offering "skeleton keys" to "unlocking" history of the early lock downs, of those who defied frontier justice, and the systems and strongmen (and their overlooked wives) who tried to keep law and order in Jackson County, Missouri. A roster of ALL Jackson County Sheriffs AND Jackson County Marshals, and separate "rap sheet" of ALL legal hangings in Jackson County "caps" this first-ever comprehensive study spanning from 1826--when Jackson County was formed--to 1933 when the 1859 Jackson County Jail was decommissioned. David W. Jackson and Paul Kirkman have also explored how the site was adaptively re-used during the Great Depression of the 1930s; through World War II in the 1940s; and, how it was saved by the Jackson County Historical Society in 1958, and continues as a unique, cultural history museum, located at 217 North Main Street, Independence, Missouri.

Book Jackson County  Ohio

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
  • Release : 1991-12
  • ISBN : 1563110695
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Jackson County Ohio written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sequatchie Valley Soldiers in the Civil War

Download or read book Sequatchie Valley Soldiers in the Civil War written by Jerry Blevins and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Father s Name

Download or read book My Father s Name written by Lawrence P. Jackson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, seeking to find his grandfather's old home, follows his family history back to his great great grandfather who was born a slave and died a free man with forty acres.