Download or read book Autograph Letters Relating Chiefly to the Civil War and Reconstruction Period written by William Evarts Benjamin, New York and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Catalogue of Autograph Letters written by William Everts Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Catalogue of Autograph Letters Relating Chiefly to the Civil War and the Reconstruction Period Comprising Portions of the Correspondence of Presidents Lincoln Grant Johnson Garfield and Arthur and Specimens of Generals and Officers of the Union and Confederate Armies Cabinet Officers Senators War Governors Etc written by William Evarts Benjamin (Firm : New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Autograph Letters Documents of the Civil War Period written by Anderson Galleries, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Autograph Letters Relating to Civil War written by Anderson Galleries, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Important Collection of Autograph Letters and Documents of the Civil War Period written by Anderson Galleries, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of Autograph Letters written by Anderson Galleries, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Duke University Library Durham N C written by Duke University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Duke University Library written by Duke University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Historical Papers written by Duke University. Trinity College Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama written by Walter Lynwood Fleming and published by New York : Smith. This book was released on 1905 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the society and the institutions that went down during the Civil War and Reconstruction and the internal conditions of Alabama during the war. Emphasizes the social and economic problems in the general situation, as well as the educational, religious, and industrial aspects of the period.

Download or read book For Cause and Comrades written by James M. McPherson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, over and over again, through countless bloody battles and four long, awful years ? Why did the conventional wisdom -- that soldiers become increasingly cynical and disillusioned as war progresses -- not hold true in the Civil War? It is to this question--why did they fight--that James McPherson, America's preeminent Civil War historian, now turns his attention. He shows that, contrary to what many scholars believe, the soldiers of the Civil War remained powerfully convinced of the ideals for which they fought throughout the conflict. Motivated by duty and honor, and often by religious faith, these men wrote frequently of their firm belief in the cause for which they fought: the principles of liberty, freedom, justice, and patriotism. Soldiers on both sides harkened back to the Founding Fathers, and the ideals of the American Revolution. They fought to defend their country, either the Union--"the best Government ever made"--or the Confederate states, where their very homes and families were under siege. And they fought to defend their honor and manhood. "I should not lik to go home with the name of a couhard," one Massachusetts private wrote, and another private from Ohio said, "My wife would sooner hear of my death than my disgrace." Even after three years of bloody battles, more than half of the Union soldiers reenlisted voluntarily. "While duty calls me here and my country demands my services I should be willing to make the sacrifice," one man wrote to his protesting parents. And another soldier said simply, "I still love my country." McPherson draws on more than 25,000 letters and nearly 250 private diaries from men on both sides. Civil War soldiers were among the most literate soldiers in history, and most of them wrote home frequently, as it was the only way for them to keep in touch with homes that many of them had left for the first time in their lives. Significantly, their letters were also uncensored by military authorities, and are uniquely frank in their criticism and detailed in their reports of marches and battles, relations between officers and men, political debates, and morale. For Cause and Comrades lets these soldiers tell their own stories in their own words to create an account that is both deeply moving and far truer than most books on war. Battle Cry of Freedom, McPherson's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the highest order." For Cause and Comrades deserves similar accolades, as McPherson's masterful prose and the soldiers' own words combine to create both an important book on an often-overlooked aspect of our bloody Civil War, and a powerfully moving account of the men who fought it.

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Download or read book Our Documents written by The National Archives and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Documents is a collection of 100 documents that the staff of the National Archives has judged most important to the development of the United States. The entry for each document includes a short introduction, a facsimile, and a transcript of the document. Backmatter includes further reading, credits, and index. The book is part of the much larger Our Documents initiative sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), National History Day, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the USA Freedom Corps.

Download or read book Mary Chesnut s Civil War written by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy