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Book The Life and Adventures  Songs  Services  and Speeches of Private Miles O Reilly

Download or read book The Life and Adventures Songs Services and Speeches of Private Miles O Reilly written by Charles Graham Halpine and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life and Adventures  Songs  Services  and Speeches of Private Miles O Reilly  pseud    47th Regiment  New York Volunteers

Download or read book The Life and Adventures Songs Services and Speeches of Private Miles O Reilly pseud 47th Regiment New York Volunteers written by Charles Graham Halpine and published by New York : Carleton. This book was released on 1864 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Irish American Civil War Songs

Download or read book Irish American Civil War Songs written by Catherine V. Bateson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish-born and Irish-descended soldiers and sailors were involved in every major engagement of the American Civil War. Throughout the conflict, they shared their wartime experiences through songs and song lyrics, leaving behind a vast trove of ballads in songbooks, letters, newspaper publications, wartime diaries, and other accounts. Taken together, these songs and lyrics offer an underappreciated source of contemporary feelings and opinions about the war. Catherine V. Bateson’s Irish American Civil War Songs provides the first in-depth exploration of Irish Americans’ use of balladry to portray and comment on virtually every aspect of the war as witnessed by the Irish on the front line and home front. Bateson considers the lyrics, themes, and sentiments of wartime songs produced in America but often originating with those born across the Atlantic in Ireland and Britain. Her analysis gives new insight into views held by the Irish migrant diaspora about the conflict and the ways those of Irish descent identified with and fought to defend their adopted homeland. Bateson’s investigation of Irish American song lyrics within the context of broader wartime experiences enhances our understanding of the Irish contribution to the American Civil War. At the same time, it demonstrates how Irish songs shaped many American balladry traditions as they laid the foundation of the Civil War’s musical soundscape.

Book Gotham at War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward K. Spann
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780842050579
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Gotham at War written by Edward K. Spann and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gotham at War: New York City, 1860-1865 is a concise, highly readable account of New York City during the greatest internal crisis in American history. A growing metropolis that was by far America's biggest and most powerful city, New York played a major role in the Civil War, mobilizing an enthusiastic though poorly trained military force during the first month of the war that helped protect Washington, D.C., from Confederate capture. Urban historian Edward K. Spann provides insights on both the varied ways in which the war affected the city and the ways in which the city's people and industry influenced the divided nation. Gotham at War includes observations regarding political, racial, ethnic, and economic aspects of this wartime society and shows how New York served as a center for manpower, military supplies, and shipbuilding, and for assisting sick and wounded soldiers. The efforts of its great Republican newspapers, local leaders such as William E. Dodge and Mayor George Opdyke, women, African-Americans, New Englanders, and the Irish and Germans of New York are all explored. The most southern of the northern cities, New York became a center for many citizens who opposed th

Book DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY

Download or read book DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Harp and the Eagle

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  • Author : Susannah J. Ural
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2006-11
  • ISBN : 081479940X
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book The Harp and the Eagle written by Susannah J. Ural and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the Civil War, the Irish were one of America's largest ethnic groups, and approximately 150,000 fought for the Union. Analyzing letters and diaries written by soldiers and civilians; military, church, and diplomatic records; and community newspapers, Susannah Ural Bruce significantly expands the story of Irish-American Catholics in the Civil War, and reveals a complex picture of those who fought for the Union. While the population was diverse, many Irish Americans had dual loyalties to the U.S. and Ireland, which influenced their decisions to volunteer, fight, or end their military service. When the Union cause supported their interests in Ireland and America, large numbers of Irish Americans enlisted. However, as the war progressed, the Emancipation Proclamation, federal draft, and sharp rise in casualties caused Irish Americans to question—and sometimes abandon—the war effort because they viewed such changes as detrimental to their families and futures in America and Ireland. By recognizing these competing and often fluid loyalties, The Harp and the Eagle sheds new light on the relationship between Irish-American volunteers and the Union Army, and how the Irish made sense of both the Civil War and their loyalty to the United States.

Book Patriotism by Proxy

Download or read book Patriotism by Proxy written by Colleen Glenney Boggs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the Civil War in 1863, the Union instated the first-ever federal draft. Patriotism By Proxy develops a new understanding of the connections between American literature and American lives by focusing on this historic moment when the military transformed both. Paired with the Emancipation Proclamation, the 1863 draft inaugurated new relationships between the nation and its citizens. A massive bureaucratic undertaking, it redefined the American people as a population, laying bare social divisions as wealthy draftees hired substitutes to serve in their stead. The draft is the context in which American politics met and also transformed into a new kind of biopolitics, and these substitutes reflect the transformation of how the state governed American life. Censorship and the suspension of habeas corpus prohibited free discussions over the draft's significance, making literary devices and genres the primary means for deliberating over the changing meanings of political representation and citizenship. Assembling an extensive textual and visual archive, Patriotism by Proxy examines the draft as a cultural formation that operated at the nexus of political abstraction and embodied specificity, where the definition of national subjectivity was negotiated in the interstices of what it means to be a citizen-soldier. It brings together novels, poems, letters, and newspaper editorials that show how Americans discussed the draft at a time of censorship, and how the federal draft changed the way that Americans related to the state and to each other.

Book Fort Pulaski

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  • Author : John Walker Guss
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2015-03-30
  • ISBN : 1439650578
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Fort Pulaski written by John Walker Guss and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forts are a lasting tribute to the prominence of the US military, and Fort Pulaski stands among these magnificent fortresses. Overlooking the mouth of the Savannah River and the Atlantic Ocean, Fort Pulaski is named in honor of Gen. Casimir Pulaski, Revolutionary War hero and father of the US Cavalry, which endured some of the most damaging artillery combat in early American warfare. In addition to its unfortunate notoriety for serving as the first fort where a rifled cannon was successfully tested in combat against masonry forts, it played a part in other significant events, including a baseball game during the Civil War where one of the first photographs of the sport was taken with the newly invented camera. Ultimately, the fort was considered important enough to be preserved and designated a national monument.

Book Dictionary of National Biography

Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature  and British and American Authors  Living and Deceased  from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World s Great Masterpieces

Download or read book The World s Great Masterpieces written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The International Library of Masterpieces Literature Art and Rare Manuscripts

Download or read book The International Library of Masterpieces Literature Art and Rare Manuscripts written by Harry Thurston Peck and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Irish Voice in America

Download or read book The Irish Voice in America written by Charles Fanning and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Charles Fanning has written the first general account of the origins and development of a literary tradition among American writers of Irish birth or background who have explored the Irish immigrant or ethnic experience in works of fiction. The result is a portrait of the evolving fictional self-consciousness of an immigrant group over a span of 250 years. Fanning traces the roots of Irish-American writing back to the eighteenth century and carries it forward through the traumatic years of the Famine to the present time with an intensely productive period in the twentieth century beginning with James T. Farrell. Later writers treated in depth include Edwin O'Connor, Elizabeth Cullinan, Maureen Howard, and William Kennedy. Along the way he places in the historical record many all but forgotten writers, including the prolific Mary Ann Sadlier. The Irish Voice in America is not only a highly readable contribution to American literary history but also a valuable reference to many writers and their works. For this second edition, Fanning has added a chapter that covers the fiction of the past decade. He argues that contemporary writers continue to draw on Ireland as a source and are important chroniclers of the modern American experience.

Book General Catalogue of the Books Except Fiction  French  and German  in the Public Library of Detroit  Mich

Download or read book General Catalogue of the Books Except Fiction French and German in the Public Library of Detroit Mich written by Detroit Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Catalogue of the Public Library of Detroit  Mich

Download or read book General Catalogue of the Public Library of Detroit Mich written by Detroit Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the California State Library

Download or read book Catalogue of the California State Library written by California State Library and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Masterpieces of the World s Literature  Ancient and Modern

Download or read book Masterpieces of the World s Literature Ancient and Modern written by Harry Thurston Peck and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: