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Stackpole Books Burnsides Bridge The Climactic Struggle of the
Book SynopsisBefore the heroic stand of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top, the 2nd and 20th Georgia infantries, led by Brig. Gen. Robert Toombs, held off a veritable Yankee juggernaut and triumphed at Burnside's Bridge on Antietam Creek in 1862. This detailed account profiles the troops whose last stand helped prevent the destruction of the Army of Northern Virginia, providing Robert E. Lee with yet another chance for a northern invasion.This is the first thoroughly researched study of the struggle for Burnside Bridge. Phillip Thomas Tucker puts forward a new perspective on Robert Toomb's role in the Army of North Virginia and presents a fascinating and comprehensive account of the battle.About the AuthorPhillip Thomas Tucker is the author or editor of more than 20 books on the Civil War and African American, women's, and Irish history. He is a United States Air Force historian at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, DC.
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Stackpole Books Underground Railroad in Delaware Maryland and
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RLPG Where the South Lost the War An Analysis of the
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Stackpole Books Generals in Blue and Gray Lincolns Generals
Book SynopsisThis volume uses biographical sketches of twenty-one Union generals to tell the story of the Civil War and examine the implementation of Northern strategy. Among these generals are prominent figures like Ulysses S. Grant, George McClellan, and William T. Sherman, as well as Daniel Sickles, whose actions sparked intense controversy at Gettysburg, and the lesser known John McClernand, a congressman who lobbied for his own appointment. In Wilmer Jones's accounts, which focus on character, personality, leadership ability, military skill, and politics, each general comes starkly to life.
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Stackpole Books Generals in Blue and Gray Daviss Generals
Book SynopsisThe twenty-one profiles of Confederate generals in this volume chronicle the South's war effort. Familiar leaders such as Lee, Jackson, and Stuart are each covered, as are the notorious Nathan Bedford Forrest, Episcopalian bishop Leonidas Polk, and John C. Breckinridge, who ran against Lincoln in 1860 and briefly served in the US Senate. With the same accessible style of the first volume, Jones shows how the outcome of battles, campaigns, and even entire theatres often depended on individual commanders.
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National Book Network Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania
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Stackpole Books Shower of Stars The Medal of Honor and the 27th
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Stackpole Books Unerring Fire The Massacre at Fort Pillow
Book SynopsisWhat really happened at Fort Pillow on April 12, 1864?The Union called it a massacre.The Confederacy called it necessity.TheTennessee spring came early that year, awakening regional plants as warmer air and mois soil nurtured new life. Across the landscape could be seen the faint hint of green as sweet gum, hickory, oak cottonwood,Sweet Williams, and wild dogwood added their hues. This serene backdrop in hardly the place where one would imagine such a one-sided military atrocity to take place.Although at first glance the numbers are hardly noteworthy, the casualty ratio speaks volumes on the event. Eyewitness accounts relate vivid recollection of the numerous and specific nature of the injuries suffered by the survivors.Controversy and scandal surround the Southern general Nathan Bedford Forrest. Why did it seem that he passively watched his men attack and mutilate more than one hundred apparently unarmed soldiers?Perhaps the biggest controversy involved racial prejudice. Was there a r
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Stackpole Books Articles of War Winners Losers and Some Who Were
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Stackpole Books Inside the Army of the Potomac The Civil War
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Stackpole Books KillCavalry The Life of Union General Hugh Judson
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Stackpole Books Peninsula Campaign 1862 McClellan and Lee Struggle for Richmond Stackpole Classics
Book SynopsisHere is the detailed story of -The first serious attempt to capture Richmond-The struggle that marked the emergence of Robert E. Lee-The rise and fall of the North's great hope, General George B. McClellanIn this first book on the subject in 50 years, historian Cullen presents incisive evaluations of the men and movements of the Confederate and Union Armies and disputes the long-held theory that interference form President Lincoln caused McClellan's failure. Reporting the campaign from both viewpoints, and then judging from the fascinating omniscience of history, he brings fresh research to an old subject that may be newin this depthto many.From the first skirmish to the concluding, bloody battle at Malvern Hill, Cullen dissects the strategies of both sides, reports the battles and skirmished, examines the character and abilities of the men who made the decisions in this early campaign that tested two newly formed armies, started Lee on his long war and brought ignominious retirement t
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Stackpole Books Story of the Battles at Gettysburg Stackpole
Book SynopsisThe Harrisburg Telegraph says: an unique and authoritative book, The Story of the Battles at Gettysburg will arouse great interest among military men throughout the country.It is not generally known that the three-day battle of Gettysburg, one of the most important and significant engagements of the Civil War, is included in the course of training of student officers in practically all the European war colleges as an outstanding example of tactics and strategy.Once a year the students of the West Point Military Academy spend several days at Gettysburg in studying the battle problems during the first three days of July 1863.The outstanding features to the military, are the maps of the battlefieldthese maps are drawn to scale with careful fidelity and the position of each regiment and branch of service is shown every hour of the day at different stages in the progress of the battles.
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Stackpole Books TwentyFourth Michigan Stackpole Classics
Book SynopsisIn the tradition of the great regimental histories of the past, this book records the fire which seared the ranks of the Twenty-Four Michigan Regiment of the legendary Iron Brigade.Born as the result of a riot, led by a Virginian, met with coldness and hostility by the black-hatted veterans of the brigade, the Twenty-Fourth swore it would win their respectand so they did with a vengeance.At Fredericksburg, in artillery hell and under a murderous crossfire from the guns of Stonewall Jackson and Jeb Stuart, they performed the manual of arms to stead the line. The first day at Gettysburg they sparked this remark from the confederate ranksThat ain't no milishy, there's those damn black hats again. With the immortal First Corps they were ordered west of the town to hold long enough for the army to occupy the strategic heights behind them. They held, and by evening they had lost more men than any of the 400-odd Union regiments engaged in the battle.Still later they marched down that crimson
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Stackpole Books Up Came Hill
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Stackpole Books War of Vengeance
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Stackpole Books War to the Knife
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Globe Pequot Imperfect Union A Fathers Search for His Son in
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Stackpole Books Burnsides Boys
Book SynopsisThe story of the Union army Ninth Corps, which fought and distinguished itself in multiple battles in the Civil War. From the Carolinas to Maryland, from Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee to Virginia, the Ninth Corps sacrificed for the Union—and burnished its place in the annals of the American Civil War.
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Globe Pequot Tis Not Our War
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Globe Pequot Five Flags
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University of Pennsylvania Press Battle Lines
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Battle Lines should be read by every scholar of nineteenth-century American literature and culture as well as by any interested reader who enjoys American poetry. The book packs a lot of information in relatively short compass and it is a jargon-free and non-technical joy to read. Richards has established a heretofore relatively neglected field in American literature that deserves further thoughtful and astute attention that she pioneers in her own work." * American Literary Realism *"Battle Lines is exciting and groundbreaking. Eliza Richards argues that the poetry of the Civil War was distinctive for its intimate relationship to new, and newly networked, forms of media. Her ingenious interpretations show how the war's mediated events fundamentally shaped both the form and content of its poems." * Elizabeth Young, Mount Holyoke College *"Eliza Richards has written a tight, elegant book that demonstrates how pervasively the poetry of the Civil War reflects on its technologically mediated conditions, composition, and circulation." * Mary Loeffelholz, Northeastern University *"A prolific essayist, Richards has honed her ability to connect poems and the circumstances framing their creation to good effect…Richards deserves praise for teasing out in elegant fashion the impacts of the Civil War on American poetry and its production and consumption." * American Nineteenth Century Histoy *Table of ContentsIntroduction. "How News Must Feel When Traveling" Chapter 1. "Strange Analogies": Weathering the War Chapter 2. The "Ghastly Harvest" Chapter 3. "To Signalize the Hour": Memorialization and the Massachusetts 54th Chapter 4. Poetry Under Siege: Charleston Harbor's Talking Guns Chapter 5. Poetry at Sea: Naval Ballads and the Battle of Mobile Bay Epilogue. Writing's Wars: Stephen Crane's Poetry and the Postbellum Turn to the Page Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press In Union There Is Strength
Book SynopsisIn the 1840s, Philadelphia was poised to join the ranks of the world''s great cities, as its population grew, its manufacturing prospered, and its railroads reached outward to the West. Yet epidemics of riot, disease, and labor conflict led some to wonder whether growth would lead to disintegration. As slavery and territorial conquest forced Americans to ponder a similar looming disunion at the national level, Philadelphians searched for ways to hold their city together across internal social and sectional divisions—a project of consolidation that reshaped their city into the boundaries we know today.A bold new interpretation of a crucial period in Philadelphia''s history, In Union There Is Strength examines the social and spatial reconstruction of an American city in the decades on either side of the American Civil War. Andrew Heath follows Philadelphia''s fortunes over the course of forty years as industrialization, immigration, and natural population growth turTrade Review"As Andrew Heath determinedly reminds us, nineteenth-century urban 'consolidators,' like their better-known 'progressive' progeny, took on a gargantuan task of economic and political development. Characters as diverse as conservative Morton McMichael and radical George Lippard recognized that a city's health was intricately bound up with that of the nation and the larger world: even a utopia of private homes would need direction and continuing steerage from above. Treating Philadelphia's Consolidation Plan of 1854 as a kind of municipal bourgeois revolution, Heath turns a local conflict into an instant, urban history classic." * Leon Fink, University of Illinois, Chicago *"Cities don't expand automatically. Certainly Philadelphia's nineteenth-century 'consolidation' of surrounding suburbs was neither automatic nor simple. Andrew Heath's dense and intriguing study demonstrates the complex, often contested, story of a major U.S. city's acquisition of adjoining communities-and the broad import of that story. For Heath skillfully links Philadelphia's evolution to both narratives of contemporary national consolidation and the saga of Paris recast under Baron Haussmann. This is urban history with heft and sweep: a valuable and an important read." * Jonathan Prude, Emory University *"In Union There Is Strength is an impressive work that tells both the story of one of the most important events in the history of Philadelphia-the 1854 consolidation that has defined the city's geographical boundaries to this day-and a story of the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. Andrew Heath brings together an impressive blend of primary and secondary sources, emphasizing deep research, compelling narrative, and original argument." * Zachary M. Schrag, George Mason University *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction. Philadelphia in an Age of Consolidation Chapter 1. "A Great City Is a Great Study" Chapter 2. "The Guilty and Blood-Stained City": Radicals and the Second American Republic Chapter 3. "The Manifest Destiny of Philadelphia": Making Antebellum Growth Politics Chapter 4. "To Give Shape to the Destinies of Our City": Molding the Metropolis Chapter 5. Out of Many, One: Remaking the Polity Chapter 6. Consolidating City and Nation: Philadelphia in Civil War and Reconstruction Chapter 7. Philadelphia Redeemed Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press War Is All Hell
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis compact, lively book offers a fresh angle on religion and the U.S. Civil War...Using the tools of cultural history, War Is All Hell connects Americans' beliefs about supernatural evil to how they made personal and collective sense of the violence and dehumanization of warfare...Whatever its underlying meaning, 'evil' was no doubt key to how many experienced the Civil War, making this book a worthy addition to the history of religion and conflict during those years and beyond. It is also a timely one, as claims about supernatural evil are once again resurgent in American politics. * Journal of Southern History *Other historians have examined the Civil War for invocations of the divine. This book instead looks for references to the devil. Blum and Matsui weave a compelling narrative that shows how, before the war, satanic imagery and language were relatively rare, especially in reference to battlefield comportment. * The Christian Century *From the hellishness of slavery, to the horrors of warfare, to the terrorism of the Klan, images of the demonic suffused American culture and confounded Abraham Lincoln's appeals to our 'better angels.' In this fascinating study of how Americans conceptualized evil, Blum and Matsui make a banner contribution to Civil War studies. * Elizabeth R. Varon, author of Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War *As no other generation has, Civil War era Americans confronted the evil within. Blum and Matsui offer a remarkably original and graceful meditation on how Americans traced their descent into civil war to the ascendance of evil and Satan. Every page is sprinkled with fascinating and unexpected discoveries. War Is All Hell is a reminder of how much gifted historians and writers can teach us about the Civil War. * W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Illusions of Empire
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Kiser's expansive history of borderlands diplomacy and intrigue fills important gaps in the historiographies of the Civil War era, U.S. foreign relations, North American imperialism, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It will be a valuable read for scholars in all these fields, particularly those with transnational and continental interests. Perhaps most important, Kiser goes beyond simply linking or comparing events in the United States and Mexico to recover the deep entanglement of the Civil War and the French Intervention, while also showing the critical importance of events in the border region to both conflicts and to the broader geopolitical history of North America." * The Journal of Southern History *"William S. Kiser continues to burnish his reputation as a prodigious researcher, productive writer, and keen analyst of the mid-nineteenth century southwestern borderlands from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. Using an impressive variety of manuscripts, official documents, English-and Spanish-language newspapers, and secondary books and articles, Kiser demonstrates the oftenoverlooked significance of northern Mexico to the American Civil War and Greater Reconstruction...llusions of Empire makes the strongest case in print for the importance of Mexican diplomacy to the United States during the Civil War era. Furthermore, it offers important analytical opportunities for Texas historians beyond the southwestern borderlands." * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *"In his most recent book, William Kiser has taken on the long-overdue task of tracing the inextricable connections between the American Civil War, Napoleon III’s 'Grand Scheme' of a new American empire, and Mexico’s second war of independence. Adding to his formidable list of publications on the US-Mexico borderlands,Kiser argues for the centrality of this region in shaping Civil War diplomacy and military strategy. Showcasing his fine-grain analyses of governmental correspondence and congressional records, Kiser both informs and entertains with his surprising stories of the US borderlands’ most pivotal political players and what he calls their 'irregular' and often illicit venues of diplomacy and alliance." * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Kiser provides a succinct and engaging narrative of the complex relations between the US and Mexico during the Civil War and Reconstruction, when both nations experienced dramatic internal conflicts...This engaging book makes a convincing case for a 'Greater Reconstruction' that encompasses the US West and the borderlands, and makes insightful comparisons between similar processes of national consolidation in the US and Mexico" * Choice *
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University Press of Florida A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters
Book SynopsisThe USS Saginaw was a Civil War gunboat that served in Pacific and Asian waters between 1860 and 1870. In 1870, the ship sank at one of the world’s most remote coral reefs. This narrative provides fresh insights and a vivid retelling of a classic naval shipwreck.Trade ReviewAn epic shipwreck tale. Sacrifice and heroism are recounted in a comprehensive study of a ship that embodied America's role in the nineteenth-century Pacific as Yankee enterprise helped open Asia to trade. Well-researched, well-written, this book also takes readers for the first time intoSaginaw's long-lost grave beneath the sea." - James P. Delgado, president, The Institute of Nautical Archaeology"An impressive study of a naval vessel from construction to destruction." - William Still Jr., author of Crisis at Sea
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The University Press of Kentucky The View from the Ground Experiences of Civil War
Book SynopsisThe contributors investigate the issues engaged by soldiers during the war, including slavery and racial tensions, the isolation that many men of faith felt in the early months of the war, the divide between soldiers and civilians, and the inherent difficulty in reconciling the act of killing with Christian precepts of charity and peacefulness.
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The University Press of Kentucky History Teaches Us to Hope Reflections on the
Book SynopsisCharles Pierce Roland ranks as one of the most distinguished and respected historians of the Civil War and the American South.Trade ReviewCharles Roland is one of the most eminent historians of our time. These essays go far in explaining why he is held in such high esteem. - James I. Robertson Jr., author of Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend
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The University Press of Kentucky My Old Confederate Home A Respectable Place for
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The University Press of Kentucky Cecelia and Fanny The Remarkable Friendship
Book SynopsisThis is a fascinating look at race relations in mid-nineteenth-century Louisville, Kentucky, focusing on the experiences of two families during the seismic social upheaval wrought by the emancipation of four million African Americans. Far more than the story of two families, Cecelia and Fanny delves into the history of Civil War–era Louisville.
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The University Press of Kentucky A Tour of Reconstruction Travel Letters of 1875
Book SynopsisAnna Dickinson's career as an orator began in her teenage years, when she gave her first impassioned speech on women's rights. In March 1875, Dickinson departed from Washington, D.C., for an extended tour of the South, curious to see how far the region had progressed in the decade after Appomattox.In A Tour of Reconstruction, editor J.
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The University Press of Kentucky The Union Forever Lincoln Grant and the Civil War
Book SynopsisSimon was a giant in the field of Civil War-era history whose groundbreaking work on Grant was at the forefront of his generation's reevaluation of Grant's wartime acumen and his controversial presidency, earning him a lifetime achievement award from the Lincoln Forum in 2004 and a Lincoln Prize in 2005.
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The University Press of Kentucky Slaves Slaveholders and a Kentucky Communitys
Book SynopsisDigging deep into Holt's past, Leonard explores the lives of Holt's extended family members and also traces the experiences and efforts of Sandy Holt and other slaves-turned-soldiers from Breckinridge County and its periphery.
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The University Press of Kentucky Lincoln Seward and US Foreign Relations in the
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The University Press of Kentucky Confederate Citadel
Book SynopsisRichmond, Virginia: pride of the founding fathers, doomed capital of the Confederate States of America. Confederate Citadel: Richmond and Its People at War offers a detailed portrait of life's daily hardships in the rebel capital during the Civil War.
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The University Press of Kentucky The Long Civil War
Book SynopsisFeaturing many leading figures in the field, The Long Civil War meaningfully expands the focus of what previous generations of historians judged to be mid-nineteenth-century history.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Acknowledgments Contributors
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The University Press of Kentucky Bluejackets and Contrabands
Book SynopsisThe only in-depth study of the relationship between the Union Navy and African Americans during the Civil War.Table of ContentsIntroduction Union Navy Policy toward Contrabands Going to Freedom Contraband Camps Informants Contributing to Victory Contraband Pilots Contraband Sailors Joint Army-Navy Operations The Final Months
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The Catholic University of America Press The Civil War Diary of Rev.James Sheeran C.Ss.R
Book SynopsisThis exciting Civil War diary of a Redemptorist priest, Rev. James Sheeran, C.Ss.R., who was chaplain to the Louisiana Regiment of the Confederacy, is a national treasure. Irish-born Sheeran (1817-1881) was one of only a few dozen Catholic chaplains commissioned for the Confederacy. The journal permits us to hear a voice in Civil War studies that is seldom heard—that of a Catholic clergyman.Trade Review“This should be part of any scholar’s or general reader’s library on the conditions of service, beliefs, passions and pitfalls in the life of the Confederate soldier. Every library with a Civil War collection, as well as the military and naval service libraries, should have a copy of this in their collections. Civil War bu s, collectors and re-enactors will find this invaluable.”—Du W. Crerar, author of Padres in No Man’s Land: Canadians Chaplains and the Great War.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Longstreets Aide Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J.Goree
Book SynopsisOne of the Confederacy's most articulate advocates was Lieutenant General James Longstreet's aide-de-camp, Thomas Jewett Goree. Present at Longstreet's HQ, and party to the counsels of Robert E. Lee, Gore wrote incisively on strategy and politics. These letters of his reflect that acuity.
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University of Virginia Press Civil War Petersburg Confederate City in the
Book SynopsisFew wartime cities in Virginia held more importance than Petersburg. On the eve of the Civil War, the city elected a conservative, pro-Union approach to the sectional crisis. This book provides a study of this city, looking at both Petersburg's civilian experience and the city's place in Confederate military strategy and administration.
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University of Virginia Press The Dooleys of Richmond An Irish Immigrant
Book SynopsisPresents the biography of a dynamic and philanthropic Dooley family – and Irish Catholic immigrant family who came to Virginia in the nineteenth century. The story of the Dooleys is a fascinating window on southern society and the people who shaped its grand and turbulent history.Trade Review“If now little remembered, the Dooley family bestrode Richmond after the Civil War and built it into a powerhouse of the New South. With a deep command of sources and an engaging style, Mary Lynn Bayliss restores this enterprising and fascinating Irish immigrant family to its rightful place.” —Nelson D. Lankford, author of Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861
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University of Virginia Press TwiceDivided Nation National Memory
Book SynopsisThe first thoroughly interdisciplinary study to examine how the transatlantic relationship between the United States and Britain helped shape the conflicts between North and South in the decade before the American Civil War, Twice-Divided Nation addresses that influence primarily as a problem of national memory.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Young America The Transformation of Nationalism
Book SynopsisThe Young Americans were a nationalist movement within the Democratic Party made up of writers and politicians associated with the Democratic Review. In this revealing book, Mark Power Smith explores the ways in which the movement forged contrasting visions of American nationalism in the decades leading up to the Civil War.Trade ReviewPower Smith does an exceptionally good job of braiding intellectual with political history. The result is a highly sophisticated interpretation of Young Americans’ views on nationalism, freedom, race, slavery, expansion, and democracy, as well as a finely grained view of antebellum politics. This book promises to make an original, insightful, and provocative contribution to the vast literature on antebellum American political and intellectual history."- Michael E. Woods, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, author of Arguing until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Dueling Cultures Damnable Legacies
Book SynopsisIn 1856, when Preston Smith Brooks viciously beat the abolitionist Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, the ideology of righteous honour reached its apogee and took national centre stage. Welborn analyses the birth of this peculiar moral ethic and traces its increasing dominance across the American South in the build-up to the Civil War.Trade Review“In this book James Welborn makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the intersection of religion and honor culture in the antebellum South. While other scholars have often painted with a broad brush, Welborn’s rich account of the inner lives of two generations of white men in Edgefield is the first to study this relationship as lived by particular people in a particular place.” - Robert Elder, Baylor University, author of Calhoun: American Heretic“Perhaps no person epitomized the violence of the Civil War era South more than Edgefield, South Carolina’s most famous resident: Preston Brooks. In this compelling and gracefully written study, Welborn dives into the peculiar world of Brooks’s hometown to reveal a form of toxic masculinity that alternately exposed and resolved the tensions between Christian piety and Southern honor. This pervasive sense of 'righteous honor,' Welborn explains, consumed the minds and actions of elite white men far beyond Edgefield, leading them to commit acts of violence in the name of God. The prevalence of 'righteous honor' in today’s world should come as no surprise, as Welborn explains how this ethos survived the Civil War and continues to flourish in the present.” - Lisa Tendrich Frank, author of The Civilian War: Confederate Women and Union Soldiers during Sherman's MarchTable of Contents Introduction: Edgefield, S.C. as the Birthplace of Southern Righteous Honor 1. Honor: From Colonial Virility to Antebellum Refinement 2. Piety: The Ascent of Evangelical Protestantism 3. Righteous Honor: Merging the Ethics of Honor & Piety in the Early Antebellum Period 4. Moral Failings: Exorcising Inner Demons During the Sectional Crisis 5. The Conundrum of Slavery: Sanctioning Violence on Moral Grounds 6. 1856: Righteous Honor Triumphant 7. The Civil War & Reconstruction: Violent Conflict as Divine Contest Epilogue: The Damnable Legacies of Righteous Honor
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Presidency and the American State Leadership
Book SynopsisExamining the presidencies of John Quincy Adams, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Howard Taft, Stephen Rockwell traces emerging connections between presidential action and a robust state over the course of the nineteenth century and the Progressive Era.Table of Contents Introduction 1. Choices Within the State, 1776-1930: Process, Principled Innovation, and Synthesis 2. President John Quincy Adams and the American State in the 1820s 3. Presidential Decision Making and the Administrative State: Process and Procedure in the 1820s 4. President Grant and the American State After the Civil War 5. Presidential Decision Making and the Evolving State: Grant, Reconstruction, and Indian Affairs 6. President Taft and the 125-Year-Old American State 7. Taft the Builder Conclusion: The Non-Development of the American Presidency and the New Scholarship of the American State
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The University of Alabama Press Attack and Die
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The University of Alabama Press Journals of Thomas H Hobbs
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The University of Alabama Press Blockaders Refugees and Contrabands Civil War on
Book SynopsisTrade Review[Buker] argues that the presence of Union sailors and their extensive contacts ashore did serious damage to home-front morale and retarded Florida's value as a component of the rebel war machine. Since the state's long coastlines made it a ready target for a naval cordon, its commercial life suffered beginning in 1861 and deteriorated even further as the war progressed despite the efforts of blockade runners. Florida Unionists, antiwar natives, and runaway slaves flocked to these Federal warships to seek protection and quickly became a source of manpower for their crews as well as for land forces. - Journal of Southern History; ""The proliferation of publications concerning the American Civil War occasionally produces one that really contributes to our understanding of that conflict. George E. Buker's Blockaders, Refugees, and Contrabands is such a book."" - Journal of American History
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