Civil wars Books
The University of Alabama Press Captives in Gray
Book SynopsisPerhaps no topic is more heated, and the sources more tendentious, than that of Civil War prisons and the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). This book investigates variations between camps and overall prison policy and determines what actually happened in the admittedly over-crowded, under-supplied, and poorly administered camps.
£48.02
The University of Alabama Press Storm of Words Science Religion and Evolution in
Book SynopsisStorm of Words is a study of the ways that southern Presbyterians in the wake of the Civil War contended with a host of cultural and theological questions, chief among them developments in natural history and evolution. Southern Presbyterian theologians enjoyed a prominent position in antebellum southern culture. Respected for both their erudition and elite constituency, these theologians identified the southern society as representing a divine, Biblically ordained order. Beginning in the 1840s, however, this facile identification became more difficult to maintain, colliding first with antislavery polemics, then with Confederate defeat and reconstruction, and later with women's rights, philosophical empiricism, literary criticisms of the Bible, and that most salient symbol of modernity, natural science. As Monte Harrell Hampton shows in Storm of Words, modern science seemed most explicitly to express the rationalistic spirit of the age and threaten the Protestant conviction that s
£49.40
University of Alabama Press Searching for Freedom After the Civil War
Book SynopsisExamines the life stories and perspectives about freedom of four figures depicted in an infamous Reconstruction-era political cartoon. G. Ward Hubbs uses a stark and iconic political cartoon to illuminate post-war conflicts over the meaning of freedom in the American South.
£29.95
The University of Alabama Press Thomas Goode Jones Race Politics and Justice in
Book SynopsisThis first comprehensive biography of Thomas Goode Jones records the life of a man whose political career reflects the fascinating and unsettled history of Alabama and the Deep South at the turn of the twentieth century. In tracing Jones's career, Brent J. Aucoin offers vivid accounts of the great events and trends of this pivotal period.Trade ReviewBrent Aucoin has performed a real service by rescuing Governor (and Judge) Jones from obscurity and explaining his importance not only to Alabama history but to American civil rights history. The book—particularly its vivid account of Jones’ legal fight against peonage—portrays Jones as a man who, like his fictional counterpart Atticus Finch, lived a complex and sometimes contradictory life as he tried to balance justice against the racial mores of the Jim Crow-era South.” —Joseph A. Ranney, author of In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law
£44.60
University of Alabama Press These Rugged Days Alabama in the Civil War
Book SynopsisAn accessibly written and dramatic account of Alabama's role in the US Civil War. John S. Sledge provides a long overdue and riveting narrative of Alabama's wartime saga. Focused on the conflict's turning points within the state's borders, this book charts residents' experiences from secession's heady early days to its tumultuous end.Trade ReviewIf all politics is local then history is more so, and that holds true for the story John Sledge has told here. It is personal and intimate (and unusually moving), as well as enormously edifying, well written, and revealing; I couldn't stop reading it! Bravo!"" - Ken Burns, Emmy Award-winning producer and director of The Civil War""A fresh look at the Civil War in Alabama that thoroughly covers the topic in a way that only John Sledge can. Anyone who grew up in the South, who has an interest in the Civil War, will immediately relate."" - Robert Bradley, former chief curator at the Alabama Department of Archives and History
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press The Perfect Scout
Book SynopsisA rare and dramatic first-person account by a Union scout who served General William Tecumseh Sherman on his march to the sea. More than a chronicle of day-to-day battles and marches, The Perfect Scout is more episodic and includes such additional elements as the story of how he met his wife and close encounters with the enemy.Trade ReviewAn important contribution to Civil War scholarship. It provides the perspective of a scout, and there are few published narratives by men who held this important role."" - Wendy Venet, author of A Changing Wind: Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta""The Perfect Scout is a good read that will appeal to a general audience as well as scholars. George Quimby had a gift for storytelling and a great sense of humor."" - Lorien Foote, author of The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army
£23.36
The University of Alabama Press Engines of Rebellion
Book SynopsisA challenge to the prevailing idea that Confederate ironclads were inherently defective. The development of steam propulsion machinery in warships during the nineteenth century, in conjunction with iron armor and shell guns, resulted in a technological revolution in the world's navies. Warships utilizing all of these technologies were built in France and Great Britain in the 1850s, but it was during the American Civil War that large numbers of ironclads powered solely by steam proved themselves to be quite capable warships. Historians have given little attention to the engineering of Confederate ironclads, although the Confederacy was often quite creative in building and obtaining marine power plants. Engines of Rebellion: Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War focuses exclusively on ships with American built machinery, offering a detailed look at marine steam-engineering practices in both northern and southern industry prior to and during the Civil WTrade ReviewEngines of Rebellion is unquestionably a contribution to our knowledge of Confederate naval vessels, particularly their machinery."" - William N. Still Jr., author of Crisis at Sea: The United States Navy in European Waters in World War I and coauthor of Raiders and Blockaders: The American Civil War Afloat""Provides an important look at the issues that the Confederate Navy dealt with, both in acquiring the machinery, but also the issues concerning the operation of the machinery. This book is thoroughly researched, insightful, and well written."" - Robert M. Browning Jr., author of Lincoln's Trident: The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War and Success Is All that Was Expected: The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War
£49.40
The University of Alabama Press Deep in the Piney Woods
Book SynopsisA chronicle of the Civil War era in one of Alabama's least studied regions. Deep in the Piney Woods offers a comprehensive account of a historically rich region of the state, challenging many commonly held assumptions about the area's formation and settlement, economy, politics, race relations, and role in secession and the Civil War.Trade ReviewOlder views of the Piney Woods held that the region only half-heartedly supported secession and, once the war began, was characterized by a less than enthusiastic participation on the battlefield, as well as the home front. Brown uses a wealth of primary documentation to make the point that this region demonstrated its loyalty to the cause by, among other things, raising and equipping numerous companies, thereby showing as much enthusiasm as other parts of the state."" - Lonnie A. Burnett, author of The Pen Makes a Good Sword: John Forsyth of the “Mobile Register” and Henry Hotze, Confederate Propagandist: Selected Essays on Revolution, Recognition, and Race""An outstanding contribution to Alabama history, and a long overdue chronicle of a too-often overlooked region, perhaps painting one of the most complete portraits of any region in the state during the war era."" - Mike Bunn, author of Civil War EufaulaTable of Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction 1. “The Wilderness is All Before You”: Settlement 2. “Of All the Hardy Sons of Toil”: Class and Race in the Piney Woods 3. “Let the Union Stand”: Piney Woods Politics, 1819–1845 4. “Disruption of the Ties Which Bind Us Together”: The Politics of Secession, 1845–1861 5. “From the Lights Before Us I Think War is Close at Hand”: The War Begins 6. “I Have No One to Assist Mee on Earth”: The Piney Woods War, 1862 7. “I Feel Like We Are Almost Ruined”: The War Takes Its Toll, 1863–1865 Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£33.95
The University of Alabama Press Pulpits of the Lost Cause
Book SynopsisCompares the faith and politics of former Confederate chaplains during the Reconstruction period, and argues for some counterintuitive understandings of their beliefs and practices in the post-war period.
£44.60
University of Alabama Press Congress of States
Book SynopsisPresents the minutes of early legislative sessions from daily press reports published in newspapers in Richmond, Virginia; Montgomery, Alabama; Charleston, South Carolina; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Savannah and Augusta, Georgia, in the process assembling a complete set of transcriptions documenting the creation of the Confederate government.Trade Review“Congress of States is an impressive undertaking, recovering a crucial and complex year in the history of the United States. Unfolding in time, the documents show a would-be nation taking shape before our eyes, one symbolic and substantive step at a time.” —Edward L. Ayers, founding chair of the board of the American Civil War Museum and executive director of New American History
£83.30
The University of Alabama Press A Rich Mans War A Poor Mans Fight Desertion of
Book SynopsisAt the start of the Civil War in 1861, many men in Alabama enthusiastically enlisted. After all these family breadwinners marched off to duty, the number of indigent families in the state rose dramatically. This book argues that Confederate soldiers left their posts due to poverty at home.
£25.95
University of Alabama Press Speak Truth to Power The Story of Charles Patrick a Civil Rights Pioneer Fire Ant Books
Book SynopsisTells the story of Charles Patrick’s quest for justice in segregated Alabama on the eve of the civil rights movement, and represents a telling instance of the growing determination of African Americans to be treated fairly, part of the broadening and deepening stream of resolve that led to the widespread activism of the civil rights movement.
£15.26
The University of Alabama Press Seven Months in the Rebel States During the North American War 1863 Seeing the Elephant Series
Trade ReviewCaptain Scheibert's [book] was available only in German until W. S. Hoole edited the present version. A member of the Prussian army since 1849, and 'well known as an authority on fortifications,' Scheibert was sent to America 'to study the effect of rifled cannon fire on earth, masonry, and iron, and the operation of armor on land and at sea.' The captain preferred to observe the South rather than the North at war. 'If there ever was a foreign Rebel,' Mr. Hoole asserts, 'he was one.' Scheibert, impressed with the South's 'enormous energy' and 'amazed at the industry of a patriotic people,' was cordially received by President Davis and generals Lee, Jackson, Beauregard, and Stuart. The vivid impressions, observations, and characterizations of a Prussian captain are a significant commentary on the engagements at Chancellorsville, Brandy Station, and Gettysburg, on blockade running, and on the spirit of the people and their military genius. - Wendell Holmes Stephenson, Journal of Southern History
£15.26
The University of Alabama Press A Soldiers Story of His Regiment 61st Georgia and Incidentally of the LawtonGordonEvans Brigade Army of Northern Virginia Seeing the Elephant Southern Eyewitnesses to the Civil War
Book SynopsisGeorge W. Nichols's aptly titled Soldier's Story is one of the classic narratives of frontline infantry service in the Army of Northern Virginia. Nichols framed his account without sentimental hindsight; in addition to reporting great battles and dramatic moments, he told the story of two cousins killing each other in a quarrel about cooking duties and described maggot-infested corpses.
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press Oh What a Loansome Time I Had The Civil War Letters of Major William Morel Moxley Eighteenth Alabama Infantry and Emily Beck Moxley
Book SynopsisMost surviving correspondence of the Civil War period was written by members of a literate, elite class; few collections exist in which the woman's letters to her soldier husband have been preserved. Here, in the exchange between William and Emily Moxley, a working-class farm couple from Coffee County, Alabama, we see vividly an often-neglected aspect of the Civil War experience: the hardships of civilian life on the home front.
£19.76
University of Alabama Press Shermans Mississippi Campaign
Book SynopsisMajor General William Tecumseh Sherman set out from Vicksburg on February 3, 1864, with an army of some 25,000 infantry and a battalion of cavalry. Though not a particularly effective campaign in terms of enemy soldiers captured or killed, it offers a rich opportunity to observe how this large-scale raid presaged Sherman's Atlanta and Carolina campaigns.Trade ReviewWilliam T. Sherman’s March to the Sea is the stuff legends are made of: huge armies, eccentric generals, and epic battles. . . . Sherman’s Mississippi Campaign is the first modern study of not only Sherman’s battlefield tactics in Mississippi but also their philosophical underpinnings. Additionally, the book assesses the expedition in terms of its immediate impact on the western theater of war and its effect on Sherman’s long-term military thinking. . . . Buck T. Foster’s Sherman’s Mississippi Campaign is a noteworthy addition to the historiography of the Civil War’s western campaigns and to the military life of William T. Sherman."" - Civil War History""With Sherman’s Mississippi Campaign Foster has contributed significantly to the literature on the Civil War’s western theater. He engages notable Civil War historians . . . arguing that the Meridian campaign holds a greater significance in the development of Sherman’s hard war’ strategy than has been previously admitted. Although focused on Sherman’s strategy, Foster also provides a thorough analysis of the Confederate military’s strategic and tactical mistakes. . . . The book has useful and well-placed maps that help the reader follow the detail-oriented narrative."" - Journal of Southern History""This book fills a gap in Sherman's military life that has heretofore been overlooked by his biographers as well as students of strategy and tactics. The Mississippi Campaign dramatically affected Sherman's evolution of policy; Foster explains how Sherman came to formulate the strategy that he used so successfully in the Confederate Southeast."" - Anne J. Bailey, author of The Chessboard of War: Sherman and Hood int he Autumn Campaigns of 1864""This book is the first modern analytical study of the Mississippi Campaign. It should appeal to readers interested in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, the generalship of William Tecumseh Sherman, and the evolution of what many historians term 'total war' by Union armies."" - Arthur W. Bergeron Jr., author of Confederate Mobile""Those who look to the Georgia campaign as Sherman's coming-out party (to be followed by the Carolinas campaign) would do well to consider the working assumption of this book: Sherman's strategic thinking had been evolving toward a more destructive brand of warfare since early 1862, to be tested first in the Mississippi campaign."" - Daniel E. Sutherland, author of Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community, 1861-1865
£28.86
The University of Alabama Press Raphael Semmes The Philosophical Mariner
Trade ReviewSpencer remains true to his purpose to produce a balanced biography explaining more of Semmes’ humanity rather than just recounting high-seas adventures of the hard-bitten Confederate pirate.”"" - The Florida Historical Quarterly""[Spencer’s] admiration for Semmes as a naval officer is fully justified [Semmes] was the first commerce raider to operate in the age of steam, andhere I am in full agreement with Spencerhe may have been the best of all time."" - American History magazine""The best biography of Semmes to date. A well-balanced study with new insight on his pre-Civil War career as well as his exploits during that conflict."" - William N. Still Jr., East Carolina University
£19.76
The University of Alabama Press Trailing Clouds of Glory
Book SynopsisOffers a narrative of Zachary Taylor’s Mexican War campaign, from the formation of his army in 1844 to his last battle in 1847, with emphasis on the 163 men in his “Army of Occupation” who became Confederate or Union generals in the Civil War. It clarifies what being a Mexican War veteran meant to them, how they interacted, how they performed their duties, and how they reacted under fire.Trade ReviewTrailing Clouds of Glory is an essential addition to any Mexican War library because of its focus on Taylor. It is also a useful addition to the growing effort to move beyond generalizations and determine the specifics of the influence Mexico had on Civil War leadership."" — Civil War Book Review“This study of Zachary Taylor’s campaign in northern Mexico makes a significant contribution to the history of this often forgotten war. The work reads well, is organized logically, is argued effectively, and is rooted in extensive primary research.” —Timothy D. Johnson, author of Winfield Scott: The Quest for Military Glory and A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign“Readers who enjoy a more traditional approach . . . will delight in Lewis's volume. By design, the narrative emphasizes regulars and officers. She details the dated arrival and departure of various companies and regiments, along with the deployment, command, retirement, injury, and death among officers ranked from general to lieutenant. Her research is most impressive, the footnotes rich in primary sources, congressional and War Department documents, but especially the personal papers and diaries of the participants. She is also aware of and engaged with current scholarship, a point reflected in her extensive bibliography and throughout the volume where she parries thrusts against the military reputation of Old Zach.” — H-Net Reviews
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press A War of Words
Book SynopsisAnalyses Jefferson Davis's public discourse, arguing that throughout his time as president of the Confederacy, Davis settled for short-term rhetorical successes at the expense of creating more substantive and meaningful messages for himself and his constituents.Trade ReviewAtchison . . . reviews the possible role Jefferson Davis played in the failure of the Confederates. . . . The depth and complexity of this research is a remarkable achievement for a single author. . . . This book will be highly useful for scholars interested in the Civil War era and those who study American public discourse. Highly recommended."" - CHOICE""If you study Civil War Era politics, A War of Words deserves a place on your bookshelf."" - Civil War Book Review""A War of Words explores an under-studied aspect of Jefferson Davis's leadership, his ability (or lack thereof) to inspire and mobilize audiences through his crafting of rhetorical appeals. This book should be valuable to students of the history of American public discourse, scholars of the Civil War era, advanced rhetorical critics, and those interested in Southern rhetoric and public address."" - David Zarefsky, author of Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate ""Atchison does an excellent job of delving into how and why Davis's speeches often failed to achieve their goals - and why Davis's rhetorical aims were often off the mark and unsuccessful. Many of the author's insights and evaluation of Davis's rhetoric will help students of the Civil War era understand more about the context and history of the time, and, indeed, more about Davis himself."" - W. Stuart Towns, author of Enduring Legacy: Rhetoric and Ritual of the Lost CauseTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Decorum in Davis's Resignation from the Senate Chapter 2. Civic Republicanism in Davis's Inaugural Address Chapter 3. Amplification in Davis's Defense of Conscription Chapter 4. Conspiracy Rhetoric in Davis's Response to the Emancipation Proclamation Chapter 5. Pragmatism and Desperation in Davis's Push for Conditional Emancipation Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£19.76
LUP - University of Georgia Press Reminiscences of My Life in Camp An African American Womans Civil War Memoir
Book SynopsisChronicles daily life on the battlefront, and also records interactions between blacks and whites, men and women, and northerners and southerners during and after the war. The author tells of being born into slavery and of learning, in secret, to read and write.
£23.00
LUP - University of Georgia Press Hells Broke Loose in Georgia Survival in a Civil
Book SynopsisFollows the soldiers of the Fifty-seventh as they push far into Unionist Kentucky, starve at the siege of Vicksburg, guard Union prisoners at the Andersonville stockade, defend Atlanta from Sherman, and more.Trade ReviewClearly a labor of love... Such books open a fascinating window on the past. - America's Civil War
£21.80
LUP - University of Georgia Press The SlaveTraders LetterBook Charles Lamar the
Book SynopsisRecounts the flamboyant and reckless life of Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, including Lamar's involvement in southern secession, the slave trade, and a plot to overthrow the government of Cuba. The second part presents the ""Slave-Trader's Letter-Book"" which sheds light on the lead-up to the American Civil War.Trade Review“Jim Jordan has given us a fascinating look at little-known yet divisive events that occurred during the years leading up to the Civil War, particularly the illegal, transatlantic African slave trade. He brings them to life through the provocative and often outrageous words of a man involved in those activities. Mr. Jordan’s thorough research provides a compelling and comprehensive account of the infamous Wanderer expeditions and the men behind them. This intriguing and educational book is in two parts. The first, a thorough and well-researched biography of one of antebellum Georgia’s most famous scoundrels; the second, a professionally edited and annotated printing of Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar’s long-lost and recently rediscovered letter-book. Both parts are well worth the read by scholars and the general public. Charles Lamar was the instigator of the infamous voyage of the Wanderer. He was a hero to southern secessionists and a criminal to northern abolitionists. That makes this book important to all those interested in the antebellum and Civil War history of Georgia.”
£26.55
University of Georgia Press SeenUnseen Hidden Lives in a Community of
Book SynopsisThe hundreds of men and women kept in bondage by the Cobb-Lamar family, one of the wealthiest and most politically prominent families in antebellum America, laboured in households and on plantations that spanned Georgia. This book provides a vivid portrait of the complex network that created, held, and sustained this community of the enslaved.
£31.05
LUP - University of Georgia Press Bridging Revolutions The Lives of Chief Justices
Book SynopsisExamines the lives of North Carolina chief justice Richmond Pearson (1805-1878) and South Carolina chief justice John Belton O’Neall (1793-1863) and their impact on the South’s transition from a slave to a free society.
£69.85
Ohio University Press Ending the Civil War and Consequences for
Book SynopsisContributors explore how the end of the Civil War continued the trauma of the conflict and also enhanced the potential for the new birth of freedom that Lincoln promised in the Gettysburg Address, particularly when it came to the Fourteenth Amendment.
£25.19
Fordham University Press A Great Sacrifice Northern Black Soldiers Their
Book SynopsisThis study analyzes the effects of the Civil War on northern black families as they sacrificed for a Union victory. This book especially studies the effects of the war on these families as they and their soldiers fully supported the Union war effort and strived to gain full American citizenship.Table of ContentsList of Figures xi List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction | 1 1 Life in the North: Before the War | 11 2 A Grand Opportunity: 1861 and 1862 | 19 3 The Forming of Black Regiments and Success in Battle | 28 4 The Unequal Pay Issue | 44 5 Violence on Two Fronts | 81 6 Information Requests | 98 7 Discharge Requests | 120 8 The Conclusion of the War | 130 9 After the War: A Different Kind of Battle | 135 10 Even Farther Away from Home: Occupation Duty Continues | 156 11 Home Again | 178 Appendix: Northern Black Regiments 185 Acknowledgments 187 Notes 189 Cited Literature 237 Index 249
£27.90
Fordham University Press A Great Sacrifice Northern Black Soldiers Their
Book SynopsisThis study analyzes the effects of the Civil War on northern black families as they sacrificed for a Union victory. This book especially studies the effects of the war on these families as they and their soldiers fully supported the Union war effort and strived to gain full American citizenship.Table of ContentsList of Figures xi List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction | 1 1 Life in the North: Before the War | 11 2 A Grand Opportunity: 1861 and 1862 | 19 3 The Forming of Black Regiments and Success in Battle | 28 4 The Unequal Pay Issue | 44 5 Violence on Two Fronts | 81 6 Information Requests | 98 7 Discharge Requests | 120 8 The Conclusion of the War | 130 9 After the War: A Different Kind of Battle | 135 10 Even Farther Away from Home: Occupation Duty Continues | 156 11 Home Again | 178 Appendix: Northern Black Regiments 185 Acknowledgments 187 Notes 189 Cited Literature 237 Index 249
£105.40
University of Missouri Press Reflections of a Civil War Historian
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays is a compendium of Hattaway's writings spanning his career of more than 40 years. He has made many important scholarly contributions to the understanding of the Civil War, including the nature of good (and bad) military leadership.Trade ReviewAll of Hattaway's work... is characterized by great scholarship with a kind of charming quirkiness. - George Rable
£52.20
University of Missouri Press Spain and the American Civil War
Book SynopsisPresents the first comprehensive look at relations between Spain and the two antagonists of the American Civil War. Using Spanish, US and Confederate sources, Bowen provides multiple perspectives of critical events during the Civil War, including Confederate attempts to bring Spain and other European nations into the war; reactions to those attempts; and Spain's revived imperial fortunes.
£43.65
University of Missouri Press A Fire Bell in the Past
Book SynopsisMany of the original essays in this volume began as papers presented at an international conference on Constitutional Democracy. Contributors reassess and add to historians' understanding of the full scope of the causes and consequences of what came to be known as the Missouri Crisis, on a regional and national basis.Trade Review“This book will reset the standard by which historians understand the Missouri Crisis, the politics of slavery, and the Early National era more broadly. The editors did an outstanding job of bringing together scholars who approach the topic from a variety of perspectives, and in doing so, not only re-center the Missouri Crisis historiographically, but offer compelling new lenses through which all historians will need to consider the political history of slavery and anti-slavery in the early United States.”— Ryan A. Quintana, Wellesley College, author of Making a Slave State: Political Development in Early South Carolina
£44.06
University of Missouri Press A Fire Bell in the Past
Book SynopsisDrawn from the of participants in two landmark conferences, those who contributed original essays to this second of two volumes answer the Missouri ‘Question’, in bold fashion, challenging assumptions both old and new in the long historiography by approaching the event on its own terms.Table of Contents CONTRIBUTORS xi FOREWORD A Reckoning with Slavery xv D. A. Dunkley INTRODUCTION The 1821 Project 3 Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond CHRONOLOGY The Era of the Second Missouri Compromise 31 PART I: “THE MISSOURI QUESTION" IN NATIONAL POLITICS 1. “We have gained all that was possible, if not all that was desired”: Politics and the Passage of the Missouri Compromise 37 Michael J. McManus 2. The Missouri Crisis and the Uncontested Reelection of James Monroe 71 Christopher Childers 3. Diplomat, Republican, Lady: Louisa Catherine Adams and the Missouri Crisis 99 Miriam Liebman PART II. ANSWERING THE QUESTION IN MISSOURI AND ACROSS AMERICA 4. The Second Missouri Compromise, State Citizenship, and African Americans’ Rights in the Antebellum United States 129 Kate Masur 5. “Clothing and food are nothing compared with liberty”: Undoing the Myth of Mild Missouri Slavery 163 Diane Mutti Burke 6. The Other Fire Bell: African American Politics and the Missouri Compromise before the Civil War 197 Richard Newman 7. A Geography of Free Soil: The Legacy of the 1820 Compromise, Political Conflict, and the Decline of Slavery in Missouri 229 Zachary Dowdle PART III. LEGACIES OF THE MISSOURI CRISIS IN AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE 8. Doughface: The Origins and Legacy of an Antebellum Political Insult 259 Nicholas P. Wood 9. “Contrary to the law of nature”: The Reconstruction and Memory of Rufus King’s Missouri Crisis Speeches 275 David J. Gary 10. “General declarations are insufficient”: The Pressure of Debates and Extreme Rhetoric from the 1760s to the 1820s 301 Matthew Mason PART IV. REFRAMING THE QUESTION CONTINENTALLY 11. The Local Politics of “Indian Affairs”: Diplomacy, Ethnic Cleansing, and Federal Power in the Age of Missouri Statehood 325 Edward P. Green 12. The Multinational History of Missouri Statehood and the Reimagining of North American Polities 357 Peter Kastor ACKNOWLEDGMENT 385 INDEX 389
£46.50
University of New Mexico Press When the Texans Came Missing Records from the
Book SynopsisThe reports and letters brought to light by John P. Wilson in this remarkable collection offer new perspectives on the Civil War in the West. The 282 letters, song lyrics, casualty lists, intelligence dispatches, transcripts of witness testimony, newspaper accounts, and official reports of battles that appear here build upon the massive anthology of Civil War documentation.Table of ContentsPrelude: a Confederate assessment of New Mexico in 1861 1 document -- Southern New Mexico, June-July 1861 (Union correspondence) 22 documents -- Headquarters and northern district correspondence, June-July 1861 (Union) 18 documents -- Headquarters and Fort Union correspondence, August 1861 (Union) 53 documents -- The retreat from Arizona, July-August 1861 (Union) 2 documents -- Headquarters and southern district correspondence, August-December 1861 (Union) 38 documents -- Confederate correspondence, July-December 1861 14 documents -- Rio Bonito and Manzano theater, August 1861-January 1862 (Union and Confederate) 19 documents -- Southern Arizona, August 1861-August 1862 (Union and Confederate) 17 documents -- Confederate correspondence, January-April 1862 9 documents -- Headquarters and other correspondence, January-March 1862 (Union) 38 documents -- Baylor's raid on Corralitos, February 1862 (Confederate and Mexican correspondence) 6 documents -- The Battle of Valverde, February 1862 (Union and Confederate) 5 documents -- Apache Pass and Glorieta, March 1862 (Union and Confederate) 5 documents -- Headquarters and southern district correspondence, April-August 1862 (Union) 21 documents -- Confederate correspondence, May-July 1862 14 documents.
£22.46
University of New Mexico Press A Distant Heartbeat A War a Disappearance and a
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£15.96
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico John P. Slough The Forgotten Civil War General
Book SynopsisJohn Potts Slough, the Union commander at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, lived a life of relentless pursuit for success that entangled him in the turbulent events of mid-nineteenth-century America. Recounting Slough's timeless story of rise and fall during America's most tumultuous decades, Richard Miller brings to life this extraordinary figure.
£26.96
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC American Civil War Armies 1 Confederate Troops
Book SynopsisA concise illustrated study of the uniforms, arms and personal equipment issued by the national Confederate government to its artillery, cavalry, and infantry. When the Southern states seceded to form their own government in 1861, one of their first moves was to organise an army. The South's fighting men served from the time of their enlistment until the end of the war, receiving poor rations, and even worse clothing and this despite the fact that one of the first steps taken by the new army was to design a uniform and establish standards for accoutrements and weapons. In this first of five volumes examining American Civil War armies, Philip Katcher profiles the uniforms issued by the national Confederate government to its artillery, cavalry and infantry in detailed text accompanied by black-and-white images and 8 superb colour plates by artist Ron Volstad.Table of ContentsIntroduction · Headgear · Coats · Other Uniform Items · Zouave and Chasseur Uniforms · Accoutrements · Weapons · The Plates
£11.69
Leonaur Ltd History of the First Regiment Delaware Volunteers A Union Regiments Campaigns During the American Civil War
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Leonaur Ltd The Battle of Stones River18623
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Leonaur Ltd The Boys of 61
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Mercer University Press Georgia Sharpshooter Civil War Georgia
£25.17
Michigan State University Press To Tilt at Windmills Memoir of the Spanish Civil War A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War
Book SynopsisTo Tilt at Windmills is the memoir of Briton Fred Thomas who served with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War (July 1936-March 1939).
£40.84
Michigan State University Press The 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War
Book SynopsisThis fascinating narrative tells the story of a remarkable regiment at the center of Civil War history. The real-life adventure emerges from accounts of scores of soldiers who served in the 4th Michigan Infantry, gleaned from their diaries, letters, and memoirs; the reports of their officers and commanders; the stories by journalists who covered them; and the recollections of the Confederates who fought against them.
£38.48
Wisconsin Historical Society Press Freedom Train North
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£14.36
Wisconsin Historical Society Press This Wicked Rebellion Wisconsin Civil War
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£19.51
University of Tennessee Press Shiloh In Hell Before Night
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University of Tennessee Press Five Tragic Hours Battle Of Franklin
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£21.56
University of Tennessee Press Civil War Nurse Diary Letters Hannah Ropes
Book SynopsisThe chief nurse of the Union Hospital in Washington, D.C., describes life and stress in the hospital and comments on notable persons of power.
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