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A Connecticut Yankee in Lincoln's Cabinet

Author : Gideon Welles
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819574988
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book A Connecticut Yankee in Lincoln's Cabinet written by Gideon Welles and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War through the eyes of a key member of Lincoln's cabinet Gideon Welles, the Connecticut journalist-politician who served as Lincoln's secretary of the navy, was not only an architect of Union victory but also a shrewd observer of people, issues, and events. Fortunately for posterity, he recorded many of his observations in his extensive diary. A Connecticut Yankee in Lincoln's Cabinet brings together 250 of the most important and interesting excerpts from the diary, dealing with topics as varied as the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Marine Band's concerts in Washington's Lafayette Square, Lincoln's sense of humor, rivalries among cabinet members, Welles's often caustic opinions of prominent politicians and military leaders, demands for creation of a navy yard in his home state, the challenge of blockading 3,500 miles of Confederate coastline, the struggle against rebel commerce raiders, the battles of Antietam and Gettysburg, the Fort Pillow massacre of African American troops, and Lincoln's assassination. Together, the excerpts provide a candid insider's view of the Civil War as it unfolded, and an introduction provides the reader with context. Published by the Acorn Club.

Shooting Lincoln

Author : Nicholas J.C. Pistor
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306824701
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Shooting Lincoln written by Nicholas J.C. Pistor and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They took the most memorable photographs of the Civil War. Now their long rivalry was about to climax with the spilled blood of an American president--an event that would usher in a new age of modern media. Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner were the new media moguls of their day. With their photographs they brought the Civil War -- and all of its terrible suffering -- into Northern living rooms. By the end of the war, they were locked in fierce competition. And when the biggest story of the century happened--the assassination of Abraham Lincoln--their paparazzi-like competition intensified. Brady, nearly blind and hoping to rekindle his wartime photographic magic, and Gardner, his former understudy, raced against each other to the theater where Lincoln was shot, to the autopsy table where Booth was identified, and to the gallows where the conspirators were hanged. Whoever could take the most sensational -- or ghastly -- photograph would achieve lasting camera-lens fame. Compelling and riveting, Shooting Lincoln tells the astonishing, behind-the-photographs story of these two media pioneers who raced to "shoot" the late president and the condemned conspirators. The photos they took electrified the country, fed America's growing appetite for tabloid-style sensationalism in the news, and built the media we know today.

Gideon Welles; Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy

Author : John Niven
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195016939
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Gideon Welles; Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy written by John Niven and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1973 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-scale life and times biography of an important Civil War figure.

Country Acres and Cul-de-Sacs

Author : Jay Gitlin
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 081957872X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Country Acres and Cul-de-Sacs written by Jay Gitlin and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938, the first year of its publication, Connecticut Circle magazine covered the opening of the Merritt Parkway in June, a devastating hurricane in September, and a transformative election in November that saw Raymond Baldwin replace Governor Wilbur Cross on the brink of WWII. Covering the news, recreation, literary figures, and politicians, and above all—the achievements and products of the state, Connecticut Circle entertained, promoted, and projected the image of a bustling state with more than its share of creative citizens and renowned institutions of higher learning. Its readership included not only proud Nutmeggers, but potential tourists, and more than a few Mr. and Mrs. Blandings contemplating—the state's board of realtors hoped—a potential move from New York City to an ancient colonial homestead made newly accessible via the Merritt Parkway or the New Haven Railroad. The magazine was saturated with ads and articles that presaged the state's residential (and suburban) future, and people and events of this dramatic time come alive in this large collection of articles from Connecticut Circle magazine, as Connecticut defines itself for the modern era. With an illuminating introduction and context-setting headnotes for its thirteen sections, this volume provides a wealth of fascinating articles for anyone seeking to reminisce, and understand the values that pushed Connecticut into the postwar world.

Lincoln's White House

Author : James B. Conroy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442251352
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Lincoln's White House written by James B. Conroy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-winner of the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Lincoln’s White House is the first book devoted to capturing the look, feel, and smell of the executive mansion from Lincoln’s inauguration in 1861 to his assassination in 1865. James Conroy brings to life the people who knew it, from servants to cabinet secretaries. We see the constant stream of visitors, from ordinary citizens to visiting dignitaries and diplomats. Conroy enables the reader to see how the Lincolns lived and how the administration conducted day-to-day business during four of the most tumultuous years in American history. Relying on fresh research and a character-driven narrative and drawing on untapped primary sources, he takes the reader on a behind-the-scenes tour that provides new insight into how Lincoln lived, led the government, conducted war, and ultimately, unified the country to build a better government of, by, and for the people.

The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era

Author : James M. McPherson George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History Princeton University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199729360
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era written by James M. McPherson George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History Princeton University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times Bestseller, Battle Cry of Freedom is universally recognized as the definitive account of the Civil War. It was hailed in The New York Times as "historical writing of the highest order." The Washington Post called it "the finest single volume on the war and its background." And The Los Angeles Times wrote that "of the 50,000 books written on the Civil War, it is the finest compression of that national paroxysm ever fitted between two covers." Now available in a splendid new edition is The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom. Boasting some seven hundred pictures, including a hundred and fifty color images and twenty-four full-color maps, here is the ultimate gift book for everyone interested in American history. McPherson has selected all the illustrations, including rare contemporary photographs, period cartoons, etchings, woodcuts, and paintings, carefully choosing those that best illuminate the narrative. More important, he has written extensive captions (some 35,000 words in all, virtually a book in themselves), many of which offer genuinely new information and interpretations that significantly enhance the text. The text itself, streamlined by McPherson, remains a fast-paced narrative that brilliantly captures two decades of contentious American history, from the Mexican War to Lee's surrender at Appomattox. The reader will find a truly masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities--as well as McPherson's thoughtful commentary on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory. A must-have purchase for the legions of Civil War buffs, The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom is both a spectacularly beautiful volume and the definitive account of the most important conflict in our nation's history.

Lincoln and His Cabinet

Author : Charles Anderson Dana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Lincoln and His Cabinet written by Charles Anderson Dana and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sea Wolf of the Confederacy

Author : David W. Shaw
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1574092073
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Sea Wolf of the Confederacy written by David W. Shaw and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Shaw is the author of America's Victory and a number of other books. He lives in Maine.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hank Morgan finds himself transported back to England's Dark Ages -- where he is immediately captured and sentenced to death at Camelot. Fortunately, he's quick-witted, and in the process of saving his life he turns himself into a celebrity -- winning himself the position of prime minister as well as the lasting enmity of Merlin.

Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath

Author : George S Burkhardt
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809327430
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (274 download)

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Book Synopsis Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath by : George S Burkhardt

Download or read book Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath written by George S Burkhardt and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2007-05-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative study proves the existence of a de facto Confederate policy of giving no quarter to captured black combatants during the Civil War—killing them instead of treating them as prisoners of war. Rather than looking at the massacres as a series of discrete and random events, this work examines each as part of a ruthless but standard practice. Author George S. Burkhardt details a fascinating case that the Confederates followed a consistent pattern of murder against the black soldiers who served in Northern armies after Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. He shows subsequent retaliation by black soldiers and further escalation by the Confederates, including the execution of some captured white Federal soldiers, those proscribed as cavalry raiders, foragers, or house-burners, and even some captured in traditional battles. Further disproving the notion of Confederates as victims who were merely trying to defend their homes, Burkhardt explores the motivations behind the soldiers’ actions and shows the Confederates’ rage at the sight of former slaves—still considered property, not men—fighting them as equals on the battlefield. Burkhardt’s narrative approach recovers important dimensions of the war that until now have not been fully explored by historians, effectively describing the systemic pattern that pushed the conflict toward a black flag, take-no-prisoners struggle.

Abraham Lincoln...

Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Abraham Lincoln... written by Carl Sandburg and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For contents, see Author Catalog.

The Connecticut Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Connecticut Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Connecticut Magazine

Author : William Farrand Felch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Connecticut Magazine written by William Farrand Felch and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Abraham Lincoln: War Years Volume One

Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abraham Lincoln: War Years Volume One written by Carl Sandburg and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lincoln Lore

Author : Louis Austin Warren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Lincoln Lore written by Louis Austin Warren and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Civil War on the Water

Author : Dwight Sturtevant Hughes
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611216303
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Civil War on the Water written by Dwight Sturtevant Hughes and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War was primarily a land conflict, but it was not only that. “Nor must Uncle Sam’s web-feet be forgotten,” wrote Abraham Lincoln. “At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been and made their tracks.” From the Arctic Circle to the Caribbean, swift Rebel raiders decimated Union commerce pursued by the U. S. Navy. Offshore, storm-tossed blockaders in hundreds of vessels patrolled from Hatteras to Galveston while occasionally lobbing a few shots at a speeding Rebel runner. Around the continental periphery, it was ships vs. powerful fortifications as titanic clashes erupted: Port Royal, New Orleans, Charleston, Mobile. Massive army-navy amphibious operations presaged twentieth-century conflicts: The Peninsula, North Carolina Sounds, Fort Fisher. In the heartland, the two services invented riverine warfare: Forts Henry and Donelson, Island No. 10, Memphis, Vicksburg. And through it all, emerging technology of the machine age played a critical role: iron armor, torpedoes, steam propulsion, heavy naval artillery. However, nothing in the history and traditions of the United States Navy had prepared it for civil war. The sea service would expand tenfold from a third-rate force to (temporarily) one of the most powerful and advanced navies. Meanwhile, former shipmates in the Confederacy struggled to construct a fleet from nothing, applying innovative technologies and underdog strategies to achieve more than anyone thought possible. Both sides faced unprecedented strategic, tactical, and technological challenges that made their navies indispensable—even as the navies themselves faced those same sorts of challenges. The Civil War on the Water: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War compiles favorite navy tales and obscure narratives by distinguished public historians of the Emerging Civil War in celebration of the organization’s tenth anniversary. This eclectic collection presents new stories and familiar battles from a unique perspective—from the water—sea, surf, and stream.

Civil War Scoundrels and the Texas Cotton Trade

Author : Walter E. Wilson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476681279
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Civil War Scoundrels and the Texas Cotton Trade written by Walter E. Wilson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, scoundrels from both the Union and Confederate sides were able to execute illicit, but ingenious, schemes to acquire Texas cotton. Texas was the only Confederate state that bordered a neutral country, it was never forcibly conquered, and its coast was impossible to effectively blockade. Using little known contemporary sources, this story reveals how charlatans exploited these conditions to run the blockade, import machinery and weapons, and defraud the state's most prominent political, military and civilian leaders in the process. Best known for his role in the romantic entanglements of his co-conspirator William Sprague, Harris Hoyt stands out due to his sharp intellect and fascinating character. Hoyt was able to draw most of Abraham Lincoln's inner circle into his web of deceit and even influenced the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. This is the first account to expose the depth and breadth of the many Texas cotton trading scams and the sheer audacity of the shadowy men who profited from them, but managed to escape the gallows.