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Author : John McElroy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Andersonville written by John McElroy and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John McElroy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Andersonville written by John McElroy and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Matthew Jordan
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807173053
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The War Went On written by Brian Matthew Jordan and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Civil War veterans have emerged from historical obscurity. Inspired by recent interest in memory studies and energized by the ongoing neorevisionist turn, a vibrant new literature has given the lie to the once-obligatory lament that the postbellum lives of Civil War soldiers were irretrievable. Despite this flood of historical scholarship, fundamental questions about the essential character of Civil War veteranhood remain unanswered. Moreover, because work on veterans has often proceeded from a preoccupation with cultural memory, the Civil War’s ex-soldiers have typically been analyzed as either symbols or producers of texts. In The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans, fifteen of the field’s top scholars provide a more nuanced and intimate look at the lives and experiences of these former soldiers. Essays in this collection approach Civil War veterans from oblique angles, including theater, political, and disability history, as well as borderlands and memory studies. Contributors examine the lives of Union and Confederate veterans, African American veterans, former prisoners of war, amputees, and ex-guerrilla fighters. They also consider postwar political elections, veterans’ business dealings, and even literary contests between onetime enemies and among former comrades.
Author : Robert C. Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Voices from Captivity written by Robert C. Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doyle shows that, though setting and circumstances may change, POW stories share a common structure and are driven by similar themes. Capture, incarceration, isolation, propaganda, torture, capitulation or resistance, death, spiritual quest, escape, liberation and repatriation are recurrent key motifs in these narratives.
Author : John McElroy
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Andersonville (Illustrated) written by John McElroy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Andersonville" is one of the best accounts about the Civil War. McElroy, the author, vividly tells his story about the time he spent as a prisoner of Andersonville and a few other Confederate prisons he was kept at. The book is full of interesting stories and amazing facts about the Confederate prison system and the way prisoners were treated in the South!
Author : Clarke, firm, booksellers, Cincinnati
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana, 1893 written by Clarke, firm, booksellers, Cincinnati and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dora L. Costa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400829755
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Heroes and Cowards written by Dora L. Costa and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When are people willing to sacrifice for the common good? What are the benefits of friendship? How do communities deal with betrayal? And what are the costs and benefits of being in a diverse community? Using the life histories of more than forty thousand Civil War soldiers, Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn answer these questions and uncover the vivid stories, social influences, and crucial networks that influenced soldiers' lives both during and after the war. Drawing information from government documents, soldiers' journals, and one of the most extensive research projects about Union Army soldiers ever undertaken, Heroes and Cowards demonstrates the role that social capital plays in people's decisions. The makeup of various companies--whether soldiers were of the same ethnicity, age, and occupation--influenced whether soldiers remained loyal or whether they deserted. Costa and Kahn discuss how the soldiers benefited from friendships, what social factors allowed some to survive the POW camps while others died, and how punishments meted out for breaking codes of conduct affected men after the war. The book also examines the experience of African-American soldiers and makes important observations about how their comrades shaped their lives. Heroes and Cowards highlights the inherent tensions between the costs and benefits of community diversity, shedding light on how groups and societies behave and providing valuable lessons for the present day.
Author : David Skarbek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190672528
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Puzzle of Prison Order written by David Skarbek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison officials govern with care and attention to prisoners' needs. In others, officials have remarkably little influence on the everyday life of prisoners, sometimes not even providing necessities like food and clean water. Why does prison social order around the world look so remarkably different? In The Puzzle of Prison Order, David Skarbek develops a theory of why prisons and prison life vary so much. He finds that how they're governed-sometimes by the state, and sometimes by the prisoners-matters the most. He investigates life in a wide array of prisons-in Brazil, Bolivia, Norway, a prisoner of war camp, England and Wales, women's prisons in California, and a gay and transgender housing unit in the Los Angeles County Jail-to understand the hierarchy of life on the inside. Drawing on economics and a vast empirical literature on legal systems, Skarbek offers a framework to not only understand why life on the inside varies in such fascinating and novel ways, but also how social order evolves and takes root behind bars.
Author : United States. Army. Illinois Cavalry Regiment, 16th
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Andersonville written by United States. Army. Illinois Cavalry Regiment, 16th and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Damian Shiels
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750980877
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Forgotten Irish written by Damian Shiels and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the American Civil War, 1.6 million Irish-born people were living in the United States. The majority had emigrated to the major industrialised cities of the North; New York alone was home to more than 200,000 Irish, one in four of the total population. As a result, thousands of Irish emigrants fought for the Union between 1861 and 1865. The research for this book has its origins in the widows and dependent pension records of that conflict, which often included not only letters and private correspondence between family members, but unparalleled accounts of their lives in both Ireland and America. The treasure trove of material made available comes, however, at a cost. In every instance, the file only exists due to the death of a soldier or sailor. From that as its starting point, coloured by sadness, the author has crafted the stories of thirty-five Irish families whose lives were emblematic of the nature of the Irish nineteenth-century emigrant experience.
Author : John McElroy
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020316739
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Andersonville written by John McElroy and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir tells the story of John McElroy's capture during the Civil War and his experience in Confederate prisoner of war camps. McElroy vividly describes the conditions and horrors of Andersonville, one of the most notorious prisons of the war. This book offers fascinating insights into the lives of ordinary soldiers and the realities of war. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Richard M. Reid
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 080783727X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Freedom for Themselves written by Richard M. Reid and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 5,000 North Carolina slaves escaped from their white owners to serve in the Union army during the Civil War. In Freedom for Themselves Richard Reid explores the stories of black soldiers from four regiments raised in North Carolina. Constructing a multidimensional portrait of the soldiers and their families, he provides a new understanding of the spectrum of black experience during and aftger the war.
Author : John McElroy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781511620604
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Andersonville, a Story of Rebel Military Prisons written by John McElroy and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Are not the cruelties and oppressions described in the following pages what we should legitimately expect from men who, all their lives, have used whip and thumb-screw, shot-gun and bloodhound, to keep human beings subservient to their will? Are we to expect nothing but chivalric tenderness and compassion from men who made war on a tolerant government to make more secure their barbaric system of oppression? These things are written because they are true. Duty to the brave dead, to the heroic living, who have endured the pangs of a hundred deaths for their country's sake; duty to the government which depends on the wisdom and constancy of its good citizens for its support and perpetuity, calls for this "round, unvarnished tale" of suffering endured for freedom's sake. The publisher of this work urged his friend and associate in journalism to write and send forth these sketches because the times demanded just such an expose of the inner hell of the Southern prisons. The tender mercies of oppressors are cruel. We must accept the truth and act in view of it. Acting wisely on the warnings of the past, we shall be able to prevent treason, with all its fearful concomitants, from being again the scourge and terror of our beloved land." -Robert McCune The years of 1864-65 were a season of desperate battles, but in that time many more Union soldiers were slain behind the Rebel army lines by starvation and exposure than were killed by cannon and rifle. For men who endured the horrors of the Civil War, Andersonville Prison represented an even more terrifying level of hell. The prisoners starved while disease ran rampant. John McElroy was captured in battle and transferred to Andersonville. This is his eye-opening, bestselling account of his imprisonment in a place where one of every four men died; where in fact 70,000 young Union soldiers died under appalling conditions.
Author : Garold Cole
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Civil War Eyewitnesses written by Garold Cole and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Mcelroy
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781293001899
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Andersonville written by John Mcelroy and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Gene C. Armistead
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476602379
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Horses and Mules in the Civil War written by Gene C. Armistead and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horses and mules served during the Civil War in greater number and suffered more casualties than the men of the Union and Confederate armies combined. Using firsthand accounts, this history addresses the many uses of equines during the war, the methods by which they were obtained, their costs, their suffering on the battlefields and roads, their consumption by soldiers, and such topics as racing and mounted music. The book is supplemented by accounts of the "Lightning Mule Brigade," the "Charge of the Mule Brigade," five appendices and 37 illustrations. More than 700 Civil War equines are identified and described with incidental information and identification of their masters.
Author : James A. Davis
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496210727
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Maryland, My Maryland written by James A. Davis and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long treated the patriotic anthems of the American Civil War as colorful, if largely insignificant, side notes. Beneath the surface of these songs, however, is a complex story. “Maryland, My Maryland” was one of the most popular Confederate songs during the American Civil War, yet its story is full of ironies that draw attention to the often painful and contradictory actions and beliefs that were both cause and effect of the war. Most telling of all, it was adopted as one of a handful of Southern anthems even though it celebrated a state that never joined the Confederacy. In Maryland, My Maryland: Music and Patriotism during the American Civil War James A. Davis illuminates the incongruities underlying this Civil War anthem and what they reveal about patriotism during the war. The geographic specificity of the song’s lyrics allowed the contest between regional and national loyalties to be fought on bandstands as well as battlefields and enabled “Maryland, My Maryland” to contribute to the shift in patriotic allegiance from a specific, localized, and material place to an ambiguous, inclusive, and imagined space. Musical patriotism, it turns out, was easy to perform but hard to define for Civil War–era Americans.
