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Book Synopsis Favorite Sons of Civil War Kentucky by : Bryan S. Bush
Download or read book Favorite Sons of Civil War Kentucky written by Bryan S. Bush and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Civil War broke out, thousands of Kentuckians struggled to maintain the state's neutrality in deciding which side to support. Although Kentucky was a slaveholding state, most of the population did not wish to secede from the Union. More than 140,000 Kentucky solders fought on both sides, in the Eastern and Western Theaters. Some of those who emerged from these battlegrounds are among the state's favorite local heroes. Join historian and author Bryan S. Bush as he recounts the journeys of these brave men who fought to build and maintain the legacy of the Bluegrass State.
Book Synopsis Remembering Kentucky's Confederates by : Geoffrey R. Walden
Download or read book Remembering Kentucky's Confederates written by Geoffrey R. Walden and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Kentuckians, the Civil War was truly a conflict of brother against brother. As a slave state bordering the United States and the Confederate States, Kentucky had ties to both the North and South. Although its state government remained in the Union, the people of Kentucky were divided in sentiment, prompting some 40,000 Kentuckians to leave their homes to fight for Southern independence. When Confederate soldiers eventually returned from the country's bloodiest war, they were held in high regard by their fellow Kentuckians. To be counted among the state's Confederate veterans was an honor, and when the number of living Confederate veterans began to dwindle, groups across Kentucky raised monuments to their memory. Remembering Kentucky's Confederates presents an overview of the state's Confederate soldiers and units who fought bravely in the War Between the States.
Book Synopsis Kentucky & Three of Her Sons in the Great Civil War by : Archie B. Lintz
Download or read book Kentucky & Three of Her Sons in the Great Civil War written by Archie B. Lintz and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bluegrass Bourbon Barons by : Bryan S. Bush
Download or read book Bluegrass Bourbon Barons written by Bryan S. Bush and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kentucky is the home of bourbon, and there are a proud few who helped usher the industry into prominence. Learn about men like bourbon baron Isaac Bernheim, who founded the Bernheim Forest and Research Center, or John Douglas, who built a racetrack for the trotter racing industry and was known as the "Prince of Sports." George Garvin Brown and his business partner, George Forman, formed the Brown-Forman Company, which today is one of the largest American-owned companies in the spirits and wine business. With such enormous wealth came the temptation for fraud, which led to several bourbon leaders becoming involved in some of Kentucky's famous scandals. Author and Kentucky historian Bryan S. Bush details the intoxicating history of bourbon's biggest historical names.
Book Synopsis A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky by : Frances Dallam Peter
Download or read book A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky written by Frances Dallam Peter and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Dallam Peter was one of the eleven children of Union army surgeon Dr. Robert Peter. Her candid diary chronicles Kentucky's invasion by Confederates under General Braxton Bragg in 1862, Lexington's monthlong occupation by General Edmund Kirby Smith, and changes in attitude among the enslaved population following the Emancipation Proclamation. As troops from both North and South took turns holding the city, she repeatedly emphasized the rightness of the Union cause and minced no words in expressing her disdain for "the secesh." Peter articulates many concerns common to Kentucky Unionists. Though she was an ardent supporter of the war against the Confederacy, Peter also worried that Lincoln's use of authority exceeded his constitutional rights. Her own attitudes toward Black people were ambiguous, as was the case with many people in that time. Peter's descriptions of daily events in an occupied city provide valuable insights and a unique feminine perspective on an underappreciated aspect of the war. Until her death in 1864, Peter conscientiously recorded the position and deportment of both Union and Confederate soldiers, incidents at the military hospitals, and stories from the countryside. Her account of a torn and divided region is a window to the war through the gaze of a young woman of intelligence and substance.
Book Synopsis A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky by : Frances Dallam Peter
Download or read book A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky written by Frances Dallam Peter and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Peter was one of the eleven children of Dr. Robert Peter, a surgeon for the Union army. The Peter family lived on Gratz Park near downtown Lexington, where nineteen-year-old Frances began recording her impressions of the Civil War. Because of illness, she did not often venture outside her home but was able to gather a remarkable amount of information from friends, neighbors, and newspapers. Peter's candid diary chronicles Kentucky's invasion by Confederates under Gen. Braxton Bragg in 1862, Lexington's month-long occupation by Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, and changes in attitude among the slave population following the Emancipation Proclamation. As troops from both North and South took turns holding the city, she repeatedly emphasized the rightness of the Union cause and minced no words in expressing her disdain for the hated "secesh." Her writings articulate many concerns common to Kentucky Unionists. Though she was an ardent supporter of the war against the Confederacy, Peter also worried that Lincoln's use of authority exceeded his constitutional rights. Her own attitudes towards blacks were ambiguous, as was the case with many people in that time. Peter's descriptions of daily events in an occupied city provide valuable insights and a unique feminine perspective on an underappreciated aspect of the war. Until her death by epileptic seizure in August 1864, Peter conscientiously recorded the position and deportment of both Union and Confederate soldiers, incidents at the military hospitals, and stories from the countryside. Her account of a torn and divided region is a window to the war through the gaze of a young woman of intelligence and substance.
Book Synopsis Kentucky and Three of Her Sons in the Civil War by : Archie Lintz
Download or read book Kentucky and Three of Her Sons in the Civil War written by Archie Lintz and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-16 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Union soldiers, well within their own lines, arrived in Gallatin, Tennessee in order to catch a train back to their regiment when stopped by a Union-clad picket, or so they thought. This is a 43-page account of the capture of two Privates and a Lieutenant of 9th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment and their fate after having been captured by Morgan's Confederate cavalry early in 1862, two years before the construction of Camp Sumter "Andersonville" prison in Georgia. Each of the three soldiers met a different fate after their critical moment on March 17, 1862 at the railhead in Gallatin, Tennessee, where they were taken. One of their families would never fully be healed in a country that strove to reconstruct itself after the War. This is their story, taken from primary sources and carefully researched over seven years.
Book Synopsis Did Lincoln and the Republican Party Create the Civil War? by : Robert P. Broadwater
Download or read book Did Lincoln and the Republican Party Create the Civil War? written by Robert P. Broadwater and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-07-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author seeks to challenge the long-held perceptions of the politics of the American Civil War. He argues that the war was fought not to preserve the Union or free the slaves but rather to establish the political power of the Republican Party within the federal government. The author argues further that Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party manipulated events to bring about the Civil War in the first place and used the war as a pretext for the establishment of the modern central government.
Book Synopsis Lincoln of Kentucky by : Lowell Harrison
Download or read book Lincoln of Kentucky written by Lowell Harrison and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Young Abraham Lincoln and his family joined the migration over the Ohio River, but it was Kentucky--the state of his birth--that shaped his personality and continued to affect his life. His wife was from the commonwealth, as were each of the other women with whom he had romantic relationships. Henry Clay was his political idol; Joshua Speed of Farmington, near Louisville, was his lifelong best friend; and all three of his law partners were Kentuckians. During the Civil War, Lincoln is reputed to have said, ""I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky."" He recognized Kentucky's importance as the bellwether of the four loyal slave states and accepted the commonwealth's illegal neutrality until Unionists secured firm control of the state government. Lowell Harrison emphasizes the particular skill and delicacy with which Lincoln handled the problems of a loyal slave state populated by a large number of Confederate sympathizers. It was not until decades later that Kentuckians fully recognized Lincoln's greatness and paid homage to their native son.
Book Synopsis A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales by : Jonathan Nield
Download or read book A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales written by Jonathan Nield and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Songs of the Civil War by : Irwin Silber
Download or read book Songs of the Civil War written by Irwin Silber and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.
Book Synopsis Governor Thomas H. Hicks of Maryland and the Civil War by : George Lovic Pierce Radcliffe
Download or read book Governor Thomas H. Hicks of Maryland and the Civil War written by George Lovic Pierce Radcliffe and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, U.S. by : Joseph R. Reinhart
Download or read book A History of the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, U.S. written by Joseph R. Reinhart and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry U.S. in the United States Civil War.
Book Synopsis Grant and Sherman by : Charles Bracelen Flood
Download or read book Grant and Sherman written by Charles Bracelen Flood and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We were as brothers," Sherman said, describing his relationship to Grant, a friendship forged on the battlefield. They were prewar failures--Grant, forced to resign from the Army because of his drinking, and Sherman, who held four different jobs during the four years before the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter. But heeding the call to save the Union, each struggled to join the war effort. And taking each other's measure at the Battle of Shiloh, ten months into the war, they began their unique collaboration. They shared the demands of family life and the heartache of loss, including the death of Sherman's favorite son. They supported each other in the face of criticism by press and politicians. Their growing mutual admiration and trust, which President Lincoln increasingly relied upon, would set the stage for the crucial final year of the war.--From publisher description.
Book Synopsis One of Morgan's Men by : John M. Porter
Download or read book One of Morgan's Men written by John M. Porter and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated Civil War memoir provides a detailed account of General Morgan’s famous battles and raids from a Confederate soldier’s perspective. John Marion Porter grew up working at his family's farm and dry goods store in Butler County, Kentucky. He was studying to become a lawyer when the Civil War began. As the son of a family of slave owners, Porter identified with the Southern cause and quickly enlisted in the Confederate army. He and his lifelong friend Thomas Henry Hines served in the Ninth Kentucky Calvary under John Hunt Morgan, the “Thunderbolt of the Confederacy.” When the war ended, Porter began writing detailed memoirs of his experiences during the war years, including tales of scouting behind enemy lines, sabotaging a Union train, being captured and held as a prisoner of war, and searching for an army to join after his release. Editor Kent Masterson Brown spent several years preparing Porter's memoir for publication, clarifying details and adding annotations to provide historical context. One of Morgan's Men is a fascinating firsthand account of the life of a Confederate soldier.
Book Synopsis Slavery Days in Old Kentucky by : Isaac Johnson
Download or read book Slavery Days in Old Kentucky written by Isaac Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Johnson - a former slave. He was a man who escaped the South, fought in the Civil War and found success as a stone mason and writer. In 1897 (published in 1901), he writes his book. The book begins, "So many people have inquired as to the particulars of my slave life and seemingly listened to the same with interest, that I have concluded to give the story in this form." Johnson used proceeds from the book to finance the college education of some of his seven children, one of whom became a chemistry professor at Syracuse University. He also hoped that his long lost siblings might see the book and find him. They never did.
Book Synopsis Slavery Days in Old Kentucky by : Isaac Johnson
Download or read book Slavery Days in Old Kentucky written by Isaac Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Johnson's stark and moving memoir about his early years as a slave in Kentucky was privately printed in 1901 when he was 57 years old. It is not listed in any of the major bibliographical references and possibly as few as six copies of the original publication are still in existence. In essence, republication of this rare slave narrative makes it available for the first time. The story begins in the 1840s with Johnson's earliest recollections of his father, Richard Yeager, of his mother, Jane Johnson (a slave used by Yeager as his wife), and of Ambrose and Eddie, Isaac's two brothers. Their happy family life ends abruptly when Yeager, in need of money, sells his wife and children at auction. Seven at the time, Isaac never sees any of his family again. He goes on to detail the horrors of his life as a slave and to mention his service in the 102nd United States Colored Regiment. The book concludes with Isaac's unsuccessful search for his family in post-war Kentucky. In his introductory essay, Dr. Reinhart satisfies the reader's desire to know "What then?" as he describes the remaining years of Johnson's life, spent working as a well-respected stonemason in Canada and upstate New York. Why reprint this record of a shameful period in the history of the United States? In Isaac Johnson's own words, "...my actual experience[s] as a slave are given...to give the world a knowledge of the subject that no eloquence may ever make the same thing again possible".
