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Author : Troy Smith
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595245749
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Good Rebel Soil written by Troy Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Civil War legend-an American tragedy
Author : Brian D. McKnight
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807137693
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Confederate Outlaw written by Brian D. McKnight and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1865, the United States Army executed Confederate guerrilla Champ Ferguson for his role in murdering fifty-three loyal citizens of Kentucky and Tennessee during the Civil War. Long remembered as the most unforgiving and inglorious warrior of the Confederacy, Ferguson has often been dismissed by historians as a cold-blooded killer. In Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia, biographer Brian D. McKnight demonstrates how such a simple judgment ignores the complexity of this legendary character. In his analysis, McKnight maintains that Ferguson fought the war on personal terms and with an Old Testament mentality regarding the righteousness of his cause. He believed that friends were friends and enemies were enemies—no middle ground existed. As a result, he killed prewar comrades as well as longtime adversaries without regret, all the while knowing that he might one day face his own brother, who served as a Union scout. Ferguson’s continued popularity demonstrates that his bloody legend did not die on the gallows. Widespread rumors endured of his last-minute escape from justice, and over time, the borderland terrorist emerged as a folk hero for many southerners. Numerous authors resurrected and romanticized his story for popular audiences, and even Hollywood used Ferguson’s life to create the composite role played by Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales. McKnight’s study deftly separates the myths from reality and weaves a thoughtful, captivating, and accurate portrait of the Confederacy’s most celebrated guerrilla. An impeccably researched biography, Confederate Outlaw offers an abundance of insight into Ferguson’s wartime motivations, actions, and tactics, and also describes borderland loyalties, guerrilla operations, and military retribution. McKnight concludes that Ferguson, and other irregular warriors operating during the Civil War, saw the conflict as far more of a personal battle than a political one.
Author : Thurman Sensing
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826512536
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Champ Ferguson written by Thurman Sensing and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This amazing story of bloody guerilla warfare along the Kentucky-Tennessee border presents a tale and a protagonist unique in the annals of the Civil War. When the Civil War began in 1861, the men of the Cumberland Mountain districts chose sides and pursued a private war with each other. The most infamous of their number was Champ Ferguson. In this classic study, Thurman Sensing provides the only available book-length account of Ferguson's brutal deeds, his capture, his trial, his execution at the end of the war, and the legendary ruse by which he allegedly escaped hanging. Long regarded as a collector's item by Civil War buffs, the reappearance of this book in a paperback edition will be welcomed by many.
Author : Thomas D. Mays
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809387034
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Cumberland Blood written by Thomas D. Mays and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-08-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the Civil War, Champ Ferguson had become a notorious criminal whose likeness covered the front pages of Harper’s Weekly, Leslie’s Illustrated, and other newspapers across the country. His crime? Using the war as an excuse to steal, plunder, and murder Union civilians and soldiers. Cumberland Blood: Champ Ferguson’s Civil War offers insights into Ferguson's lawless brutality and a lesser-known aspect of the Civil War, the bitter guerrilla conflict in the Appalachian highlands, extending from the Carolinas through Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia. This compelling volume delves into the violent story of Champ Ferguson, who acted independently of the Confederate army in a personal war that eventually garnered the censure of Confederate officials. Author Thomas D. Mays traces Ferguson's life in the Cumberland highlands of southern Kentucky, where—even before the Civil War began—he had a reputation as a vicious killer. Ferguson, a rising slave owner, sided with the Confederacy while many of his neighbors and family members took up arms for the Union. For Ferguson and others in the highlands, the war would not be decided on the distant fields of Shiloh or Gettysburg: it would be local—and personal. Cumberland Blood describes how Unionists drove Ferguson from his home in Kentucky into Tennessee, where he banded together with other like-minded Southerners to drive the Unionists from the region. Northern sympathizers responded, and a full-scale guerrilla war erupted along the border in 1862. Mays notes that Ferguson's status in the army was never clear, and he skillfully details how raiders picked up Ferguson's gang to work as guides and scouts. In 1864, Ferguson and his gang were incorporated into the Confederate army, but the rogue soldier continued operating as an outlaw, murdering captured Union prisoners after the Battle of Saltville, Virginia. Cumberland Blood, enhanced by twenty-one illustrations, is an illuminating assessment of one of the Civil War's most ruthless men. Ferguson's arrest, trial, and execution after the war captured the attention of the nation in 1865, but his story has been largely forgotten. Cumberland Blood: Champ Ferguson's Civil War returns the story of Ferguson's private civil war to its place in history.
Author : Thomas D. Mays
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809328604
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (286 download)
Download or read book Cumberland Blood written by Thomas D. Mays and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-08-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the Civil War, Champ Ferguson had become a notorious criminal whose likeness covered the front pages of Harper’s Weekly, Leslie’s Illustrated, and other newspapers across the country. His crime? Using the war as an excuse to steal, plunder, and murder Union civilians and soldiers. Cumberland Blood: Champ Ferguson’s Civil War offers insights into Ferguson's lawless brutality and a lesser-known aspect of the Civil War, the bitter guerrilla conflict in the Appalachian highlands, extending from the Carolinas through Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia. This compelling volume delves into the violent story of Champ Ferguson, who acted independently of the Confederate army in a personal war that eventually garnered the censure of Confederate officials. Author Thomas D. Mays traces Ferguson's life in the Cumberland highlands of southern Kentucky, where—even before the Civil War began—he had a reputation as a vicious killer. Ferguson, a rising slave owner, sided with the Confederacy while many of his neighbors and family members took up arms for the Union. For Ferguson and others in the highlands, the war would not be decided on the distant fields of Shiloh or Gettysburg: it would be local—and personal. Cumberland Blood describes how Unionists drove Ferguson from his home in Kentucky into Tennessee, where he banded together with other like-minded Southerners to drive the Unionists from the region. Northern sympathizers responded, and a full-scale guerrilla war erupted along the border in 1862. Mays notes that Ferguson's status in the army was never clear, and he skillfully details how raiders picked up Ferguson's gang to work as guides and scouts. In 1864, Ferguson and his gang were incorporated into the Confederate army, but the rogue soldier continued operating as an outlaw, murdering captured Union prisoners after the Battle of Saltville, Virginia. Cumberland Blood, enhanced by twenty-one illustrations, is an illuminating assessment of one of the Civil War's most ruthless men. Ferguson's arrest, trial, and execution after the war captured the attention of the nation in 1865, but his story has been largely forgotten. Cumberland Blood: Champ Ferguson's Civil War returns the story of Ferguson's private civil war to its place in history.
Author : Kenneth W. Noe
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807895636
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Reluctant Rebels written by Kenneth W. Noe and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the feverish mobilization of secession had faded, why did Southern men join the Confederate army? Kenneth Noe examines the motives and subsequent performance of "later enlisters." He offers a nuanced view of men who have often been cast as less patriotic and less committed to the cause, rekindling the debate over who these later enlistees were, why they joined, and why they stayed and fought. Noe refutes the claim that later enlisters were more likely to desert or perform poorly in battle and reassesses the argument that they were less ideologically savvy than their counterparts who enlisted early in the conflict. He argues that kinship and neighborhood, not conscription, compelled these men to fight: they were determined to protect their families and property and were fueled by resentment over emancipation and pillaging and destruction by Union forces. But their age often combined with their duties to wear them down more quickly than younger men, making them less effective soldiers for a Confederate nation that desperately needed every able-bodied man it could muster. Reluctant Rebels places the stories of individual soldiers in the larger context of the Confederate war effort and follows them from the initial optimism of enlistment through the weariness of battle and defeat.
Author : Joseph W. Lewis Jr. M.D.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 152464787X
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Last and Near-Last Words of the Famous, Infamous and Those In-Between written by Joseph W. Lewis Jr. M.D. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has assembled a collection of 3,676 last words from a select group of individuals as they faced their approaching demise. This compilation illuminates a group of beings ranging from convicted criminals to the most holy. Some serenely committed their souls to a higher being while others railed against oncoming death. Many are famous, some are notorious, and others blur into a less well-defined subgroup. The majority of entries consist of final spoken words, but a few wills, epitaphs, diaries, and last letters are also included in this collection. A brief sketch of each person includes birth and death dates, country of origin, and a short biographical sketch. Farewells spoken after the turn of the twenty-first century ensure that this compilation has some of the most up-to-date material in this genre.
Author : Valrie Plaza
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312961406
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book American Mass Murderers written by Valrie Plaza and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Mass Murderers collects nearly 700 pages of information about the most notorious killers in America, as well as some of the lesser-known murderers.
Author : Paul Williams
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476675732
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Rebel Guerrillas written by Paul Williams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the hills and valleys of the eastern Confederate states to the sun-drenched plains of Missouri and "Bleeding Kansas," a vicious, clandestine war was fought behind the big-battle clashes of the American Civil War. In the east, John Singleton Mosby became renowned for the daring hit-and-run tactics of his rebel horsemen. Here a relatively civilized war was fought; women and children usually left with a roof over their heads. But along the Kansas-Missouri border it was a far more brutal clash; no quarter given. William Clarke Quantrill and William "Bloody Bill" Anderson became notorious for their savagery.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Soil Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dorris F. Festervand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Soil Survey of Putnam County, Missouri written by Dorris F. Festervand and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Working Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780241992722
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Why Rebel written by Jay Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 160710931X
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Uncle John's Perpetually Pleasing Bathroom Reader written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved bathroom reader series returns with this twenty-sixth edition that’s flush with weird facts on a wide array of topics. The twenty-sixth annual edition of Uncle John’s wildly successful series is all-new and jam-packed with the BRI’s patented mix of fun and information. Open to any page and you may find an interesting origin (like the origin of the snow globe) or a piece of obscure history (like the true story of the man who tried to repeal the law of gravity). You’ll also find weird news, urban legends, brain teasers, classic riddles, bizarre headlines, and of course, the incredible factoids at the bottom of each page. Here are a few of the perpetually pleasing articles awaiting you: · The Lamest Excuses of All Time · How to Survive on . . . Roadkill · Astronauts Who Got Kicked Out of Space · The Woman Who Was Her Own Twin · Foiled by Technology: Dumb Crooks Edition · The History of the Teleprompter, the Police Car, and the Fly Swatter · “Jogging Makes You Dumber,” and Other Real Study Results · The Lost Fortune of Abraham Lincoln · Boxing Lingo · And much, much more 2014 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Winner in Humor!
Author : Leesia Champion
Publisher : Booktango
ISBN 13 : 1468918389
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (689 download)
Download or read book Hidden in the Storm written by Leesia Champion and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liam Cade, an ordinary guy with ordinary problems. He moved back to Tennessee from Texas in hopes that he would straighten out his troubled life. Then he meets beautiful, Anastashia LaShee'. She turns his life completely. She is both beautiful and vampire. After is encounter with the sexy vampire, Liam encounters things, he had only read about in fiction novels. He learns a secret about himself and his parents, that could be very useful at surviving his new life. He finds that his entire life had more meaning than he could have ever imagined. Liam is being hunted by vampires and witches, but still holds on to the dream of having a normal life.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Lost Cause written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
