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Download or read book Escape! written by Robert P. Watson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert P. Watson provides the definitive account of the Confederacy’s infamous Libby Prison, site of the Civil War’s largest prison break. Libby Prison housed Union officers, high-profile foes of the Confederacy, and political prisoners. Watson captures the wretched conditions, cruel guards, and the story of the daring prison break, called “the most remarkable in American history.”
Book Synopsis Libby Prison Breakout by : Joseph Wheelan
Download or read book Libby Prison Breakout written by Joseph Wheelan and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many books have been inspired by the horrors of Andersonville prison, none have chronicled with any depth or detail the amazing tunnel escape from Libby Prison in Richmond. Now Joseph Wheelan examines what became the most important escape of...
Book Synopsis Living by Inches by : Evan A. Kutzler
Download or read book Living by Inches written by Evan A. Kutzler and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious prison camps like Andersonville and Elmira, prisoners seemed to be everywhere during the American Civil War. Yet there is much we do not know about the soldiers and civilians whose very lives were in the hands of their enemies. Living by Inches is the first book to examine how imprisoned men in the Civil War perceived captivity through the basic building blocks of human experience--their five senses. From the first whiffs of a prison warehouse to the taste of cornbread and the feeling of lice, captivity assaulted prisoners' perceptions of their environments and themselves. Evan A. Kutzler demonstrates that the sensory experience of imprisonment produced an inner struggle for men who sought to preserve their bodies, their minds, and their sense of self as distinct from the fundamentally uncivilized and filthy environments surrounding them. From the mundane to the horrific, these men survived the daily experiences of captivity by adjusting to their circumstances, even if these transformations worried prisoners about what type of men they were becoming.
Book Synopsis No Sorrow Like Our Sorrow by : David B. Chesebrough
Download or read book No Sorrow Like Our Sorrow written by David B. Chesebrough and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the belief that sermons can reflect the values and feelings of their times, this analysis of more than 300 sermons delivered in a seven-week period following Lincoln's assassination on 16th April 1865 shows how people sought comfort and guidance, and a perspective concerning the death.
Book Synopsis The Catalpa Rescue by : Peter FitzSimons
Download or read book The Catalpa Rescue written by Peter FitzSimons and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history. New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote prison in the British Empire, Fremantle Prison in Western Australia. Under the guise of a whale hunt, Captain Anthony sets sail on the Catalpa to rescue the men from the stone walls of this hell on Earth known to the inmates as a 'living tomb'. What follows is one of history's most stirring sagas that splices Irish, American, British and Australian history together in its climactic moment. For Ireland, who had suffered English occupation for 700 years, a successful escape was an inspirational call to arms. For America, it was a chance to slap back at Britain for their support of the South in the Civil War; for England, a humiliation. And for a young Australia, still not sure if it was Great Britain in the South Seas or worthy of being an independent country in its own right, it was proof that Great Britain was not unbeatable. Told with FitzSimons' trademark combination of arresting history and storytelling verve, The Catalpa Rescue is a tale of courage and cunning, the fight for independence and the triumph of good men, against all odds.
Book Synopsis Crying the News by : Vincent DiGirolamo
Download or read book Crying the News written by Vincent DiGirolamo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement. But what do we really know about the children who hawked and delivered newspapers in American cities and towns? Who were they? What was their life like? And how important was their work to the development of a free press, the survival of poor families, and the shaping of their own attitudes, values and beliefs? Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys offers an epic retelling of the American experience from the perspective of its most unshushable creation. It is the first book to place newsboys at the center of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these "little merchants" over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chronicling their exploits in every region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them. While the book focuses mainly on boys in the trade, it also examines the experience of girls and grown-ups, the elderly and disabled, blacks and whites, immigrants and natives. Based on a wealth of primary sources, Crying the News uncovers the existence of scores of newsboy strikes and protests. The book reveals the central role of newsboys in the development of corporate welfare schemes, scientific management practices, and employee liability laws. It argues that the newspaper industry exerted a formative yet overlooked influence on working-class youth that is essential to our understanding of American childhood, labor, journalism, and capitalism.
Book Synopsis The Lives & Legacy of Extraordinary Women by : Rupert Sargent Holland
Download or read book The Lives & Legacy of Extraordinary Women written by Rupert Sargent Holland and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection dedicated to the most famous and influential women in history. These are the women who inspired generations of people, young and old, to be remembered with reverence and awe till date: Saint Catherine Joan of Arc Vittoria Colonna Catherine de' Medici Mary Queen of Scots Pocahontas Priscilla Alden Catherine the Great Fanny Burney Alcestis Antigone Iphigenia Paula Catherine Douglas Lady Jane Grey Flora Macdonald Madame Roland Grace Darling Sister Dora Florence Nightingale Dorothy Quincy Molly Pitcher Elizabeth Van Lew Ida Lewis Clara Barton Virginia Reed Louisa M. Alcott Clara Morris Anna Dickinson Lucretia Sappho Aspasia of Pericles Xantippe Aspasia of Cyrus Cornelia, the Mother of the Gracchi Portia Octavia Cleopatra Mariamne Julia Domna Zenobia Valeria Eudocia Hypatia The Lady Rowena Laura de Sade Catharine of Arragon Anne Boleyn Margaret Roper Elizabeth Lucas GasparaStampa Anne Askew Queen Elizabeth TarquiniaMolza Noor Mahal… Helen Keller Maria Mitchell Alice Freeman Palmer Maud Powell Ellen H. Richards Elizabeth Cady Stanton Harriet Beecher Stowe Kate Douglas Wiggin…
Book Synopsis Experience of a Confederate States Prisoner (Memoirs) by : Beckwith West
Download or read book Experience of a Confederate States Prisoner (Memoirs) written by Beckwith West and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook edition of "Experience of a Confederate States Prisoner (Memoirs)" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "This little book is intended as, and professes no more than a plain statement of facts, so that others may learn what I have read, seen and heard, without undergoing the pain of incarceration in the hands of Yankees, whose tyranny increases in proportion to the power they possess over their victims."This book presented in diary form covers the period of May-August, 1862.
Book Synopsis A History of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America by : George Magruder Battey
Download or read book A History of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America written by George Magruder Battey and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Probation written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by : Great Britain. Parliament
Download or read book Hansard's Parliamentary Debates written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prison Reform written by Corinne Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The King's Cardinal by : Peter J Gwyn
Download or read book The King's Cardinal written by Peter J Gwyn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proud, greedy, corrupt and driven by overwhelming personal ambition. Such is the traditional image of Thomas Wolsey, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of York, Bishop of Winchester, Abbot of St. Albans, Bishop if Tournai and Papal Legate. It is an image which Peter Gwyn examines, challenges and decisively overturns in this remarkable book. From exceedingly humble beginnings Wolsey rose to a pinnacle of power unsurpassed by any other British commoner. Peter Gwyn explores every aspect of the Cardinal's career - not least his relationship with Henry VIII - and sets it firmly in a vividly recreated Tudor world. The Wolsey who emerges is a man of prodigious energy and ability, a tireless dispenser of justice, an enlightened reformer wholly dedicated to his king and country - a man who has been consistently misrepresented and maligned for four-and-a-half centuries.
Book Synopsis The Elmira Prison Camp by : Clayton Wood Holmes
Download or read book The Elmira Prison Camp written by Clayton Wood Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis While in the Hands of the Enemy by : Charles W. Sanders, Jr.
Download or read book While in the Hands of the Enemy written by Charles W. Sanders, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the four years of the American Civil War, over 400,000 soldiers -- one in every seven who served in the Union and Confederate armies -- became prisoners of war. In northern and southern prisons alike, inmates suffered horrific treatment. Even healthy young soldiers often sickened and died within weeks of entering the stockades. In all, nearly 56,000 prisoners succumbed to overcrowding, exposure, poor sanitation, inadequate medical care, and starvation. Historians have generally blamed prison conditions and mortality rates on factors beyond the control of Union and Confederate command, but Charles W. Sanders, Jr., boldly challenges the conventional view and demonstrates that leaders on both sides deliberately and systematically ordered the mistreatment of captives.Sanders shows how policies developed during the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War shaped the management of Civil War prisons. He examines the establishment of the major camps as well as the political motivations and rationale behind the operation of the prisons, focusing especially on Camp Douglas, Elmira, Camp Chase, and Rock Island in the North and Andersonville, Cahaba, Florence, and Danville in the South. Beyond a doubt, he proves that the administrations of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis purposely formulated and carried out retaliatory practices designed to harm prisoners of war, with each assuming harsher attitudes as the conflict wore on.Sanders cites official and personal correspondence from high-level civilian and military leaders who knew about the intolerable conditions but often refused to respond or even issued orders that made matters far worse. From such documents emerges a chilling chronicle of how prisoners came to be regarded not as men but as pawns to be used and then callously discarded in pursuit of national objectives. Yet even before the guns fell silent, Sanders reveals, both North and South were hard at work constructing elaborate justifications for their actions.While in the Hands of the Enemy offers a groundbreaking revisionist interpretation of the Civil War military prison system, challenging historians to rethink their understanding of nineteenth-century warfare.
Book Synopsis Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates by : Great Britain. Parliament
Download or read book Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
