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Author : Richard B. McCaslin
Publisher : Lsu Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807122198
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Tainted Breeze written by Richard B. McCaslin and published by Lsu Press. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard B. McCaslin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (212 download)
Download or read book Tainted Breeze written by Richard B. McCaslin and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lonnie Speer
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811746046
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book War of Vengeance written by Lonnie Speer and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Civil War was a vicious conflict that developed in intense hatred between opposing sides. Despite some historians’ assertions that this was history’s last great “gentlemen’s war,” the conflict was anything but civil. There is ample evidence to suggest that both sides quite commonly retaliated against one another throughout the war, often in chillingly inhumane ways. Violent retaliation was most apparent within Federal and Confederate penitentiaries. Prisoners of war were frequently subjected to both physical and mental abuse. This sort of mistreatment was employed to obtain information, recruit prisoners for military service, or to force prisoners to sign oaths of allegiance. In addition to the torture and neglect that were carried out on a regular basis, even more unbelievable—and less known—was the actual killing of these unarmed men in retribution for their army’s actions on the battlefield. Sometimes it happened as the prisoners threw down their weapons and raised their hands to surrender. More often, however, the killing took place at the prisons, where guards carried out cold-blooded executions, their victims chosen by lottery. These unconscionable acts were frequently sanctioned by the highest levels of authority in Washington and Richmond, and at times the conflict devolved into a “war of retaliation.” Threats of revenge were often countered by the opposing army, each side trying to outdo the other. These acts of vengeance were seldom directed at the guilty; most often, soldiers targeted innocent prisoners who had the misfortune to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Author Lonnie Speer explores this little-known practice of reciprocal wartime violence, focusing on the most notorious and well-documented cases of the war. The author illustrated his claims with the first-hand accounts of numerous prisoners, painting a chilling picture of Civil War military and political policy.
Author : Linda Barnickel
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807149926
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Milliken's Bend written by Linda Barnickel and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, a Union force composed predominantly of former slaves met their Confederate adversaries in one of the bloodiest small engagements of the war. This important fight received some attention in the North and South but soon drifted into obscurity. In Milliken's Bend, Linda Barnickel uncovers the story of this long-forgotten and highly controversial battle. The fighting at Milliken's Bend occurred in June 1863, about fifteen miles north of Vicksburg on the west bank of the Mississippi River, where a brigade of Texas Confederates attacked a Federal outpost. Most of the Union defenders had been slaves less than two months before. The new African American recruits fought well, despite their minimal training, and Milliken's Bend helped prove to a skeptical northern public that black men were indeed fit for combat duty. Soon after the battle, accusations swirled that Confederates had executed some prisoners taken from the "Colored Troops." The charges eventually led to a congressional investigation and contributed to the suspension of prisoner exchanges between the North and South. Barnickel's compelling and comprehensive account of the battle illuminates not only the immense complexity of the events that transpired in northeastern Louisiana during the Vicksburg Campaign but also the implications of Milliken's Bend upon the war as a whole. The battle contributed to southerner's increasing fears of slave insurrection and heightened their anxieties about emancipation. In the North, it helped foster a commitment to allow free blacks and former slaves to take part in the war to end slavery. And for African Americans, both free and enslaved, Milliken's Bend symbolized their never-ending struggle for freedom.
Author : Kenneth Wayne Howell
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 160344405X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor written by Kenneth Wayne Howell and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the 174 delegates to the Texas convention on secession in 1861, only 8 voted against the motion to secede. James Webb Throckmorton of McKinney was one of them. Yet upon the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the Confederate Army and fought in a number of campaigns. At war?s end, his centrist position as a conservative Unionist ultimately won him election as governor. Still, his refusal to support the Fourteenth Amendment or to protect aggressively the rights and physical welfare of the freed slaves led to clashes with military officials and his removal from office in 1867. Throckmorton?s experiences reveal much about southern society and highlight the complexities of politics in Texas during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Because his life spans one of the most turbulent periods in Texas politics, Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor, the first book on Throckmorton in nearly seventy years, will provide new insights for anyone interested in the Antebellum era, the Civil War, and the troubled years of Reconstruction.
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Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book North & South written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory Michno
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0870045024
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Settlers' War written by Gregory Michno and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press During the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier expanded two thousand miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas the frontier line expanded only about two hundred miles. The supposedly irresistible European force met nearly immovable Native American resistance, sparking a brutal struggle for possession of Texas’s hills and prairies that continued for decades. During the 1860s, however, the bloodiest decade in the western Indian wars, there were no large-scale battles in Texas between the army and the Indians. Instead, the targets of the Comanches, the Kiowas, and the Apaches were generally the homesteaders out on the Texas frontier, that is, precisely those who should have been on the sidelines. Ironically, it was these noncombatants who bore the brunt of the warfare, suffering far greater losses than the soldiers supposedly there to protect them. It is this story that The Settlers’ War tells for the first time.
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Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Auk written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel E. Sutherland
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807888672
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book A Savage Conflict written by Daniel E. Sutherland and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to treat guerrilla warfare as critical to understanding the course and outcome of the Civil War. Daniel Sutherland argues that irregular warfare took a large toll on the Confederate war effort by weakening support for state and national governments and diminishing the trust citizens had in their officials to protect them.
Author : Charlotte Rowles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Nadaber, a Tradition written by Charlotte Rowles and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Morgan Llywelyn
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 142996796X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Etruscans written by Morgan Llywelyn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days of the Roman Empire, the noble Etruscan civilization in Italy is waning, Vesi, a young Etruscan noblewoman, is violated by a renegade supernatural being. Outcast then from Etruria, Vesi bears Horatrim, a child who carries inexplicable knowledge and grows to manhood in only six years. But a savage Roman attack leaves Vesi unresponsive and Horatrim homeless and vulnerable, and he travels to Rome where his talents confound powerful businessman Propertius, who arranges to adopt Horatrim as a son, changing his name to Horatius. And all the while his demon father is seeking him to kill him, for Horatius is a conduit through which the demon might be found and destroyed. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Desmond MacCarthy
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Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Remnants written by Desmond MacCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Smallwood
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585442805
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Murder and Mayhem written by James Smallwood and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the states of the former Confederacy, Reconstruction amounted to a second Civil War, one that white southerners were determined to win. An important chapter in that undeclared conflict played out in northeast Texas, in the Corners region where Grayson, Fannin, Hunt, and Collin Counties converged. Part of that violence came to be called the Lee-Peacock Feud, a struggle in which Unionists led by Lewis Peacock and former Confederates led by Bob Lee sought to even old scores, as well as to set the terms of the new South, especially regarding the status of freed slaves. Until recently, the Lee-Peacock violence has been placed squarely within the Lost Cause mythology. This account sets the record straight. For Bob Lee, a Confederate veteran, the new phase of the war began when he refused to release his slaves. When Federal officials came to his farm in July to enforce emancipation, he fought back and finally fled as a fugitive. In the relatively short time left to his life, he claimed personally to have killed at least forty people--civilian and military, Unionists and freedmen. Peacock, a dedicated leader of the Unionist efforts, became his primary target and chief foe. Both men eventually died at the hands of each other's supporters. From previously untapped sources in the National Archives and other records, the authors have tracked down the details of the Corners violence and the larger issues it reflected, adding to the reinterpretation of Reconstruction history and rescuing from myth events that shaped the following century of Southern politics.
Author : David Williams
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595585958
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Bitterly Divided written by David Williams and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known history of anti-secession Southerners: “Absolutely essential Civil War reading.” —Booklist, starred review Bitterly Divided reveals that the South was in fact fighting two civil wars—the external one that we know so much about, and an internal one about which there is scant literature and virtually no public awareness. In this fascinating look at a hidden side of the South’s history, David Williams shows the powerful and little-understood impact of the thousands of draft resisters, Southern Unionists, fugitive slaves, and other Southerners who opposed the Confederate cause. “This fast-paced book will be a revelation even to professional historians. . . . His astonishing story details the deep, often murderous divisions in Southern society. Southerners took up arms against each other, engaged in massacres, guerrilla warfare, vigilante justice and lynchings, and deserted in droves from the Confederate army . . . Some counties and regions even seceded from the secessionists . . . With this book, the history of the Civil War will never be the same again.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Most Southerners looked on the conflict with the North as ‘a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight,’ especially because owners of 20 or more slaves and all planters and public officials were exempt from military service . . . The Confederacy lost, it seems, because it was precisely the kind of house divided against itself that Lincoln famously said could not stand.” —Booklist, starred review
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Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Canadian Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clive Phillipps-Wolley
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Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Big Game Shooting: by C. Phillipps-Wolley with contributions by R. Heber Percy, A. Pike, A.C. Heber Percy, W.A. Baillie-Groham, Sir H. Pottinger, bart., the Earl of Kilmorey, A. Chapman, W.J. Buck, and St. George Littledale. With illustrations by Charles Whymper, and from photographs written by Clive Phillipps-Wolley and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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