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Mississippi Bishop William Henry Elder and the Civil War

Author : Ryan Starrett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467143804
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Mississippi Bishop William Henry Elder and the Civil War written by Ryan Starrett and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conquest. War. Famine. Death. During the Civil War, all Four Horsemen circled the flock of William Henry Elder, the third bishop of Natchez. Elder was a hopeful unionist turned secessionist whose diocese encompassed the entirety of Mississippi. Consequently, he witnessed many of the pivotal moments of the Civil War--the capitulation of Natchez, the Siege of Vicksburg, the destruction of Jackson and the overall desolation of a state. And in the midst of the conflict, Bishop Elder went about his daily duties of baptizing, teaching, praying, preaching, performing marriages, confirming, comforting and burying the dead. Join author Ryan Starrett on this moving account of Elder and the heroics of this wartime bishop.

The Mississippi Encyclopedia

Author : Ted Ownby
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496811593
Total Pages : 1461 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Mississippi Encyclopedia written by Ted Ownby and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 1461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.

Joseph Brown and His Civil War Ironclads

Author : Myron J. Smith, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476626804
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Joseph Brown and His Civil War Ironclads written by Myron J. Smith, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Scottish immigrant to Illinois, Joseph Brown made his pre-Civil War fortune as a miller and steamboat captain who dabbled in riverboat design and the politics of small towns. When war erupted, he used his connections (including a friendship with Abraham Lincoln) to obtain contracts to build three ironclad gunboats for the U.S. War Department--the Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia. Often described as failures, these vessels were active in some of the most fer"documents the life and career of Joseph Brown, a miller and steamboat captain who built three ironclad gunboats for the US War Department"ocious river fighting of the 1863 Vicksburg campaign. After the war, "Captain Joe" became a railroad executive and was elected mayor of St. Louis. This book covers his life and career, as well as the construction and operational histories of his controversial trio of warships.

Chicago's Irish Legion

Author : James B. Swan
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809328901
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Chicago's Irish Legion written by James B. Swan and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2009-03-18 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensively documented and richly detailed, Chicago’s Irish Legion tells the compelling story of Chicago’s 90th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, the only Irish regiment in Major General William Tecumseh Sherman’s XV Army Corps. Swan’s sweeping history of this singular regiment and its pivotal role in the Western Theater of the Civil War draws heavily from primary documents and first-person observations, giving readers an intimate glimpse into the trials and triumphs of ethnic soldiers during one of the most destructive wars in American history. At the onset of the bitter conflict between the North and the South, Irish immigrants faced a wall of distrust and discrimination in the United States. Many Americans were deeply suspicious of Irish religion and politics, while others openly doubted the dedication of the Irish to the Union cause. Responding to these criticisms with a firm show of patriotism, the Catholic clergy and Irish politicians in northern Illinois—along with the Chicago press and community—joined forces to recruit the Irish Legion. Composed mainly of foreign-born recruits, the Legion rapidly dispelled any rumors of disloyalty with its heroic endeavors for the Union. The volunteers proved to be instrumental in various battles and sieges, as well as the marches to the sea and through the Carolinas, suffering severe casualties and providing indispensable support for the Union. Swan meticulously traces the remarkable journey of these unique soldiers from their regiment’s inception and first military engagement in 1862 to their disbandment and participation in the Grand Review of General Sherman’s army in 1865. Enhancing the volume are firsthand accounts from the soldiers who endured the misery of frigid winters and brutal environments, struggling against the ravages of disease and hunger as they marched more than twenty-six hundred miles over the course of the war. Also revealed are personal insights into some of the war’s most harrowing events, including the battle at Chattanooga and Sherman’s famous campaign for Atlanta. In addition, Swan exposes the racial issues that affected the soldiers of the 90th Illinois, including their reactions to the Emancipation Proclamation and the formations of the first African American fighting units. Swan rounds out the volume with stories of survivors’ lives after the war, adding an even deeper personal dimension to this absorbing chronicle.

Mississippi Scenes

Author : Elmo Howell
Publisher : Roscoe Langford
ISBN 13 : 9780962202629
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Mississippi Scenes written by Elmo Howell and published by Roscoe Langford. This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God's Almost Chosen Peoples

Author : George C. Rable
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807899313
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book God's Almost Chosen Peoples written by George C. Rable and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to religion. Now, in God's Almost Chosen Peoples, Lincoln Prize-winning historian George C. Rable offers a groundbreaking account of how Americans of all political and religious persuasions used faith to interpret the course of the war. Examining a wide range of published and unpublished documents--including sermons, official statements from various churches, denominational papers and periodicals, and letters, diaries, and newspaper articles--Rable illuminates the broad role of religion during the Civil War, giving attention to often-neglected groups such as Mormons, Catholics, blacks, and people from the Trans-Mississippi region. The book underscores religion's presence in the everyday lives of Americans north and south struggling to understand the meaning of the conflict, from the tragedy of individual death to victory and defeat in battle and even the ultimate outcome of the war. Rable shows that themes of providence, sin, and judgment pervaded both public and private writings about the conflict. Perhaps most important, this volume--the only comprehensive religious history of the war--highlights the resilience of religious faith in the face of political and military storms the likes of which Americans had never before endured.

American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era

Author : Robert Emmett Curran
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807179663
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era written by Robert Emmett Curran and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Emmett Curran’s masterful treatment of American Catholicism in the Civil War era is the first comprehensive history of Roman Catholics in the North and South before, during, and after the war. Curran provides an in-depth look at how the momentous developments of these decades affected the entire Catholic community, including Black and indigenous Americans. He also explores the ways that Catholics contributed to the reshaping of a nation that was testing the fundamental proposition of equality set down by its founders. Ultimately, Curran concludes, the revolution that the war touched off remained unfinished, indeed was turned backward, in no small part by Catholics who marred their pursuit of equality with a truncated vision of who deserved to share in its realization.

Character-glimpses of Most Reverend William Henry Elder, D.D.

Author : William Henry Elder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Character-glimpses of Most Reverend William Henry Elder, D.D. written by William Henry Elder and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hidden History of Jackson

Author : Josh Foreman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439663971
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Hidden History of Jackson written by Josh Foreman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Jackson is filled with gripping tales of horrors and heroism. Join Ryan Starrett and Josh Foreman as they reveal the hidden past of the City with Soul. A recording company founded in the mid-1960s with the expectation of competing with New Orleans and Memphis was a national success, outlasting its better-funded rivals. Known as the "Devil's Backbone," the Natchez Trace is the graveyard for countless travelers slain by the road's numerous serial killers, brigands and land pirates. Yet one mass grave stands above the others: the Boyd Mounds, which hold the remains of thirty-one Choctaws. Although legend has it that the father of Jackson, Louis LeFleur, was a Canadian trapper famous in high society for his dancing, the truth is even stranger.

Reconstructing Democracy

Author : Justin Behrend
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820340332
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Democracy written by Justin Behrend and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a few short years after emancipation, freedpeople of the Natchez District created a new democracy in the Reconstruction era, replacing the oligarchic rule of slaveholders and Confederates with a grassroots democracy that transformed the South after the Civil War.

Faith and Fury

Author : Fr. Charles Connor
Publisher : EWTN Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1682780678
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Faith and Fury written by Fr. Charles Connor and published by EWTN Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bloody Civil War that split our nation, American bishops worked for the success of the Union . . . and of the Confederacy! As Catholics slaughtered Catholics, pious priests on both sides prayed God to give success in battle. . . to their own side. Men in blue and men in gray flinched at the Consecration as cannonballs (fired by Catholic opponents) rained down on them during battlefield Masses. Many are the moving – and often surprising – stories in these pages of brave Catholics on both sides of the conflict – stories told by Fr. Charles Connor, one of our country's foremost experts on Catholic American history. Through searing anecdotes and learned analysis, Fr. Connor here shows how the tumult, tragedy, and bravery of the War forged a new American identity, even as it created a new American Catholic identity, as Catholics—often new immigrants—found themselves on both sides of the conflict. Fr. Connor's account shows that in the nineteenth century and on both sides of the conflict, the Church in America was a combination of visionary leadership and moral blindness – much as is the Church in America today. From consideration of the strengths and weaknesses of both sides, Catholics today will discover ways to bridge the gulf that today divides so many in our Church – and in our nation.

To Bind Up the Wounds

Author : Mary Denis Maher
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807124390
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book To Bind Up the Wounds written by Mary Denis Maher and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions of more than six hundred Catholic nuns to the care of Confederate and Union sick and wounded made a critical impact upon nineteenth-century America. Not only did thousands of soldiers directly benefit from the religious sisters' ministrations, but both professional nursing and Catholics' acceptance within mainstream society advanced significantly as a result. In To Bind Up the Wounds, Sister Mary Denis Maher writes this heretofore neglected Civil War chapter in rich detail, telling a riveting story shot with suspicion and prejudice, suffering and self-sacrifice, ingenuity, beneficence, and gratitude.

The Black Experience in Natchez, 1720-1880

Author : Ronald L. F. Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Black Experience in Natchez, 1720-1880 written by Ronald L. F. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Roots of Disorder

Author : Christopher Waldrep
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067327
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book Roots of Disorder written by Christopher Waldrep and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every white southerner understood what keeping African Americans "down" meant and what it did not mean. It did not mean going to court; it did not mean relying on the law. It meant vigilante violence and lynching. Looking at Vicksburg, Mississippi, Roots of Disorder traces the origins of these terrible attitudes to the day-to-day operations of local courts. In Vicksburg, white exploitation of black labor through slavery evolved into efforts to use the law to define blacks' place in society, setting the stage for widespread tolerance of brutal vigilantism. Fed by racism and economics, whites' extralegal violence grew in a hothouse of more general hostility toward law and courts. Roots of Disorder shows how the criminal justice system itself plays a role in shaping the attitudes that encourage vigilantism. "Delivers what no other study has yet attempted. . . . Waldrep's book is one of the first systematically to use local trial data to explore questions of society and culture." -- Vernon Burton, author of "A Gentleman and an Officer": A Social and Military History of James B. Griffin's Civil War

Black Experience in Natchez

Author : Ronald L. F. Davis
Publisher : Ronald L. F. Davis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Experience in Natchez written by Ronald L. F. Davis and published by Ronald L. F. Davis. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Experience in Natchez

Fathers on the Frontier

Author : Michael Pasquier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019970712X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Fathers on the Frontier written by Michael Pasquier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late eighteenth century, French émigré priests fled the religious turmoil of the French Revolution and found themselves leading a new wave of Roman Catholic missionaries in the United States. Fathers on the Frontier explores the diverse ways these missionary priests guided the development of the early American church in Maryland, Kentucky, Louisiana, and other pockets of Catholic settlement throughout much of the trans-Appalachian West. Over the course of their evangelistic endeavor, this relatively small group of priests introduced Gallican, ultramontane, and missionary principles to a nascent institutional church prior to the immigration of millions of European Catholics in the nineteenth century. As author Michael Pasquier shows, this transformation of American Catholicism did not come easily. Several generations of French priests struggled to reconcile their romantic expectations of missionary life with their actual experiences as servants of a foreign church scattered throughout a frontier region with limited access to friends and family members still in France. As they became more accustomed to the lifeways of the American South and West, French missionaries expressed anxiety about apparent discrepancies between how they were taught to practice the priesthood in French seminaries and what the Holy See expected them to achieve as representatives of a universal missionary church. At no point did French missionaries engage more directly in distinctively American affairs than in the religious debates surrounding slavery, secession, and civil war. These issues, Pasquier argues, compelled even the most politically aloof missionaries to step out of the shadow of Rome and stake their church on the side of the Confederacy. In so doing, they set in motion a strain of Catholicism more amenable to Southern concepts of social conservatism, paternalism, and white supremacy, and strikingly different from the liberal, progressive strain that historians have usually highlighted. Focusing on the collective thoughts, feelings, and actions of priests who found themselves caught between the formal canonical standards of the church and the informal experiences of missionaries in American culture, Fathers on the Frontier illuminates the historical intersection of American, French, and Roman interests in the United States.

The USS Carondelet

Author : Myron J. Smith, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786456094
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The USS Carondelet written by Myron J. Smith, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The USS Carondelet had a revolutionary ship design and was the most active of all the Union's Civil War river ironclads. From Fort Henry through the siege of Vicksburg and from the Red River campaign through the Battle of Nashville, the gunboat was prominent in war legend and literature. This history draws on the letters of Ensign Scott Dyer Jordan and Rear Adm. Henry Walke's memoirs.