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The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy

Author : Minoa Uffelman
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1621907260
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy written by Minoa Uffelman and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sarah Kennedy (1823-1899) was the wife of a wealthy slaveowner, D.N. Kennedy, at the outbreak of the Civil War. D.N. Kennedy was a major supporter of secession in Tennessee who was rewarded for his devotion to the new nation with a job (though vaguely defined) in the Confederate Treasury Department. He shipped off for Mississippi, leaving Sarah Kennedy to care for six young children (including a son, 'Newty,' with special needs) and watch over numerous slaves on a large plantation in Clarksville. She was burdened by ill health (both her own and her children), slaves that, one by one, disappear under federal occupation, and by the lack of consistent contact with her beloved husband owing to the Confederate mail system--which comes under surprising scrutiny here. Her letters are mostly about personal matters, but they offer significant insight into slavery and social relations in Clarksville under occupation"

The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy

Author : Sarah Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621907275
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy written by Sarah Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sarah Kennedy (1823-1899) was the wife of a wealthy slaveowner, D.N. Kennedy, at the outbreak of the Civil War. D.N. Kennedy was a major supporter of secession in Tennessee who was rewarded for his devotion to the new nation with a job (though vaguely defined) in the Confederate Treasury Department. He shipped off for Mississippi, leaving Sarah Kennedy to care for six young children (including a son, 'Newty,' with special needs) and watch over numerous slaves on a large plantation in Clarksville. She was burdened by ill health (both her own and her children), slaves that, one by one, disappear under federal occupation, and by the lack of consistent contact with her beloved husband owing to the Confederate mail system--which comes under surprising scrutiny here. Her letters are mostly about personal matters, but they offer significant insight into slavery and social relations in Clarksville under occupation"--

The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy

Author : Minoa Uffelman
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1621907287
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy written by Minoa Uffelman and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outbreak of the Civil War, Sarah Kennedy watched as her husband, D.N., left for Mississippi, leaving her alone to care for their six children and control their slaves in a large home in downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. D. N. Kennedy left to aid the Confederate Treasury Department. He had steadfastly supported secession and helped recruit local boys for the Confederate army. The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy: Life under Occupation in the Upper South showcases the letters Sarah wrote to her husband during their time apart, offering readers an inside look at life on the home front during the Civil War through the eyes of a slave-owning, town-dwelling wife and mother. Featuring fifty-two of Sarah Kennedy’s letters to her husband from August 16, 1862, to February 20, 1865, this important collection chronicles Sarah Kennedy’s personal struggles during the Civil War years, from periods of illness to lack of consistent contact with her husband and everything in between. Her love and devotion to her family is apparent in each letter, contrasting deeply with her resentment and harsh treatment toward her enslaved people as Emancipation swept through Clarksville. A useful volume to Civil War historians and women’s history scholars alike, The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy pulls back the curtain on upper-middle-class family life and social relations in a mid-sized Middle Tennessee town during the Civil War and reveals the slow demise of slavery during the Union occupation.

From Port Hudson to Cedar Creek

Author : Edward Steers (Jr)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781505708073
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book From Port Hudson to Cedar Creek written by Edward Steers (Jr) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his 25 months of service, Kennedy rose to the rank of captain serving on brigade staff fighting in the Teche bayous of Louisiana at Bisland and Port Hudson, before moving to the Shenandoah Valley where he saw action at the battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek.

The Divided Family in Civil War America

Author : Amy Murrell Taylor
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807899070
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Divided Family in Civil War America written by Amy Murrell Taylor and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War has long been described as a war pitting "brother against brother." The divided family is an enduring metaphor for the divided nation, but it also accurately reflects the reality of America's bloodiest war. Connecting the metaphor to the real experiences of families whose households were split by conflicting opinions about the war, Amy Murrell Taylor provides a social and cultural history of the divided family in Civil War America. In hundreds of border state households, brothers--and sisters--really did fight one another, while fathers and sons argued over secession and husbands and wives struggled with opposing national loyalties. Even enslaved men and women found themselves divided over how to respond to the war. Taylor studies letters, diaries, newspapers, and government documents to understand how families coped with the unprecedented intrusion of war into their private lives. Family divisions inflamed the national crisis while simultaneously embodying it on a small scale--something noticed by writers of popular fiction and political rhetoric, who drew explicit connections between the ordeal of divided families and that of the nation. Weaving together an analysis of this popular imagery with the experiences of real families, Taylor demonstrates how the effects of the Civil War went far beyond the battlefield to penetrate many facets of everyday life.

Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860-1870

Author : Stephen V. Ash
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572335394
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860-1870 written by Stephen V. Ash and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988, Middle Tennessee Society Transformed marks a significant advance in the social history of the American Civil War--an approach exemplified and extended in Ash's later work and that of other leading Civil War scholars. For the new edition, Ash has written a preface that takes into account the advance of Civil War historiography since the book's original appearance. This preface cites subsequent studies focusing not only on race and class but also on women and gender relations, the significance of partisan politics in shaping the course of secession in Tennessee and other upper-South states, the economic forces at work, the influence of republican ideology, and the investigation of the degree to which slaves were active agents in their own emancipation.

Mothers of Invention

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807855737
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book Mothers of Invention written by Drew Gilpin Faust and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.

Love and Duty

Author : Angela Esco Elder
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469667754
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Love and Duty written by Angela Esco Elder and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1861 and 1865, approximately 200,000 women were widowed by the deaths of Civil War soldiers. They recorded their experiences in diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and pension applications. In Love and Duty, Angela Esco Elder draws on these materials—as well as songs, literary works, and material objects like mourning gowns—to explore white Confederate widows' stories, examining the records of their courtships, marriages, loves, and losses to understand their complicated relationship with the Confederate state. Elder shows how, in losing their husbands, many women acquired significant cultural capital, which positioned them as unlikely actors to gain political influence. Confederate officialdom championed a particular image of white widowhood—the young wife who selflessly transferred her monogamous love from her dead husband to the deathless cause for which he'd fought. But a closer look reveals that these women spent their new cultural capital with great shrewdness and variety. Not only were they aware of the social status gained in widowhood; they also used that status on their own terms, turning mourning into a highly politicized act amid the battle to establish the Confederacy's legitimacy. Death forced all Confederate widows to reconstruct their lives, but only some would choose to play a role in reconstructing the nation.

John Kennedy Coleman Papers, 1864 July 20 - 1865 Apr. 25

Author : John Kennedy Coleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book John Kennedy Coleman Papers, 1864 July 20 - 1865 Apr. 25 written by John Kennedy Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coleman was at Appomattox at the time of surrender, 9 Apr. 1865, and arrived home in S.C. by 25 Apr. 1865.

Fort Donelson's Legacy

Author : Benjamin Franklin Cooling (III)
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870499494
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Fort Donelson's Legacy written by Benjamin Franklin Cooling (III) and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fort Donelson's Legacy portrays the tapestry of war and society in the upper southern heartland of Tennessee and Kentucky after the key Union victories at Forts Henry and Donelson in February 1862. Those victories, notes Benjamin Franklin Cooling, could have delivered the decisive blow to the Confederacy in the West and ended the war in that theater. Instead, what followed was terrible devastation and bloodshed that embroiled soldier and civilian alike. Cooling compellingly describes a struggle that was marked not only by the movement of armies and the strategies of generals but also by the rise of guerrilla bands and civil resistance. It was, in part, a war fought for geography - for rivers and railroads and for strategic cities such as Nashville, Louisville, and Chattanooga. But it was also a war for the hearts and minds of the populace ... In exploring the complex terrain of 'total war' that steadily engulfed Tennessee and Kentucky, Cooling draws on a huge array of sources, including official military records and countless diaries and memoirs. He makes considerable use of the words of participants to capture the attitudes and concerns of those on both sides."--Dust jacket.

Civil War Veteran's [sic] Obituaries, Articles, Letters and Photographs

Author : June L. H. Weston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War Veteran's [sic] Obituaries, Articles, Letters and Photographs written by June L. H. Weston and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women's Letters

Author : Lisa Grunwald
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN 13 : 0307493334
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Women's Letters written by Lisa Grunwald and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.

War Letters

Author : Andrew Carroll
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439107319
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book War Letters written by Andrew Carroll and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-23 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project, with the goal of remembering Americans who have served their nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, over 50,000 letters have poured in from around the country. Nearly two hundred of them comprise this amazing collection -- including never-before-published letters that appear in the new afterword. Here are letters from the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf war, Somalia, and Bosnia -- dramatic eyewitness accounts from the front lines, poignant expressions of love for family and country, insightful reflections on the nature of warfare. Amid the voices of common soldiers, marines, airmen, sailors, nurses, journalists, spies, and chaplains are letters by such legendary figures as Gen. William T. Sherman, Clara Barton, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernie Pyle, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Julia Child, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, and Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Sr. Collected in War Letters, they are an astonishing historical record, a powerful tribute to those who fought, and a celebration of the enduring power of letters.

John Pendleton Kennedy and the Civil War

Author : Roland C. Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book John Pendleton Kennedy and the Civil War written by Roland C. Burton and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nurse, Soldier, Spy

Author : Marissa Moss
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1613120885
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Nurse, Soldier, Spy written by Marissa Moss and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Frank Thompson sees a recruitment poster for the new Union army, he’s ready and willing to enlist. Except Frank isn’t his real name. In fact, Frank is really Sarah Emma Edmonds, in disguise. Only nineteen years old, Sarah has already been dressing as a man for three years and living on the run in order to escape an arranged marriage. She’s tasted freedom, and as far as she’s concerned, there’s no going back. Eager to fight for the North during the Civil War, Sarah joins a Michigan infantry regiment. She excels as a soldier and even takes on the grueling task of nursing the wounded. Because of her heroism, she is asked to become a spy, cross enemy lines, and infiltrate a Confederate camp. For her first mission, Sarah must once again disguise herself and rely on the kindness of enslaved people to help her do her job. This incredible true story of a brave young woman who makes an unlikely choice to fight for her country is one that should not be lost to history.

Slavery and Emancipation

Author : Rick Halpern
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047075463X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Slavery and Emancipation written by Rick Halpern and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery and Emancipation is a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South combining recent historical research with period documents. The most comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in America. Combines recent historical research with period documents to bring both immediacy and perspective to the origins, principles, realities, and aftermath of African-American slavery. Includes the colonial foundations of slavery, the master-slave relationship, the cultural world of the planters, the slave community, and slave resistance and rebellion. Each section contains one major article by a prominent historian, and three primary documents drawn from plantation records, travellers' accounts, slave narratives, autobiographies, statute law, diaries, letters, and investigative reports.

The Diary of Serepta Jordan

Author : Serepta M. Jordan
Publisher : Voices of the Civil War
ISBN 13 : 9781621905455
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Serepta Jordan written by Serepta M. Jordan and published by Voices of the Civil War. This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Serepta Jordan ... kept her diary from 1857 to 1864. She is a lively writer whose insights into New Providence and Clarksville, Tennessee, in the years before and during the Civil War provide a fine-grained feel for Middle Tennessee daily life and culture. Wartime and the fall of Fort Donelson meant an early end of Confederate rule in her area, and she relates the hardships suffered by citizens cut off from what they considered their country. Not particularly given to romanticism, Jordan provides generally clear-eyed observations about the failures of the Confederate army, and her extreme hatred for upper-class people in Clarksville makes her voice unique indeed"--