From the excitement of enlistment and going off to war, to the relaxation of camp life and the horrors of battle, this book examines the diverse experiences of the common Civil War soldier.
Contains sixty portraits of men and women who played significant roles during the Civil War years as soldiers, photographers, politicians, nurses, spies, diarists, drummer boys, and powder monkeys; each accompanied by an explanatory essay.
Includes information on arms and weapons, uniforms, camp life, and medical care during the Civil War.
Large, two-volume collection of Civil War-era photographs, giving a distinctly visual chronicle of the war.
REBELS AND YANKEES THE FIGHTING MEN OF THE CIVIL WAR America's Civil War is one of the best documented in the world, its causes analyzed and effects discussed to this day.
ROBERT M . T . HUNTER . Portrait made during Hunter ' s tenure as secretary of state . NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER , WASHINGTON , D . C . Representatives , where he led the fight for the retrocession of Alexandria County ( later Arlington ...
But every fall he took his cotton to Monroe to sell ; his proceeds were used largely for stocking up for winter . Two of those staples were coffee and sugar ... One day he had a stroke , got up , and couldn't find his left foot .
E. B. Cantey ( wounded 9/17 ) 4th South Carolina Battalion ( 5 companies ) , Lt. W. T. Field Palmetto ( S.C. ) Sharpshooters ( 12 companies ) , Capt . A. H. Foster ( wounded 9/17 ) Capt . ... B. Brown 28th Virginia , Capt .
Life in Civil War America
In Taller Cotton: 200 More Important Confederate Books for the Reader, Researcher, and Collector
VanAlstyne , Lawrence . Diary of an Enlisted Man . New Haven , CT : Tuttle , Morehouse , and Taylor , 1910 . ... College Station , TX : Texas A & M University Press , 1995 . Winslow , Hattie Lou , and Joseph R. H. Moore .
Lies My Teacher Told Me: The True History of the War for Southern Independence and Other Essays
However, there are numerous records relating to the entire population as well. Dollarhide identifies the places to look, and documents to be found, for ancestors during the decade 1861-1869, as well as post-war veterans.
Presents a distinguished historian's theories about how America would be different if the Civil War had ended in a stalemate or a victory for the Confederacy or if Lincoln had lost the 1864 election, in a historical analysis that offers ...
The general to his lady: the Civil War letters of William Dorsey Pender to Fanny Pender
Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 Joseph L. Harsh. Anderson of South Carolina would be directed to report to me , and that I would follow with Anderson's and my own division in the rear of the army ...
Provides an introduction to key documents during the Civil War era, including journals, letters, speeches, government legislation, and court opinions.
198 Freeman , Robertson Gaston , 25 Funk , J. W. O. , 165 Hayne , Edmund Shubrick , 122 Hurt , Robert B. , Jr. , 114 ... 12 Ramsey , Andrew H. , 5 Rhodes , John , 6 Ryan , Abram Joseph , 54 Semmes , Raphael , 207 Skidmore , Andrew F.
These images helped sustain and revive Southern identity following the collapse of the Confederacy. (Though, ironically, most were actually crafted by Northern artisans.) The book focuses on prints of the three most prominent Southern ...
Robert E. Lee. substantial meal. The misery of some of these lads, owing to embarrassment, possibly from awe of the ... At this time, my father's family and friends persuaded him to allow R. S. Weir, Professor of Painting and Drawing at ...