Four Years in Secessia
Author | : Junius Henri Browne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Junius Henri Browne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas F. Curran |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2023-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476650292 |
Examining humor in depictions of the Civil War from the war years to the present, this review covers a wide range of literature, film and television in historical context. Wartime humor served as a form of propaganda to render the enemy and their cause laughable, but also to help people cope with the human costs of the conflict. After the war many authors and, later, movie and television producers employed humor to shape its legacy, perpetuating myths and stereotypes that became ingrained in American memory. Giving attention to the stories behind the stories, the author focuses on what people laughed at, who they laughed with and what it reveals about their view of events.
Author | : Mark Silo |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"The unit surrendered at Harpers Ferry in 1862, served out its parole in Chicago, and was convicted and banished to SC. Later absolved, they fought at Olustee, the Bermuda Hundred Campaign, Cold Harbor, The Battle of the Crater, and Fort Fisher, and witnessed the liberation of slaves and captured Union soldiers. Appendices provide a chronology and regimental roster"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Peter Carlson |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1610391551 |
Junius Browne and Albert Richardson covered the Civil War for the New York Tribune until Confederates captured them as they tried to sneak past Vicksburg on a hay barge. Shuffled from one Rebel prison to another, they escaped and trekked across the snow-covered Appalachians with the help of slaves and pro-Union bushwhackers. Their amazing, long-forgotten odyssey is one of the great escape stories in American history, packed with drama, courage, horrors and heroics, plus moments of antic comedy. On their long, strange adventure, Junius and Albert encountered an astonishing variety of American characters—Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, Rebel con men and Union spies, a Confederate pirate-turned-playwright, a sadistic hangman nicknamed “the Anti-Christ,” a secret society called the Heroes of America, a Union guerrilla convinced that God protected him from Confederate bullets, and a mysterious teenage girl who rode to their rescue at just the right moment. Peter Carlson, author of the critically acclaimed K Blows Top, has, in Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy, written a gripping story about the lifesaving power of friendship and a surreal voyage through the bloody battlefields, dark prisons, and cold mountains of the Civil War.
Author | : Kent Wascom |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2015-07-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802191339 |
The acclaimed author of The Blood of Heaven shares “a vivid portrait of 1862 New Orleans” as Union soldiers take over in this panoramic Civil War novel (Ron Charles, Washington Post). The largest city in the ill-starred confederacy has fallen under the soon-to-be-infamous General Benjamin “the Beast” Butler. And when twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, he draws his mother, Elise—a mixed-race woman passing for white—into a dark new world. Joseph grapples with his father’s legacy of violence and his own growing sentiment for Cuban exile Marina Fandal, the only survivor of a shipwreck that claimed the lives of her parents. Meanwhile, Elise struggles to keep hold of her sanity, her son and her own precarious station. But she soon encounters a troubling figure from her past, a man who is deeply mired in the intrigue surrounding the city’s occupation. Alternating between the perspectives of five characters, Secessia weaves a tapestry of ravenous greed and malformed love, of slavery and desperation, set within the baroque melting-pot that is New Orleans. A Gothic tableaux vivant of epic scope and intimate horror, Secessia is the netherworld reflection of the conflict between north and south.
Author | : Junius Henri Browne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Hopwood Thornton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Americanisms |
ISBN | : |
In this compilation are included: forms of speech now obsolete or provincial in England which survive in the U.S.; words and phrases of distinctly American origin; nouns which indicate quadrupeds, birds, trees, articles of food, etc. that are distinctly American; names of persons, classes of persons, and of places; words which have assumed new meanings; words and phrases with earlier American examples than in English writers.
Author | : Stephanie M. H. Camp |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2005-10-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807875767 |
Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women. In her investigation of the movement of bodies, objects, and information, Camp extends our recognition of slave resistance into new arenas and reveals an important and hidden culture of opposition. Camp discusses the multiple dimensions to acts of resistance that might otherwise appear to be little more than fits of temper. She brings new depth to our understanding of the lives of enslaved women, whose bodies and homes were inevitably political arenas. Through Camp's insight, truancy becomes an act of pursuing personal privacy. Illegal parties ("frolics") become an expression of bodily freedom. And bondwomen who acquired printed abolitionist materials and posted them on the walls of their slave cabins (even if they could not read them) become the subtle agitators who inspire more overt acts. The culture of opposition created by enslaved women's acts of everyday resistance helped foment and sustain the more visible resistance of men in their individual acts of running away and in the collective action of slave revolts. Ultimately, Camp argues, the Civil War years saw revolutionary change that had been in the making for decades.
Author | : Junius Henri Browne |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2017-11-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780331562026 |
Excerpt from Four Years in Secessia: Adventures Within and Beyond the Union Lines; Embracing a Great Variety of Facts, Incidents, and Romance of the War I ved at the Capital of Missouri some weeks before gzllgiemont quitted St. Louis, when Jefl'. C. Davis, then commanded the post. There was very little wag there then m the military way. And very sudden tmgato that rude frontier town made me merely. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Bookbinding |
ISBN | : |