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Author | : Frank L. Grzyb |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2016-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476665222 |
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"It really matters very little who died last," wrote Civil War historian William Marvel, "but for some reason we seem fascinated with knowing." Drawing on a wide range of sources including correspondence with descendants, this book covers the last living Civil War veterans in each state, providing details of their wartime service as soldiers and sailors and their postwar lives as family men, entrepreneurs, politicians, frontier pioneers and honored veterans.
Author | : Frank L. Grzyb |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2016-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476624887 |
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"It really matters very little who died last," wrote Civil War historian William Marvel, "but for some reason we seem fascinated with knowing." Drawing on a wide range of sources including correspondence with descendants, this book covers the last living Civil War veterans in each state, providing details of their wartime service as soldiers and sailors and their postwar lives as family men, entrepreneurs, politicians, frontier pioneers and honored veterans.
Author | : Brian Matthew Jordan |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2020-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807173045 |
Download The War Went On Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In recent years, Civil War veterans have emerged from historical obscurity. Inspired by recent interest in memory studies and energized by the ongoing neorevisionist turn, a vibrant new literature has given the lie to the once-obligatory lament that the postbellum lives of Civil War soldiers were irretrievable. Despite this flood of historical scholarship, fundamental questions about the essential character of Civil War veteranhood remain unanswered. Moreover, because work on veterans has often proceeded from a preoccupation with cultural memory, the Civil War’s ex-soldiers have typically been analyzed as either symbols or producers of texts. In The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans, fifteen of the field’s top scholars provide a more nuanced and intimate look at the lives and experiences of these former soldiers. Essays in this collection approach Civil War veterans from oblique angles, including theater, political, and disability history, as well as borderlands and memory studies. Contributors examine the lives of Union and Confederate veterans, African American veterans, former prisoners of war, amputees, and ex-guerrilla fighters. They also consider postwar political elections, veterans’ business dealings, and even literary contests between onetime enemies and among former comrades.
Author | : James Marten |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807877689 |
Download Sing Not War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the nineteenth century's "Greatest Generation" attempted to blend back into society and how their experiences were treated by nonveterans. Many soldiers, Marten reveals, had a much harder time reintegrating into their communities and returning to their civilian lives than has been previously understood. Although Civil War veterans were generally well taken care of during the Gilded Age, Marten argues that veterans lost control of their legacies, becoming best remembered as others wanted to remember them--for their service in the war and their postwar political activities. Marten finds that while southern veterans were venerated for their service to the Confederacy, Union veterans often encountered resentment and even outright hostility as they aged and made greater demands on the public purse. Drawing on letters, diaries, journals, memoirs, newspapers, and other sources, Sing Not War illustrates that during the Gilded Age "veteran" conjured up several conflicting images and invoked contradicting reactions. Deeply researched and vividly narrated, Marten's book counters the romanticized vision of the lives of Civil War veterans, bringing forth new information about how white veterans were treated and how they lived out their lives.
Author | : Larry M. Logue |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814752047 |
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The Civil War Veteran presents a profound but often troubling story of the postwar experiences of Union and Confederate Civil War veterans. Most ex-soldiers and their neighbors readjusted smoothly. However, many arrived home with or developed serious problems; poverty, drug and alcohol addiction, and other manifestations of post traumatic stress syndrome, such as flashbacks and paranoia, plagued these veterans. Black veterans in particular suffered a particularly cruel fate: they fought with distinction and for their freedom, but postwar racism obliterated recognition of their wartime contributions. Despite these hardships, veterans found some help from federal and state governments, through the establishment of a national pension system and soldiers' homes. Yet veterans did not passively accept this assistance—some influenced and created policy in public office, while others joined together in veterans’ organizations such as the Grand Army of the Republic to fight for their rights and to shape the collective memory of the Civil War. As the number of veterans from wars in the Middle East rapidly increases, the stories in the pages of The Civil War Veteran give us valuable perspective on the challenges of readjustment for ex-soldiers and American society.
Author | : Gustavus W. Dyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionnaires Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Between 1915 and 1922, surviving Tennessee Civil War veterans were asked to respond to a questionaire asking about their Civil War experiences, family life, pre-war lifestyle etc. Their responses have been transcribed exactly as received into these five volumes.
Author | : Donald Robert Shaffer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download After the Glory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Shaffer chronicles the postwar transition of black veterans from the Union army, as well as their subsequent life patterns, political involvement, family and marital life, experiences with social welfare, comradeship with other veterans, and memories of the war itself. He draws on such sources as Civil War pension records to fashion a collective biography - a social history of both ordinary and notable lives - resurrecting the words and memories of many black veterans to provide an intimate view of their lives and struggles."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Richard C. Saylor |
Publisher | : Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780892711345 |
Download Soldiers to Governors Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Saylor's book tells the fascinating stories that the leaders of the post-Civil War era had, that correspond with practically all significant Civil War military experiences, whether serving in ranks from private to major general and suffering multiple wounds, or passing through without a scratch.
Author | : Clarence Stewart Peterson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : M. Keith Harris |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2014-11-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807157740 |
Download Across the Bloody Chasm Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Long after the Civil War ended, one conflict raged on: the battle to define and shape the war's legacy. Across the Bloody Chasm deftly examines Civil War veterans' commemorative efforts and the concomitant -- and sometimes conflicting -- movement for reconciliation. Though former soldiers from both sides of the war celebrated the history and values of the newly reunited America, a deep divide remained between people in the North and South as to how the country's past should be remembered and the nation's ideals honored. Union soldiers could not forget that their southern counterparts had taken up arms against them, while Confederates maintained that the principles of states' rights and freedom from tyranny aligned with the beliefs and intentions of the founding fathers. Confederate soldiers also challenged northern claims of a moral victory, insisting that slavery had not been the cause of the war, and ferociously resisting the imposition of postwar racial policies. M. Keith Har-ris argues that although veterans remained committed to reconciliation, the sectional sensibilities that influenced the memory of the war left the North and South far from a meaningful accord. Harris's masterful analysis of veteran memory assesses the ideological commitments of a generation of former soldiers, weaving their stories into the larger narrative of the process of national reunification. Through regimental histories, speeches at veterans' gatherings, monument dedications, and war narratives, Harris uncovers how veterans from both sides kept the deadliest war in American history alive in memory at a time when the nation seemed determined to move beyond conflict.