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Author | : Edward L. Ayers |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0813930634 |
Download America on the Eve of the Civil War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Little happened in 1859 that would have told Americans there were on the precipice of a continent-wide war and the end of the most powerful slave society in the world. Yet, within eighteen months of the end of 1859 conflict descended on the nation and familiar characters were playing unfamiliar roles. Robert E. Lee was in command of troops at Harpers Ferry. Tom Jackson was a math professor at VMI, though he will lead cadets to ensure order at the hanging of John Brown at the very end of the year. Sam Grant was a bill collector in St. Louis, and "Cump" Sherman was heading a military school in Louisiana. Jefferson Davis was a senator, and Abraham Lincoln was a successful lawyer and failed senatorial candidate.
Author | : Joseph Alexander Altsheler |
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Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 1934 |
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Author | : Peter Quinn |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2022-02-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1531500803 |
Download Banished Children of Eve Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Named one of the top twenty books every Irish American should read by Irish Central The Civil War has just entered its third bloody year, and the North is about to impose its first military draft, a decision that will spark the most devastating and destructive urban riot in American history. Banished Children of Eve traces that event as its tentacles grip New York City. The cast is drawn from every stratum: a likeable and laconic Irish-American hustler, an ambitious and larcenous Yankee stockbroker, an immigrant serving girl, a beautiful and mysterious mulatto actress and her white minstrel lover as well as a cluster of real-life characters, including scheming, ever-pompous General George McClellan; fiery, fierce Archbishop “Dagger John” Hughes; and fast-declining musical genius Stephen Foster. The fates of these characters coalesce in the cataclysm of the Draft Riots, as a pivotal period in the history of New York and the nation is painfully, vividly, magically bought to life.
Author | : Richard Cust |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 2020-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526114437 |
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This book revisits the county study as a way of understanding the dynamics of civil war in England during the 1640s. It explores gentry culture and the extent to which early Stuart Cheshire could be said to be a ‘county community’. It also investigates how the county’s governing elite and puritan religious establishment responded to highly polarising interventions by the central government and Laudian ecclesiastical authorities during Charles I’s Personal Rule. The second half of the book provides a rich and detailed analysis of petitioning movements and side-taking in Cheshire in 1641–2. An important contribution to understanding the local origins and outbreak of civil war in England, the book will be of interest to all students and scholars studying the English revolution.
Author | : Joseph A. Altsheler |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2017-05-05 |
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ISBN | : 9781546403586 |
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The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve By Joseph A. Altsheler
Author | : Joseph A. Altsheler |
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Release | : 2004-06 |
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ISBN | : 9781419265198 |
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Harry and Arthur stood two days later upon the sea wall of Charleston. Sumter rose up black and menacing in the clear wintry air. The muzzles of the cannon seemed to point into the very heart of the city, and over it, as ever, flew the defiant flag, the red and blue burning in vivid colors in the thin January sunshine. The heart of Charleston, that most intense of all Southern cities, had given forth a great throb.
Author | : Andrew Groen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2015-09-30 |
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ISBN | : 9780990972402 |
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Author | : Joseph Alexander Altsheler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2020-02-04 |
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The Guns of Bull Run A Story of the Civil War's Eve by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler CHAPTER I NEWS FROM CHARLESTON It would soon be Christmas and Harry Kenton, at his desk in the Pendleton Academy, saw the snow falling heavily outside. The school stood on the skirt of the town, and the forest came down to the edge of the playing field. The great trees, oak and ash and elm, were clothed in white, and they stood out a vast and glittering tracery against the somber sky. The desk was of the old kind, intended for two, and Harry's comrade in it was his cousin, Dick Mason, of his own years and size.
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Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1867 |
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Download The Draytons and the Davenants: a Story of the Civil Wars. By the Author of “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family” [i.e. Mrs. E. Charles]. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Dara Kay Cohen |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2016-07-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1501706535 |
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Rape is common during wartime, but even within the context of the same war, some armed groups perpetrate rape on a massive scale while others never do. In Rape during Civil War Dara Kay Cohen examines variation in the severity and perpetrators of rape using an original dataset of reported rape during all major civil wars from 1980 to 2012. Cohen also conducted extensive fieldwork, including interviews with perpetrators of wartime rape, in three postconflict counties, finding that rape was widespread in the civil wars of the Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste but was far less common during El Salvador’s civil war. Cohen argues that armed groups that recruit their fighters through the random abduction of strangers use rape—and especially gang rape—to create bonds of loyalty and trust between soldiers. The statistical evidence confirms that armed groups that recruit using abduction are more likely to perpetrate rape than are groups that use voluntary methods, even controlling for other confounding factors. Important findings from the fieldwork—across cases—include that rape, even when it occurs on a massive scale, rarely seems to be directly ordered. Instead, former fighters describe participating in rape as a violent socialization practice that served to cut ties with fighters’ past lives and to signal their commitment to their new groups. Results from the book lay the groundwork for the systematic analysis of an understudied form of civilian abuse. The book will also be useful to policymakers and organizations seeking to understand and to mitigate the horrors of wartime rape.