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Author | : Kenneth Coleman |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2009-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820334383 |
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Kenneth Coleman's study of Athens, Georgia, during the Civil War focuses on what life was like for the 4,000 people living there. Despite the hardship and deprivation, life went on, heightened by the effects of war. Churches and schools remained the core of social life; women's groups continued to meet; parties and concerts added amusement to people's lives. But war did make drastic changes. People lost loved ones, and knew the hardship of living from day to day as prices soared and goods, once necessities, became unobtainable luxuries. Coleman weaves a broad and illuminating tapestry of a people who met a great challenge while managing to hold on to, for as long as possible, their peacetime ways.
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Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 2015-09-05 |
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ISBN | : 9780996639903 |
Download Putting on Blue Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The little-known story of Confederate troops who put on the Union's blue uniform to serve the North in the Civil War. Writer and researcher Al Hester, PhD, brings to life events which led 52 Athens-area Confederate soldiers to forsake the Confederate forces and swear allegiance to the Union. They changed their loyalty in order to gain freedom from northern prisons in the last two years of the Civil War. President Lincoln's policy allowed them to join Union forces in the West to fill the places of scarce regular army soldiers fighting Indians, escorting settlers and protecting trails and telegraph lines. Includes a gallery of 19th century photos and artwork to help tell this unusual story.
Author | : John F. Stegeman |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820334588 |
Download These Men She Gave Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
These Men She Gave tells the story of Athens, Georgia, during the turbulent years of the Civil War. John F. Stegeman details the many changes Athens and Clarke County underwent during the war. The community was highly involved with the seccession movement and the formation of the Confederacy. Stegeman tells how the town was able to escape destruction on an August day in 1864 when the Civil War came to the area and how the town would eventually lose many men to the war. The book includes appendices that include information such as a list of the members of the Ladies Aid Society in 1961, a roster of Clarke County companies in the army of Northern Virginia, and mortality lists of Clarke County troops in major battles.
Author | : Andrew Wolpert |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2001-12-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801867908 |
Download Remembering Defeat Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 404 b.c. the Peloponnesian War finally came to an end, when the Athenians, starved into submission, were forced to accept Sparta's terms of surrender. Shortly afterwards a group of thirty conspirators, with Spartan backing ("the Thirty"), overthrew the democracy and established a narrow oligarchy. Although the oligarchs were in power for only thirteen months, they killed more than 5 percent of the citizenry and terrorized the rest by confiscating the property of some and banishing many others. Despite this brutality, members of the democratic resistance movement that regained control of Athens came to terms with the oligarchs and agreed to an amnesty that protected collaborators from prosecution for all but the most severe crimes. The war and subsequent reconciliation of Athenian society has been a rich field for historians of ancient Greece. From a rhetorical and ideological standpoint, this period is unique because of the extraordinary lengths to which the Athenians went to maintain peace. In Remembering Defeat, Andrew Wolpert claims that the peace was "negotiated and constructed in civic discourse" and not imposed upon the populace. Rather than explaining why the reconciliation was successful, as a way of shedding light on changes in Athenian ideology Wolpert uses public speeches of the early fourth century to consider how the Athenians confronted the troubling memories of defeat and civil war, and how they explained to themselves an agreement that allowed the conspirators and their collaborators to go unpunished. Encompassing rhetorical analysis, trauma studies, and recent scholarship on identity, memory, and law, Wolpert's study sheds new light on a pivotal period in Athens' history. -- Catherine M. Keesling
Author | : Frederick Henry Marshall |
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Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : History |
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Download The Second Athenian Confederacy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ray Chandler |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2015-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625848366 |
Download The Last Days of the Confederacy in Northeast Georgia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1861, northeast Georgians were the driving force into secession and war. In 1865, Confederate president Jefferson Davis, his government collapsing and himself a wanted man, brought the reality of the war to the region's doorstep. Governor Joseph Brown, U.S. senator Robert Toombs and the politically influential Howell Cobb of Athens and his brother Thomas R.R. Cobb all fought passionately for Southern independence. The region epitomized the reasons for which the South waged and supported the war, yet it was spared the destruction seen in other places. Even Sherman's Union army touched only the region's fringes. Author Ray Chandler brings to light the final act of the Confederacy in the Peach State's northeast and the lasting impact it had on Georgians.
Author | : Thomas Conn Bryan |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820334995 |
Download Confederate Georgia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Published in 1953, Confederate Georgia describes life in Georgia during the Civil War. T. Conn Bryan presents the political, military, economic, and social aspects of life, including secession, preparations for war, industry and transportation, wartime finance, desertion and disloyalty, women in the conflict, social life and diversions, the press and literary pursuits, education, and religion. Although Georgia's relations with the Confederate government are fully treated, the main emphasis is on activities within the state. Numerous quotations from letters, diaries, and other source materials give a personalized view of the war and capture the spirit of the times.
Author | : Ellis Merton Coulter |
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Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1956 |
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Download The Confederate Monument in Athens, Georgia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : United States |
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Download The Creed of the Old South, 1865-1915 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Richard Cecil Todd |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820334545 |
Download Confederate Finance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Confederate Finance, first published in 1954, looks at the measures taken by the Confederacy to stabilize its currency and offer a basis for foreign exchange. By the end of the Civil War, the Confederacy had resorted to a number of financial expedients, including the most desperate of measures. The Confederate government seized the property of enemies, levied direct taxes, and placed duties on exports and imports. In addition, donations and gifts were gratefully accepted. All the while, treasury notes flooded the market, and loans were floated in an attempt to continue the Confederacy's existence. Richard Cecil Todd shows how these measures were used by the Confederate government to meet its obligations at home and abroad. He also discusses the organization and personnel of the Confederate Treasury Department.