American Civil War Novels To 1880

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375703836

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This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Author : Richard Schuster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Historical fiction, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038936436

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American Civil War Novels to 1880 by Richard Schuster Pdf

Author : G. A. Henty
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1729584624

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With Lee in Virginia; a Story of the American Civil War. Historical Novel by G. A. Henty Pdf

With Lee in Virginia, A Story of the American Civil War (1890) is a book by British author G.A. Henty. It was published by Blackie and Son Ltd, London. Henty's character, Vincent Wingfield, fights for the Confederate States of America, even though he is against slavery. As suggested by the title, he is primarily with the Army of Northern Virginia. Henty's novel has been cited by some literary historians as an example of British right-wingers' sympathy for the Confederate cause; discussing With Lee in Virginia, Jeffrey Richards cites the book as "significantly pro-Southern".[1][2] Henty defends slavery throughout the novel, stating although slavery was capable of "abominable" cruelty under brutal masters, "..taken all in all, the negroes on a well-ordered estate, under kind masters, were probably a happier class of people than the laborers upon any estate in Europe." At the novel's end, Henty has the Wingfield family's former slaves return and continue working for their former owners

Author : David Madden,Peggy Bach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015022006707

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Classics of Civil War Fiction by David Madden,Peggy Bach Pdf

Fascinating essays about novels & stories in the Civil War genre.

Author : Amy Murrell Taylor
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0807899070

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The Divided Family in Civil War America by Amy Murrell Taylor Pdf

The Civil War has long been described as a war pitting "brother against brother." The divided family is an enduring metaphor for the divided nation, but it also accurately reflects the reality of America's bloodiest war. Connecting the metaphor to the real experiences of families whose households were split by conflicting opinions about the war, Amy Murrell Taylor provides a social and cultural history of the divided family in Civil War America. In hundreds of border state households, brothers--and sisters--really did fight one another, while fathers and sons argued over secession and husbands and wives struggled with opposing national loyalties. Even enslaved men and women found themselves divided over how to respond to the war. Taylor studies letters, diaries, newspapers, and government documents to understand how families coped with the unprecedented intrusion of war into their private lives. Family divisions inflamed the national crisis while simultaneously embodying it on a small scale--something noticed by writers of popular fiction and political rhetoric, who drew explicit connections between the ordeal of divided families and that of the nation. Weaving together an analysis of this popular imagery with the experiences of real families, Taylor demonstrates how the effects of the Civil War went far beyond the battlefield to penetrate many facets of everyday life.

Author : Kirsten Twelbeck
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839434659

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Beyond the Civil War Hospital by Kirsten Twelbeck Pdf

Beyond the Civil War Hospital understands Reconstruction as a period of emotional turmoil that precipitated a struggle for form in cultural production. By treating selected texts from that era as multifaceted contributions to Reconstruction's »mental adaptation process« (Leslie Butler), Kirsten Twelbeck diagnoses individual conflicts between the »heart and the brain« only partly compensated for by a shared concern for national healing. By tracing each text's unique adaptation of the healing trope, she identifies surprising disagreement over racial equality, women's rights, and citizenship. The book pairs female and male white authors from the antislavery North, and brings together a broad range of genres.

Author : G. A. Henty
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066388317

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With Lee in Virginia by G. A. Henty Pdf

The story revolves around Vincent Wingfield, young farmer who lost his father and whose mother is in charge of an estate called the Orangery. Vincent is preparing to take over the reins when he came of age but the war starts and he joins the fights for the Confederate States of America, even though he is against slavery. Vincent leaves the overseer Jonas Pearson, notorious for being the tyrant, in charge of the Orangery. Vincent gets to taste of action at Bull Run and from that point he works his way up through many adventures, meeting all the major Southern figures of that time such as Stonewall Jackson, Jeb Stuart and finally Robert E. Lee. Vincent gets wounded twice, involved in a variety of chases, and been captured twice, the second time being treated as a spy and coming across Pearson, who had thrown in his lot with the North.

Author : G a Henty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798694001236

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With Lee In Virginia by G a Henty Pdf

With Lee in Virginia, A Story of the American Civil War (1890) is a book by British author G.A. Henty. It was published by Blackie and Son Ltd, London. Henty's character, Vincent Wingfield, fights for the Confederate States of America, even though he is against slavery. As suggested by the title, he is primarily with the Army of Northern Virginia.

Author : Robert A. Lively
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0807879150

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Fiction Fights the Civil War by Robert A. Lively Pdf

Fiction Fights the Civil War: An Unfinished Chapter in the Literary History of the American People

Author : G. A. Henty
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1437822436

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With Lee in Virginia by G. A. Henty Pdf

Author : Lyde Cullen Sizer
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860984

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The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 by Lyde Cullen Sizer Pdf

This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction, these women, as well as a larger mosaic of lesser-known writers, used their mainstream writings publicly to make sense of war, womanhood, Union, slavery, republicanism, heroism, and death. Among the authors discussed are Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sara Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Although direct political or partisan power was denied to women, these writers actively participated in discussions of national issues through their sentimental novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and letters to the editor. Sizer pays close attention to how these mostly middle-class women attempted to create a "rhetoric of unity," giving common purpose to women despite differences in class, race, and politics. This theme of unity was ultimately deployed to establish a white middle-class standard of womanhood, meant to exclude as well as include.

Author : Robert H. Fowler
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015003677393

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Jim Mundy by Robert H. Fowler Pdf

"When he enlists in the 10th North Carolina Volunteers, the young Jim Mundy is determined to fight for the glory of the Confederacy. ... Along the way, he meets Jane Ferro, the aristocratic daughter of a wealthy platation owner, thus embarking on a love affair that will last a lifetime and spawn a new generation of Dixie pride and honor far from the horror and heartbreak war."--Jacket.

Author : G. A. Henty
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368322670

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With Lee in Virginia; A Story of the American Civil War by G. A. Henty Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : G. A. Henty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1731290969

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With Lee in Virginia: a Story of the American Civil War by G. A. Henty Pdf

With Lee in Virginia, A Story of the American Civil War (1890) is a book by British author G.A. Henty. It was published by Blackie and Son Ltd, London. Henty's character, Vincent Wingfield, fights for the Confederate States of America, even though he is against slavery. As suggested by the title, he is primarily with the Army of Northern Virginia. Henty's novel has been cited by some literary historians as an example of British right-wingers' sympathy for the Confederate cause; discussing With Lee in Virginia, Jeffrey Richards cites the book as "significantly pro-Southern". Henty defends slavery throughout the novel, stating although slavery was capable of "abominable" cruelty under brutal masters, "..taken all in all, the negroes on a well-ordered estate, under kind masters, were probably a happier class of people than the laborers upon any estate in Europe." At the novel's end, Henty has the Wingfield family's former slaves return and continue working for their former owners: The negroes, however, for the most part remained steadily working on the estate. A few wandered away, but their places were easily filled; for the majority of the freed slaves very soon discovered that their lot was a far harder one than it had been before, and that freedom so suddenly given was a curse rather than a blessing to them.

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473350175

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On Soldiers and Civilians - Short Stories of the American Civil War by Ambrose Bierce Pdf

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, United States in 1842. Bierce is critically best remembered for his fiction and many other writings are also generally regarded as some of the best war writings of all time. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.