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Author : James Willis
Publisher : American Society for Training & Development
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000046240323
A history of Arkansas' 9th infantry regiment. The regiment became a part of Reynolds' Brigade. The 2nd part of this vol. is a history of the brigade.
Author : Lawrence L. Hewitt,Arthur W. Bergeron,Gary D. Joiner
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781572336995
For this book, which follows an earlier volume of previously published essays, Hewitt and Bergeron have enlisted ten gifted historians---among them James M. Prichard, Terrence J. Winschel, Craig Symonds, and Stephen Davis---to produce original essays, based on the latest scholarship, that examine the careers and missteps of several of the Western Theater's key Rebel commanders. Among the important topics covered are George B. Crittenden's declining fortunes in the Confederate ranks, Earl Van Dom's limited prewar military experience and its effect on his performance in the Baton Rouge Campaign of 1862, Joseph Johnston's role in the fall of Vicksburg, and how James Longstreet and Braxton Bragg's failure to secure Chattanooga paved the way for the Federals'push into Georgia. --
Author : Lawrence L. Hewitt,Arthur W. Bergeron
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781572337909
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Author : Lawrence L. Hewitt,Arthur W. Bergeron,Gary D. Joiner
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781572337008
Confederate Generals in the Western Theater ultimately comprise several volumes that promise a host of provocative new insights into not only the South's ill-fated campaigns in the West but also the eventual outcome of the larger conflict. --Book Jacket.
Author : Robert Edward Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1434302806
A young man and woman say, "I do", and begin a 56 year, 8 month and 3 week journey, starting on route 66, and ending in a hospice home. Along the way they produce two sons, and have careers in Radio, Television, Mall Promotion, Festival Directing and Bank Advertising. Their love survives infidelity, illness, separate careers and financial burdens, until death does them part. The life they traveled together took them on smooth highways, dusty roads, detours and streets filled with potholes. The journey was exciting at times, dull at times, but never mundane. In this book, you ride along with them as they take you from the beginning of their life together to their final separation.
Author : Robert Patrick Bender
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610754859
Worthy of the Cause for Which They Fight chronicles the experiences of a well-educated and articulate Confederate officer from Arkansas who witnessed the full evolution of the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi Department and western theater. Daniel Harris Reynolds, a community leader with a thriving law practice in Chicot County, entered service in 1861 as a captain in command of Company A of the First Arkansas Mounted Rifles. Reynolds saw action at Wilson's Creek and Pea Ridge before the regiment was dismounted and transferred to the Army of Tennessee, the primary Confederate force in the western theater. As Reynolds fought through the battles of Chickamauga, Atlanta, Nashville, and Bentonville, he consistently kept a diary in which he described the harsh realities of battle, the shifting fortunes of war, and the personal and political conflicts that characterized and sometimes divided the soldiers. The result is a significant testimonial offering valuable insights into the nature of command from the company to brigade levels, expressed by a committed Southerner coming to grips with the realities of defeat and the ultimate demoralization of surrender.
Author : James Willis
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462045495
We grow what we know. As a boy in Drew County, Arkansas, author James Willis grew into what he knew. In this memoir, he provides insight into who he was, what he did, and how his circumstances, experiences, and relationships helped him mature to the man he is today. What Almost Did Not Happen chronicles the details of Willis lifehis birth in 1938 in Monticello, Arkansas; being raised as an only child by his parents; growing up against the backdrop of the 1940s; his various national and international travels; his education and work as a high school teacher and university professor; marriage and raising children; being a grandfather; and the people and places that shaped his life. An engaging account, What Almost Did Not Happen preserves the memories of Williss life and records the history of an uncommonly common man and how he became that man.
Author : Jeffery S. Prushankin
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Missouri
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
If the Civil War had a "forgotten theater," it was the Trans-Mississippi West. Starting in 1861 with the Lincoln administration's desire to maintain control of the far west, Jeffery Prushankin covers battles in New Mexico, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, including Pea Ridge in March 1862 and Pleasant Hill in April 1864. The Red River Expedition and Price's Raid are also described. The narrative places these campaigns and battles in their strategic context to show how they contributed to the outcome of the war.
Author : Jeannie M. Whayne,Thomas A. DeBlack,George Sabo,Morris S. Arnold
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557289933
Arkansas: A Narrative History is a comprehensive history of the state that has been invaluable to students and the general public since its original publication. Four distinguished scholars cover prehistoric Arkansas, the colonial period, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and incorporate the newest historiography to bring the book up to date for 2012. A new chapter on Arkansas geography, new material on the civil rights movement and the struggle over integration, and an examination of the state’s transition from a colonial economic model to participation in the global political economy are included. Maps are also dramatically enhanced, and supplemental teaching materials are available. “No less than the first edition, this revision of Arkansas: A Narrative History is a compelling introduction for those who know little about the state and an insightful survey for others who wish to enrich their acquaintance with the Arkansas past.” —Ben Johnson, from the Foreword
Author : Chris Mackowski,Sarah Kay Bierle
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781954547131
War in the Western Theater offers fresh perspectives on pivotal Civil War events, shedding light on overlooked battles and figures, revealing untold stories that reshape our understanding of this crucial region. The Western Theater has long been pushed to the side by events in the Eastern Theater, but it was in the West where the Federal armies won the Civil War. Interest in this complex region is finally increasing, and the authors at Emerging Civil War add substantially to that growing body of literature with War in the Western Theater: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War. Dozens of entries offer fresh and insightful aspects and angles to key events that unfolded between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River. Revisit an important Confederate charge at Shiloh, discover how key decisions won (and lost) the bloody fighting at Chickamauga, and ponder how whiskey may have impacted the fighting at Corinth. Readers will walk the battlefield at Fort Blakeley outside Mobile, fight in the hellish cedars at Stones River, and mourn with a Mississippi family. Insights abound. How many students of the war knew a Confederate major, watching the riverine bombardment of Fort Donelson up close and personal, rushed to send detailed sketches of the ironclads to Gen. Robert E. Lee to warn him of this new way of fighting—and the lethal dangers it portended? And these are just a taste of what’s waiting inside. The selections herein bring together the best scholarship from Emerging Civil War’s blog, symposia, and podcast, revised and updated, together with original pieces designed to shed new light and insight on some of the most important and fascinating events that have for too long flown under the radar of history’s pens.
Author : Anne Bailey
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610750998
This collection of essays represents the best recent history written on Civil War activity in Arkansas. It illuminates the complexity of such issues as guerrilla warfare, Union army policies, and the struggles hetween white and black civilians and soldiers, and also shows that the war years were a time of great change and personal conflict for the citizens of the state, despite the absence of "great" battles or armies. All the essays, which have been previously published in scholarly journals, have been revised to reflect recent scholarship in the field. Each selection explores a military or social dimension of the war that has been largely ignored or which is unique to the war in Arkansas—gristmill destruction, military farm colonies, nitre mining operations, mountain clan skirmishes, federal plantation experiments, and racial atrocities and reprisals. Together, the essays provoke thought on the character and cost of the war away from the great battlefields and suggest the pervasive change wrought by its destructiveness. In the cogent introduction Daniel E. Sutherland and Anne J. Bailey set the historiographic record of the Civil War in Arkansas, tracing a line from the first writings through later publications to our current understanding. As a volume in The Civil War in the West series, Civil War Arkansas elucidates little-known but significant aspects of the war, encouraging new perspectives on them and focusing on the less studied western theater. As such, it will inform and challenge both students and teachers of the American Civil War.
Author : Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1223 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119716143
A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Represents the most comprehensive coverage available relating to all aspects of the U.S. Civil War Features contributions from dozens of experts in Civil War scholarship Covers major campaigns and battles, and military and political figures, as well as non-military aspects of the conflict such as gender, emancipation, literature, ethnicity, slavery, and memory
Author : Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1223 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118802953
A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Represents the most comprehensive coverage available relating to all aspects of the U.S. Civil War Features contributions from dozens of experts in Civil War scholarship Covers major campaigns and battles, and military and political figures, as well as non-military aspects of the conflict such as gender, emancipation, literature, ethnicity, slavery, and memory
Author : Thomas A. DeBlack
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610755535
When Arkansas seceded from the Union in 1861, it was a thriving state. But the Civil War and Reconstruction left it reeling, impoverished, and so deeply divided that it never regained the level of prosperity it had previously enjoyed. Although most of the major battles of the war occurred elsewhere, Arkansas was critical to the Confederate war effort in the vast Trans-Mississippi region, and Arkansas soldiers served—some for the Union and more for the Confederacy—in every major theater of the war. And the war within the state was devastating. Union troops occupied various areas, citizens suffered greatly from the war's economic disruption, and guerilla conflict and factional tensions left a bitter legacy. Reconstruction was in many ways a continuation of the war as the prewar elite fought to regain economic and political power. In this, the fourth volume in the Histories of Arkansas series, Thomas DeBlack not only describes the major players and events in this dramatic and painful story, but also explores the experiences of ordinary people. Although the historical evidence is complex—and much of the secondary literature is extraordinarily partisan—DeBlack offers a balanced, vivid overview of the state's most tumultuous period.
Author : William L. Shea
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807833155
Presents the events of the Battle of Prairie Grove of 1862, which took place in Arkansas and ended the efforts of the Confederate Army to extend the Civil War conflict into the territory west of the MIssissippi River, discussing the generals, battle tactics, casualties, and aftermath.