Calendar Of Virginia State Papers And Other Manuscripts From January 1 1836 To April 15 1869 Vol 11

Author : H. W. Flournoy
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0260145890

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Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts, from January 1, 1836, to April 15, 1869, Vol. 11 by H. W. Flournoy Pdf

Excerpt from Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts, From January 1, 1836, to April 15, 1869, Vol. 11: Preserved in the Capitol at Richmond Volume eleven of the Calendar of the Virginia State Papers will be seen to con tain the regular Executive papers as found among which are some events in which the State of Virginia participated in the war with Mexico. A narrative of the attempt of John Brown to incite an Insurrection of slaves; the murder of several citizens of Harper's Ferry; the seizure of the United States Arsenal with the arms therein, and the suppression of the attempt by the Federal Government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Jaime Amanda Martinez
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469610757

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Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South by Jaime Amanda Martinez Pdf

Under policies instituted by the Confederacy, white Virginians and North Carolinians surrendered control over portions of their slave populations to state authorities, military officials, and the national government to defend their new nation. State and local officials cooperated with the Confederate War Department and Engineer Bureau, as well as individual generals, to ensure a supply of slave labor on fortifications. Using the implementation of this policy in the Upper South as a window into the workings of the Confederacy, Jaime Amanda Martinez provides a social and political history of slave impressment. She challenges the assumption that the conduct of the program, and the resistance it engendered, was an indication of weakness and highlights instead how the strong governments of the states contributed to the war effort. According to Martinez, slave impressment, which mirrored Confederate governance as a whole, became increasingly centralized, demonstrating the efficacy of federalism within the CSA. She argues that the ability of local, state, and national governments to cooperate and enforce unpopular impressment laws indicates the overall strength of the Confederate government as it struggled to enforce its independence.

Author : Virginia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Virginia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026543780

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Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts by Virginia Pdf

Author : Theodore Laidley
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574410342

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Surrounded by Dangers of All Kinds by Theodore Laidley Pdf

As a young army officer during the War with Mexico, Laidley commanded a field battery at Cerro Gordo and was instrumental in defending Pueblo against Santa Anna. His war letters to his father from 1845-48 reveal his low opinion of volunteer soldiers, cynicism about military promotions, and concerns over his physical and spiritual health. McCaffrey (history, U. of Houston) leaves Laidley's spelling and grammar intact, but introduces paragraph breaks. He briefly discusses the officer's life before and after the war. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : J. Brent Morris
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469618289

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Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism by J. Brent Morris Pdf

By exploring the role of Oberlin--the college and the community--in fighting against slavery and for social equality, J. Brent Morris establishes this "hotbed of abolitionism" as the core of the antislavery movement in the West and as one of the most influential reform groups in antebellum America. As the first college to admit men and women of all races, and with a faculty and community comprised of outspoken abolitionists, Oberlin supported a cadre of activist missionaries devoted to emancipation, even if that was through unconventional methods or via an abandonment of strict ideological consistency. Their philosophy was a color-blind composite of various schools of antislavery thought aimed at supporting the best hope of success. Though historians have embraced Oberlin as a potent symbol of egalitarianism, radicalism, and religious zeal, Morris is the first to portray the complete history behind this iconic antislavery symbol. In this book, Morris shifts the focus of generations of antislavery scholarship from the East and demonstrates that the West's influence was largely responsible for a continuous infusion of radicalism that helped the movement stay true to its most progressive principles.

Author : Steven Lubet
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300180497

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John Brown's Spy by Steven Lubet Pdf

Describes the story of the man who was entrusted with all of the details of John Brown's plans to capture the Harper's Ferry armory in 1859 and how he was hunted down for a $1,000 bounty and tried as a spy.

Author : Robert W. Young
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 087049998X

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Senator James Murray Mason by Robert W. Young Pdf

Finally, in chronicling Mason's disappointment in the face of the Confederacy's defeat, Young evokes the enormous sense of loss that accompanied the passing of the Old South's way of life.

Author : Jason Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190868185

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Looming Civil War by Jason Phillips Pdf

How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dreams, diaries, speeches, and newspapers decades before the first shots at Fort Sumter. People forecasted a frontier filibuster, an economic clash between free and slave labor, a race war, a revolution, a war for liberation, and Armageddon. Reading their premonitions reveals how several factors, including race, religion, age, gender, region, and class, shaped what people thought about the future and how they imagined it. Some Americans pictured the future as an open, contested era that they progressed toward and molded with their thoughts and actions. Others saw the future as a closed, predetermined world that approached them and sealed their fate. When the war began, these opposing temporalities informed how Americans grasped and waged the conflict. In this creative history, Jason Phillips explains how the expectations of a host of characters-generals, politicians, radicals, citizens, and slaves-affected how people understood the unfolding drama and acted when the future became present. He reconsiders the war's origins without looking at sources using hindsight, that is, without considering what caused the cataclysm and whether it was inevitable. As a result, Phillips dispels a popular myth that all Americans thought the Civil War would be short and glorious at the outset, a ninety-day affair full of fun and adventure. Much more than rational power games played by elites, the war was shaped by uncertainties and emotions and darkened horizons that changed over time. Looming Civil War highlights how individuals approached an ominous future with feelings, thoughts, and perspectives different from our sensibilities and unconnected to our view of their world. Civil War Americans had their own prospects to ponder and forge as they discovered who they were and where life would lead them. The Civil War changed more than America's future; it transformed how Americans imagined the future and how Americans have thought about the future ever since.

Author : Virginia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Virginia
ISBN : LCCN:81203463

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Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts ... Preserved in the Capitol at Richmond: January 1, 1836-April 15, 1869 by Virginia Pdf

Author : Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807861141

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Freedpeople in the Tobacco South by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie Pdf

Throughout the colonial and antebellum periods, Virginia's tobacco producers exploited slave labor to ensure the profitability of their agricultural enterprises. In the wake of the Civil War, however, the abolition of slavery, combined with changed market conditions, sparked a breakdown of traditional tobacco culture. Focusing on the transformation of social relations between former slaves and former masters, Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie traces the trajectory of this breakdown from the advent of emancipation to the stirrings of African American migration at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing upon a rich array of sources, Kerr-Ritchie situates the struggles of newly freed people within the shifting parameters of an older slave world, examines the prolonged agricultural depression and structural transformation the tobacco economy underwent between the 1870s and 1890s, and surveys the effects of these various changes on former masters as well as former slaves. While the number of older freedpeople who owned small parcels of land increased phenomenally during this period, he notes, so too did the number of freedom's younger generation who deserted the region's farms and plantations for Virginia's towns and cities. Both these processes contributed to the gradual transformation of the tobacco region in particular and the state in general.

Author : Donald C. Pfanz
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781572339293

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The Letters of General Richard S. Ewell by Donald C. Pfanz Pdf

“The Letters of General Richard S. Ewell provide a sweeping view of the nineteenth century. Such chronological breadth makes this volume truly exceptional and important. Through Ewell’s eyes we see the many worlds of an American people at war. His thoughtful observations, biting wit, and ironic disposition offer readers a chance to rethink the paper-thin generalizations of Ewell as a quirky neurotic who simply crumbled under the legacy of Stonewall Jackson.” —from the foreword by Peter S. Carmichael Richard S. Ewell was one of only six lieutenant generals to serve in Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, and of those he was but one of two—the other being Stonewall Jackson, his predecessor as commander of the Second Corps—to have left behind a sizable body of correspondence. Forty-nine of Ewell’s letters were published in 1939. This new volume, drawing on more recently available material and scrupulously annotated by Ewell biographer Donald Pfanz, offers a much larger collection of the general’s missives: 173 personal letters, 7 official letters, 4 battle narratives, and 2 memoranda of incidents that took place during the Civil War. The book covers the full range of Ewell’s career: his days at West Point, his posting on the western frontier, his role in the Mexican War, his Civil War service, and, finally, his postwar years managing farms in Tennessee and Mississippi. Some historians have judged Ewell harshly, particularly for his failure to capture Cemetery Hill on the first day at Gettysburg, but Pfanz contends that Ewell was in fact a brilliant combat general whose overall record, which included victories at the battles of Cross Keys, Second Winchester, and Fort Harrison, was one of which any commanding officer could be proud. Although irritable and often critical of others, Ewell’s correspondence shows him to have been generous toward subordinates, modest regarding his own accomplishments, and upright in both his professional and personal relationships. His letters to family and friends are a mixture of wry humor and uncommon sense. No one who reads them will view this important general in quite the same way again. DONALD C. PFANZ is the author of Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier’s Life, Abraham Lincoln at City Point, and War So Terrible: A Popular History of the Battle of Fredericksburg.

Author : William Davis,James I. Robertson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813134680

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Virginia at War, 1865 by William Davis,James I. Robertson Pdf

Kent Hollingsworth captures the flavor and atmosphere of the Sport of Kings in the dramatic account of the development of the Thoroughbred in Kentucky. Ranging from frontier days, when racing was conducted in open fields as horse-to-horse challenges between proud owners, to the present, when a potential Triple Crown champion may sell for millions of dollars, The Kentucky Thoroughbred considers ten outstanding stallions that dominated the shape of racing in their time as representing the many eras of Kentucky Thoroughbred breeding. No less colorful are his accounts of the owners, breeders, trainers, and jockeys associated with these Thoroughbreds, a group devoted to a sport filled with high adventure and great hazards. First published in 1976, this popular Kentucky classic has been expanded and brought up to date in this new edition.

Author : John Stauffer,Zoe Trodd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674048850

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The Tribunal by John Stauffer,Zoe Trodd Pdf

This landmark anthology collects speeches, letters, newspapers, journals, poems, and songs to demonstrate that John Brown’s actions at Harpers Ferry altered the course of history. Without Brown, the Civil War probably would have been delayed by four years and emancipation movements in Brazil, Cuba, even Russia might have been disrupted.

Author : Robert J. Trout
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811749541

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Galloping Thunder by Robert J. Trout Pdf

The story of this special battalion is vast and encompasses almost every campaign of the Army of Northern Virginia. From skirmishes in which a couple of rounds were fired to full-scale battles in which the guns went through hundreds of rounds, the horse artillery was engaged from the outskirts of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to the battle at Bentonville, North Carolina. But the history of the battalion was more than just the battles it fought. The men had their own stories to tell.

Author : Nelson Lankford
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0142003107

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Richmond Burning by Nelson Lankford Pdf

Nelson Lankford draws upon Civil War-era diaries, letters, memoirs, and newspaper reports to vividly recapture the experiences of the men and women, both black and white, who witnessed the tumultuous fall of Richmond. In April 1865 General Robert E. Lee realized that his army must retreat from the Confederate capital and that Jefferson Davis's government must flee. As the Southern soldiers moved out they set the city on fire, leaving a blazing ruin to greet the entering Union troops. The city's fall ushered in the birth of the modern United States. Lankford's exploration of this pivotal event is at once an authoritative work of history and a stunning piece of dramatic prose.