Camp Nelson Kentucky

Author : Richard D. Sears
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813149523

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Camp Nelson, Kentucky by Richard D. Sears Pdf

Camp Nelson, Kentucky, was designed in 1863 as a military supply depot for the Union Army. Later it became one of the country's most important recruiting stations and training camps for black soldiers and Kentucky's chief center for issuing emancipation papers to former slaves. Richard D. Sears tells the story of the rise and fall of the camp through the shifting perspective of a changing cast of characters -- teachers, civilians, missionaries such as the Reverend John G. Fee, and fleeing slaves and enlisted blacks who describe their pitiless treatment at the hands of slave owners and Confederate sympathizers. Sears fully documents the story of Camp Nelson through carefully selected military orders, letters, newspaper articles, and other correspondence, most inaccessible until now. His introduction provides a historical overview, and textual notes identify individuals and detail the course of events.

Author : Kentucky. Adjutant-General's Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1222 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Kentucky
ISBN : WISC:89062166533

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Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky by Kentucky. Adjutant-General's Office Pdf

Author : John E. Kleber
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813128838

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The Kentucky Encyclopedia by John E. Kleber Pdf

The Kentucky Encyclopedia's 2,000-plus entries are the work of more than five hundred writers. Their subjects reflect all areas of the commonwealth and span the time from prehistoric settlement to today's headlines, recording Kentuckians' achievements in art, architecture, business, education, politics, religion, science, and sports. Biographical sketches portray all of Kentucky's governors and U.S. senators, as well as note congressmen and state and local politicians. Kentucky's impact on the national scene is registered in the lives of such figures as Carry Nation, Henry Clay, Louis Brandeis, and Alben Barkley. The commonwealth's high range from writers Harriette Arnow and Jesse Stuart, reformers Laura Clay and Mary Breckinridge, and civil rights leaders Whitney Young, Jr., and Georgia Powers, to sports figures Muhammad Ali and Adolph Rupp and entertainers Loretta Lynn, Merle Travis, and the Everly Brothers. Entries describe each county and county seat and each community with a population above 2,500. Broad overview articles examine such topics as agriculture, segregation, transportation, literature, and folklife. Frequently misunderstood aspects of Kentucky's history and culture are clarified and popular misconceptions corrected. The facts on such subjects as mint juleps, Fort Knox, Boone's coonskin cap, the Kentucky hot brown, and Morgan's Raiders will settle many an argument. For both the researcher and the more casual reader, this collection of facts and fancies about Kentucky and Kentuckians will be an invaluable resource.

Author : Donald A. Clark
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780809330119

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The Notorious "Bull" Nelson by Donald A. Clark Pdf

"Major General William "Bull" Nelson played a formative role in the Union's success in Kentucky and the Western theater in the CIvil War... David C. Clark presents a long-overdue examination of an irascible officer, his numerous accomplishments, and his grim fate ... During September of 1862, in a crime that was never prosecuted, fellow Union general Jefferson C. Davis shot and killed Nelson after an argument. Clark explores this remarkable exception in military law, arguing that while the fact of the murder was indisputable, prosecution of the murder went by the wayside because a public angered by the arrogant behavior of Federal officers generally approved of Davis having dispatched an abusive tyrant ... This comprehensive study -- the first biography of Nelson -- eliminates previous misconceptions about a well-known yet misunderstood Civil War general"--Dust jacket.

Author : Katherine Franke
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781479814008

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Wedlocked by Katherine Franke Pdf

Compares today’s same-sex marriage movement to the experiences of black people in the mid-nineteenth century. The staggering string of victories by the gay rights movement’s campaign for marriage equality raises questions not only about how gay people have been able to successfully deploy marriage to elevate their social and legal reputation, but also what kind of freedom and equality the ability to marry can mobilize. Wedlocked turns to history to compare today’s same-sex marriage movement to the experiences of newly emancipated black people in the mid-nineteenth century, when they were able to legally marry for the first time. Maintaining that the transition to greater freedom was both wondrous and perilous for newly emancipated people, Katherine Franke relates stories of former slaves’ involvements with marriage and draws lessons that serve as cautionary tales for today’s marriage rights movements. While “be careful what you wish for” is a prominent theme, they also teach us how the rights-bearing subject is inevitably shaped by the very rights they bear, often in ways that reinforce racialized gender norms and stereotypes. Franke further illuminates how the racialization of same-sex marriage has redounded to the benefit of the gay rights movement while contributing to the ongoing subordination of people of color and the diminishing reproductive rights of women. Like same-sex couples today, freed African-American men and women experienced a shift in status from outlaws to in-laws, from living outside the law to finding their private lives organized by law and state licensure. Their experiences teach us the potential and the perils of being subject to legal regulation: rights—and specifically the right to marriage—can both burden and set you free.

Author : Gerald L. Smith,Karen Cotton McDaniel,John A. Hardin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813160665

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The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia by Gerald L. Smith,Karen Cotton McDaniel,John A. Hardin Pdf

The story of African Americans in Kentucky is as diverse and vibrant as the state's general history. The work of more than 150 writers, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an essential guide to the black experience in the Commonwealth. The encyclopedia includes biographical sketches of politicians and community leaders as well as pioneers in art, science, and industry. Kentucky's impact on the national scene is registered in an array of notable figures, such as writers William Wells Brown and bell hooks, reformers Bessie Lucas Allen and Shelby Lanier Jr., sports icons Muhammad Ali and Isaac Murphy, civil rights leaders Whitney Young Jr. and Georgia Powers, and entertainers Ernest Hogan, Helen Humes, and the Nappy Roots. Featuring entries on the individuals, events, places, organizations, movements, and institutions that have shaped the state's history since its origins, the volume also includes topical essays on the civil rights movement, Eastern Kentucky coalfields, business, education, and women. For researchers, students, and all who cherish local history, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference that highlights the diversity of the state's culture and history.

Author : Ohio. Roster Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
ISBN : UIUC:30112047586034

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Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866: 87th-108th Regiments-Infantry by Ohio. Roster Commission Pdf

Author : Amy Murrell Taylor
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469643632

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Embattled Freedom by Amy Murrell Taylor Pdf

The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all. Drawing on an extraordinary survey of slave refugee camps throughout the country, Embattled Freedom reveals as never before the everyday experiences of these refugees from slavery as they made their way through the vast landscape of army-supervised camps that emerged during the war. Amy Murrell Taylor vividly reconstructs the human world of wartime emancipation, taking readers inside military-issued tents and makeshift towns, through commissary warehouses and active combat, and into the realities of individuals and families struggling to survive physically as well as spiritually. Narrating their journeys in and out of the confines of the camps, Taylor shows in often gripping detail how the most basic necessities of life were elemental to a former slave's quest for freedom and full citizenship. The stories of individuals--storekeepers, a laundress, and a minister among them--anchor this ambitious and wide-ranging history and demonstrate with new clarity how contingent the slaves' pursuit of freedom was on the rhythms and culture of military life. Taylor brings new insight into the enormous risks taken by formerly enslaved people to find freedom in the midst of the nation's most destructive war.

Author : Frances Dallam Peter
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813155142

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A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky by Frances Dallam Peter Pdf

Frances Dallam Peter was one of the eleven children of Union army surgeon Dr. Robert Peter. Her candid diary chronicles Kentucky's invasion by Confederates under General Braxton Bragg in 1862, Lexington's monthlong occupation by General Edmund Kirby Smith, and changes in attitude among the enslaved population following the Emancipation Proclamation. As troops from both North and South took turns holding the city, she repeatedly emphasized the rightness of the Union cause and minced no words in expressing her disdain for "the secesh." Peter articulates many concerns common to Kentucky Unionists. Though she was an ardent supporter of the war against the Confederacy, Peter also worried that Lincoln's use of authority exceeded his constitutional rights. Her own attitudes toward Black people were ambiguous, as was the case with many people in that time. Peter's descriptions of daily events in an occupied city provide valuable insights and a unique feminine perspective on an underappreciated aspect of the war. Until her death in 1864, Peter conscientiously recorded the position and deportment of both Union and Confederate soldiers, incidents at the military hospitals, and stories from the countryside. Her account of a torn and divided region is a window to the war through the gaze of a young woman of intelligence and substance.

Author : Kentucky. Adjutant-General's Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1482 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Kentucky
ISBN : WISC:89062166509

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Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky by Kentucky. Adjutant-General's Office Pdf

Author : Amistad Research Center
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015079954403

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Author and Added Entry Catalog of the American Missionary Association Archives: A-Ez by Amistad Research Center Pdf

Since 1846 the American Missionary Association has concerned itself with the problems of black Americans. This printed book catalog of its unique collection covers approximately 105,000 items from the AMA Archives.

Author : Kent Dollar,Larry Whiteaker,W. Calvin Dickinson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813139227

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Sister States, Enemy States by Kent Dollar,Larry Whiteaker,W. Calvin Dickinson Pdf

The fifteenth and sixteenth states to join the United States of America, Kentucky and Tennessee were cut from a common cloth -- the rich region of the Ohio River Valley. Abounding with mountainous regions and fertile farmlands, these two slaveholding states were as closely tied to one another, both culturally and economically, as they were to the rest of the South. Yet when the Civil War erupted, Tennessee chose to secede while Kentucky remained part of the Union. The residents of Kentucky and Tennessee felt the full impact of the fighting as warring armies crossed back and forth across their borders. Due to Kentucky's strategic location, both the Union and the Confederacy sought to control it throughout the war, while Tennessee was second only to Virginia in the number of battles fought on its soil. Additionally, loyalties in each state were closely divided between the Union and the Confederacy, making wartime governance -- and personal relationships -- complex. In Sister States, Enemy States: The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee, editors Kent T. Dollar, Larry H. Whiteaker, and W. Calvin Dickinson explore how the war affected these two crucial states, and how they helped change the course of the war. Essays by prominent Civil War historians, including Benjamin Franklin Cooling, Marion Lucas, Tracy McKenzie, and Kenneth Noe, add new depth to aspects of the war not addressed elsewhere. The collection opens by recounting each state's debate over secession, detailing the divided loyalties in each as well as the overt conflict that simmered in East Tennessee. The editors also spotlight the war's overlooked participants, including common soldiers, women, refugees, African American soldiers, and guerrilla combatants. The book concludes by analyzing the difficulties these states experienced in putting the war behind them. The stories of Kentucky and Tennessee are a vital part of the larger narrative of the Civil War. Sister States, Enemy States offers fresh insights into the struggle that left a lasting mark on Kentuckians and Tennesseans, just as it left its mark on the nation.

Author : Ira Berlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521417422

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Freedom: Volume 2, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South by Ira Berlin Pdf

This 1993 volume of Freedom presents a history of the emergence of free-labor relations in different settings in the Upper South.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1238 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015051140211

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Official Register of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States Civil Service Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Government executives
ISBN : PSU:000055669313

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Official Register by United States Civil Service Commission Pdf