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Author : Michael B. Ballard
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781578061969
A handbook to the state's Civil War battles, battlefields, and sites to visit
Author : Randy Bishop
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781589809604
“Crisp and concise . . . As the nation prepares to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the conflict in which brother fought brother, the current state of preservation that Bishop provides for each of these sites is timely and helps underscore the significance of Mississippi’s rich Civil War heritage.” —Terrence J. Winschel, historian, Vicksburg National Military Park, and author, Triumph & Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign Between the years of 1862 and 1864, Mississippi was the site of such conflicts as the Battle of Corinth and the Siege of Vicksburg. This history book covers the fourteen major skirmishes that took place within the Magnolia State during the Civil War and offers a detailed description of each location’s current state of preservation. The maintenance of these sites are necessary to memorialize the more than 80,000 forgotten men who fought in these battles. In chronological order, sixteen chapters discuss each skirmish in detail and include firsthand accounts from those embroiled in the fighting, which depict the conditions faced throughout the series of conflicts. Photographs taken during the Civil War along with images of the sites today offer a past and present perspective of the battles that occurred within Mississippi’s boundaries.
Author : Michael B. Ballard
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781604738438
The only volume dedicated entirely to the military history of embattled Mississippi
Author : Timothy S. Sedore
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780253045591
“From Vicksburg to Oxford, readers will find a rich examination of how and why Confederate and Union monuments sprang up across the state.” —Caroline E. Janney, Director, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, University of Virginia Soaring obelisks, graceful arches, and soldiers standing tall atop pedestals recall the memory of the Civil War in Mississippi, a former Confederate state that boasts more Civil War monuments than any other.In Mississippi Civil War Monuments: An Illustrated Field Guide, Timothy S. Sedore combs through the Mississippi landscape, exploring monuments commemorating important military figures and battles and remembering common soldiers, from rugged veterans to mournful youths. Sedore’s insightful commentary captures a character portrait of Mississippi, a state that was ensnared between Northern and Southern ideologies and that paid a high price for seceding from the Union. Sedore’s close examinations of these monuments broadens the narrative of Mississippi’s heritage and helps illuminate the impacts of the Civil War. With intriguing details and vivid descriptions, Mississippi Civil War Monuments offers a comprehensive guide to the monuments that make up Mississippi’s physical and historical landscape.
Author : Ray Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1575871904
Author : James J. Condra,Jeff Slaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Mississippi
ISBN : 1575870894
With individual guides that cover Civil War sites in specific areas, this series uses unique formatting to make the terrain of each regions' battles come to life. Each guide features a heavy-duty paper stock laminated for durability, with an area map on the back of the fully opened piece. When the piece is folded horizontally in half, pinpoint descriptions and photos of key sites fill each accordion-folded side.
Author : Jim Miles
Publisher : Cumberland House
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89062324777
When the Civil War began, control of the Mississippi River was the Confederacy's most important asset. For more than two years, 200,000 soldiers fought over a 500-mile stretch of the waterway--the longest battlefield in American history. Here is the first comprehensive account of the campaign for the entire Mississippi River. Illustrated.
Author : Leonard Fullenkamp,Stephen Bowman,Stephen Lee Bowman,Jay Luvaas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046908748
In the same week that Union forces triumphed at Gettysburg, they also captured the river fortress at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Although much less memorialized than Gettysburg, the fall of Vicksburg was every bit as crucial to the Union cause. Pitting Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman against John Pemberton and Joseph Johnston, the victorious Vicksburg Campaign helped revive a war-weary North, gave it absolute control of the Mississippi River, severed the western Confederacy from the East, and further constricted the South's ability to wage war as the Union drove ever deeper into its heartland. It also gave Grant-the campaign's chief architect-a dramatic venue for demonstrating his maturing skills and intelligence as a strategist and field commander. Unlike other volumes in the U.S. Army War College Guides to Civil War Battles series, this one examines an entire campaign, looking at many interlinked battles and joint Army-Navy operations as they played out over seven months and thousands of square miles of rivers, streams, swamps, lakes, forests, hills, and plains surrounding Vicksburg. In addition to detailed coverage of the actual Siege of Vicksburg, the book also chronicles the battles at Jackson, Port Gibson, Raymond, Champions Hill, and Big Black Ridge. Like the other volumes in the series, this one combines eyewitness accounts with maps, illustrations, and tour directions to illuminate the events for both tourists and arm-chair travellers. For anyone interested in learning more about this relatively neglected but pivotal Civil War campaign, the Guide to the Vicksburg Campaign is must reading.
Author : Kenneth White Munden,Henry Putney Beers
Publisher : Washington, National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : UOM:39015071444148
Author : Myron J. Smith, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786495764
A Scottish immigrant to Illinois, Joseph Brown made his pre-Civil War fortune as a miller and steamboat captain who dabbled in riverboat design and the politics of small towns. When war erupted, he used his connections (including a friendship with Abraham Lincoln) to obtain contracts to build three ironclad gunboats for the U.S. War Department--the Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia. Often described as failures, these vessels were active in some of the most fer"documents the life and career of Joseph Brown, a miller and steamboat captain who built three ironclad gunboats for the US War Department"ocious river fighting of the 1863 Vicksburg campaign. After the war, "Captain Joe" became a railroad executive and was elected mayor of St. Louis. This book covers his life and career, as well as the construction and operational histories of his controversial trio of warships.
Author : Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313008306
The single most important volume for anyone interested in the Civil War to own and consult. (From the foreword by James M. McPherson) The first guide to Civil War literature to appear in nearly 30 years, this book provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and informative survey and analysis of the vast body of Civil War literature. More than 40 essays, each by a specialist in a particular subfield of Civil War history, offer unmatched thoroughness and discerning assessments of each work's value. The essays cover every aspect of the war from strategy, tactics, and battles to logistics, intelligence, supply, and prisoner-of-war camps, from generals and admirals to the men in the ranks, from the Atlantic to the Far West, from fighting fronts to the home front. Some sections cover civilian leaders, the economy, and foreign policy, while others deal with the causes of war and aspects of Reconstruction, including the African-American experience during and after the war. Breadth of topics is matched by breadth of genres covered. Essays discuss surveys of the war, general reference works, published and unpublished papers, diaries and letters, as well as the vast body of monographic literature, including books, dissertations, and articles. Genealogical sources, historical fiction, and video and audio recordings also receive attention. Students of the American Civil War will find this work an indispensable gateway and guide to the enormous body of information on America's pivotal experience.
Author : Ben Wynne
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0881460397
This book examines Mississippi's Civil War experience. It begins with an introductory overview of the socio-political climate of the state during the1850s and ends with a treatment of Mississippi's post-war environment and the rise of Lost Cause mythology. In between, the work covers the pivotal events, issues, and personalities of the period. Wynne emphasizes the experiences of Mississippians?male and female, black and white?as they struggled to deal with the crisis. The political events leading to seces-sion, Mississippians? initial enthusiasm for war, voices of dissent, the disbursement of troops in and out of the state, the home front, freedom for the slave community, waning enthusiasm (both in the military and on the home front) as the war dragged on, defeat, and the ultimate struggle to turn defeat into a moral victory through Lost Cause mythology are also discussed. This book makes significant contributions to Civil War literature.
Author : Jim Miles
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 1663 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620452035
The first comprehensive account of the entire campaign for the Mississippi River, beginning with the conquests of Memphis and New Orleans and concluding with Grant's strategies for the siege of Vicksburg. Included are driving tours of the battlefields and important sites.
Author : Jeff T. Giambrone
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780738594132
Remembering Mississippi's Confederates is a collection of never-before-seen images which document the history of these soldiers. The Confederate States of America engaged in a battle for national survival that lasted four long and incredibly bloody years. The conflict went on for so long because thousands of rebels were willing to lay down their lives and defend their homes to the last man and last cartridge. Many of these soldiers were Mississippians--approximately 78,000 citizens of the Magnolia State can be documented as having served in the Civil War. Of this number, over 27,500 died either of disease or in combat. Remembering Mississippi's Confederates is a photographic tribute to the men who fought so gallantly for their state. Many of the images in this volume have never been published and come from the proud descendants of the soldiers themselves; others were acquired from collections spread across the United States.
Author : Kenneth White Munden,Henry Putney Beers
Publisher : National Archives Trust Fund Board National Archives and Rec
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UCR:31210006186470
