I Do Wish This Cruel War Was Over

Author : Mark K. Christ,Patrick G. Williams
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610755405

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I Do Wish This Cruel War Was Over by Mark K. Christ,Patrick G. Williams Pdf

I Do Wish this Cruel War Was Over collects diaries, letters, and memoirs excerpted from their original publication in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly to offer a first-hand, ground-level view of the war's horrors, its mundane hardships, its pitched battles and languid stretches, even its moments of frivolity. Readers will find varying degrees of commitment and different motivations among soldiers on both sides, along with the perspective of civilians. In many cases, these documents address aspects of the war that would become objects of scholarly and popular fascination only years after their initial appearance: the guerrilla conflict that became the "real war" west of the Mississippi; the "hard war" waged against civilians long before William Tecumseh Sherman set foot in Georgia; the work of women in maintaining households in the absence of men; and the complexities of emancipation, which saw African Americans winning freedom and sometimes losing it all over again. Altogether, these first-person accounts provide an immediacy and a visceral understanding of what it meant to survive the Civil War in Arkansas.

Author : Chandra Manning
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307267436

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What This Cruel War Was Over by Chandra Manning Pdf

Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise and narrative verve, Manning explores how the Union and Confederate soldiers came to identify slavery as the central issue of the war and what that meant for a tumultuous nation. This is a brilliant and eye-opening debut and an invaluable addition to our understanding of the Civil War as it has never been rendered before.

Author : Charles Harvey Brewster
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015025186720

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When this Cruel War is Over by Charles Harvey Brewster Pdf

"I am scared most to death every battle we have, but I don't think you need be afraid of my sneaking away unhurt". Thus wrote Adjutant Charles Harvey Brewster of the 10th Massachusetts to his sister Martha in 1864, in one of over 200 letters he would pen during his four years of service. Born and raised in Northampton, Massachusetts, Brewster was a twenty-seven-year-old store clerk when he enlisted in Company C of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteers in April 1861. During the next three and a half years he fought in many of the major battles of the Virginia campaigns--Fair Oaks, the Seven Days, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, the "Bloody Angle" at Spotsylvania--rising through the ranks to become second lieutenant and later adjutant of his regiment. His letters, most of which were written to his mother and two sisters, record not only the horrors he witnessed on the battlefield, but also his inner struggle with his own values, convictions, and sense of manhood. In a thoughtful and illuminating introductory essay, David W. Blight explores the evolution of Brewster's understanding of the terrible conflict in which he was engaged. Blight shows how Brewster's attitudes toward race and slavery gradually changed, in part as a result of his contact with escaped slaves and his experience recruiting black troops. He also examines the shift in Brewster's conception of courage, as the realities of war collided with the romantic ideals he had previously embraced. This recently discovered and exceptionally literate collection of 137 letters chronicles the experiences of an ordinary Union soldier caught up in extraordinary events. At times naive and sentimental, at times mature andrealistic, Brewster's correspondence not only provides remarkable insight into the meaning of the Civil War for the average Yankee, but also testifies to the persistent power of war to attract and repel the human imagination.

Author : Steven E. Woodworth,Charles D. Grear
Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809337835

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Vicksburg Besieged by Steven E. Woodworth,Charles D. Grear Pdf

A detailed analysis of the end of the Vicksburg Campaign and the forty-day siege Vicksburg, Mississippi, held strong through a bitter, hard-fought, months-long Civil War campaign, but General Ulysses S. Grant’s forty-day siege ended the stalemate and, on July 4, 1863, destroyed Confederate control of the Mississippi River. In the first anthology to examine the Vicksburg Campaign’s final phase, nine prominent historians and emerging scholars provide in-depth analysis of previously unexamined aspects of the historic siege. Ranging in scope from military to social history, the contributors’ invitingly written essays examine the role of Grant’s staff, the critical contributions of African American troops to the Union Army of the Tennessee, both sides’ use of sharpshooters and soldiers’ opinions about them, unusual nighttime activities between the Union siege lines and Confederate defensive positions, the use of West Point siege theory and the ingenuity of Midwestern soldiers in mining tunnels under the city’s defenses, the horrific experiences of civilians trapped in Vicksburg, the failure of Louisiana soldiers’ defense at the subsequent siege of Jackson, and the effect of the campaign on Confederate soldiers from the Trans-Mississippi region. The contributors explore how the Confederate Army of Mississippi and residents of Vicksburg faced food and supply shortages as well as constant danger from Union cannons and sharpshooters. Rebel troops under the leadership of General John C. Pemberton sought to stave off the Union soldiers, and though their morale plummeted, the besieged soldiers held their ground until starvation set in. Their surrender meant that Grant’s forces succeeded in splitting in half the Confederate States of America. Editors Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear, along with their contributors—Andrew S. Bledsoe, John J. Gaines, Martin J. Hershock, Richard H. Holloway, Justin S. Solonick, Scott L. Stabler, and Jonathan M. Steplyk—give a rare glimpse into the often overlooked operations at the end of the most important campaign of the Civil War.

Author : Richard W. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010287720

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A Soldier's Reminiscences in Peace and War by Richard W. Johnson Pdf

Author : Thomas W. Cutrer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469666280

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Theater of a Separate War by Thomas W. Cutrer Pdf

Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent. From cotton-rich Texas and the fields of Kansas through Indian Territory and into the high desert of New Mexico, the Trans-Mississippi Theater was site of major clashes from the war's earliest days through the surrenders of Confederate generals Edmund Kirby Smith and Stand Waite in June 1865. In this comprehensive military history of the war west of the Mississippi River, Thomas W. Cutrer shows that the theater's distance from events in the East does not diminish its importance to the unfolding of the larger struggle.

Author : Dale Carpenter,Robert Cochran
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781682262078

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Reporting for Arkansas by Dale Carpenter,Robert Cochran Pdf

"In Reporting for Arkansas, Dale Carpenter and Robert Cochran present a biography of the pioneering Arkansas documentarian Jack Hill alongside a filmography celebrating the reissue of several of Hill's works newly hosted online by the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History"--

Author : Jacob Haas
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935106678

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"This Day We Marched Again" by Jacob Haas Pdf

A testament to the valor and determination of a common soldier On September 17, 1861, twenty-two-year-old Jacob Haas enlisted in the Sheboygan Tigers, a company of German immigrants that became Company A of the Ninth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. Over the next three years, Haas and his comrades marched thousands of miles and saw service in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and the Indian Territory, including pitched battles at Newtonia, Missouri, and Jenkins’ Ferry, Arkansas. Haas describes the war from the perspective of a private soldier and an immigrant as he marches through scorching summers and brutally cold winters to fight in some of the most savage combat in the west. His diary shows us an extraordinary story of the valor and determination of a volunteer soldier. Though his health was ruined by war, Haas voiced no regrets for the price he paid to fight for his adopted country.

Author : Cornelia Catherine Smith Henry
Publisher : Reminiscing Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780979396137

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Fear in North Carolina by Cornelia Catherine Smith Henry Pdf

Cornelia Henrys three journals, written between 1860 and 1868, offer an excellent source for daily information on western North Carolina during the Civil War period.

Author : James J. Gigantino
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557286765

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Slavery and Secession in Arkansas by James J. Gigantino Pdf

Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.

Author : Frederick Blichert
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781476671994

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Joss Whedon's Big Damn Movie by Frederick Blichert Pdf

When Joss Whedon's television show Firefly (2002-2003) was cancelled, devoted fans cried foul and demanded more--which led to the 2005 feature film Serenity. Both the series and the film were celebrated for their melding of science fiction and western iconography, dystopian settings, underdog storylines, and clever fast-paced dialogue. Firefly has garnered a great deal of scholarly attention--less so, Serenity. This collection of new essays, the first focusing exclusively on the film, examines its depictions of race, ableism, social engineering and systems of power, and its status as a crime film, among other topics.

Author : Chandra Manning
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307277329

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What This Cruel War Was Over by Chandra Manning Pdf

Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise and narrative verve, Manning explores how the Union and Confederate soldiers came to identify slavery as the central issue of the war and what that meant for a tumultuous nation. This is a brilliant and eye-opening debut and an invaluable addition to our understanding of the Civil War as it has never been rendered before.

Author : William A. Blair
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469616001

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Journal of the Civil War Era by William A. Blair Pdf

The Journal of the Civil War Era Volume 4, Number 4 December 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles Gary Gallagher & Kathryn Shively Meier Coming to Terms with Civil War Military History Peter C. Luebke "Equal to Any Minstrel Concert I Ever Attended at Home": Union Soldiers and Blackface Performance in the Civil War South John J. Hennessy Evangelizing for Union, 1863: The Army of the Potomac, Its Enemies at Home, and a New Solidarity Andrew F. Lang Republicanism, Race, and Reconstruction: The Ethos of Military Occupation in Civil War America Professional Notes Kevin M. Levin Black Confederates Out of the Attic and Into the Mainstream Book Reviews Books Received Notes on Contributors

Author : Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807887653

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Why Confederates Fought by Aaron Sheehan-Dean Pdf

In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. Utilizing new statistical evidence and first-person narratives, Sheehan-Dean explores how Virginia soldiers--even those who were nonslaveholders--adapted their vision of the war's purpose to remain committed Confederates. Sheehan-Dean challenges earlier arguments that middle- and lower-class southerners gradually withdrew their support for the Confederacy because their class interests were not being met. Instead he argues that Virginia soldiers continued to be motivated by the profound emotional connection between military service and the protection of home and family, even as the war dragged on. The experience of fighting, explains Sheehan-Dean, redefined southern manhood and family relations, established the basis for postwar race and class relations, and transformed the shape of Virginia itself. He concludes that Virginians' experience of the Civil War offers important lessons about the reasons we fight wars and the ways that those reasons can change over time.

Author : Ephraim A. Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Illinois
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1DYG

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Memoirs of the War by Ephraim A. Wilson Pdf