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Incident at the Otterville Station

Author : John Christgau
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803248724

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While elated Northerners were celebrating victory at Gettysburg and toasting Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, Missourian Charles W. Walker was rousing his thirteen slaves in the dark of night. In defiance of a standing Union order prohibiting the transfer of slaves among states, he intended to ship his slaves by train to Kentucky, where they would be sold at auction. What ensued was one of the most gripping—and until now, mostly forgotten—events of the Civil War. In Incident at the Otterville Station, John Christgau relates the true story of the rescue of Walker’s thirteen slaves by soldiers of the Ninth Minnesota Regiment and the soldiers’ subsequent arrest for mutiny. The controversial incident became national news, with President Lincoln ultimately sending Secretary of War Edward Stanton to investigate. Christgau’s compelling narrative of the Otterville Station rescue and its aftermath illustrates the complex process of emancipation during the American Civil War, particularly in border states such as Missouri. The end of slavery was the product of many actors, from Union soldiers to the president and Congress to abolitionists and the enslaved themselves. This detailed account examines the critical role that individuals played in determining the outcome of emancipation and the war.

Incident at the Otterville Station

Author : John Christgau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0803249373

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While elated Northerners were celebrating victory at Gettysburg and toasting Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, Missourian Charles W. Walker was rousing his thirteen slaves in the dark of night. In defiance of a standing Union order prohibiting the transfer of slaves among states, he intended to ship his slaves by train to Kentucky, where they would be sold at auction. What ensued was one of the most gripping—and until now, mostly forgotten—events of the Civil War. In Incident at the Otterville Station, John Christgau relates the true story of the rescue of Walker’s thirteen slaves by soldiers of the Ninth Minnesota Regiment and the soldiers’ subsequent arrest for mutiny. The controversial incident became national news, with President Lincoln ultimately sending Secretary of War Edward Stanton to investigate. Christgau’s compelling narrative of the Otterville Station rescue and its aftermath illustrates the complex process of emancipation during the American Civil War, particularly in border states such as Missouri. The end of slavery was the product of many actors, from Union soldiers to the president and Congress to abolitionists and the enslaved themselves. This detailed account examines the critical role that individuals played in determining the outcome of emancipation and the war.

Incident at the Otterville Station

Author : John Christgau
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803246447

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John Christgau relates the true story of the rescue of Walker's thirteen slaves by soldiers of the Ninth Minnesota Regiment and the soldiers' subsequent arrest for mutiny.

The Origins of the Jump Shot

Author : John Christgau
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803263945

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The Origins of the Jump Shot by John Christgau Pdf

Looks at basketball's evolution and the supposed inventors of the jump shot

Enemies

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803228066

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They were called aliens and enemies. But the World War II internees John Christgau writes about were in fact ordinary people victimized by the politics of a global war. The Alien Enemy Control Program in America was born with the United States?s declaration of war on Japan, Germany, and Italy and lasted until 1948. In all, 31,275 ?enemy aliens? were imprisoned in camps like the one described in this book?Fort Lincoln, just south of Bismarck, North Dakota. ø In animated and suspenseful prose, Christgau tells the stories of several individuals whose experiences are representative of those at Fort Lincoln. The subjects? lives before and after capture?presented in five case studies?tell of encroaching bitterness and sorrow. Christgau based his accounts on voluminous and previously untouched National Archives and FBI documents in addition to letters, diaries, and interviews with his subjects. ø Christgau?s afterword for this Bison Books edition relates additional stories of World War II alien restriction, detention, and internment that surfaced after this book was originally published, and he draws parallels between the alien internment of World War II and events in this country since September 11, 2001.

Birch Coulie

Author : John Christgau
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803240155

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In the days following the Battle of Birch Coulie, the decisive battle in the deadly Dakota War of 1862, one of President Lincoln’s private secretaries wrote: “There has hardly been an outbreak so treacherous, so sudden, so bitter, and so bloody, as that which filled the State of Minnesota with sorrow and lamentation.” Even today, at the 150th anniversary of the Dakota War, the battle still raises questions and stirs controversy. In Birch Coulie John Christgau recounts the dramatic events surrounding the battle. American history at its narrative best, his book is also a uniquely balanced and accurate chronicle of this little-understood conflict, one of the most important to roil the American West. Christgau’s account of the war between white settlers and the Dakota Indians in Minnesota examines two communities torn by internal dissent and external threat, whites and Native Americans equally traumatized by the short and violent war. The book also delves into the aftermath, during which thirty-eight Dakota men were hanged without legal representation or the appearance of defense witnesses, the largest mass execution in American history. With its unusually nuanced perspective, Birch Coulie brings a welcome measure of clarity and insight to a critical moment in the troubled history of the American West.

Kokomo Joe

Author : John Christgau
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803222793

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Kokomo Joe by John Christgau Pdf

The first Japanese American jockey, Kokomo Joe burst like a comet on the American horse-racing scene in the summer of 1941. As war with Japan loomed, Yoshio Kokomo Joe Kobuki won race after race, stirring passions far beyond merely the envy and antagonism of other jockeys. His is a story of the American dream catapulting headlong into the nightmare of a nation gripped by wartime hysteria and xenophobia. The story that unfolds in Kokomo Joe is at once inspiring, deeply sad, and richly ironic and remarkably relevant in our own climate of nationalist fervor and racial profiling. Sent to Japan from Washington State after his mother and three siblings died of the Spanish flu, Kobuki continued to nurse his dream of the American good life. Because of his small stature, his ambition steered him to a future as a star jockey. John Christgau narrates Kobuki s rise from lowly stable boy to reigning star at California fairs and in the bush leagues. He describes how, at the height of the jockey s fame, even his flight into the Sonora Desert could not protect him from the government s espionage and sabotage dragnet. And finally he recounts how, after three years of internment, Kokomo Joe tried to reclaim his racing success, only to fall victim to still-rampant racism, a career-ending injury, and cancer.

Michael and the Whiz Kids

Author : John Christgau
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803245891

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Michael and the Whiz Kids by John Christgau Pdf

"The story of Christgau's 1968 season coaching lightweight basketball in California"--

Joshua Chamberlain

Author : John J. Pullen
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811740999

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Joshua Chamberlain by John J. Pullen Pdf

Joshua Chamberlain was much more than a war hero, and Pullen's thoughtful book fills out the picture of his remarkable life. An entertaining and inspiring story. --Senator George J. Mitchell "Pullen's book is a worthy tribute to Chamberlain's lasting legacy." --Charles F. Herberger, Civil War Book Review "Pullen's presentation is more complete in revealing a complicated character, without diminishing the almost mythic status he has assumed." --Edward C. Smith, The Washington Times Recounts Chamberlain's later life through the lens of his experience during the Civil War

An Unholy Traffic

Author : Robert K. D. Colby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780197578261

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An Unholy Traffic by Robert K. D. Colby Pdf

During the Civil War, enslavers bought and sold thousands of people, extending a traffic in humanity that had long underpinned American slavery. Despite the pressures of blockades, economic collapse, and unfolding emancipation, the slave trade survived to the war's end. This book provides a vivid look at life within the trade in slaves and tells the story of the wartime slave trade from the perspective of both participants in it and those subjected to it.

Portals to Hell

Author : Lonnie R. Speer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803293429

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Portals to Hell by Lonnie R. Speer Pdf

The holding of prisoners of war has always been both a political and a military enterprise, yet the military prisons of the Civil War, which held more than four hundred thousand soldiers and caused the deaths of fifty-six thousand men, have been nearly forgotten. Now Lonnie R. Speer has brought to life the least-known men in the great struggle between the Union and the Confederacy, using their own words and observations as they endured a true ?hell on earth.? Drawing on scores of previously unpublished firsthand accounts, Portals to Hell presents the prisoners? experiences in great detail and from an impartial perspective. The first comprehensive study of all major prisons of both the North and the South, this chronicle analyzes the many complexities of the relationships among prisoners, guards, commandants, and government leaders.

The Gambler and the Bug Boy

Author : John Christgau
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803211223

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The Gambler and the Bug Boy by John Christgau Pdf

An account of a dark chapter in American horse racing history documents the scandal that ensued in 1939 and 1940 Los Angeles when notorious L.A. bookmaker Bernard "Big" Mooney threatened young jockeys if they did not fix races, with the unwilling assistance of Albert Siler, a young apprentice rider manipulated by the criminal gambler.

The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America

Author : Robert H. Churchill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108489126

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The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America by Robert H. Churchill Pdf

A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.

Civil War Stories

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486111568

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Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce Pdf

Sixteen dark and vivid tales by great satirist: "A Horseman in the Sky," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chicakamauga," "A Son of the Gods," "What I Saw of Shiloh," more. Note.