Louisianians In The Civil War

Author : Lawrence L. Hewitt,Arthur W. Bergeron
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826263193

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Louisianians in the Civil War by Lawrence L. Hewitt,Arthur W. Bergeron Pdf

"Louisianians in the Civil War brings to the forefront the suffering endured by Louisianians during and after the war--hardships more severe than those suffered by the majority of residents in the Confederacy. The wealthiest southern state before the Civil War, Louisiana was the poorest by 1880. Such economic devastation negatively affected most segments of the state's population, and the fighting that contributed to this financial collapse further fragmented Louisiana's culturally diverse citizenry. The essays in this book deal with the differing segments of Louisiana's society and their interactions with one another. Louisiana was as much a multicultural society during the Civil War as the United States is today. One manner in which this diversity manifested itself was in the turning of neighbor against neighbor. This volume lays the groundwork for demonstrating that strongholds of Unionist sentiment existed beyond the mountainous regions of the Confederacy and, to a lesser extent, that foreigners and African Americans could surpass white, native-born Southerners in their support of the Lost Cause. Some of the essays deal with the attitudes and hardships the war inflicted on different classes of civilians (sugar planters, slaves, Union sympathizers, and urban residents, especially women), while others deal with specific minority groups or with individuals. Written by leading scholars of Civil War history, Louisianians in the Civil War provides the reader a rich understanding of the complex ordeals of Louisiana and her people. Students, scholars, and the general reader will welcome this fine addition to Civil War studies."--Publishers website.

Author : Terry G. Scriber,Theresa Arnold-Scriber
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000115889895

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The Fourth Louisiana Battalion in the Civil War by Terry G. Scriber,Theresa Arnold-Scriber Pdf

The first section of this book follows the Fourth Louisiana Battalion from Louisiana's secession through Richmond, South Carolina's coastal defense, Vicksburg, the campaigns of the Army of Tennessee, and the final surrender at Gainesville, Alabama. The second section is a detailed biographical register covering commanding officers, staff, color bearers and soldiers who served the battalion. Information for each man includes military record, civilian history, pension information and burial location.

Author : Stuart Salling
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786456833

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Louisianians in the Western Confederacy by Stuart Salling Pdf

The Louisiana Brigade served the Confederacy in the Army of Tennessee, battling on the western frontier. Commanded by Daniel W. Adams and Randall L. Gibson, the brigade fought from the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862 to the surrender at Meridian in May 1865. This volume follows the formation and history of the individual units, the politics of command, and the war's end and aftermath.

Author : John David Winters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Louisiana
ISBN : OCLC:12609380

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The Civil War in Louisiana by John David Winters Pdf

Author : John D. Winters
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807117250

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The Civil War in Louisiana by John D. Winters Pdf

This comprehensive history fills an important gap in the story of the Civil War. Too often the war waged west of the Mississippi River has been given short shrift by historians and scholars, who have tended to focus their attention on the great battles east of the river. This book looks in detail at the military operations that occurred in Louisiana—most of them minor skirmishes, but some of them battles and campaigns of major importance. The Civil War in Louisiana begins with the first talk of secession in the state and ends with the last tragic days of the war. John D. Winters describes with great fervor and detail such events as the fall of Confederate New Orleans and the burning of Alexandria. In addition to military action, Winters discusses the political, economic, and social aspects of the war in Louisiana. His accounts of battles and the men who waged them provide a fuller story of Louisiana in the Civil War than has ever before been told.

Author : Christopher G. Peña
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781418455446

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Scarred by War by Christopher G. Peña Pdf

Excluding the capture of New Orleans, the military affairs in southeast Louisiana during the American Civil War have long been viewed by scholars and historians has having no strategic importance during the war. As such, no such serious effort to chronicle the war in that portion of the state has been attempted, except Peas earlier book, Touched By War: Battles Fought in the Lafourche District (1998). That book covered the military affairs in southeast Louisiana that led to the five major battles fought in that region between fall 1862 and summer 1863. Beyond that point, little is chronicled, until now. In this thoroughly researched and authoritative book, Scarred By War: Civil War in Southeast Louisiana, Christopher Pea has revised and updated his earlier work and expanded the scope to include a study of the remaining two years of the war, a period filled with intense Confederate guerilla warfare. The literary result is a book that recounts the political, social, military, and economic aspects of the war as they played out in southeast Louisianas bayou country.

Author : Arthur W. Bergeron
Publisher : Louisiana Purchase Bicentennia
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058112700

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The Civil War in Louisiana: The Home front by Arthur W. Bergeron Pdf

Reveals the disparate loyalties and experiences of the peoples of Louisiana during the Civil War.

Author : James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807123362

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Louisiana Native Guards by James G. Hollandsworth, Jr. Pdf

Early in the Civil War, Louisiana's Confederate government sanctioned a militia unit of black troops, the Louisiana Native Guards. Intended as a response to demands from members of New Orleans' substantial free black population that they be permitted to participate in the defense of their state, the unit was used by Confederate authorities for public display and propaganda purposes but was not allowed to fight. After the fall of New Orleans, General Benjamin F. Butler brought the Native Guards into Federal military service and increased their numbers with runaway slaves. He intended to use the troops for guard duty and heavy labor. His successor, Nathaniel P. Banks, did not trust the black Native Guard officers, and as he replaced them with white commanders, the mistreatment and misuse of the black troops steadily increased. The first large-scale deployment of the Native Guards occurred in May, 1863, during the Union siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, when two of their regiments were ordered to storm an impregnable hilltop position. Although the soldiers fought valiantly, the charge was driven back with extensive losses. The white officers and the northern press praised the tenacity and fighting ability of the black troops, but they were still not accepted on the same terms as their white counterparts. After the war, Native Guard veterans took up the struggle for civil rights - in particular, voting rights - for Louisiana's black population. The Louisiana Native Guards is the first account to consider that struggle. By documenting their endeavors through Reconstruction, James G. Hollandsworth places the Native Guards' military service in the broader context of a civil rights movement thatpredates more recent efforts by a hundred years. This remarkable work presents a vivid picture of men eager to prove their courage and ability to a world determined to exploit and demean them.

Author : Charles P. Roland
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807122211

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Louisiana Sugar Plantations During the Civil War by Charles P. Roland Pdf

This early work by the esteemed historian Charles P. Roland draws from an abundance of primary sources to describe how the Civil War brought south Louisiana’s sugarcane industry to the brink of extinction, and disaster to the lives of civilians both black and white. A gifted raconteur, Roland sets the scene where the Louisiana cane country formed “a favored and colorful part of the Old South,” and then unfolds the series of events that changed it forever: secession, blockade, invasion, occupation, emancipation, and defeat. Though sugarcane survived, production did not match prewar levels for twenty-five years. Roland’s approach is both illustrative of an earlier era and remarkably seminal to current emancipation studies. He displays sympathy for plantation owners’ losses, but he considers as well the sufferings of women, slaves, and freedmen, yielding a rich study of the social, cultural, economic, and agricultural facets of Louisiana’s sugar plantations during the Civil War.

Author : Carl Moneyhon,Carl H. Moneyhon,Bobby Leon Roberts
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1557281580

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Portraits of Conflict by Carl Moneyhon,Carl H. Moneyhon,Bobby Leon Roberts Pdf

Centering on the common soldier, this photojournalistic album tells the stories of individuals--their heroics, fear, boredom--with some 250 photographs, five maps, and related documents. It also documents, by-the-by, the rise of field photography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : John Dimitry
Publisher : Ebooksondisk.Com
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1932157506

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Confederate Military History of Louisiana by John Dimitry Pdf

"This edition has been drastically changed from the original"--T.p. verso.

Author : Christopher G. Peña,Christopher G. Peena
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1418455466

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Scarred by War by Christopher G. Peña,Christopher G. Peena Pdf

At the height of its power, with the world watching, some in envy, others waiting to see the downfall, America is at a crossroads. Will the United States of America dominate the world scene for another hundred years or will internal decay and lack of a common course take it the way of other great empires in the past? Rome, Carthage, Greece, the Soviet Union, and many others who stepped onto the world stage have exited - some in infamy, others in ruin. Greider shows the rich history of America from those who left Europe to find opportunity and religious freedom, and were blessed in their efforts as long as they served God and revered the principles found in the Holy Scriptures. The Founding Fathers were deeply religious men who sought inspiration and received divine guidance. Forces at work today, including the pluralistic mix of our citizenry and the trend toward a post-Christian culture, are reshaping the American Ideal. In his book, America, Renewal or Ruin, Greider sees the potential for American youth to find and promote renewal in their quest for moral stability if guided by visionary leaders in a conflicted world. History has shown that reawakenings are possible. Now is the time, according to Greider, to call upon those whose roots are embedded in their Christian heritage to wake up and take back their country, resisting the forces of ruin. Perhaps our nation has gone too far in jettisoning the values upon which it was founded. If any culture is to survive, it must stand for something. If not, citizens will fall for anything that is served up in titillating packaging and played to the base appetites of the flesh. Our country needs a revival of spirit and a clear sense of morality and propriety. Greider shows in his book America: Renewal or Ruin that there is a cause for every effect and the cause of America greatness lay in the goodness of her people. The Founding Fathers were deeply religious men who claimed to owe their dependence and guidance on God and his Word. America is rapidly moving away from its Christian roots and the ominous signs of moral, social and cultural decay are ever present.

Author : C. Peter Ripley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783778198

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Slaves and Freedmen in Civil War Louisiana by C. Peter Ripley Pdf

Author : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Savas Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781940669915

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The Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour by Terry L. Jones Pdf

A Confederate captain from the 1st Louisiana Brigade uses his skill as a newspaper editor to recount his experiences during the U.S. Civil War. Like many other soldiers who fought in the Civil War, New Orleans newspaper editor William J. Seymour left behind an account of his wartime experiences. It is the only memoir by any field or staff officer of the famous 1st Louisiana Brigade (Hays’ Brigade) in the Army of Northern Virginia. Long out of print, The Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour: Reminiscences of a Louisiana Tiger is available once more in this updated and completely revised edition by award-winning author Terry L. Jones. Seymour’s invaluable narrative begins with his service as a volunteer aide to Confederate Gen. Johnson K. Duncan during the 1862 New Orleans campaign. Utilizing his journalistic background and eye for detail, Seymour recalls the siege of Fort Jackson (the only Southern soldier’s account except for official reports), the bickering and confusion among Confederate officers, and the subsequent mutiny and surrender of the fort’s defenders. Jailed after the fall of New Orleans for violating Maj. Gen. Ben Butler’s censorship order, Seymour was eventually released and joined General Hays’ staff in Virginia. Seymour’s memoirs cover his experiences in the army of Northern Virginia, including the campaigns of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, and Shenandoah Valley, ending with the Battle of Cedar Creek in 1864. His pen recounts the activities of the Louisiana Brigade while offering a critical analysis of the tactics and strategies employed by the army. A perceptive and articulate officer, Seymour left behind an invaluable account of the Civil War’s drudgery and horror, pomp and glory. Terry L. Jones’ spare and judicious editing enhances Seymour’s memoirs to create an indispensable resource for Civil War historians and enthusiasts.

Author : Thomas Ayres
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004593264

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Dark and Bloody Ground by Thomas Ayres Pdf

This book chronicles not only the remarkable military victory at Mansfield but the subsequent engagements that forced Union forces into an ignominious withdrawal.