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Author : Bartholomew S. De Forest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : UCAL:$B310605
Author : Noah Andre Trudeau
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611213270
From a New York Times–bestselling author, “a vivid account of Lincoln’s sixteen days at the front in Virginia” (James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom). March 1865: The United States was at a crossroads and, truth be told, Abraham Lincoln was a sick man. I am very unwell, he confided to a close acquaintance. A vast and terrible civil war was winding down, leaving momentous questions for a war-weary president to address. A timely invitation from Gen. Ulysses S. Grant provided the impetus for an escape to City Point, Virginia, a journey from which Abraham Lincoln drew much more than he ever expected. This book offers the first comprehensive account of a momentous time in his presidency. Lincoln made the trip to escape the constant interruptions in the capital that were draining his vitality, and to make his personal amends for presiding over the most destructive war in American history in order to save the nation. Lincoln returned to Washington sixteen days later with a renewed sense of purpose, urgency, and direction that would fundamentally shape his second-term agenda. This was his longest break from the White House since he had taken office, and until now little has been known about it. Lincoln’s Greatest Journey represents the most extensively researched and detailed story of these decisive sixteen days at City Point, in a narrative laden with many previously unpublished accounts that fill in gaps and clear up misconceptions. A fresh, more complete picture of Lincoln emerges, set against a dramatically new narrative of what really happened during those last weeks of his life.
Author : Judkin Browning
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813059013
James Rumley was nearly fifty years old when the Civil War reached the remote outer banks community of Beaufort, North Carolina. Comfortably employed as clerk of the Superior Court of Carteret County, he could only watch as a Union fleet commanded by General Ambrose Burnside snaked its way up the Neuse River in March 1862 and took control of the area. In response to laws enacted by occupying forces, Rumley took the Oath of Allegiance, stood aside as his beloved courthouse was used for pro-Union rallies, and watched helplessly as friends and neighbors had their property seized and taken away. In public, Rumley appeared calm and cooperative, but behind closed doors he poured all his horror, disgust, and outrage into his diary. Safely hidden from the view of military authority, he explained in rational terms how his pledge of allegiance to the invading forces was not morally binding and expressed his endless worry over seeing former slaves emancipated and empowered. This constantly surprising diary provides a rare window onto the mind of a Confederate sympathizer under the rule of what he considered to be an alien, unlawful, and "pestilent" power.
Author : Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674263697
Even one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil War—by its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary Gallagher shows in this brilliant revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment. In a searing analysis of the Civil War North as revealed in contemporary letters, diaries, and documents, Gallagher demonstrates that what motivated the North to go to war and persist in an increasingly bloody effort was primarily preservation of the Union. Devotion to the Union bonded nineteenth-century Americans in the North and West against a slaveholding aristocracy in the South and a Europe that seemed destined for oligarchy. Northerners believed they were fighting to save the republic, and with it the world’s best hope for democracy. Once we understand the centrality of union, we can in turn appreciate the force that made northern victory possible: the citizen-soldier. Gallagher reveals how the massive volunteer army of the North fought to confirm American exceptionalism by salvaging the Union. Contemporary concerns have distorted the reality of nineteenth-century Americans, who embraced emancipation primarily to punish secessionists and remove slavery as a future threat to union—goals that emerged in the process of war. As Gallagher recovers why and how the Civil War was fought, we gain a more honest understanding of why and how it was won.
Author : New York State Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2991688
Author : New York State Library (Albany, NY)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10734717
Author : Caroline E. Janney
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469607078
As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record. In Remembering the Civil War, Caroline E. Janney examines how the war generation--men and women, black and white, Unionists and Confederates--crafted and protected their memories of the nation's greatest conflict. Janney maintains that the participants never fully embraced the reconciliation so famously represented in handshakes across stone walls. Instead, both Union and Confederate veterans, and most especially their respective women's organizations, clung tenaciously to their own causes well into the twentieth century. Janney explores the subtle yet important differences between reunion and reconciliation and argues that the Unionist and Emancipationist memories of the war never completely gave way to the story Confederates told. She challenges the idea that white northerners and southerners salved their war wounds through shared ideas about race and shows that debates about slavery often proved to be among the most powerful obstacles to reconciliation.
Author : New York State Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Libraries
ISBN : HARVARD:32044094004538
Author : New York State Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Libraries
ISBN : MINN:31951000841852D
From 1889 to 1918 the reports consist of the Report of the director and appendixes, which from 1893 include various bulletins issued by the library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries) These, including the Report of the director, were each issued also separately.
Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2998215
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : America
ISBN : NYPL:33433081687620
Author : Sean Michael Chick
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612347370
The Battle of Petersburg was the culmination of the Virginia Overland campaign, which pitted the Army of the Potomac, led by Ulysses S. Grant and George Gordon Meade, against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. In spite of having outmaneuvered Lee, after three days of battle in which the Confederates at Petersburg were severely outnumbered, Union forces failed to take the city, and their final, futile attack on the fourth day only added to already staggering casualties. By holding Petersburg against great odds, the Confederacy arguably won its last great strategic victory of the Civil War. In The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864, Sean Michael Chick takes an in-depth look at an important battle often overlooked by historians and offers a new perspective on why the Army of the Potomac's leadership, from Grant down to his corps commanders, could not win a battle in which they held colossal advantages. He also discusses the battle's wider context, including politics, memory, and battlefield preservation. Highlights include the role played by African American soldiers on the first day and a detailed retelling of the famed attack of the First Maine Heavy Artillery, which lost more men than any other Civil War regiment in a single battle. In addition, the book has a fresh and nuanced interpretation of the generalships of Grant, Meade, Lee, P. G. T. Beauregard, and William Farrar Smith during this critical battle.
Author : Minnesota Historical Society. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Minnesota
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086429321
Author : John A. Biever,Maryann Karinch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781442216150
The Wandering Mind introduces readers to dissociative states and helps them understand the nature of serious dissociative disorders, such as those involving multiple personalities. The authors pinpoint the differences between normal dissociation and disordered thinking that requires evaluation and treatment.
Author : Enoch Pratt Free Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433069268385
