St Louis Civil War Sites And The Fight For Freedom

Author : Peter Downs
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467152723

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St. Louis Civil War Sites and the Fight for Freedom by Peter Downs Pdf

The Monuments of a Divided State St. Louis was at the center of several key Civil War events from the Dred Scott decision through the Mississippi Campaign that cut the Confederate States in two. Visit the site from which enslaved people tried to cross the Mississippi River to the free state of Illinois. Discover how hundreds of lawsuits by enslaved people set the stage for the Dred Scott decision that lit the fuse to the Civil War. See the military base that produced over 200 Civil War generals and the arsenal that secessionists and unionists fought to control. Author Peter Downs goes behind the monuments and historic sites to explore the people, relationships and events that influenced the course of civil war in St. Louis and the nation.

Author : Peter Downs
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439676202

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St. Louis Civil War Sites and the Fight for Freedom by Peter Downs Pdf

The Monuments of a Divided State St. Louis was at the center of several key Civil War events from the Dred Scott decision through the Mississippi Campaign that cut the Confederate States in two. Visit the site from which enslaved people tried to cross the Mississippi River to the free state of Illinois. Discover how hundreds of lawsuits by enslaved people set the stage for the Dred Scott decision that lit the fuse to the Civil War. See the military base that produced over 200 Civil War generals and the arsenal that secessionists and unionists fought to control. Author Peter Downs goes behind the monuments and historic sites to explore the people, relationships and events that influenced the course of civil war in St. Louis and the nation.

Author : Louis S. Gerteis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004552757

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Civil War St. Louis by Louis S. Gerteis Pdf

St Louis played a key role as a strategic staging ground for the Union Army in the American Civil War. This is a portrait of a war-torn city, encompassing a wide range of events such as the murder of publisher Elijah Lovejoy, the infamous Dred Scott saga, battles in the city, and more.

Author : Doug Gelbert
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786422593

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Civil War Sites, Memorials, Museums and Library Collections by Doug Gelbert Pdf

Although the exact number will never be known, it is estimated that there were over 10,000 military engagements during the Civil War. Most have long since been forgotten, but the places where a number of them were fought have been maintained as historic sites. Others have been memorialized by statues or markers, as have many Civil War leaders and soldiers. Arranged by state, this reference work provides capsule descriptions and information on Civil War sites and collections throughout the United States, including battlefields, memorial markers and statues, museums, cemeteries and other landmarks. In addition to the description, the address and telephone number for each are given, along with admission fees (if any) and policies, hours open and other pertinent information. For each state, there is a brief profile of its role during the Civil War and a timeline of significant battles or other events that took place there.

Author : Adam Arenson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674052888

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The Great Heart of the Republic by Adam Arenson Pdf

In the battles to determine the destiny of the United States in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, St. Louis, then at the hinge between North, South, and West, was ideally placed to bring these sections together. At least, this was the hope of a coterie of influential St. Louisans. But their visions of re-orienting the nation's politics with Westerners at the top and St. Louis as a cultural, commercial, and national capital crashed as the country was tom apart by convulsions over slavery, emancipation, and Manifest Destiny. While standard accounts frame the coming of the Civil War as strictly a conflict between the North and the South who were competing to expand their way of life, Arenson shifts the focus to the distinctive culture and politics of the American West, recovering the region’s importance for understanding the Civil War and examining the vision of western advocates themselves, and the importance of their distinct agenda for shaping the political, economic, and cultural future of the nation.

Author : Dawn Dupler,Cher Petrovic
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439644799

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St. Louis in the Civil War by Dawn Dupler,Cher Petrovic Pdf

On May 10, 1861, Union troops surrounded Camp Jackson, a military encampment where Confederate leaders were accused of conspiring to seize the St. Louis Arsenal, the largest store of munitions west of the Mississippi. The state militia, which numbered more than 600 men, answered the call of Missouri’s pro-Southern governor Claiborne Fox Jackson to assemble but found themselves outnumbered 10 to 1 and were forced to surrender. As federal forces marched them through St. Louis, an angry crowd gathered. Gunfire crackled, leaving more than 24 people dead. St. Louis epitomized the growing tensions between the North and South. The city’s strategic position enabled James Eads’s shipyards to build ironclads, Jefferson Barracks to muster troops, and Gratiot Street Prison to hold POWs. The list of notables with ties to St. Louis reads like a who’s who of the Civil War: Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, William T. Sherman, Nathaniel Lyon, James Longstreet, George Pickett, and others.

Author : Walter Johnson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541646063

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The Broken Heart of America by Walter Johnson Pdf

A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African Americans
ISBN : WISC:89082357658

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Black Meetings & Tourism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Silvana R. Siddali
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821443354

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Missouri’s War by Silvana R. Siddali Pdf

Civil War Missouri stood at the crossroads of America. As the most Southern-leaning state in the Middle West, Missouri faced a unique dilemma. The state formed the gateway between east and west, as well as one of the borders between the two contending armies. Moreover, because Missouri was the only slave state in the Great Interior, the conflicts that were tearing the nation apart were also starkly evident within the state. Deep divisions between Southern and Union supporters, as well as guerrilla violence on the western border, created a terrible situation for civilians who lived through the attacks of bushwhackers and Jayhawkers. The documents collected in Missouri’s War reveal what factors motivated Missourians to remain loyal to the Union or to fight for the Confederacy, how they coped with their internal divisions and conflicts, and how they experienced the end of slavery in the state. Private letters, diary entries, song lyrics, official Union and Confederate army reports, newspaper editorials, and sermons illuminate the war within and across Missouri’s borders. Missouri’s War also highlights the experience of free and enslaved African Americans before the war, as enlisted Union soldiers, and in their effort to gain rights after the end of the war. Although the collection focuses primarily on the war years, several documents highlight both the national sectional conflict that led to the outbreak of violence and the effort to reunite the conflicting forces in Missouri after the war.

Author : Robert Underwood Johnson,Clarence Clough Buel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : United States
ISBN : PRNC:32101075682854

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Battles and Leaders of the Civil War by Robert Underwood Johnson,Clarence Clough Buel Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Battles and Leaders Of the Civil War by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Underwood Johnson,Clarence Clough Buel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Digital images
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097898654

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Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The opening battles by Robert Underwood Johnson,Clarence Clough Buel Pdf

Author : Michael Capps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Gateway Arch (Saint Louis, Mo.)
ISBN : 0931056136

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Story of the Gateway Arch by Michael Capps Pdf

Author : Edison Electric Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Electric lighting
ISBN : UIUC:30112007997866

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Bulletin by Edison Electric Institute Pdf

Author : James M. McPherson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:278011280

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Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson Pdf