The Civil War Letters Of Joshua K Callaway

Author : Joshua K. Callaway
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820347660

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The Civil War Letters of Joshua K. Callaway by Joshua K. Callaway Pdf

From the Kentucky Campaign to Tullahoma, Chickamauga to Missionary Ridge, junior officer Joshua K. Callaway took part in some of the most critical campaigns of the Civil War. His twice-weekly letters home, written between April 1862 and November 1863, chronicle his gradual change from an ardent Confederate soldier to a weary veteran who longs to be at home. Callaway was a schoolteacher, husband, and father of two when he enlisted in the 28th Alabama Infantry Regiment at the age of twenty-seven. Serving with the Army of the Tennessee, he campaigned in Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, and north Georgia. Along the way this perceptive observer and gifted writer wrote a continuous narrative detailing the activities, concerns, hopes, fears, discomforts, and pleasures of a Confederate soldier in the field. Whether writing about combat, illness, encampments, or homesickness, Callaway makes even the everyday aspects of soldiering interesting. This large collection, seventy-four letters in all, is a valuable historical reference that provides new insights into life behind the front lines of the Civil War.

Author : Peter S. Carmichael
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469643106

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The War for the Common Soldier by Peter S. Carmichael Pdf

How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South, Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience--the marching, the fighting, the boredom, the idealism, the exhaustion, the punishments, and the frustrations of being away from families who often faced their own dire circumstances. Carmichael focuses not on what soldiers thought but rather how they thought. In doing so, he reveals how, to the shock of most men, well-established notions of duty or disobedience, morality or immorality, loyalty or disloyalty, and bravery or cowardice were blurred by war. Digging deeply into his soldiers' writing, Carmichael resists the idea that there was "a common soldier" but looks into their own words to find common threads in soldiers' experiences and ways of understanding what was happening around them. In the end, he argues that a pragmatic philosophy of soldiering emerged, guiding members of the rank and file as they struggled to live with the contradictory elements of their violent and volatile world. Soldiering in the Civil War, as Carmichael argues, was never a state of being but a process of becoming.

Author : Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050812646

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While God is Marching on by Steven E. Woodworth Pdf

The American Civil War not only pitted brother against brother but Christian against Christian. This is a study of soldiers' religious beliefs and how they influenced the course of that tragic conflict. It shows how Christian teaching and practice shaped the worldview of soldiers on both sides.

Author : Women's History Catherine Clinton Historian of Southern History, and the American Civil War
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198031291

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Southern Families at War : Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South by Women's History Catherine Clinton Historian of Southern History, and the American Civil War Pdf

Whether it was planter patriarchs struggling to maintain authority, or Jewish families coerced by Christian evangelicalism, or wives and mothers left behind to care for slaves and children, the Civil War took a terrible toll. From the bustling sidewalks of Richmond to the parched plains of the Texas frontier, from the rich Alabama black belt to the Tennessee woodlands, no corner of the South went unscathed. Through the prism of the southern family, this volume of twelve original essays provides fresh insights into this watershed in American history.

Author : Earl J. Hess
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700623839

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The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat by Earl J. Hess Pdf

The Civil War's single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we've been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully challenges that claim, offering a new, clear-eyed, and convincing assessment of the rifle musket's actual performance on the battlefield and its impact on the course of the Civil War. Many contemporaries were impressed with the new weapon's increased range of 500 yards, compared to the smoothbore musket's range of 100 yards, and assumed that the rifle was a major factor in prolonging the Civil War. Historians have also assumed that the weapon dramatically increased casualty rates, made decisive victories rare, and relegated cavalry and artillery to far lesser roles than they played in smoothbore battles. Hess presents a completely new assessment of the rifle musket, contending that its impact was much more limited than previously supposed and was confined primarily to marginal operations such as skirmishing and sniping. He argues further that its potential to alter battle line operations was virtually nullified by inadequate training, soldiers' preference for short-range firing, and the difficulty of seeing the enemy at a distance. He notes that bullets fired from the new musket followed a parabolic trajectory unlike those fired from smoothbores; at mid-range, those rifle balls flew well above the enemy, creating two killing zones between which troops could operate untouched. He also presents the most complete discussion to date of the development of skirmishing and sniping in the Civil War. Drawing upon the observations and reflections of the soldiers themselves, Hess offers the most compelling argument yet made regarding the actual use of the rifle musket and its influence on Civil War combat. Engagingly written and meticulously researched, his book will be of special interest to Civil War scholars, buffs, re-enactors, and gun enthusiasts alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X006058212

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The Callaway Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul A. Cimbala
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106019291399

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The Civil War by Paul A. Cimbala Pdf

Presents a picture of the Civil War soldier's life. Includes how the men who signed up with the Union and the Confederacy fought their way through the bloody U.S. fields, how they adjusted to peace (often badly wounded and scarred), and how they remembered their experiences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015065458260

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America, History and Life by Anonim Pdf

Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : United States
ISBN : WISC:89082591413

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North & South by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1520 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Books
ISBN : UVA:X004667564

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Book Review Index by Anonim Pdf

Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Libraries
ISBN : IND:30000046145359

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Library Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Desjardin,The National Civil War Museum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780964263

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Joshua L. Chamberlain by Thomas Desjardin,The National Civil War Museum Pdf

His life is a remarkable story of perseverance, tragedy and triumph. From an insecure young man with a considerable stutter who grew up in a small town in eastern Maine, Joshua Chamberlain rose to become a major general, recipient of the Medal of Honor, Governor of Maine and President of Bowdoin College. His writings are among the most oft-quoted of all Civil War memoirs, and he has become a legendary, even mythical historical figure. In 1995, the National Civil War Museum acquired a collection of approximately three hundred letters written by or sent to Chamberlain from his college years in 1852 to his death in 1914. Author Thomas Desjardin puts Chamberlain's words in contemporary and historical context and uses this extraordinary collection of letters to reveal – for the first time – the full and remarkable life of Joshua Chamberlain

Author : Clyde Edward Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1597970034

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Mud by Clyde Edward Wood Pdf

Napoleon delayed his attack at Waterloo to allow the mud to dry. Had he attacked earlier, he might have defeated Wellington before Blucher arrived. In November 1942, Russian mud stopped the Germans, who could not advance again until the temperature dropped low enough to freeze the mud. During the Vietnam War, "Project Popeye" was an American attempt to lengthen the monsoon and cause delays on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Soldiers have always known just how significant mud can be in war. But historians have not fully recognized its importance, and few have discussed the phenomenon in more than a passing manner. Only three books--"Military Geography" (by John Collins), "Battling the Elements" (by Harold Winters et al.), and "Battlegrounds") (edited by Michael Stephenson)-- have addressed it at any length and then only as part of the entire environment's effect on the battlefield. None of these books analyzed mud's influence on the individual combatant. "Mud: A Military History" first defines the substance's very different types. Then it examines their specific effects on mobility and on soldiers and their equipment over the centuries and throughout the world. From the Russian rasputiza to the Southeast Asian monsoon, C. E. Wood demonstrates mud's profound impact on the course of military history. Citing numerous veterans' memoirs, archival sources, personal interviews, and historical sources, soldier-scholar Wood pays particular attention to mud's effect on combatants' morale, health, and fatigue. His book is for all infantrymen--past, present, or the clean, dry, comfortable armchair variety.

Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486484501

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Civil War Letters by Bob Blaisdell Pdf

Wartime letters include correspondence of Union and Confederate sympathizers and soldiers of all ranks. Authentic illustrations accompany insightful missives by Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Whitman, Davis, and many of their contemporaries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997-05
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015079622455

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf