John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory write by Brian Craig Miller. This book was released on 2010. John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In this first biography of the general in more than twenty years, Miller offers a new original perspective, directly challenging those historians who have pointed to Hood's perceived personality flaws, his alleged abuse of painkillers, and other unsubstantiated claims as proof of his incompetence as a military leader. This book takes into account Hood's entire life -- as a student at West Point, his meteoric rise and fall as a soldier and Civil War commander, and his career as a successful postwar businessman. In many ways, Hood represents a typical southern man, consumed by personal and societal definitions of manhood that were threatened by amputation and preserved and reconstructed by Civil War memory. Miller consults an extensive variety of sources, explaining not only what Hood did but also the environment in which he lived and how it affected him"--Jacket.
John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory
John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory write by Brian Craig Miller. This book was released on 2006. John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This dissertation examines the life and memory of Civil War General John Bell Hood, stepping outside of the traditional military biography that focuses mainly on the details of battle experience. Through my understanding of social memory, I have discovered a fundamental problem in how historians have assessed both the life and military career of Hood. Historians have based their final analysis on Hood's life through discovering the point where Hood began a path to ultimate failure as a military commander in the final years of the war. Therefore, since Hood failed in battle, he must have been a failure all throughout his life. In order to reassess Hood's life, he is placed within a cultural context, emphasizing gender and memory, to not only understand Hood's life but also the world which shaped him on a daily basis. Attention is given to Hood's transition from boyhood to manhood in antebellum Kentucky as well as how he forged bonds of brotherhood during his military education. Since Hood lost the use of his left arm and his entire right leg during the war, part of the work examines the crisis in manhood that amputation played for Hood and for his fellow soldiers within the Confederate Army. Men had to make a decision in regards to amputation, as southern women assisted amputees in guaranteeing they hold an honorable and manly position in southern society following the war. The work concludes with an examination of the post-war South confronting defeat and mourning loss. In this period, for his contemporaries and for historians since, Hood's reputation was forged. Hood's death further shaped his memory within his residential city of New Orleans into the modern era, as men and women alike engaged in memory construction to rectify any lost honor through failure in war. Significantly, it is this post-war reflection on Hood's life and career that has shaped the historiography of him as a southern military leader. It was, in short, how the social memory of Hood cast him, and not just actual events of his life, on which historians have been all too willing to rely.
"So Strangely Misrepresented"
"So Strangely Misrepresented" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "So Strangely Misrepresented" write by Brian Craig Miller. This book was released on 2002. "So Strangely Misrepresented" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Army of Tennessee in Retreat
The Army of Tennessee in Retreat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Army of Tennessee in Retreat write by O.C. Hood. This book was released on 2018-12-07. The Army of Tennessee in Retreat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the Battle of Nashville, Confederate General John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee was in full retreat, from the battle lines south of Nashville to the Tennessee River at the Alabama state line. Ferocious engagements broke out along the way as Hood's small rearguard, harried by Federal Cavalry brigades, fought a 10-day running battle over 100 miles of impoverished countryside during one of the worst winters on record.
Empty Sleeves
Empty Sleeves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empty Sleeves write by Brian Craig Miller. This book was released on 2015. Empty Sleeves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Brian Craig Miller provides medical history of the procedure, looks at men who rejected amputation, and examines how Southern men and women adjusted their ideas about honor, masculinity, and love in response to the presence of large numbers of amputees during and after the war. While some historians have explored the lives of the wounded, disabled and amputated soldiers throughout the major military conflicts of the twentieth century, few monographs have returned to a time when medical care remained primitive at best in American history: the Civil War... In his travels in the South over the past five years, Miller has combed through archives, producing a wealth of surgical and medical manuals, hospital records, surgeons reports, diary, letter and journal entries pertaining to amputation, legislative records, pension files and applications, newspaper reports and numerous anecdotes about what it means to lose a limb."--Provided by publisher.
