Rebels in the Front Yard - 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 Rebels in the Front Yard write by David Cleutz. This book was released on 2012-04-27. Rebels in the Front Yard available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Liberty Hollinger was a sixteen-year-old girl living in Gettysburg when the greatest battle ever fought on the North American continent erupted around her. With courage and strength, she dealt with the trials of occupation by the invading Confederate army. In her own front yard, she was witness to the fears of the South's greatest general, Robert E. Lee. For three days, she lived with the horror of battle. After the armies departed, she gave herself to the task of caring for the wounded they left behind. When time came for President Lincoln to consecrate Gettysburg's hallowed ground, she witnessed first-hand the President's deep sorrow. In her later years, at the Fiftieth Reunion of the Battle of Gettysburg, she witnessed the gathering of veterans Blue and Gray, when brotherly fellowship finally erased the bitterness of Civil War. Still, the traumatic events of the battle and its aftermath had left indelible memories. Near the end of her life, Liberty Hollinger preserved her memories for her family in a brief memoir. Its first-hand accounts are the basis for much of this book. While other authors have recently discovered the copy of her memoir in the Adams County Historical Society and included an incident or two in their books, this book contains all the material of her memoir, put in context of the events surrounding her accounts.
Lincolnites and Rebels
Lincolnites and Rebels - 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 Lincolnites and Rebels write by Robert Tracy McKenzie. This book was released on 2006-11-09. Lincolnites and Rebels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the start of the Civil War, Knoxville, Tennessee, with a population of just over 4,000, was considered a prosperous metropolis little reliant on slavery. Although the surrounding countryside was predominantly Unionist in sympathy, Knoxville itself was split down the middle, with Union and Confederate supporters even holding simultaneous political rallies at opposite ends of the town's main street. Following Tennessee's secession, Knoxville soon became famous (or infamous) as a stronghold of stalwart Unionism, thanks to the efforts of a small cadre who persisted in openly denouncing the Confederacy. Throughout the course of the Civil War, Knoxville endured military occupation for all but three days, hosting Confederate troops during the first half of the conflict and Union forces throughout the remainder, with the transition punctuated by an extended siege and bloody battle during which nearly forty thousand soldiers fought over the town. In Lincolnites and Rebels, Robert Tracy McKenzie tells the story of Civil War Knoxville-a perpetually occupied, bitterly divided Southern town where neighbor fought against neighbor. Mining a treasure-trove of manuscript collections and civil and military records, McKenzie reveals the complex ways in which allegiance altered the daily routine of a town gripped in a civil war within the Civil War and explores the agonizing personal decisions that war made inescapable. Following the course of events leading up to the war, occupation by Confederate and then Union soldiers, and the troubled peace that followed the war, Lincolnites and Rebels details in microcosm the conflict and paints a complex portrait of a border state, neither wholly North nor South.
Rebels in Blue
Rebels in Blue - 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 Rebels in Blue write by Peter F. Stevens. This book was released on 1999-05-01. Rebels in Blue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Civil War story follows the real-life exploits of a married couple who fought side-by-side as soldiers for the North, the South, and finally for a band of marauding, pro-Union partisans.
The Story of My Campaign
The Story of My Campaign - 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 Story of My Campaign write by Francis T. Moore. This book was released on 2011-09-01. The Story of My Campaign available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1861, Francis Moore appeared to be a perfectly ordinary, twenty-three year old man: a carriage maker in the bustling Mississippi River town of Quincy, Illinois. And there he might well have lived out his life in unadventurous comfort. But then the Civil War burst out, and Moore, along with most of his friends, like young men North and South, rushed to enlist in the army. His cavalry regiment soon set off for what proved to be four years of warfare, plunging him into harrowing experiences of battle that would have been unimaginable back in his small hometown and that uprooted him, body and soul, for the remainder of his life. Enter The Story of My Campaign, the remarkable Civil War memoir of Captain Francis T. Moore, which historian Thomas Bahde here offers in an original edition to contemporary readers for the first time. Moore began the war as a private in Company L of the Second Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and was soon promoted to lieutenant and then captain of his company. He spent most of the war fighting guerillas in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. He fought at the battle of Belmont, Kentucky, in 1861 and raided Mississippi with General Benjamin Grierson in 1864. He also battled Confederate leaders, such as Nathan Bedford Forrest and Leonidas Polk. His unflinching chronicle of small-scale and irregular warfare, combined with his intimate account of military life, make his memoir as absorbing as it is historically valuable. Moore was also an unusually articulate young man with strong opinions about the war, the preservation of the Union, the institution of slavery, African Americans, the people of the South, and the Confederacy: his wartime observations and his postwar reflections on these themes provide not only a captivating narrative, they also provide readers with an opportunity to examine how the conflict endured in the memory of its veterans and the nation they served. The enormous social upheaval and staggering loss of human life during the Civil War cannot be overstated: the estimated 2 percent of Americans—or 620,000 people—who died in the conflict would be the equivalent of 6,000,000 people today. The Story of My Campaign offers an indelible account of this conflagration from the perspective of one of its survivors. It is evidence of a hard war fought—and the long hard life that followed.
The Rebellion Record
The Rebellion Record - 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 Rebellion Record write by Frank Moore. This book was released on 1863. The Rebellion Record available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
