The Biographical Roster of the Immortal 600 - 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 Biographical Roster of the Immortal 600 write by Mauriel Joslyn. This book was released on 1995. The Biographical Roster of the Immortal 600 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This companion book to the Immortal Captives includes the histories of individual lives and military service records of the 600 Confederate officers, who against humanity, were forced to face the artillery fire of their comrades when they were placed in a stockade in Charleston Harbor from August to October of 1864.
Across the Bloody Chasm
Across the Bloody Chasm - 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 Across the Bloody Chasm write by M. Keith Harris. This book was released on 2014-11-24. Across the Bloody Chasm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Long after the Civil War ended, one conflict raged on: the battle to define and shape the war's legacy. Across the Bloody Chasm deftly examines Civil War veterans' commemorative efforts and the concomitant -- and sometimes conflicting -- movement for reconciliation. Though former soldiers from both sides of the war celebrated the history and values of the newly reunited America, a deep divide remained between people in the North and South as to how the country's past should be remembered and the nation's ideals honored. Union soldiers could not forget that their southern counterparts had taken up arms against them, while Confederates maintained that the principles of states' rights and freedom from tyranny aligned with the beliefs and intentions of the founding fathers. Confederate soldiers also challenged northern claims of a moral victory, insisting that slavery had not been the cause of the war, and ferociously resisting the imposition of postwar racial policies. M. Keith Har-ris argues that although veterans remained committed to reconciliation, the sectional sensibilities that influenced the memory of the war left the North and South far from a meaningful accord. Harris's masterful analysis of veteran memory assesses the ideological commitments of a generation of former soldiers, weaving their stories into the larger narrative of the process of national reunification. Through regimental histories, speeches at veterans' gatherings, monument dedications, and war narratives, Harris uncovers how veterans from both sides kept the deadliest war in American history alive in memory at a time when the nation seemed determined to move beyond conflict.
Confederate Veterans in Northern California
Confederate Veterans in Northern California - 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 Confederate Veterans in Northern California write by Jeff Erzin. This book was released on 2020-05-21. Confederate Veterans in Northern California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on six years of research, this book covers the military service and postwar lives of notable Confederate veterans who moved into Northern California at the end the Civil War. Biographies of 101 former rebels are provided, from the oldest brother of the Clanton Gang to the son of a President to plantation owners, dirt farmers, criminals and everything in between.
Faces of the Confederacy
Faces of the Confederacy - 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 Faces of the Confederacy write by Ronald S. Coddington. This book was released on 2009-01-19. Faces of the Confederacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Extensive research, fascinating characters . . . The author has done an admirable job of literally placing a face on the ordinary Confederate soldier.” —The Journal of Southern History “The history of the Civil War is the stories of its soldiers,” writes Ronald S. Coddington in the preface to Faces of the Confederacy. This book tells the stories of seventy-seven Southern soldiers—young farm boys, wealthy plantation owners, intellectual elites, uneducated poor—who posed for photographic portraits, cartes de visite, to leave with family, friends, and sweethearts before going off to war. Coddington, a passionate collector of Civil War-era photography, conducted a monumental search for these previously unpublished portrait cards, then unearthed the personal stories of their subjects, putting a human face on a war rife with inhuman atrocities. The Civil War took the lives of twenty-two of every hundred men who served. Coddington follows the exhausted survivors as they return home to occupied cities and towns, ravaged farmlands, a destabilized economy, and a social order in the midst of upheaval. This book is a haunting and moving tribute to those brave men. Like its companion volume, Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories, this book offers readers a unique perspective on the war and contributes to a better understanding of the role of the common soldier. “With his meticulous research and a journalist’s eye for good stories, Ron Coddington has brought new life to Civil War photographic portraits of obscure and long-forgotten Confederates whose wartime experiences might otherwise have been lost to history.” —Bob Zeller, cofounder and president of the nonprofit Center for Civil War Photography
The Bravest of the Brave
The Bravest of the Brave - 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 Bravest of the Brave write by George G. Kundahl. This book was released on 2010-06-01. The Bravest of the Brave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, Stephen Dodson Ramseur rose meteorically through the military ranks. Graduating from West Point in 1860, he joined the Confederate army as a captain. By the time of his death near the end of the war at the Battle of Cedar Creek, he had attained the rank of major general in the Army of Northern Virginia. He excelled in every assignment and was involved as a senior officer in many of the war's most important conflicts east of the Appalachians. Ramseur's letters--over 180 of which are collected and transcribed here by George Kundahl--provide his incisive observations on these military events. At the same time, they offer rare insight into the personal opinions of a high-ranking Civil War officer. Correspondence by Civil War figures is often strictly professional. But in personal letters to his wife, Nellie, and best friend, David Schenk, Ramseur candidly expresses beliefs about the social, military, and political issues of the day. He also shares vivid accounts of battle and daily camp life, providing colorful details on soldiering during the war.
