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Author |
: Brian Steel Wills |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2017-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780700625086 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0700625089 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inglorious Passages by : Brian Steel Wills
Of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who died in the Civil War, two-thirds, by some estimates, were felled by disease; untold others were lost to accidents, murder, suicide, sunstroke, and drowning. Meanwhile thousands of civilians in both the north and south perished—in factories, while caught up in battles near their homes, and in other circumstances associated with wartime production and supply. These “inglorious passages,” no less than the deaths of soldiers in combat, devastated the armies in the field and families and communities at home. Inglorious Passages for the first time gives these noncombat deaths due consideration. In letters, diaries, obituaries, and other accounts, eminent Civil War historian Brian Steel Wills finds the powerful and poignant stories of fatal accidents and encounters and collateral civilian deaths that occurred in the factories and fields of the Union and the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865. Wills retrieves these stories from obscurity and the cold calculations of statistics to reveal the grave toll these losses exacted on soldiers and civilians, families and society. In its intimate details and its broad scope, his book demonstrates that for those who served and those who supported them, noncombat fatalities were as significant as battle deaths in impressing the full force of the American Civil War on the people called upon to live through it. With the publication of Inglorious Passages, those who paid the supreme sacrifice, regardless of situation or circumstance, will at last be included in the final tabulation of the nation’s bloodiest conflict.
Author |
: Joseph Hall |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 644 |
Release |
: 1860 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0021811282 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments by : Joseph Hall
Author |
: Joseph Hall |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 634 |
Release |
: 2005-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781725214019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1725214016 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments by : Joseph Hall
Author |
: John Cooper Grocott |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 716 |
Release |
: 1884 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433044147399 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Familiar Quotations with Parallel Passages from Various Writers by : John Cooper Grocott
Author |
: William Stirling-Maxwell |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 546 |
Release |
: 1883 |
ISBN-10 |
: BSB:BSB11571416 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Don John (Juan) of Austria or passages from the history of the sixteenth century 1547 - 1578 by : William Stirling-Maxwell
Author |
: John Bartlett |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 802 |
Release |
: 1870 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105026546072 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source : Passages and Phrases in Common Use by : John Bartlett
Author |
: John Lawrence LeBreton Hammond |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 446 |
Release |
: 1903 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105048757731 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Charles James Fox by : John Lawrence LeBreton Hammond
Author |
: George Frazier Miller |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 222 |
Release |
: 1905 |
ISBN-10 |
: COLUMBIA:CR60119179 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Adventism Answered (the Sabbath Question). by : George Frazier Miller
Author |
: Brian Matthew Jordan |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 499 |
Release |
: 2023-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820364575 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820364576 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Final Resting Places by : Brian Matthew Jordan
Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation—and how those meanings still influence Americans today. In each essay, a noted historian explores a different type of gravesite—including large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift markers on battlefields, mass graves on hillsides, neat rows of military headstones, university graveyards, tombs without bodies, and small family plots. Each burial place tells a unique story of how someone lived and died; how they were mourned and remembered. Together, they help us reckon with the most tragic period of American history. CONTRUBUTORS: Terry Alford, Melodie Andrews, Edward L. Ayers, DeAnne Blanton, Michael Burlingame, Katherine Reynolds Chaddock, John M. Coski, William C. Davis, Douglas R. Egerton, Stephen D. Engle, Barbara Gannon, Michael P. Gray, Hilary Green, Allen C. Guelzo, Anna Gibson Holloway, Vitor Izecksohn, Caroline E. Janney, Michelle A. Krowl, Glenn W. LaFantasie, Jennifer M. Murray, Barton A. Myers, Timothy J. Orr, Christopher Phillips, Mark S. Schantz, Dana B. Shoaf, Walter Stahr, Michael Vorenberg, and Ronald C. White
Author |
: Andrew F. Lang |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 569 |
Release |
: 2020-11-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469660080 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469660083 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Contest of Civilizations by : Andrew F. Lang
Most mid-nineteenth-century Americans regarded the United States as an exceptional democratic republic that stood apart from a world seemingly riddled with revolutionary turmoil and aristocratic consolidation. Viewing themselves as distinct from and even superior to other societies, Americans considered their nation an unprecedented experiment in political moderation and constitutional democracy. But as abolitionism in England, economic unrest in Europe, and upheaval in the Caribbean and Latin America began to influence domestic affairs, the foundational ideas of national identity also faced new questions. And with the outbreak of civil war, as two rival governments each claimed the mantle of civilized democracy, the United States' claim to unique standing in the community of nations dissolved into crisis. Could the Union chart a distinct course in human affairs when slaveholders, abolitionists, free people of color, and enslaved African Americans all possessed irreconcilable definitions of nationhood? In this sweeping history of political ideas, Andrew F. Lang reappraises the Civil War era as a crisis of American exceptionalism. Through this lens, Lang shows how the intellectual, political, and social ramifications of the war and its meaning rippled through the decades that followed, not only for the nation's own people but also in the ways the nation sought to redefine its place on the world stage.