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- the Third Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Regiment in the Rebellion, 1861-1865. Camps, Forts, Batteries, Garrisons, Marches, Shirmished, Sieges, Battles, and Victories; Also, the Roll of Honor and Roll of the Regiment..
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Frederic 1819-1901 Denison
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R976
Discovery Miles 9 760
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Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic
Works serves as a wide-ranging analysis of texts written by
individuals who experienced the American Civil War. Edited by Gary
W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman, this volume, like its companion,
Civil War Writing: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts (2019),
features the voices of authors who felt compelled to convey their
stories for a variety of reasons. Some produced works intended
primarily for their peers, while others were concerned with how
future generations would judge their wartime actions. One diarist
penned her entries with no thought that they would later become
available to the public. The essayists explore the work of five men
and three women, including prominent Union and Confederate
generals, the wives of a headline-seeking US cavalry commander and
a Democratic judge from New York City, a member of Robert E. Lee's
staff, a Union artillerist, a matron from Richmond's sprawling
Chimborazo Hospital, and a leading abolitionist US senator. Civil
War Witnesses and Their Books shows how some of those who lived
through the conflict attempted to assess its importance and frame
it for later generations. Their voices have particular resonance
today and underscore how rival memory traditions stir passion and
controversy, providing essential testimony for anyone seeking to
understand the nation's greatest trial and its aftermath.
Why did Abraham Lincoln sneak into Washington for his inauguration? was the Gettysburg Address written on the back of an envelope? Where did the Underground Railroad run? Did General Sherman really say, "War is Hell"? If you can't answer these questions, you're not alone. Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue, deftly sorting out the players, the politics, and the key events - Emancipation and Reconstruction, Shiloh and Gettysburg, Generals Grant and Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and much more. Drawing on moving eyewitness accounts, Davis includes a wealth of "hidden history" about the roles played by women and African Americans before and during the war, along with lesser-known facts that will enthrall even learned Civil War buffs. Vivid, informative, and hugely entertaining, Don't Know Much About the Civil War is the only book you'll ever need on "the war that never ended."
In Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares, John H. Matsui argues
that the political ideology and racial views of American
Protestants during the Civil War mirrored their religious optimism
or pessimism regarding human nature, perfectibility, and the
millennium. While previous historians have commented on the role of
antebellum eschatology in political alignment, none have delved
deeply into how religious views complicate the standard narrative
of the North versus the South. Moving beyond the traditional
optimism/pessimism dichotomy, Matsui divides American Protestants
of the Civil War era into ""premillenarian"" and
""postmillenarian"" camps. Both postmillenarian and premillenarian
Christians held that the return of Christ would inaugurate the
arrival of heaven on earth, but they disagreed over its timing.
This disagreement was key to their disparate political stances.
Postmillenarians argued that God expected good Christians to
actively perfect the world via moral reform-of self and society-and
free-labor ideology, whereas premillenarians defended hierarchy or
racial mastery (or both). Northern Democrats were generally
comfortable with antebellum racial norms and were cynical regarding
human nature; they therefore opposed Republicans' utopian plans to
reform the South. Southern Democrats, who held premillenarian views
like their northern counterparts, pressed for or at least
acquiesced in the secession of slaveholding states to preserve
white supremacy. Most crucially, enslaved African American
Protestants sought freedom, a postmillenarian societal change
requiring nothing less than a major revolution and the
reconstruction of southern society. Millenarian Dreams and Racial
Nightmares adds a new dimension to our understanding of the Civil
War as it reveals the wartime marriage of political and racial
ideology to religious speculation. As Matsui argues, the
postmillenarian ideology came to dominate the northern states
during the war years and the nation as a whole following the Union
victory in 1865.
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