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Cultures in Conflict--The American Civil War (Hardcover, New): Steven E Woodworth Cultures in Conflict--The American Civil War (Hardcover, New)
Steven E Woodworth
R2,011 Discovery Miles 20 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The American Civil War was primarily a conflict of cultures, and slavery was the largest single cultural factor separating North and South. This collection of carefully selected memoirs, diaries, letters, and reminiscences of ordinary Northerners and Southerners who experienced the war as soldiers or civilians brings to life the conflict in culture, principles, attitudes, hopes, courage, and suffering of both sides. Woodworth, a Civil War historian, has selected a wide variety of moving first person accounts, each of which tells a story of a life as well as the attitudes of ordinary people and the real conditions of war and homefront. Woodworth presents the war in the words of those who lived it.

Contrasting selections will help the reader to see the war through the eyes of Northerners and Southerners as: soldiers prepare for war; women's lives change after the men go to war; soldiers on both sides experience the difficulties of camp life; sweethearts (the half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln and her Confederate fiance) exchange heartfelt letters; a husband's letters and his wife's diary recount their love, his death in battle, and her deep loss, countered by her faith; soldiers and civilians recount the carnage of the war's devastating battles; and people on both sides reflect on the outcome of the war and its consequences to their way of life. The accounts contrast the writers' attitudes toward Northern and Southern society, the principles for which those societies stood, and the religious significance of the war. These accounts and the narrative discussion of the difference in culture will help readers to understand the Civil War as a conflict of cultures. Telling the story of the war as personal history makes the experience of the Civil War come alive for readers.

Scarred By War - Civil War in Southeast Louisiana (Hardcover): Christopher G Pe na Scarred By War - Civil War in Southeast Louisiana (Hardcover)
Christopher G Pe na
R832 Discovery Miles 8 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Excluding the capture of New Orleans, the military affairs in southeast Louisiana during the American Civil War have long been viewed by scholars and historians has having no strategic importance during the war. As such, no such serious effort to chronicle the war in that portion of the state has been attempted, except Pena's earlier book, Touched By War: Battles Fought in the Lafourche District (1998). That book covered the military affairs in southeast Louisiana that led to the five major battles fought in that region between fall 1862 and summer 1863. Beyond that point, little is chronicled, until now. In this thoroughly researched and authoritative book, Scarred By War: Civil War in Southeast Louisiana, Christopher Pena has revised and updated his earlier work and expanded the scope to include a study of the remaining two years of the war, a period filled with intense Confederate guerilla warfare. The literary result is a book that recounts the political, social, military, and economic aspects of the war as they played out in southeast Louisiana's bayou country.

Soldiers in the Army of Freedom - The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit (Hardcover):... Soldiers in the Army of Freedom - The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit (Hardcover)
Ian Michael Spurgeon
R1,221 Discovery Miles 12 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


It was 1862, the second year of the Civil War, though Kansans and Missourians had been fighting over slavery for almost a decade. For the 250 Union soldiers facing down rebel irregulars on Enoch Toothman's farm near Butler, Missouri, this was no battle over abstract principles. These were men of the First Kansas Colored Infantry, and they were fighting for their own freedom and that of their families. They belonged to the first black regiment raised in a northern state, and the first black unit to see combat during the Civil War. "Soldiers in the Army of Freedom" is the first published account of this largely forgotten regiment and, in particular, its contribution to Union victory in the trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War. As such, it restores the First Kansas Colored Infantry to its rightful place in American history.
Composed primarily of former slaves, the First Kansas Colored saw major combat in Missouri, Indian Territory, and Arkansas. Ian Michael Spurgeon draws upon a wealth of little-known sources--including soldiers' pension applications--to chart the intersection of race and military service, and to reveal the regiment's role in countering white prejudices by defying stereotypes. Despite naysayers' bigoted predictions--and a merciless slaughter at the Battle of Poison Spring--these black soldiers proved themselves as capable as their white counterparts, and so helped shape the evolving attitudes of leading politicians, such as Kansas senator James Henry Lane and President Abraham Lincoln. A long-overdue reconstruction of the regiment's remarkable combat record, Spurgeon's book brings to life the men of the First Kansas Colored Infantry in their doubly desperate battle against the Confederate forces and skepticism within Union ranks.

Also for Glory (Hardcover): Don Ernsberger Also for Glory (Hardcover)
Don Ernsberger
R918 Discovery Miles 9 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Portraits of the African-American Experience in Concord-Cabarrus, North Carolina 1860-2008 (Hardcover): Bernard Davis Portraits of the African-American Experience in Concord-Cabarrus, North Carolina 1860-2008 (Hardcover)
Bernard Davis
R945 Discovery Miles 9 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Saddle, Sword, and Gun - A Biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest For Teens (Hardcover): Lochlainn Seabrook Saddle, Sword, and Gun - A Biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest For Teens (Hardcover)
Lochlainn Seabrook
R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Officers and Privates Who Enlisted in the Confederate States Army From Wilkinson County, Mississippi, 1861-1865 (Hardcover): W... Officers and Privates Who Enlisted in the Confederate States Army From Wilkinson County, Mississippi, 1861-1865 (Hardcover)
W C Miller
R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
No North, No South... - The Grand Reunion at the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg (Hardcover): James Rada No North, No South... - The Grand Reunion at the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg (Hardcover)
James Rada
R749 R666 Discovery Miles 6 660 Save R83 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Journal of the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction - 39th Congress, 1865-1867 (Hardcover): Benjamin B Kendrick The Journal of the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction - 39th Congress, 1865-1867 (Hardcover)
Benjamin B Kendrick
R1,210 Discovery Miles 12 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Confederate Blood and Treasure - An Interview with Lochlainn Seabrook (Hardcover): Lochlainn Seabrook Confederate Blood and Treasure - An Interview with Lochlainn Seabrook (Hardcover)
Lochlainn Seabrook
R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Freedom by the Sword - The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 (CMH Publication 30-24-1) (Hardcover): William A Dobak Freedom by the Sword - The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 (CMH Publication 30-24-1) (Hardcover)
William A Dobak; Foreword by Richard W. Stewart; U.S. Army Center of Military History
R1,682 Discovery Miles 16 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Civil War changed the United States in many ways-economic, political, and social. Of these changes, none was more important than Emancipation. Besides freeing nearly 4 million slaves, it brought agricultural wage labor to a reluctant South and gave a vote to black adult males in the former slave states. It also offered former slaves of both sexes new opportunities in education and property ownership. Just as striking were the effects of the war on the United States Army. From late 1862 to the spring of 1865, the federal government accepted more than 180,000 black men as soldiers, something it had never done before on such a scale. Known collectively as the United States Colored Troops and organized in segregated regiments led by white officers, some of these soldiers guarded army posts along major rivers; others fought Confederate raiders to protect Union supply trains; and still others took part in major operations like the siege of Petersburg and the battle of Nashville. After the war, many of the black regiments garrisoned the former Confederacy to enforce federal Reconstruction policy."Freedom by the Sword" tells the story of these soldiers' recruitment, organization, and service. Because of the book's broad focus on every theater of the war and its concentration on what black soldiers actually contributed to Union victory, this volume stands alone among histories of the U.S. Colored Troops. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical note, abbreviations, index.

Antietam 1862 - Gateway to Emancipation (Hardcover, New): T. Stephen Whitman Antietam 1862 - Gateway to Emancipation (Hardcover, New)
T. Stephen Whitman
R1,954 Discovery Miles 19 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explains how the Battle of Antietam-a conflict that changed nothing militarily-still played a pivotal role in the Civil War by affording Abraham Lincoln an opportunity to announce the emancipation of slaves in states in rebellion. Antietam 1862: Gateway to Emancipation examines the connections between the Maryland Campaign culminating in the battle of Antietam in 1862 and the drive to emancipate slaves to win the war for the Union. The work's thematic chapters discuss how slaves' resistance to the Confederacy and flight to Union armies influenced Union domestic and diplomatic politics, Confederate military strategy, and above all, the leadership of President Lincoln. By focusing on the complex topics of antislavery politics, diplomacy, and slaves' resistance rather than the specific occurrences on the battlefield, this book shows how shrewd Abraham Lincoln was in assessing the consequences of fighting a civil war about slavery. The concept that slaves' resistance played a part in Lee and Davis's decision to cross the Potomac and invade Maryland is explored, as is the idea that this strategy delayed and ultimately dashed all of the Confederacy's hopes of help from the British.

The Green Mountain Riflemen - Company F, First United States Sharpshooters in the American Civil War (Hardcover): William Y. W.... The Green Mountain Riflemen - Company F, First United States Sharpshooters in the American Civil War (Hardcover)
William Y. W. Ripley
R777 Discovery Miles 7 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Union Army's green riflemen at war
The important role of sharpshooters on the battlefield had been recognised by armies since the time when firearms were developed with a greater degree of accuracy. This key factor combined with a soldier of higher intelligence, capable of independent thought and action and skilful in the use of his weapons, made for a highly effective light infantryman, skirmisher and scout. Green was often their uniform colour irrespective of the nation they served, for it referenced the 'hunter' from whose origin their service developed in spirit and action. In the British Army the 60th and 95th (Rifles) became famous during the Napoleonic Wars, though the senior regiment, the 60th, had grown from the Royal Americans who had proved their mettle on a battlefield where the skills of this kind of infantryman were entirely applicable-the French and Indian War. Warfare in the great North Eastern forests of America brought forth many green clad riflemen and those raised in the cause of the Union by the state of Vermont were among its most notable. With their distinctive uniforms, high leather leggings and hair covered knapsacks they were the very epitome of their forebears, the Jaegers. This immediate account takes the reader on campaign throughout the Civil War on the Peninsular Campaign, at Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor and Petersburg. Available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.

Where The Three Worlds Touch (Hardcover): Elisabeth Kehl, Nicolas Walker Where The Three Worlds Touch (Hardcover)
Elisabeth Kehl, Nicolas Walker
R998 Discovery Miles 9 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Lincoln, Rumi, Shams and Rabi'a in one volume? How is that possible? While three are Sufis, even Rumi and Shams are separated by a gulf of 400 years from Rabi'a. As for Rabi'a, she was at different times in her life, an orphan, a slave and a prostitute. And Lincoln? On top of another 500 years, the great statesman belongs to an entirely different civilization and religion. Where's the connection? "To the spiritual seeker, " Kehl and Walker contend,"The connection ... is unmistakable. Christ said "I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me." Sincere aspirants on the Spiritual Path recognize Masters; it can be no other way, as they are striving after the same reality." Lincoln, Rumi and Rabi'a are "linked by their unwavering pursuit of Spiritual Truth through Self Knowledge." The proof will be in the reading: In these three remarkable drama produced and performed during the fall and summer months of 2010 and 2011 the authors encourage readers to "search out the connections-rather than notice any supposed differences." 192 pages.

The Last to Fall - The 1922 March, Battles, & Deaths of U.S. Marines at Gettysburg (Hardcover): Richard D L Fulton, Rada James The Last to Fall - The 1922 March, Battles, & Deaths of U.S. Marines at Gettysburg (Hardcover)
Richard D L Fulton, Rada James
R1,018 R880 Discovery Miles 8 800 Save R138 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Resource of War--The Credit of the Government Made Immediately Available - History of the Legal Tender Paper Money Issued... A Resource of War--The Credit of the Government Made Immediately Available - History of the Legal Tender Paper Money Issued During the Great Rebellion: Being a Loan Without Interest and a National Currency (Hardcover)
Elbridge Gerry Spaulding
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Memoir of John Yates Beall - His Life; Trial; Correspondence; Diary; and Private Manuscript Found Among His Papers, Including... Memoir of John Yates Beall - His Life; Trial; Correspondence; Diary; and Private Manuscript Found Among His Papers, Including His Own Account of the Raid on Lake Erie (Hardcover)
John Yates 1835-1865 Beall
R939 Discovery Miles 9 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Battle of Franklin (Hardcover): A. S. Peterson The Battle of Franklin (Hardcover)
A. S. Peterson
R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fugitive Slave on Trial - The Anthony Burns Case and Abolitionist Outrage (Hardcover, New): Earl M Maltz Fugitive Slave on Trial - The Anthony Burns Case and Abolitionist Outrage (Hardcover, New)
Earl M Maltz
R1,497 Discovery Miles 14 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When runaway slave Anthony Burns was tracked to Boston by his owner Charles Suttle, the struggle over his fate became a focal point for national controversy. Boston, a hotbed of antislavery sentiment, provided the venue for the 1854 hearing that determined Burns's legal status, one of the most dramatic and widely publicized events in the long-running conflict over the issue of fugitive slaves.

Earl Maltz's compelling chronicle of this case shows how the violent emotions surrounding it played out at both the local and national levels, focusing especially on the awkward position in which trial judge Edward Loring found himself. A unionist who also supported enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, Loring was committed to the idea that each individual case should be decided by reference to neutral principles, which ultimately led him to remand Burns to Suttle's custody. Although, as Maltz argues, Loring's decision was indisputably correct on the facts and justified by existing legal precedent, it also ignited a firestorm of protest.

Maltz locates the Burns case in arguments over slavery going back to the Constitution's rendition clause, then follows it through two iterations of federal statutes in 1793 and 1850, a miniature legal war between the governors of Massachusetts and Virginia, and abolitionists' violent resistance to federal law. He also cites Loring's intellectual honesty and determination to apply the law as written, no matter what it might cost him.

As the last of a series of high-profile disputes in Massachusetts, the Burns case underscores the abolitionist attitude of many of the state's residents toward the fugitive slave issue, providing readers with a you-are-there view of an actual fugitive slave case hearing and encouraging them to grapple with the question of how a conscientious judge committed to the rule of law should act in such a case. It also sheds light on the political costs and consequences for any judicial official attempting to deliver a decision on such a controversial issue while surrounded by a hostile public.

A story as dramatic and compelling as any in our legal annals, "Fugitive Slave on Trial" dissects an important historical event as it sheds new light on the state of the Union in the mid-1850s and the events that led to its eventual dismemberment.


Forrest! - 99 Reasons To Love Nathan Bedford Forrest (Hardcover): Lochlainn Seabrook Forrest! - 99 Reasons To Love Nathan Bedford Forrest (Hardcover)
Lochlainn Seabrook
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Scissors, or, The Funny Side of Politics (Hardcover): Henry Frederic 1856-1921 Ed Reddall Scissors, or, The Funny Side of Politics (Hardcover)
Henry Frederic 1856-1921 Ed Reddall
R935 Discovery Miles 9 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Remembering Virginia's Confederates (Hardcover): Sean M Heuvel Remembering Virginia's Confederates (Hardcover)
Sean M Heuvel; Foreword by Jeb Stuart
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Truth of War Conspiracy, 1861; copy 2 (Hardcover): H. W. (Huger William) Johnstone Truth of War Conspiracy, 1861; copy 2 (Hardcover)
H. W. (Huger William) Johnstone
R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Thaddeus Stevens - Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice (Paperback): bruce levine Thaddeus Stevens - Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice (Paperback)
bruce levine
R495 R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Save R32 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A "powerful" (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century's greatest statesmen, encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice to America.Thaddeus Stevens was among the first to see the Civil War as an opportunity for a second American revolution--a chance to remake the country as a genuine multiracial democracy. As one of the foremost abolitionists in Congress in the years leading up to the war, he was a leader of the young Republican Party's radical wing, fighting for anti-slavery and anti-racist policies long before party colleagues like Abraham Lincoln endorsed them. These policies--including welcoming black men into the Union's armies--would prove crucial to the Union war effort. During the Reconstruction era that followed, Stevens demanded equal civil and political rights for Black Americans--rights eventually embodied in the 14th and 15th amendments. But while Stevens in many ways pushed his party--and America--towards equality, he also championed ideas too radical for his fellow Congressmen ever to support, such as confiscating large slaveholders' estates and dividing the land among those who had been enslaved. In Thaddeus Stevens, acclaimed historian Bruce Levine has written a "vital" (The Guardian), "compelling" (James McPherson) biography of one of the most visionary statesmen of the 19th century and a forgotten champion for racial justice in America.

To The Gates of Atlanta - From Kennesaw Mountain to Peach Tree Creek, 1-19 July 1864 (Hardcover): Robert D Jenkins Sr To The Gates of Atlanta - From Kennesaw Mountain to Peach Tree Creek, 1-19 July 1864 (Hardcover)
Robert D Jenkins Sr
R988 Discovery Miles 9 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

To the Gates of Atlanta covers the period from the Confederate victory at Kennesaw Mountain, 27 June 1864, leading up to the Battle of Peach Tree Creek, 20 July 1864, and the first of four major battles for Atlanta that culminated in the Battle of Jonesboro, 31 August and 1 September 1864. To the Gates of Atlanta answers long-sought mysteries surrounding the actions, the reasoning, and the results of the events that culminated into the fall of Atlanta and the end of the Confederacy. Many historians point to the events that led to the fall of The Gate City as central to the War's outcome. Readers will learn why President Davis believed that he had to replace General Johnston on the eve of a battle that he hoped would save the city and turn the tide of the War for the South. Jenkins offers an understanding of why General Sherman had to take the city quickly without risking another disastrous Kennesaw Mountain. To the Gates of Atlanta also gives the important, but previously untold stories of the actions and engagements that befell the sleepy hamlet of Buckhead and the surrounding woods that today shelter many parts of Atlanta's vast community. From Smyrna to Ruff's Mill, Roswell to Vinings, Nancy Creek to Peach Tree Creek, and Moore's Mill to Howell's Mill, To the Gates of Atlanta tells the story of each as part of the larger story which led to the fall of The Gate City of the South.

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