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Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble - Biography of a Baltimore Confederate (Paperback)
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Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble - Biography of a Baltimore Confederate (Paperback)
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Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, one of the oldest and more
eccentric officers involved in the Civil War, made himself a
favorite of Stonewall Jackson through his courage and stubborn
energy. Born to a Quaker family, Trimble spent his childhood on the
American frontier. After graduating from West Point, he served in
the Old Army and then involved himself with the growing railroad
industry of the 1830s, living at the forefront of American
modernization. As the war began, he sided with the South, burning
railroad bridges north of Baltimore to deny Washington the support
of Union troops, and then moving to Virginia. He enlisted in the
Engineers and constructed battery emplacements. Commissioned
brigadier general in late 1861, Trimble distinguished himself at
Cross Keys, Gaines's Mill, Manassas, and Gettysburg; was involved
in the Baltimore riots; and spent time as a prisoner on Johnson's
Island. This biography covers Trimble's personal life and career
with both the railroad and the military. Simultaneously, it serves
as a case study of an American who chose to side with the South.
Before the war, Trimble traveled freely between states and showed
no early indication of a regional attachment. The work uses Abraham
Maslow's motivation model, the hierarchy of needs, to reconcile
Trimble's self-interest with his need to belong to a community. It
also raises various questions related to Southern history,
including community identity, modernization, and the concept of the
?New South.?
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