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This book outlines the World War II experiences of Carl E. Meyers,
an Ohio man, from registering for the draft in 1940 to fighting in
the European Theater of Operations in 1944. A large part of the
book is the letters Meyers wrote home from his basic training and
from Europe. This volume traces his military experiences from 1940
to 1944, showing how an average American went through registering
for the draft, being drafted, basic training, and combat during
World War II. The primary theme is an examination of the ordeals of
a common, everyday American draftee, Carl E. Meyers, as he
experienced World War II. He registered for the draft when the
Selective Service Act passed in 1940, and surprisingly enough was
drafted in 1944; his being selected was surprising because he was a
Pre-Pearl Harbor father and Selective Service tried not to draft
those men. He experienced the boredom and monotony of basic
training in a state far from home, and after completing his
training was shipped to Europe and fought in that theater, in
General George S. Patton's 3rd Army. In Europe he again experienced
the mundane of waiting for his unit to be sent into combat, which
happened in the November 1944 offensive. He was killed in that
campaign, making the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
John A. McClernand was a career politician, and those ambitions and
qualities continued during his Civil War service. A member of the
Illinois General Assembly and a U.S. Representative for 10 years,
McClernard was connected to other prominent figures of the time
such as Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. However, he is best
known for his rivalry with Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and this
biography balances McClernard's political career with his military
leadership and his place in the Union command structure.
Here is a brief, balanced, and up-to-date history of Georgia from
the early Native Americans into the twenty-first century. Based on
the most recent research, this second edition surveys the people
and events that shaped our state's history in a style that reads
easily and flows effortlessly. Beginning with the earliest Native
American settlements, the story tells of first contacts between
area natives and Spanish from Florida, British from Carolina, and
James Oglethorpe leading the effort to found a colony called
Georgia. That colony passed out of the British Empire during the
American Revolution, a conflict that was as much a civil war as a
war for independence. In the following decades, the Creek and
Cherokee were driven out as Georgia was transformed into a cotton
kingdom dominated by a minority of slaveholders, who finally sought
to make slavery perpetual in a war that often pitted Georgians
against each other. In the aftermath of the Civil War, the state
struggled with the consequences of the conflict, political, social,
and economic. The postwar years were highlighted by economic
stagnation, questions over the meaning of freedom, and one-party
politics. Race relations pervaded the state's history after the
Civil War and those struggles are traced from Reconstruction to Jim
Crow to the Civil Rights Era and twenty-first century voter
suppression. In the latter half of the twentieth century, and
carrying into the twenty-first, Georgia drifted away from the
provincialism that characterized its history and moved toward
modernity.
This work offers a look at the history of Georgia through over 100
primary documents. ""The Empire State of the South: Georgia History
in Documents and Essays"" offers teachers of Georgia history an
alternative to the traditional narrative textbook. In this volume,
students have the opportunity to read Georgia history rather than
reading about Georgia history. Encompassing the entirety of Georgia
history into the twenty-first century, ""The Empire State of the
South"" is suitable for all courses on Georgia history. This text
is divided into 16 chapters comprising 129 documents and 33 essays
on various topics of Georgia history. The primary documents
represent a wide range of genres, including speeches, newspaper
columns, letters, treaties, laws, proclamations, state
constitutions, court decisions, and many others. Some documents
outline general themes or movements in Georgia history while others
address more narrow issues. The thirty-three essays are excerpts
from larger pieces that were written by specialists in Georgia
history. Each chapter consists of several parts. First is a short
narrative introduction. The second part contains the documents
themselves. Following the documents are two essays written by
historians regarding some topic relevant to the chapter. At the end
of each chapter is a short list of suggested readings. The
documents themselves range from the usual: state constitutions,
laws, and speeches, to the inordinate: plans for constructing what
is regarded as the state's first concrete home, a corny campaign
song for Eugene Talmadge, an attempt by the General Assembly in
1897 to ban the playing of football, and a 1962 letter Martin
Luther King, Jr. wrote from an Albany prison that preceded his more
well-known Birmingham letter. Georgia has indeed had a colorful
history and ""The Empire State of the South"" tells that story.
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