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The Civil War and the men and women who lived during that time
continue to interest, preoccupy, and bemuse a wide and various
population. This volume provides information on 872 men and women
of the Union, covering those who influenced the course of public
policy, opinion, and events. Coverage of political leaders, such as
congressmen and cabinet officers, is comprehensive, while others,
such as editors, photographers, and abolitionists, are covered
selectively. Military leaders are included for specific
contributions to the Union. Each profile provides biographical
information about the person, stressing the war years and offering
an assessment of the individual's place in the Union. Each entry
concludes with bibliographic sources. Taken together, the profiles
illumine those mystic chords of memory that continue to tie us yet
to the Civil War generation.
The "deadlines" were boundaries prisoners had to stay within or
risk being shot. Just as a prisoner would take the daring challenge
in "crossing the deadline" to attempt escape, Crossing the
Deadlines crosses those boundaries of old scholarship by taking on
bold initiatives with new methodologies, filling a void in the
current scholarship of Civil War prison historiography, which
usually does not go beyond discussing policy, prison history and
environmental and social themes. Due to its eclectic mix of
contributors-from academic and public historians to anthropologists
currently excavating at specific stockade sites-the collection
appeals to a variety of scholarly and popular audiences. Readers
will discover how the Civil War incarceration narrative has
advanced to include environmental, cultural, social, religious,
retaliatory, racial, archaeological, and memory approaches. As the
historiography of Civil War captivity continues to evolve, readers
of Crossing the Deadlines will discover elaboration on themes that
emerged in William Hesseltine's classic collection, Civil War
Prisons, as well as interconnections with more recent
interdisciplinary scholarship. Rather than being dominated by
policy analysis, this collection examines the latest trends,
methodologies, and multidisciplinary approaches in Civil War
carceral studies. Unlike its predecessor, which took a micro
approach on individual prisons and personal accounts, Crossing the
Deadlines is a compilation of important themes that are interwoven
on broader scale by investigating many prisons North and South.
Although race played a major role in the war, its study has not
been widely integrated into the prison narrative; a portion of this
collection is dedicated to the role of African Americans as both
prisoners and guards and to the slave culture and perceptions of
race that perpetuated in prisons. Trends in environmental,
societal, and cultural implications related to prisons are
investigated as well as the latest finds at prison excavation
sites, including the challenges and triumphs in awakening Civil War
prisons' memory at historical sites.
For sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the
best original scholarship in the study of America's greatest
struggle. The Kent State University Press is pleased to present
this third volume in its multivolume series, reintroducing the most
influential of more than 500 articles published in the journal.
From military command, strategy, and tactics to political
leadership, race, abolitionism, the draft, and women's issues, and
from the war's causes to its aftermath and Reconstruction, Civil
War History has published pioneering and provocative analyses of
the determining aspects of the Middle Period. In this third volume
of the Civil War History Readers, John T. Hubbell has selected
ground-breaking essays by Douglas L. Wilson, Mark Neely Jr., Herman
Hattaway and Archer Jones, Ludwell Johnson, Allen Guelzo, and other
scholars who examine Lincoln's assertive idealism, leadership,
views on slavery, abolitionism, emancipation, and Lincoln as a war
president. Hubbell's introduction assesses the contribution of each
article to our understanding of Lincoln and the Civil War era.
For more than fifty years the journal Civil War History has
presented the best original scholarship in the study of America's
greatest struggle. In commemoration of the war's sesquicentennial,
the Kent State University Press is pleased to present a multivolume
series reintroducing the most influential of the more than 500
articles published in the journal. From military command, strategy,
and tactics, to political leadership, abolitionism, the draft, and
women s issues, from the war s causes to its aftermath and
Reconstruction, Civil War History has published pioneering and
provocative analyses of the determining aspects of the Middle
Period. In this inaugural volume historian John T. Hubbell, editor
of Civil War History for thirty-five years until 2000, has selected
fifteen ground breaking essays from Albert Castel, Gary Gallagher,
Mark Neely, and others that treat military matters in a variety of
contexts, including leadership, strategy, tactics, execution, and
outcomes. He begins the volume with a general introduction that
assesses the enduring contribution of each article to our
understanding. Those with an interest in the officers and men,
logistics and planning, and execution and outcomes of the battles
in America s bloodiest conflict will welcome this essential
collection.
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