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The Battle of Perryville laid waste to more than just soldiers and
their supplies. The commonwealth's largest combat engagement also
took an immense toll on the community of Perryville, and citizens
in surrounding towns. After Confederates achieved a tactical
victory, they were nonetheless forced to leave the area. With more
than 7,500 casualties, the remaining Union soldiers were unprepared
for the enormous tasks of burying the dead, caring for the wounded,
and rebuilding infrastructure. Instead, this arduous duty fell to
the brave and battered locals. Former executive director of the
Perryville Battlefield Preservation Association Stuart Sanders
presents the first in depth look into how the resilient residents
dealt with the chaos of this bloody battle and how they rebuilt
their town from the rubble leftover.
When the popular musical Hamilton showcased the celebrated duel
between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, it reminded
twenty-first-century Americans that some prominent, honor-bound
citizens once used negotiated, formal fights as a way to settle
differences. During the Civil War, two prominent Kentuckians - one
a Union colonel and the other a pro-Confederate
civilian—continued this legacy by dueling. At a time when
thousands of soldiers were slaughtering one another on
battlefields, Colonel Leonidas Metcalfe and William T. Casto
transformed the bank of the Ohio River into their own personal
battleground. On May 8, 1862, these two men, both of whom were
steeped in southern honor culture, fought a formal duel with rifles
at sixty yards. And, like the fight between Hamilton and Burr, only
one man walked away. Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and
the Evolution of Kentucky Violence examines why white male
Kentuckians engaged in the "honor culture" of duels and provides
fascinating narratives that trace the lives of duelists and
opponents. Stuart W. Sanders explores why, during a time when
Americans were killing one another in open, brutal warfare, Casto
and Metcalfe engaged in the process of negotiating and fighting a
duel. In deconstructing the event, Sanders details why these
prominent Kentuckians found themselves on the dueling ground during
the nation's bloodiest conflict, how society and the Civil War
pushed them to fight, why duels continued to be fought in Kentucky
even after this violent confrontation, and how Kentuckians applied
violence after the Civil War. Anatomy of a Duel is a comprehensive
and compelling look at how the seccession crisis sparked the
Casto-Metcalfe duel - a confrontation that impacted the evolution
of violence in Kentucky.
In March 1856, a dead body washed onto the shore of the Mississippi
River. Nothing out of the ordinary. In those days, people fished
corpses from the river with alarming frequency. But this body, with
its arms and legs tied to a chair, struck an especially eerie
chord. The body belonged to a man who had been a passenger on the
luxurious steamboat known as the Ohio Belle, and he was the son of
a southern planter. Who had bound and pitched this wealthy man into
the river? Why? As reports of the killing spread, one newspaper
shuddered, "The details are truly awful and well calculated to
cause a thrill of horror." Drawing on eyewitness accounts, Murder
on the Ohio Belle uncovers the mysterious circumstances behind the
bloodshed. A northern vessel captured by secessionists, sailing the
border between slave and free states at the edge of the frontier,
the Ohio Belle navigated the confluence of nineteenth-century
America's greatest tensions. Stuart W. Sanders dives into the
history of this remarkable steamer -- a story of double murders,
secret identities, and hasty getaways -- and reveals the bloody
roots of antebellum honor culture, classism, and vigilante justice.
When the popular musical Hamilton showcased the celebrated duel
between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, it reminded
twenty-first-century Americans that some prominent, honor-bound
citizens once used negotiated, formal fights as a way to settle
differences. During the Civil War, two prominent Kentuckians - one
a Union colonel and the other a pro-Confederate civilian -
continued this legacy by dueling. At a time when thousands of
soldiers were slaughtering one another on battlefields, Colonel
Leonidas Metcalfe and William T. Casto transformed the bank of the
Ohio River into their own personal battleground. On May 8, 1862,
these two men, both of whom were steeped in southern honor culture,
fought a formal duel with rifles at sixty yards. And, like the
fight between Hamilton and Burr, only one man walked away. Anatomy
of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky
Violence examines why white male Kentuckians engaged in the "honor
culture" of duels and provides fascinating narratives that trace
the lives of duelists and opponents. Stuart W. Sanders explores
why, during a time when Americans were killing one another in open,
brutal warfare, Casto and Metcalfe engaged in the process of
negotiating and fighting a duel. In deconstructing the event,
Sanders details why these prominent Kentuckians found themselves on
the dueling ground during the nation's bloodiest conflict, how
society and the Civil War pushed them to fight, why duels continued
to be fought in Kentucky even after this violent confrontation, and
how Kentuckians applied violence after the Civil War. Anatomy of a
Duel is a comprehensive and compelling look at how the seccession
crisis sparked the Casto-Metcalfe duel—a confrontation that
impacted the evolution of violence in Kentucky.
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