A Mennonite Journal, 1862-1865
Author: John R. Hildebrand
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9781934368336
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John R. Hildebrand
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9781934368336
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jacob R. Hildebrand
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jacob Hildebrand took practical steps to assist his three sons in the Army of Northern Virginia; often traveling to their camps to deliver food and clothing necessary to supplement inadequate army rations. The family's story shows that the strong pacifist beliefs of the Mennonite church were not always observed by many of its members who supported the Southern cause and honored days of prayer and humility proclaimed by Jefferson Davis.
Author: Edward L. Ayers
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004-09-17
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 0393247430
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the Bancroft Prize: Through a gripping narrative based on massive new research, a leading historian reshapes our understanding of the Civil War. Our standard Civil War histories tell a reassuring story of the triumph, in an inevitable conflict, of the dynamic, free-labor North over the traditional, slave-based South, vindicating the freedom principles built into the nation's foundations. But at the time, on the borderlands of Pennsylvania and Virginia, no one expected war, and no one knew how it would turn out. The one certainty was that any war between the states would be fought in their fields and streets. Edward L. Ayers gives us a different Civil War, built on an intimate scale. He charts the descent into war in the Great Valley spanning Pennsylvania and Virginia. Connected by strong ties of every kind, including the tendrils of slavery, the people of this borderland sought alternatives to secession and war. When none remained, they took up war with startling intensity. As this book relays with a vivid immediacy, it came to their doorsteps in hunger, disease, and measureless death. Ayers's Civil War emerges from the lives of everyday people as well as those who helped shape history—John Brown and Frederick Douglass, Lincoln, Jackson, and Lee. His story ends with the valley ravaged, Lincoln's support fragmenting, and Confederate forces massing for a battle at Gettysburg.
Author: Edward L Ayers
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004-09-07
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780393326017
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ayers gives readers the Civil War on an intimate scale. His masterful narrative conveys the coming of war and its bloody encounters through the eyes of those who sacrificed, fought, and died.
Author: Richard R. Duncan
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 0807135798
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the Civil War, the strategically located town of Winchester, Virginia, suffered from the constant turmoil of military campaigning perhaps more than any other town. Occupied dozens of times by alternating Union and Confederate forces, Winchester suffered through three major battles, including some seventy smaller skirmishes. In his voluminous community study of the town over the course of four tumultuous years, Richard R. Duncan shows that in many ways Winchester's history provides a paradigm of the changing nature of the war. Indeed, Duncan reveals how the town offers a microcosm of the war: slavery collapsed, women assumed control in the absence of men, and civilians vied for authority alongside an assortment of revolving military commanders. Control over Winchester was vital for both the North and the South. Confederates used it as a base to strike the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and conduct raids into western Maryland and Pennsylvania, and when Federal forces occupied the town, they threatened Staunton -- Lee's breadbasket -- and the Virginia Central Railroad. At various times during the war, generals "Stonewall" Jackson, Nathaniel Banks, Robert Milroy, Richard Ewell, Jubal Early, and Philip Sheridan each controlled the town. Guerrilla activity further compounded the region's strife as insecurity became the norm for its civilian population. In this first scholarly treatment of occupied Winchester, Duncan has compiled a narrative of voices from the entire community, including those of groups often omitted from such studies, such as slaves, women, and Confederate dissenters. He shows how Federal occupation meant an early end to slavery in Winchester and how the paucity of men left women to serve as the major cohesive force in the community, making them a bulwark of Confederate support. He also explores the tensions between civilians and military personnel that inevitably arose as each group sought to protect its interests. The war, Duncan explains, left Winchester a landscape of wreckage and economic loss. A fascinating case study of civilian survival amid the turmoil of war, Beleaguered Winchester will appeal to Civil War scholars and enthusiasts alike.
Author: Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780807827864
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An exploration of the Shenandoah Valley campaign, known for its role in establishing Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's reputation as a Confederate Hero. It addresses military leadership, the campaign's political and social impact and the difference between memories of the events and historical record.
Author: James O. Lehman
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2007-11-05
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780801886720
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the moral dilemmas faced by various religious sects and how these groups struggled to come to terms with the effects of wartime Americanization-- without sacrificing their religious beliefs and values.
Author: Richard R. Duncan
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780807140536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Garold Cole
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781570033278
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A bibliographical guide to recently published Civil War diaries, journals, letters, and memoirs.
Author: George C. Rable
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 600
ISBN-13: 0807834262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to religion. Now, in God's Almost Chosen Peoples, Li