Author: Dale Eileen SamuellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Activities of Illinois Women During the Civil War, 1861-1865
Author: Dale Eileen SamuellIllinois Women in the Civil War
Author: Alta Rose WoodsIllinois During the Civil War, 1861-1865
Author: The Prairie Boys Go to War
Author: Rhonda M. KohlPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809332043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Cavalry units from Midwestern states remain largely absent from Civil War literature, and what little has been written largely overlooks the individual men who served. The Fifth Illinois Cavalry has thus remained obscure despite participating in some of the most important campaigns in Arkansas and Mississippi. In this pioneering examination of that understudied regiment, Rhonda M. Kohl offers the only modern, comprehensive analysis of a southern Illinois regiment during the Civil War and combines well-documented military history with a cultural analysis of the men who served in the Fifth Illinois. The regiment’s history unfolds around major events in the Western Theater from 1861 to September 1865, including campaigns at Helena, Vicksburg, Jackson, and Meridian, as well as numerous little-known skirmishes. Although they were led almost exclusively by Northern-born Republicans, the majority of the soldiers in the Fifth Illinois remained Democrats. As Kohl demonstrates, politics, economics, education, social values, and racism separated the line officers from the common soldiers, and the internal friction caused by these cultural disparities led to poor leadership, low morale, disciplinary problems, and rampant alcoholism. The narrative pulls the Fifth Illinois out of historical oblivion, elucidating the highs and lows of the soldiers’ service as well as their changing attitudes toward war goals, religion, liberty, commanding generals, Copperheads, and alcoholism. By reconstructing the cultural context of Fifth Illinois soldiers, Prairie Boys Go to War reveals how social and economic traditions can shape the wartime experience.
A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Author: Myrta Lockett AvaryPublisher:
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Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This work is a retelling of stories once shared over tea cups, including what life meant to a young American woman during a vital and formative period of American history. While a true Virginian, the lady also speaks well of her experiences with Union soldiers and officers. Real names of the subjects were changed in deference to the wishes of living persons at the time.
Illinois Women in Soldier Welfare 1861-1865
Author: Esther Vivian HillIllinois in the Civil War
Author: Victor HickenPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252061653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Victor Hicken tells the richly detailed story of the common soldiers who marched from Illinois to fight and die on Civil War battlefields. The second edition of the 1966 classic includes a new preface, twenty-four illustrations, and a twenty-five-page addendum to the bibliography that provides many new sources of information on Illinois regiments.
The Roads They Made
Author: Adade Mitchell WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Black Society in Spanish Florida
Author: Jane LandersPublisher:
ISBN: 9780252024467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The first extensive study of the African American community under colonial Spanish rule, Black Society in Spanish Florida provides a vital counterweight to the better-known dynamics of the Anglo slave South. Jane Landers draws on a wealth of untapped primary sources, opening a new vista on the black experience in America and enriching our understanding of the powerful links between race relations and cultural custom. Blacks under Spanish rule in Florida lived not in cotton rows or tobacco patches but in a more complex and international world that linked the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and a powerful and diverse Indian hinterland. Here the Spanish Crown afforded sanctuary to runaway slaves, making the territory a prime destination for blacks fleeing Anglo plantations, while Castilian law (grounded in Roman law) provided many avenues out of slavery, which it deemed an unnatural condition. European-African unions were common and accepted in Florida, with families of African descent developing important community connections through marriage, concubinage, and godparent choices. Assisted by the corporate nature of Spanish society, Spain's medieval tradition of integration and assimilat
News from the War, 1861-1865
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Galena (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Chronicles the involvement of the soldiers from Galena, Illinois in Jo Daviess County and the three Illinois men, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S Grant and Elihu Benjamin Washburne who had a large part in preserving the Union.