Author: Robert Underwood JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Donated by Lloyd D. Miller.
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
Author: Robert Underwood JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Donated by Lloyd D. Miller.
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
Author: Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
Author: Clarence Clough BuelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Battles and leaders of the civil war ... being for the most part ...
Author: The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy
Author: Gideon WellesPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252096436
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
Gideon Welles’s 1861 appointment as secretary of the navy placed him at the hub of Union planning for the Civil War and in the midst of the powerful personalities vying for influence in Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet. Although Welles initially knew little of naval matters, he rebuilt a service depleted by Confederate defections, planned actions that gave the Union badly needed victories in the war’s early days, and oversaw a blockade that weakened the South’s economy. Perhaps the hardest-working member of the cabinet, Welles still found time to keep a detailed diary that has become one of the key documents for understanding the inner workings of the Lincoln administration. In this new edition, William E. and Erica L. Gienapp have restored Welles’s original observations, gleaned from the manuscript diaries at the Library of Congress and freed from his many later revisions, so that the reader can experience what he wrote in the moment. With his vitriolic pen, Welles captures the bitter disputes over strategy and war aims, lacerates colleagues from Secretary of State William H. Seward to General-in-Chief Henry Halleck, and condemns the actions of the self-serving southern elite he sees as responsible for the war. He just as easily waxes eloquent about the Navy's wartime achievements, extols the virtues of Lincoln, and drops in a tidbit of Washington gossip. Carefully edited and extensively annotated, this edition contains a wealth of supplementary material. The appendixes include short biographies of the members of Lincoln’s cabinet, the retrospective Welles wrote after leaving office covering the period missing from the diary proper, and important letters regarding naval matters and international law.
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The tide shifts
Author: Robert Underwood JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Gender and the Sectional Conflict
Author: Nina SilberPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469625768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
In an insightful exploration of gender relations during the Civil War, Nina Silber compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among Northerners and Southerners. She argues that attitudes about gender shaped the experiences of the Civil War's participants, including how soldiers and their female kin thought about their "causes" and obligations in wartime. Despite important similarities, says Silber, differing gender ideologies shaped the way each side viewed, participated in, and remembered the war. Silber finds that rhetoric on both sides connected soldiers' reasons for fighting to the women left at home. Consequently, although in different ways, women on both sides took up new roles to advance the wartime agenda. At the same time, both Northern and Southern women were accused of waning patriotism as the war dragged on, but their responses to such charges differed. Finally, noting that our postwar memories are often dominated by images of Southern belles, Silber considers why Northern women, despite their heroic contributions to the Union cause, have faded from Civil War memory. Silber's investigation offers a new understanding of how Unionists and Confederates perceived their reasons for fighting, of the new attitudes and experiences that women--black and white--on both sides took up, and of the very different ways that Northern and Southern women were remembered after the war ended.
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume IV
Author: Annual Report
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Author: