Author: Ephraim J. HartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
History of the Fortieth Illinois Inf., (volunteers.)
Author: Ephraim J. HartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteers
Author: Lyman G. BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
History of the Fortieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Author: John N. BeachBibliography of State Participation in the Civil War 1861-1866
Author: United States. War Department. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
War Department, Office of the Chief of Staff, War College Division, General Staff
Author: A History of the Ninth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Author: Marion MorrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Fremont Rifles
Author: Michael A. MullinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Corinth 1862
Author: Timothy B. SmithPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700623450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
In the spring of 1862, there was no more important place in the western Confederacy-perhaps in all the South-than the tiny town of Corinth, Mississippi. Major General Henry W. Halleck, commander of Union forces in the Western Theater, reported to Washington that "Richmond and Corinth are now the great strategical points of war, and our success at these points should be insured at all hazards." In the same vein, Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard declared to Richmond that "If defeated at Corinth, we lose the Mississippi Valley and probably our cause." Those were odd sentiments concerning a town scarcely a decade old. By this time, however, it sat at the junction of the South's two most important rail lines and had become a major strategic locale. Despite its significance, Corinth has received comparatively little attention from Civil War historians and has been largely overshadowed by events at Shiloh, Antietam, and Perryville. Timothy Smith's panoramic and vividly detailed new look at Corinth corrects that neglect, focusing on the nearly year-long campaign that opened the way to Vicksburg and presaged the Confederacy's defeat in the West. Combining big-picture strategic and operational analysis with ground-level views, Smith covers the spring siege, the vicious attacks and counterattacks of the October battle, and the subsequent occupation. He has drawn extensively on hundreds of eyewitness accounts to capture the sights, sounds, and smells of battle and highlight the command decisions of Halleck, Beauregard, Ulysses S. Grant, Sterling Price, William S. Rosecrans, and Earl Van Dorn. This is also the first in-depth examination of Corinth following the creation of a new National Park Service center located at the site. Weaving together an immensely compelling tale that places the reader in the midst of war's maelstrom, it substantially revises and enlarges our understanding of Corinth and its crucial importance in the Civil War.
An Agrarian Republic
Author: Adam Wesley DeanPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146961992X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The familiar story of the Civil War tells of a predominately agricultural South pitted against a rapidly industrializing North. However, Adam Wesley Dean argues that the Republican Party's political ideology was fundamentally agrarian. Believing that small farms owned by families for generations led to a model society, Republicans supported a northern agricultural ideal in opposition to southern plantation agriculture, which destroyed the land's productivity, required constant western expansion, and produced an elite landed gentry hostile to the Union. Dean shows how agrarian republicanism shaped the debate over slavery's expansion, spurred the creation of the Department of Agriculture and the passage of the Homestead Act, and laid the foundation for the development of the earliest nature parks. Spanning the long nineteenth century, Dean's study analyzes the changing debate over land development as it transitioned from focusing on the creation of a virtuous and orderly citizenry to being seen primarily as a "civilizing" mission. By showing Republicans as men and women with backgrounds in small farming, Dean unveils new connections between seemingly separate historical events, linking this era's views of natural and manmade environments with interpretations of slavery and land policy.