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Author: James W. Strong Publisher: ISBN: Category : Arkansas Languages : en Pages :
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This collection contains the originals and handwritten transcriptions of two letters written by Lieutenant James W. Strong while serving with the 24th Iowa Infantry.
Author: James W. Strong Publisher: ISBN: Category : Arkansas Languages : en Pages :
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This collection contains the originals and handwritten transcriptions of two letters written by Lieutenant James W. Strong while serving with the 24th Iowa Infantry.
Author: James Scott Publisher: ISBN: Category : Arkansas Languages : en Pages :
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This collection consists of the original and a transcription of two letters written by James Scott while he was serving with the 23rd Wisconsin Infantry.
Author: James M. McPherson Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199741050 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 258
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General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, over and over again, through countless bloody battles and four long, awful years ? Why did the conventional wisdom -- that soldiers become increasingly cynical and disillusioned as war progresses -- not hold true in the Civil War? It is to this question--why did they fight--that James McPherson, America's preeminent Civil War historian, now turns his attention. He shows that, contrary to what many scholars believe, the soldiers of the Civil War remained powerfully convinced of the ideals for which they fought throughout the conflict. Motivated by duty and honor, and often by religious faith, these men wrote frequently of their firm belief in the cause for which they fought: the principles of liberty, freedom, justice, and patriotism. Soldiers on both sides harkened back to the Founding Fathers, and the ideals of the American Revolution. They fought to defend their country, either the Union--"the best Government ever made"--or the Confederate states, where their very homes and families were under siege. And they fought to defend their honor and manhood. "I should not lik to go home with the name of a couhard," one Massachusetts private wrote, and another private from Ohio said, "My wife would sooner hear of my death than my disgrace." Even after three years of bloody battles, more than half of the Union soldiers reenlisted voluntarily. "While duty calls me here and my country demands my services I should be willing to make the sacrifice," one man wrote to his protesting parents. And another soldier said simply, "I still love my country." McPherson draws on more than 25,000 letters and nearly 250 private diaries from men on both sides. Civil War soldiers were among the most literate soldiers in history, and most of them wrote home frequently, as it was the only way for them to keep in touch with homes that many of them had left for the first time in their lives. Significantly, their letters were also uncensored by military authorities, and are uniquely frank in their criticism and detailed in their reports of marches and battles, relations between officers and men, political debates, and morale. For Cause and Comrades lets these soldiers tell their own stories in their own words to create an account that is both deeply moving and far truer than most books on war. Battle Cry of Freedom, McPherson's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the highest order." For Cause and Comrades deserves similar accolades, as McPherson's masterful prose and the soldiers' own words combine to create both an important book on an often-overlooked aspect of our bloody Civil War, and a powerfully moving account of the men who fought it.
Author: James William Welch Publisher: ISBN: Category : Christmas Languages : en Pages :
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Mostly personal letters to his wife, Margaret (Maggie), and children, Ada, Lizzie, Nettie, and Hattie, as well as military records, including correspondence, Leave of Absence orders, receipts of goods from Quartermaster, Charges Against Soldiers, Requisitions for Ordnance and Return of Ordnance forms. The letter contents include action at Gettysburg, camp life, internal politics of the regiment, time in the hospital after being wounded.
Author: Gilbert Claflin Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres ISBN: 0299294838 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 355
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In 2002, Judy Cook discovered a packet of letters written by her great-great-grandparents, Gilbert and Esther Claflin, during the American Civil War. An unexpected bounty, these letters from 1862–63 offer visceral witness to the war, recounting the trials of a family separated. Gilbert, an articulate and cheerful forty-year-old farmer, was drafted into the Union Army and served in the Thirty-Fourth Wisconsin Infantry garrisoned in western Kentucky along the Mississippi. Esther had married Gilbert when she was fifteen; now a woman with two teenage sons, she ran the family farm near Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, in Gilbert’s absence. In his letters, Gilbert writes about food, hygiene, rampant desertions by drafted men, rebel guerrilla raids, and pastimes in the daily life of a soldier. His comments on interactions with Confederate prisoners and ex-slaves before and after the Emancipation Proclamation reveal his personal views on monumental events. Esther shares in her letters the challenges and joys of maintaining the farm, accounts of their boys Elton and Price, concerns about finances and health, and news of their local community and extended family. Esther’s experiences provide insight into family, farm, and village life in the wartime North, an often overlooked aspect of Civil War history. Judy Cook has made the letters accessible to a wider audience by providing historical context with notes and appendixes. The volume includes a foreword by Civil War historian Keith S. Bohannon.
Author: James W. Welch Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Mostly personal letters to his wife, Margaret (Maggie), and children, Ada, Lizzie, Nettie, and Hattie, as well as military records, including correspondence, Leave of Absence orders, receipts of goods from Quartermaster, Charges Against Soldiers, Requisitions for Ordnance and Return of Ordnance forms. The letter contents include action at Gettysburg, camp life, internal politics of the regiment, time in the hospital after being wounded.
Author: James McGrady Publisher: ISBN: Category : Copperhead movement Languages : en Pages : 10
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May 1, 1863 letter from McGrady to “friend Havens” a reference to James Dehaven of McGregor, Iowa. The letter was written from Camp Reed, Jackson, Tennessee. The letter ranges over a variety of anticipated topics – illness and food supplies seem to take up most of McGrady’s interest.
Author: John Cotton Publisher: University of Alabama Press ISBN: 0817350438 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 145
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"These letters from a yeoman farmer in the Confederate Army to his wife in Coosa County, Alabama, will be of interest to historians not only for the light shed upon the life of the Confederate soldier, but also for frequent allusions to rural life and the operation of the farm in Cotton's absence. He enlisted at Pinckneyville, Alabama, on April 1, 1862, and was paroled at Talladega on May 25, 1865. During the intervening years he saw action in Tennessee and Kentucky, in the Dalton-Atlanta campaign, briefly again in Tennessee, then in Georgia against the forces of Sherman, moving finally into South Carolina.... These letters constitute an authentic record of a typical Confederate soldier's experience," ---Journal of Southern History
Author: James Noffsinger Publisher: ISBN: Category : Iowa Languages : en Pages :
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This collection contains one holographic letter written to the wife of James Noffsinger on July 21, 1863 from Jackson, Mississippi. In the letter, Noffsinger describes the carnage of the aftermath of the union attack on Jackson. In the wake of the Confederate retreat, union troops had pillaged the city. He bemoaned the destruction and the looting, but does not criticize union troops. He goes on to write about the skirmish at Brandon, a few miles from Jackson and the ravages of battle. He talks about a colleague being dismembered by Confederate artillery. The union army drives off the Confederates, but Noffsinger notes of several close calls. He mentions in passing that he has collected several books that had been pillaged and planned to send them home.
Author: James W. Strong
Author: James W. Strong
Author: James Scott
Author: James M. McPherson
Author: James William Welch
Author: Gilbert Claflin
Author: James W. Welch
Author: James McGrady
Author: John Cotton
Author: James Noffsinger
Author: James A. Ross