Author: Louisiana. Commissioner of Military RecordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands ...
Author: Louisiana. Commissioner of Military RecordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
Author: Water-supply Paper
Author: Federal Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
Book Description
Gazetteer of Streams of Texas
Author: Glenn Arthur GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Special Publication
Author: A Vacation Guide to Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota
Author: South Dakota Federal Writers ProjectPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
They Fought Like Demons
Author: DeAnne BlantonPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807128060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absence of their men. However, as DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook show in their remarkable new study, that conventional picture does not tell the entire story. Hundreds of women assumed male aliases, disguised themselves in men’s uniforms, and charged into battle as Union and Confederate soldiers—facing down not only the guns of the adversary but also the gender prejudices of society. They Fought Like Demons is the first book to fully explore and explain these women, their experiences as combatants, and the controversial issues surrounding their military service. Relying on more than a decade of research in primary sources, Blanton and Cook document over 240 women in uniform and find that their reasons for fighting mirrored those of men—-patriotism, honor, heritage, and a desire for excitement. Some enlisted to remain with husbands or brothers, while others had dressed as men before the war. Some so enjoyed being freed from traditional women’s roles that they continued their masquerade well after 1865. The authors describe how Yankee and Rebel women soldiers eluded detection, some for many years, and even merited promotion. Their comrades often did not discover the deception until the “young boy” in their company was wounded, killed, or gave birth. In addition to examining the details of everyday military life and the harsh challenges of -warfare for these women—which included injury, capture, and imprisonment—Blanton and Cook discuss the female warrior as an icon in nineteenth-century popular culture and why twentieth-century historians and society ignored women soldiers’ contributions. Shattering the negative assumptions long held about Civil War distaff soldiers, this sophisticated and dynamic work sheds much-needed light on an unusual and overlooked facet of the Civil War experience.
Take a Paddle, Finger Lakes
Author: Rich FreemanPublisher: Footprint Press, Inc.
ISBN: 9781930480247
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Offering over 370 miles of flat-water creeks or rivers and 35 ponds or lakes, this guide provides a fun way to explore the beautiful Finger Lakes region of new York.
Hispanic Confederates
Author: John O'Donnell-RosalesPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806352302
Category : Hispanic American soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Although it is not generally acknowledged, a number of soldiers of Hispanic ancestry fought on behalf of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. As John O'Donnell-Rosales explains in the Introduction to the new Third Edition of his ground-breaking list of Hispanic Confederate soldiers, many of these individuals--including businessmen and sailors living in cities like New Orleans, St. Louis, Natchez, Biloxi, and Mobile--would have to choose between their cultural aversion to American slavery and the natural desire to protect their way of life in the South. After consulting a number of primary and secondary sources, including numerous rosters of Confederate soldiers, the author has compiled the only comprehensive roster of Hispanic Confederate soldiers in print. The number of soldiers listed in this volume has grown to 6,175 men, a number nearly twice as large as identified in the first edition.