Author: Edward C. CulpPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The 25th Ohio Vet. Vol. Infantry in the War for the Union
Author: Edward C. CulpThe 25th Ohio Vet. Vol. Infantry in the War for the Union
Author: Edward C. CulpThe Civil War Literature of Ohio
Author: Daniel Joseph RyanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
A Thousand May Fall: An Immigrant Regiment's Civil War
Author: Brian Matthew JordanPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631495151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict. The Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, yet our nation remains fiercely divided over its enduring legacies. In A Thousand May Fall, Pulitzer Prize finalist Brian Matthew Jordan returns us to the war itself, bringing us closer than perhaps any prior historian to the chaos of battle and the trials of military life. Creating an intimate, absorbing chronicle from the ordinary soldier’s perspective, he allows us to see the Civil War anew—and through unexpected eyes. At the heart of Jordan’s vital account is the 107th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was at once representative and exceptional. Its ranks weathered the human ordeal of war in painstakingly routine ways, fighting in two defining battles, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, each time in the thick of the killing. But the men of the 107th were not lauded as heroes for their bravery and their suffering. Most of them were ethnic Germans, set apart by language and identity, and their loyalties were regularly questioned by a nativist Northern press. We so often assume that the Civil War was a uniquely American conflict, yet Jordan emphasizes the forgotten contributions made by immigrants to the Union cause. An incredible one quarter of the Union army was foreign born, he shows, with 200,000 native Germans alone fighting to save their adopted homeland and prove their patriotism. In the course of its service, the 107th Ohio was decimated five times over, and although one of its members earned the Medal of Honor for his daring performance in a skirmish in South Carolina, few others achieved any lasting distinction. Reclaiming these men for posterity, Jordan reveals that even as they endured the horrible extremes of war, the Ohioans contemplated the deeper meanings of the conflict at every turn—from personal questions of citizenship and belonging to the overriding matter of slavery and emancipation. Based on prodigious new research, including diaries, letters, and unpublished memoirs, A Thousand May Fall is a pioneering, revelatory history that restores the common man and the immigrant striver to the center of the Civil War. In our age of fractured politics and emboldened nativism, Jordan forces us to confront the wrenching human realities, and often-forgotten stakes, of the bloodiest episode in our nation’s history.
The War of the Rebellion
Author: United States. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
The Era of the Civil War--1820-1876
Author: Louise A. Arnold-FriendPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Rebels at the Gate
Author: W Hunter LesserPublisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 140225010X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Rebels at the Gate is the dramatic story of the first Union victories of the Civil War and the events that caused Virginians to divide their state. In a defiant act to sustain President Lincoln's war effort, Virginia Unionists created their own state government in 1861—destined to become the new state of West Virginia.
Bulletin
Author: Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore CityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
War Department, Office of the Chief of Staff, War College Division, General Staff
Author: 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