Author: Connecticut. Andersonville Monument CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Andersonville National Historic Site (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Dedication of the Monument at Andersonville, Georgia, October 23, 1907
Author: Connecticut. Andersonville Monument CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Andersonville National Historic Site (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Dedication of the Monument at Andersonville, Georgia, October 23, 1907, in Memory of the Men of Connecticut who Suffered in Southern Military Prisons, 1861-1865
Author: Connecticut Andersonville Monument CPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020788109
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A commemorative booklet produced by the Connecticut Andersonville Monument Commission to document the dedication of the monument honoring Connecticut soldiers who died in Confederate prisoner-of-war camps during the Civil War. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Dedication of the Monument at Andersonville, Georgia, October 23, 1907
Author: Connecticut. Commission on Andersonville MonumentPublisher:
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Category : Andersonville (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Dedication of the Monument at Andersonville, Georgia
Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332561431
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Excerpt from Dedication of the Monument at Andersonville, Georgia: October 23, 1907, in Memory of the Men of Connecticut Who Suffered in Southern Military Prisons, 1861-1865 The song of the mocking-birds greeted the early risers the next morning, Wednesday, October 23, and many of the prison survivors were up and out to get their first look at Andersonville in forty-three years. Same old place, said one. Well, yes, it surely has changed but little, - the same old country store, a half dozen or so of the same old houses, which never saw a paint brush, the little frame church, the red soil anddirt roads, all about the same as when they saw it last. Surrounded on either side by stirring and prosper ous towns like Fort Valley, Oglethorpe and Americus, Andersonville seems to be lastingly blighted and unable to rise above the history associated with its name. Leaving it behind, breakfast over, let us follow the old survivors over the stockade grounds, eager to once more stand on the very spot so associated with painful but precious memories to them. Conveyances of all sorts were on hand, their drivers out to make all there was in it, but while some rode many walked, especially the ex-prisoners, who wanted to go in just as they did before, on foot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Dedication of the Monument at Andersonville, Georgia, October 23, 1907
Author: Connecticut. Andersonville Monument CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Andersonville National Historic Site (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Andersonville National Historic Site
Author: Edwin C. BearssPublisher:
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Category : Andersonville National Historic Site (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
A Broken Regiment
Author: Lesley J. GordonPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807157325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A Broken Regiment recounts the tragic history of one of the Civil War's most ill-fated Union military units. Organized in the late summer of 1862, the 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was unprepared for battle a month later, when it entered the fight at Antietam. The results were catastrophic: nearly a quarter of the men were killed or wounded, and Connecticut's 16th panicked and fled the field. In the years that followed, the regiment participated in minor skirmishes before surrendering en masse in North Carolina in 1864. Most of its members spent months in southern prison camps, including the notorious Andersonville stockade, where disease and starvation took the lives of over one hundred members of the unit. The struggles of the 16th led survivors to reflect on the true nature of their military experience during and after the war, and questions of cowardice and courage, patriotism and purpose, were often foremost in their thoughts. Over time, competing stories emerged of who they were, why they endured what they did, and how they should be remembered. By the end of the century, their collective recollections reshaped this troubling and traumatic past, and the "unfortunate regiment" emerged as the "Brave Sixteenth," their individual memories and accounts altered to fit the more heroic contours of the Union victory. The product of over a decade of research, Lesley J. Gordon's A Broken Regiment illuminates this unit's complex history amid the interplay of various, and often competing, voices. The result is a fascinating and heartrending story of one regiment's wartime and postwar struggles.
Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
Author: Brian Matthew JordanPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0871407825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History Winner of the Gov. John Andrew Award (Union Club of Boston) An acclaimed, groundbreaking, and “powerful exploration” (Washington Post) of the fate of Union veterans, who won the war but couldn’t bear the peace. For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative. These veterans— tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning for paltry pensions— tragically realized that they stood as unwelcome reminders to a new America eager to heal, forget, and embrace the freewheeling bounty of the Gilded Age. Mining previously untapped archives, Jordan uncovers anguished letters and diaries, essays by amputees, and gruesome medical reports, all deeply revealing of the American psyche. In the model of twenty-first-century histories like Drew Gilpin Faust’s This Republic of Suffering or Maya Jasanoff ’s Liberty’s Exiles that illuminate the plight of the common man, Marching Home makes almost unbearably personal the rage and regret of Union veterans. Their untold stories are critically relevant today.
Author: Indiana