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Category : Greene County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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History of Greene and Sullivan Counties, State of Indiana
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Category : Greene County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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History of Greene and Sullivan Counties, State of Indiana, from the Earliest Time to the Present
Author: The Black Heavens
Author: Brian R. DirckPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809337037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Winner, Lincoln Group of New York Award of Achievement 2019 From multiple personal tragedies to the terrible carnage of the Civil War, death might be alongside emancipation of the slaves and restoration of the Union as one of the great central truths of Abraham Lincoln’s life. Yet what little has been written specifically about Lincoln and death is insufficient, sentimentalized, or devoid of the rich historical literature about death and mourning during the nineteenth century. The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death is the first in-depth account of how the sixteenth president responded to the riddles of mortality, undertook personal mourning, and coped with the extraordinary burden of sending hundreds of thousands of soldiers to be killed on battlefields. Going beyond the characterization of Lincoln as a melancholy, tragic figure, Brian R. Dirck investigates Lincoln’s frequent encounters with bereavement and sets his response to death and mourning within the social, cultural, and political context of his times. At a young age Lincoln saw the grim reality of lives cut short when he lost his mother and sister. Later, he was deeply affected by the deaths of two of his sons, three-year-old Eddy in 1850 and eleven-year-old Willie in 1862, as well as the combat deaths of close friends early in the war. Despite his own losses, Lincoln learned how to approach death in an emotionally detached manner, a survival skill he needed to cope with the reality of his presidency. Dirck shows how Lincoln gradually turned to his particular understanding of God’s will in his attempts to articulate the meaning of the atrocities of war to the American public, as showcased in his allusions to religious ideas in the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural. Lincoln formed a unique approach to death: both intellectual and emotional, typical and yet atypical of his times. In showing how Lincoln understood and responded to death, both privately and publicly, Dirck paints a compelling portrait of a commander in chief who buried two sons and gave the orders that sent an unprecedented number of Americans to their deaths.
Hoosier Spies and Horse Marines
Author: James A. GoeckerPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476692580
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This work traces the history of a remarkable troop of Hoosier horsemen--the East Wing of the Third Indiana Cavalry--during the Civil War. From the backwaters of the war in eastern Maryland to the epicenter of cavalry action in the eastern theater, they fought at Antietam, Brandy Station, Gettysburg and around Petersburg, and helped subdue Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley. Along the way they served as spies and fought in dozens of vicious skirmishes and battles. At Appomattox, they escorted one of the most famous generals to come out of the war.
The Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History
Author: Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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An Illustrated History of the State of Indiana
Author: William S. HaymondPublisher:
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Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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An Illustrated History of the State of Indiana
Author: De Witt Clinton GoodrichPublisher:
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Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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