Author: Mary Ann Harris GayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Life in Dixie During the War
Author: Mary Ann Harris GayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Life in Dixie during the War, 1861-1862-1863-1864-1865
Author: Mary Ann Harris GayPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Life in Dixie during the War, 1861-1862-1863-1864-1865" by Mary Ann Harris Gay. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Life in Dixie During the War
Author: Mary A. H. GayPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775562565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
The "official" account of the Civil War is well known by many, but this sweeping narrative often overlooks the experiences and impressions of individuals. Life in Dixie During the War offers up a fascinating first-hand account of what it was like to actually live through this tumultuous period in American history. According to some, this book was part of the inspiration for Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone With the Wind.
Life in Dixie During the War
Author: Mary A. H. GayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781300792109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Most of the writing about the Civil War is focused on the military strategies and the personalities of those involved. Too little attention has been given to the civilian noncombatants and to the hardship they endured during the conflict. In 1894, the author compiled her letters and diaries from the war for this book. Her stories, as seen from her home in central Georgia, reflect how the events leading up to the fall of the Southern Confederacy, the burning of Atlanta, and the economic destruction of the Southern way of life affected her, her family, and her friends. This reprint has been completely reformatted in a larger, re-typed format for the modern reader.
Dixie's Daughters
Author: Karen L. CoxPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813063892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Wall Street Journal’s Five Best Books on the Confederates’ Lost Cause Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South—all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen Cox traces the history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause. In this edition, with a new preface, Cox acknowledges the deadly riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, showing why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure. The Daughters, as UDC members were popularly known, were daughters of the Confederate generation. While southern women had long been leaders in efforts to memorialize the Confederacy, UDC members made the Lost Cause a movement about vindication as well as memorialization. They erected monuments, monitored history for "truthfulness," and sought to educate coming generations of white southerners about an idyllic past and a just cause—states' rights. Soldiers' and widows' homes, perpetuation of the mythology of the antebellum South, and pro-southern textbooks in the region's white public schools were all integral to their mission of creating the New South in the image of the Old. UDC members aspired to transform military defeat into a political and cultural victory, in which states' rights and white supremacy remained intact. To the extent they were successful, the Daughters helped to preserve and perpetuate an agenda for the New South that included maintaining the social status quo. Placing the organization's activities in the context of the postwar and Progressive-Era South, Cox describes in detail the UDC's origins and early development, its efforts to collect and preserve manuscripts and artifacts and to build monuments, and its later role in the peace movement and World War I. This remarkable history of the organization presents a portrait of two generations of southern women whose efforts helped shape the social and political culture of the New South. It also offers a new historical perspective on the subject of Confederate memory and the role southern women played in its development.
The Fall of the House of Dixie
Author: Bruce C. LevinePublisher: Random House Incorporated
ISBN: 1400067030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A revisionist history of the radical transformation of the American South during the Civil War examines the economic, social and political deconstruction and rebuilding of Southern institutions as experienced by everyday people. By the award-winning author of Confederate Emancipation.
A Diary from Dixie
Author: Mary Boykin ChesnutPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674202917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War.
A Wisconsin Boy in Dixie
Author: James King NewtonPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299024840
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Unlike many of his fellows, [James Newton] was knowledgeable, intuitive, and literate; like many of his fellows he was cast into the role of soldier at only eighteen years of age. He was polished enough to write drumhead and firelight letters of fine literary style. It did not take long for this farm boy turned private to discover the grand design of the conflict in which he was engaged, something which many of the officers leading the armies never did discover."--Victor Hicken, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society "When I wrote to you last I was at Madison with no prospect of leaving very soon, but I got away sooner than I expected to." So wrote James Newton upon leaving Camp Randall for Vicksburg in 1863 with the Fourteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Newton, who had been a rural schoolteacher before he joined the Union army in 1861, wrote to his parents of his experiences at Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, on the Red River, in Missouri, at Nashville, at Mobile, and as a prisoner of war. His letters, selected and edited by noted historian Stephen E. Ambrose, reveal Newton as a young man who matured in the war, rising in rank from private to lieutenant. A Wisconsin Boy in Dixie reveals Newton as a young man who grew to maturity through his Civil War experience, rising in rank from private to lieutenant. Writing soberly about the less attractive aspects of army life, Newton's comments on fraternizing with the Rebs, on officers, and on discipline are touched with a sense of humor--"a soldier's best friend," he claimed. He also became sensitive to the importance of political choices. After giving Lincoln the first vote he had ever cast, Newton wrote: "In doing so I felt that I was doing my country as much service as I have ever done on the field of battle."
Life in Dixie During the War, 1861-1865
Author: Mary Ann Harris GayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781620133545
Category : Atlanta Campaign, 1864
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The "official" account of the Civil War is well known by many, but this sweeping narrative often overlooks the experiences and impressions of individuals. Life in Dixie During the War offers up a fascinating first-hand account of what it was like to actually live through this tumultuous period in American history. According to some, this book was part of the inspiration for Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone With the Wind.
Dixie Betrayed
Author: David J. EicherPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031607571X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
David Eicher reveals the story of the political conspiracy, discord and dysfunction in Richmond that cost the South the Civil War. He shows how President Jefferson Davis fought not only with the Confederate House and Senate and with State Governers but also with his own vice-president and secretary of state.