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The Lynches Of South Carolina - From Reconstruction To Redemption

by Robert Emmett Curran

~~28,76€~~ 25,88€ 10% OFF

 In this follow-up volume to For Church and Confederacy: The Lynches of South Carolina, Robert Emmett Curran extends his corpus of work on the history of Catholicism in the South through the eyes of the Lynch family of South Carolina. An Irish American family who sympathized with the Confederacy, the Lynches rose to prominence economically and in religious leadership during the late 1800s. Currans latest volume features a collection of personal correspondence from Lynch family members, telling the story of a family struggling to recover from the physical, financial, and emotional wreckage that the Civil War had left, while coping with the new order Reconstruction imposed upon the South.With thirty-one chronological chapters spanning 1866 to 1882, this book of firsthand accounts fills a void in literature that treats the challenges and realities facing Irish Americans in the postCivil War South. Each chapter begins with an orienting and engaging introduction, and a helpful family genealogy provides valuable context for readers. Offering a unique perspective on the Reconstruction, Redemption, and Gilded Age eras, The Lynch Family of South Carolina is an insightful and engaging resource for scholars of the postCivil War era as well as those with an interest in Southern and religious history.
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Haunted By Memory - Ghost Stories Of The American Civil War

~~19,16€~~ 17,24€ 10% OFF

 As America’s bloodiest conflict, it is no surprise that the Civil War gave rise to a golden age of ghost stories. Popular publications were filled with accounts of ghosts—ghosts that appeared in the heat of battle, in the fretful quiet of picket duty, and in the miserable confines of hospitals and prisons. Civil War ghosts continued to haunt the troubled peace that followed, revealing that even so deadly a conflict left unresolved issues in its wake. In a nation forever altered by the war, these ghost stories speak to something far more meaningful than Americans’ taste for spine-tingling entertainment. They provide powerful evidence of how a wounded country tried to put the trauma, grief, and anxieties inflicted by the Civil War to rest. By telling ghost stories, Americans created narratives that honored the dead, explained the unexplainable, and gave their experiences a broader sense of identity and purpose.In this annotated anthology of Civil War ghost stories, historians John R. Neff and Amy Laurel Fluker offer the first scholarly analysis of the significance of ghosts to the history and memory of the Civil War. Haunted by Memory includes hundreds of examples of ghostly tales that appeared in newspapers, periodicals, and books between 1861 and 1932. These tales both satisfied and fed popular demand for news, entertainment, and ghostlore, and became powerful tools of cultural memory. By bridging the study of the Civil War, folklore, and memory, this collection expands the parameters of cultural history and reveals how the supernatural became a lasting part of the commemorative landscape of the American Civil War.
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New Fields Of Adventure - The Writings Of Lyman G. Bennett, Civil War Soldier And Topographical Engineer, 1861-1865

by M. Jane Johansson

~~33,11€~~ 29,80€ 10% OFF

 Lyman Gibson Bennett (1832â€"1904) had a curious mind and a keen sense of humor. A writer of considerable energy and intelligence, Bennettâ€™s wartime diaries recount his diverse and wide-ranging military record, while a postwar account details, among other things, his labors to recruit â€œMountain Fedsâ€ in the Ozarks.
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My Dearest Lilla - Letters Home From Civil War General Jacob D. Cox

by Gene Schmiel

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 In 2012, Gene Schmiel, Jacob D. Coxâ€™s biographer, learned of a cache in the Oberlin College archives of 213 letters Cox wrote to his wife during the Civil War. Schmiel recognised these documents as a resource for Cox as he wrote his histories, and many stand as first drafts of Coxâ€™s analyses of the military and sociopolitical events of the day.
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As Wolves Upon A Sheep Fold - The Civil War Letters Of Ohio Surgeon William S. Newton

by Aaron D. Purcell

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 William S. Newton (1823-1882) served the Union primarily as an assistant surgeon with the 91st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The letters in this volume, addressed mostly to Newtonâ€™s wife, Frances, provide a window into fighting in the Appalachian borderlands, where the differences between battle, guerilla warfare, and occupation were blurred.
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Civil War Memoir Of A Boy From Baltimore - The Remembrance Of George C. Maguire, Written In 1893

by Holly I. Powers

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 From the Pratt Street riot in Baltimore to a chance encounter with Red Cross founder Clara Barton to a firsthand view of Hicks Hospital, this sweeping yet brief memoir provides a unique opportunity to examine the experiences of a child during the USS Civil War and to explore the nuances of memory.
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Suffering In The Army Of Tennessee - A Social History Of The Confederate Army Of The Heartland From The Battles For Atlanta To The Retreat From Nashville

by Christopher Thrasher

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 In chapters that span the Atlanta Campaign to the Battle of Nashville in 1864, this book draws on a broad set of sources - newspapers, manuscripts, archives, diaries, and official documents - to tell a story that knits together accounts of officers, the final campaigns of the Western Theater, and the experiences of the civilians and rebel soldiers.
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The Civil War Diaries Of Cassie Fennell - A Young Confederate Woman In North Alabama, 18591865

by Whitney A. Snow

~~43,71€~~ 39,34€ 10% OFF

 Born near Guntersville, Alabama, Catherine (Cassie) Fennell was nineteen when the Civil War began. Starting with her time at a female academy in Washington, DC, these diaries continue through the warâ€™s end and discuss civilian experiences in Alabama and the Tennessee Valley.
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In Memory Of Self And Comrades - Thomas Wallace Colley''S Recollections Of Civil War Service In The 1st Virginia Cavalry

by Michael K. Shaffer

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 Thomas W. Colley served in one of the most active and famous units in the Civil War, the 1st Virginia Cavalry, which fought in battles in the Eastern Theater, from First Manassas/Bull Run to the defense of Petersburg. Colley was born November 11, 1837, outside Abingdon, Virginia, and grew up knowing the daily demands of life on a farm. In May 1861, along with the other members of the Washington Mounted Rifles, he left his home in Washington County and reported to camp in Richmond. During the war, Colley received wounds on three different occasions: first at Waterloo Bridge in 1862, again at Kelly’s Ford in 1863, and finally at Haw’s Shop in 1864. The engagement at Haw’s Shop resulted in the amputation of his left foot, thereby ending his wartime service. The first modern scholarly edition of Colley’s writings, In Memory of Self and Comrades dramatizes Colley’s fate as a wounded soldier mustered out before the war’s conclusion. Colley’s postwar reflections on the war reveal his struggle to earn a living and maintain his integrity while remaining somewhat unreconciled to his condition. He found much of his solace through writing and sought to advance his education after the war. As one of an estimated 20,000 soldiers who underwent amputation during the Civil War, his memoirs reveal the challenges of living with what many might recognize today as post-traumatic stress disorder. Annotations from editor Michael K. Shaffer provide further context to Colley’s colorful and insightful writings on both his own condition and the condition of other veterans also dealing with amputations
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Civil War Memoir Of A Boy From Baltimore - The Remembrance Of George C. Maguire, Written In 1893

by Holly I. Powers

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 From the Pratt Street riot in Baltimore to a chance encounter with Red Cross founder Clara Barton to a firsthand view of Hicks Hospital, this sweeping yet brief memoir provides a unique opportunity to examine the experiences of a child during the USS Civil War and to explore the nuances of memory.
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Letters Of General Richard S. Ewell - Stonewall''S Successor

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 <DIV>"The Letters of General Richard S. Ewell provide a sweeping view of the nineteenth century. Such chronological breadth makes this volume truly exceptional and important. Through Ewell’s eyes we see the many worlds of an American people at war. His thoughtful observations, biting wit, and ironic disposition offer readers a chance to rethink the paper-thin generalizations of Ewell as a quirky neurotic who simply crumbled under the legacy of Stonewall Jackson." —from the foreword by Peter S. Carmichael Richard S. Ewell was one of only six lieutenant generals to serve in Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, and of those he was but one of two—the other being Stonewall Jackson, his predecessor as commander of the Second Corps—to have left behind a sizable body of correspondence. Forty-nine of Ewell’s letters were published in 1939. This new volume, drawing on more recently available material and scrupulously annotated by Ewell biographer Donald Pfanz, offers a much larger collection of the general’s missives: 173 personal letters, 7 official letters, 4 battle narratives, and 2 memoranda of incidents that took place during the Civil War. The book covers the full range of Ewell’s career: his days at West Point, his posting on the western frontier, his role in the Mexican War, his Civil War service, and, finally, his postwar years managing farms in Tennessee and Mississippi. Some historians have judged Ewell harshly, particularly for his failure to capture Cemetery Hill on the first day at Gettysburg, but Pfanz contends that Ewell was in fact a brilliant combat general whose overall record, which included victories at the battles of Cross Keys, Second Winchester, and Fort Harrison, was one of which any commanding officer could be proud. Although irritable and often critical of others, Ewell’s correspondence shows him to have been generous toward subordinates, modest regarding his own accomplishments, and upright in both his professional and personal relationships. His letters to family and friends are a mixture of wry humor and uncommon sense. No one who reads them will view this important general in quite the same way again. DONALD C. PFANZ is the author of Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier’s Life, Abraham Lincoln at City Point, and War So Terrible: A Popular History of the Battle of Fredericksburg. </DIV>
New Fields Of Adventure - The Writings Of Lyman G. Bennett, Civil War Soldier And Topographical Engineer, 18611865

by M. Jane Johansson

~~30,69€~~ 27,62€ 10% OFF

 Lyman Gibson Bennett (1832–1904) had a curious mind and a keen sense of humor. He had an engineer’s mentality and a poet’s grasp of language, except for spelling. As a Union soldier, Bennett saw extensive service in the Trans-Mississippi Theater. A writer of considerable energy and intelligence, Bennett’s wartime diaries recount his diverse and wide-ranging military record, stretching geographically from the prairies of Illinois to the Rocky Mountains, while a postwar account details, among other things, his labors to recruit “Mountain Feds” in the Ozarks. This volume provides the perspective of an individual who was both a topographical engineer—with extensive experience that spanned the country from Arkansas to the Overland Trail—and a common soldier. As a member of the Thirty-Sixth Illinois Infantry, Bennett provided one of the most detailed contemporary accounts of the pivotal Battle of Pea Ridge, March 7–8, 1862. By December 1863, Bennett was promoted to first lieutenant in the newly formed Fourth Arkansas Cavalry (US) and wrote an invaluable first-person account of guerrilla fighting in the Ozark mountains. Readers will delight in Bennett’s witty descriptions of the ankles (and even higher!) of ladies as they gathered their skirts to trek through the mud; his sometimes-cutting words about his fellow hospital patients; and his wry comments on that “exclusively southern institution,” the chigger. New Fields of Adventure will prove useful to scholars of the Ozarks, landscape studies, and the Civil War in the West.
As Wolves Upon A Sheep Fold - The Civil War Letters Of Ohio Surgeon William S. Newton

by Aaron D. Purcell

21,12€ + 10% CARD

 William S. Newton (1823-1882) served the Union primarily as an assistant surgeon with the 91st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The letters in this volume, addressed mostly to Newton's wife, Frances, provide a window into fighting in the Appalachian borderlands, where the differences between battle, guerilla warfare, and occupation were blurred.
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Suffering In The Army Of Tennessee - A Social History Of The Confederate Army Of The Heartland From The Battles For Atlanta To The Retreat From Nashville

by Christopher Thrasher

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 In chapters that span the Atlanta Campaign to the Battle of Nashville in 1864, this book draws on a broad set of sources - newspapers, manuscripts, archives, diaries, and official documents - to tell a story that knits together accounts of officers, the final campaigns of the Western Theater, and the experiences of the civilians and rebel soldiers.
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In Memory Of Self And Comrades - Thomas Wallace Colley''S Recollections Of Civil War Service In The 1st Virginia Cavalry

by Michael K. Shaffer

25,16€ + 10% CARD

 Thomas W. Colley served in one of the most active and famous units in the Civil War, the 1st Virginia Cavalry, which fought in battles in the Eastern Theater, from First Manassas/Bull Run to the defense of Petersburg. Colley was born November 11, 1837, outside Abingdon, Virginia, and grew up knowing the daily demands of life on a farm. In May 1861, along with the other members of the Washington Mounted Rifles, he left his home in Washington County and reported to camp in Richmond. During the war, Colley received wounds on three different occasions: first at Waterloo Bridge in 1862, again at Kelly’s Ford in 1863, and finally at Haw’s Shop in 1864. The engagement at Haw’s Shop resulted in the amputation of his left foot, thereby ending his wartime service. The first modern scholarly edition of Colley’s writings, In Memory of Self and Comrades dramatizes Colley’s fate as a wounded soldier mustered out before the war’s conclusion. Colley’s postwar reflections on the war reveal his struggle to earn a living and maintain his integrity while remaining somewhat unreconciled to his condition. He found much of his solace through writing and sought to advance his education after the war. As one of an estimated 20,000 soldiers who underwent amputation during the Civil War, his memoirs reveal the challenges of living with what many might recognize today as post-traumatic stress disorder. Annotations from editor Michael K. Shaffer provide further context to Colley’s colorful and insightful writings on both his own condition and the condition of other veterans also dealing with amputations
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Letters Of General Richard S. Ewell - Stonewall''S Successor

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 <DIV>"The Letters of General Richard S. Ewell provide a sweeping view of the nineteenth century. Such chronological breadth makes this volume truly exceptional and important. Through Ewell’s eyes we see the many worlds of an American people at war. His thoughtful observations, biting wit, and ironic disposition offer readers a chance to rethink the paper-thin generalizations of Ewell as a quirky neurotic who simply crumbled under the legacy of Stonewall Jackson." —from the foreword by Peter S. Carmichael Richard S. Ewell was one of only six lieutenant generals to serve in Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, and of those he was but one of two—the other being Stonewall Jackson, his predecessor as commander of the Second Corps—to have left behind a sizable body of correspondence. Forty-nine of Ewell’s letters were published in 1939. This new volume, drawing on more recently available material and scrupulously annotated by Ewell biographer Donald Pfanz, offers a much larger collection of the general’s missives: 173 personal letters, 7 official letters, 4 battle narratives, and 2 memoranda of incidents that took place during the Civil War. The book covers the full range of Ewell’s career: his days at West Point, his posting on the western frontier, his role in the Mexican War, his Civil War service, and, finally, his postwar years managing farms in Tennessee and Mississippi. Some historians have judged Ewell harshly, particularly for his failure to capture Cemetery Hill on the first day at Gettysburg, but Pfanz contends that Ewell was in fact a brilliant combat general whose overall record, which included victories at the battles of Cross Keys, Second Winchester, and Fort Harrison, was one of which any commanding officer could be proud. Although irritable and often critical of others, Ewell’s correspondence shows him to have been generous toward subordinates, modest regarding his own accomplishments, and upright in both his professional and personal relationships. His letters to family and friends are a mixture of wry humor and uncommon sense. No one who reads them will view this important general in quite the same way again. DONALD C. PFANZ is the author of Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier’s Life, Abraham Lincoln at City Point, and War So Terrible: A Popular History of the Battle of Fredericksburg. </DIV>
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Race, Economics, And The Politics Of Educational Change

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Race, Economics, And The Politics Of Educational Change - The Dynamics Of School District Consolidation In Shelby County, Tennessee

by John M. Amis e Paul M. Wright

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 Presents insight into factors that have shaped not just the school system in Shelby County, but similar systems across the United States. A model for other urban areas that face similar challenges, this volume will serve as a significant resource for those seeking to understand the trajectory of large-scale educational transformations.
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The Lynch Family Of South Carolina - From Reconstruction To Redemption

by Robert Emmett Curran

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Haunted By Memory - Ghost Stories Of The American Civil War

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In The Tennessee Mountains

by Mary Murfree

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Confederate Engineer - Training & Campaigning John Morris Wampler

by George C. Kundahl

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A Fierce, Wild Joy - The Civil War Letters Of Colonel Edward J. Wood, 48th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment

by Edward J Wood

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Three Years A Soldier - The Diary And Newspaper Correspondence Of Private George Perkins, Sixth New York Independent Batter

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Miserable Little Conglomeration - A Social History Of The Port Hudson Campaign

by Christopher Thrasher

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 With more than forty illustrations and maps depicting the battles of Port Hudson and the defenses of the place itself, The Miserable Little Conglomeration builds upon previous scholarship to present a social history of this campaign through the eyes of the people who lived, fought, and died within it.
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