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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Blue and Gray
Author: Last of the Blue and Gray
Author: Richard A. SerranoPublisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588343952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, pens a story of two veterans. In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota, hospital, his memories as a Yankee drummer boy slowly dimming. Walter Williams, at 117 blind and deaf and bedridden in his daughter's home in Houston, Texas, no longer could tell of his time as a Confederate forage master. The last of the Blue and the Gray were drifting away; an era was ending. Unknown to the public, centennial officials, and the White House too, one of these men was indeed a veteran of that horrible conflict and one according to the best evidence nothing but a fraud. One was a soldier. The other had been living a great, big lie.
Baseball in Blue and Gray
Author: George B. KirschPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691130434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, players and fans struggled over the form of the national pastime. George Kirsch gives us a color commentary of the growth and transformation of baseball during the Civil War. He shows that the game was a vital part of the lives of many a soldier and civilian--and that baseball's popularity had everything to do with surging American nationalism. By 1860, baseball was poised to emerge as the American sport. Clubs in northeastern and a few southern cities played various forms of the game. Newspapers published statistics, and governing bodies set rules. But the Civil War years proved crucial in securing the game's place in the American heart. Soldiers with bats in their rucksacks spread baseball to training camps, war prisons, and even front lines. As nationalist fervor heightened, baseball became patriotic. Fans honored it with the title of national pastime. War metaphors were commonplace in sports reporting, and charity games were scheduled. Decades later, Union general Abner Doubleday would be credited (wrongly) with baseball's invention. The Civil War period also saw key developments in the sport itself, including the spread of the New York-style of play, the advent of revised pitching rules, and the growth of commercialism. Kirsch recounts vivid stories of great players and describes soldiers playing ball to relieve boredom. He introduces entrepreneurs who preached the gospel of baseball, boosted female attendance, and found new ways to make money. We witness bitterly contested championships that enthralled whole cities. We watch African Americans embracing baseball despite official exclusion. And we see legends spring from the pens of early sportswriters. Rich with anecdotes and surprising facts, this narrative of baseball's coming-of-age reveals the remarkable extent to which America's national pastime is bound up with the country's defining event.
Blue & Gray Magazine's Guide to Haunted Places of the Civil War
Author: Blue and Gray MagazinePublisher: Blue & Gray Magazine/The General's Books
ISBN: 9780962603471
Category : Ghost stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From doors that won't stayed closed to vague images in human-like form gliding transparently down hallways, this book includes strange phenomena at Gettysburg, ghosts of the Franklin battlefield, Abe Lincoln still walsk at midnight and other Washington ghosts, and much more.
Blue & Gray Magazine
Author: Blue & Gray Magazine's History and Tour Guide of the Atlanta Campaign
Author: Richard McMurryPublisher: Blue & Gray Enterprises
ISBN: 9780962603464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Blue & Gray Magazine's History and Tour Guide of the Antietam Battlefield
Author: Stephen W. SearsPublisher: Blue & Gray Enterprises
ISBN: 9780962603457
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Providing everything a visitor to the Civil War battlefield would want to know, a detailed commentary includes numerous maps, in-depth analysis, and an acclaimed Driving Tour of sites inside and outside the boundaries of Antietam National Battlefield Park. Reprint. IP.
Guide to the Battle for South Mountain and Jackson's Seige of Harper's Ferry
Author: Blue and Gray MagazinePublisher: Blue & Gray Magazine/The General's Books
ISBN: 9780962603488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Stonewall Jackson's Siege of Harper's Ferry ended with the surrender of 12,000 Union soldiers with six dozen cannons--the largest surrender of United States forces until World War II. This and the Battle for South Mountain long have been overshadowed by Antietam. Civil War buffs and battlefield trampers will welcome this detailed guide, with maps and photos throughout.
Atlanta Will Fall
Author: Stephen DavisPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842027885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Davis argues that the fall of Atlanta to Union forces during the American Civil War was not the fault of John Bell Hood as most historians have believed, but was the responsibility of Hood's predecessor as Confederate commander - Joe Johnston.
Congress at War
Author: Fergus M. BordewichPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1101974249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War--a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the conflict. This brilliantly argued new perspective on the Civil War overturns the popular conception that Abraham Lincoln single-handedly led the Union to victory and gives us a vivid account of the essential role Congress played in winning the war. Building a riveting narrative around four influential members of Congress--Thaddeus Stevens, Pitt Fessenden, Ben Wade, and the proslavery Clement Vallandigham--Fergus Bordewich shows us how a newly empowered Republican party shaped one of the most dynamic and consequential periods in American history. From reinventing the nation's financial system to pushing President Lincoln to emancipate the slaves to the planning for Reconstruction, Congress undertook drastic measures to defeat the Confederacy, in the process laying the foundation for a strong central government that came fully into being in the twentieth century. Brimming with drama and outsize characters, Congress at War is also one of the most original books about the Civil War to appear in years and will change the way we understand the conflict.