Author: Confederate States of America. CongressPublisher:
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Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages :
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Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865: Journal of the Senate of the First Congress of the Confederate States of America, third session, held at Richmond, Va., January 12, 1863, to May 1, 1863 ; Fourth session, held at Richmond, Va., December 7, 1863, to February 17, 1864
Author: Confederate States of America. CongressPublisher:
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Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages :
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Civil War High Commands
Author: John EicherPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804780353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Based on nearly five decades of research, this magisterial work is a biographical register and analysis of the people who most directly influenced the course of the Civil War, its high commanders. Numbering 3,396, they include the presidents and their cabinet members, state governors, general officers of the Union and Confederate armies (regular, provisional, volunteers, and militia), and admirals and commodores of the two navies. Civil War High Commands will become a cornerstone reference work on these personalities and the meaning of their commands, and on the Civil War itself. Errors of fact and interpretation concerning the high commanders are legion in the Civil War literature, in reference works as well as in narrative accounts. The present work brings together for the first time in one volume the most reliable facts available, drawn from more than 1,000 sources and including the most recent research. The biographical entries include complete names, birthplaces, important relatives, education, vocations, publications, military grades, wartime assignments, wounds, captures, exchanges, paroles, honors, and place of death and interment. In addition to its main component, the biographies, the volume also includes a number of essays, tables, and synopses designed to clarify previously obscure matters such as the definition of grades and ranks; the difference between commissions in regular, provisional, volunteer, and militia services; the chronology of military laws and executive decisions before, during, and after the war; and the geographical breakdown of command structures. The book is illustrated with 84 new diagrams of all the insignias used throughout the war and with 129 portraits of the most important high commanders.
Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1912
Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1909
Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1906
Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909
Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
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Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1905
Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers
Author: John M. SacherPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807176540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award Finalist for the 2022 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize In April 1862, the Confederacy faced a dire military situation. Its forces were badly outnumbered, the Union army was threatening on all sides, and the twelve-month enlistment period for original volunteers would soon expire. In response to these circumstances, the Confederate Congress passed the first national conscription law in United States history. This initiative touched off a struggle for healthy white male bodies—both for the army and on the home front, where they oversaw enslaved laborers and helped produce food and supplies for the front lines—that lasted till the end of the war. John M. Sacher’s history of Confederate conscription serves as the first comprehensive examination of the topic in nearly one hundred years, providing fresh insights into and drawing new conclusions about the southern draft program. Often summarily dismissed as a detested policy that violated states’ rights and forced nonslaveholders to fight for planters, the conscription law elicited strong responses from southerners wanting to devise the best way to guarantee what they perceived as shared sacrifice. Most who bristled at the compulsory draft did so believing it did not align with their vision of the Confederacy. As Sacher reveals, white southerners’ desire to protect their families, support their communities, and ensure the continuation of slavery shaped their reaction to conscription. For three years, Confederates tried to achieve victory on the battlefield while simultaneously promoting their vision of individual liberty for whites and states’ rights. While they failed in that quest, Sacher demonstrates that southerners’ response to the 1862 conscription law did not determine their commitment to the Confederate cause. Instead, the implementation of the draft spurred a debate about sacrifice—both physical and ideological—as the Confederacy’s insatiable demand for soldiers only grew in the face of a grueling war.
Harper's Encyclopœdia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1905
Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description