Civil War Gentlemen
Author: R. L. Shep
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13:
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The Gentlemen and the Roughs
Author: Lorien Foote
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2010-06-01
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0814727956
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A seminal work” on class divisions within the Union Army—“One of the best examples of . . . scholarship on the social history of Civil War soldiers” (The Journal of Southern History). During the Civil War, the Union army appeared cohesive enough to withstand four years of grueling war against the Confederates and to claim victory in 1865. But fractiousness bubbled below the surface of the North’s presumably united front. Internal fissures were rife within the Union army: class divisions, regional antagonisms, ideological differences, and conflicting personalities all distracted the army from quelling the Southern rebellion. In this highly original contribution to Civil War and gender history, Lorien Foote reveals that these internal battles were fought against the backdrop of manhood. Clashing ideals of manliness produced myriad conflicts, as when educated, refined, and wealthy officers (“gentlemen”) found themselves commanding a hard-drinking group of fighters (“roughs”)—a dynamic that often resulted in violence and even death. Based on extensive research into previously ignored primary sources, The Gentlemen and the Roughs uncovers holes in our understanding of the men who fought the Civil War and the society that produced them. Finalist for the 2011 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
A War for Gentlemen
Author: Jackie French
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780732277697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe reality of slavery, the poverty of the Southern Army and chaos of war is a shock to Charlie, and his escape is not the glorious return of the conquering hero he imagined. This book explores the strange story of how a colonial 'gentleman' from New South Wales, went to serve in the American Civil War.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service
Author: Cindy Sondik Aron
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0195048741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing from workers' applications, testimonies, and other primary documents, this book examines the changing roles of federal civil servants during the crucial period between 1860 and 1900 as they formed part of the first white-collar bureaucracy in the United States.
Last of the Blue and Gray
Author: Richard A. Serrano
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2013-10-08
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1588343952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard 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.
Meeting the Enemy
Author: Richard van Emden
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-08-15
Total Pages: 618
ISBN-13: 1408839814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA British soldier walked over to the German front line to deliver newspapers; British women married to Germans became 'enemy aliens' in their own country; a high-ranking British POW discussed his own troops' heroism with the Kaiser on the battlefield. Just three amazing stories of contact between the opposing sides in the Great War that eminent historian Richard van Emden has unearthed – incidents that show brutality, great humanity, and above all the bizarre nature of a conflict between two nations with long-standing ties of kinship and friendship. Meeting the Enemy reveals for the first time how contact was maintained on many levels throughout the War, and its stories, sometimes funny, often moving, give us a new perspective on the lives of ordinary men and women caught up in extraordinary events.
A Gentleman of Color
Author: Julie Winch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-06-05
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780195347456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Born into a free black family in 1766, Forten served in the Revolutionary War as a teenager. By 1810 he had earned the distinction of being the leading sailmaker in Philadelphia. Soon after Forten emerged as a leader in Philadelphia's black community and was active in a wide range of reform activities. Especially prominent in national and international antislavery movements, he served as vice-president of the American Anti-Slavery Society and became close friends with William Lloyd Garrison to whom he lent money to start up the Liberator. His family were all active abolitionists and a granddaughter, Charlotte Forten, published a famous diary of her experiences teaching ex-slaves in South Carolina's Sea Islands during the Civil War. This is the first serious biography of Forten, who stands beside Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr., in the pantheon of African Americans who fundamentally shaped American history.
The Gentlemen and the Roughs
Author: Lorien Foote
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2013-06-21
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1479897841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this contribution to Civil War and gender history, Lorien Foote reveals that internal battles were fought against the backdrop of manhood. Clashing ideals of manliness produced myriad conflicts when educated, refined, and wealthy officers found themselves commanding a hard-drinking group of fighters.
Dueling in the Old South
Author: Jack Kenny Williams
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780890961933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis history of the social custom of pistol dueling in the antebellum South documents the rules for its conduct, its causes, and its typical participants. Also included is a popular dueling code from the year 1838 by John Lyde Wilson, one-time governer of South Carolina.--From publisher description.
Fighting Men of the Civil War
Author: William C. Davis
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780806130606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDocuments the everyday life of the common soldier during the Civil War, including information on what life was like for the soldiers in basic training, combat, and imprisonment.
