Silent Cavalry
Silent Cavalry

Author: Howell Raines

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2023-12-05

Total Pages: 577

ISBN-13: 0593137760

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A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alabama who played a decisive role in the Civil War, and how they were scrubbed from the history books. “It is my sincere hope that this compelling and submerged history is integrated into our understanding of our nation, and allows us to embrace new heroes of the past.”—Imani Perry, professor, Harvard University, and National Book Award–winning author of South to America We all know how the Civil War was won: Courageous Yankees triumphed over the South. But is there more to the story? As Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Howell Raines shows, it was not only soldiers from northern states who helped General William Tecumseh Sherman burn Atlanta to the ground but also an unsung regiment of 2,066 Alabamian yeoman farmers—including at least one member of Raines’s own family. Called the First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A., this regiment of mountain Unionists, which included sixteen formerly enslaved Black men, was the point of the spear that Sherman drove through the heart of the Confederacy. The famed general hailed their skills and courage. So why don’t we know anything about them? Silent Cavalry is part epic American history, part family saga, and part scholarly detective story. Drawing on the lore of his native Alabama and investigative skills honed by six decades in journalism, Raines brings to light a conspiracy that sought to undermine the accomplishments of these renegade southerners—a key component of the Lost Cause effort to restore glory to white southerners after the war, even at the cost of the truth. In this important new contribution to our understanding of the Civil War and its legacy, Raines tells the thrilling tale of the formation of the First Alabama while exposing the tangled web of how its wartime accomplishments were silenced, implicating everyone from a former Confederate general to a gaggle of Lost Cause historians in the Ivy League and a sanctimonious former keeper of the Alabama state archives. By reversing the erasure of the First Alabama, Silent Cavalry is a testament to the immense power of historians to destroy as well as to redeem.

Family Maps of Winston County, Mississippi, Deluxe Edition
Family Maps of Winston County, Mississippi, Deluxe Edition

Author: Gregory A. Boyd

Publisher:

Published: 2010-05-20

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9781420311235

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262 pages with 59 total maps Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Winston County, Mississippi, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. What Cities and Towns are in Winston County, Mississippi (and in this book)? What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 3883 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 73 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1830s33 1840s2658 1850s468 1860s132 1870s15 1880s82 1890s258 1900s97 1910s134 1920s5 What Cities and Towns are in Winston County, Mississippi (and in this book)? Betheden, Boon, Calvary, Center Ridge, Claytown, Coonwood (historical), Deposit (historical), Ellison Ridge, Estes, Evergreen, Fearns Springs, Finis Hook (historical), Ford, Gum Springs, Handle, Highpoint, Hight, Hinze, Liberty, Loakfoma, Lobutcha (historical), Louisville, McMillan, Millcreek, Nanih Waiya, Noxapater, Perkinsville (historical), Plattsburg, Randalls Bluff (historical), Rome, Rural Hill, Singleton (historical), Triplets Corners, Vernon, Vowell, Webster, Winston