The Great Heart of the Republic
The Great Heart of the Republic

Author: Adam Arenson

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-01-03

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0674052889

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In the battles to determine the destiny of the United States in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, St. Louis, then at the hinge between North, South, and West, was ideally placed to bring these sections together. At least, this was the hope of a coterie of influential St. Louisans. But their visions of re-orienting the nation's politics with Westerners at the top and St. Louis as a cultural, commercial, and national capital crashed as the country was tom apart by convulsions over slavery, emancipation, and Manifest Destiny. While standard accounts frame the coming of the Civil War as strictly a conflict between the North and the South who were competing to expand their way of life, Arenson shifts the focus to the distinctive culture and politics of the American West, recovering the region’s importance for understanding the Civil War and examining the vision of western advocates themselves, and the importance of their distinct agenda for shaping the political, economic, and cultural future of the nation.

The Western Sanitary Commission
The Western Sanitary Commission

Author: Jacob Gilbert Forman

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-22

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780484448154

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Excerpt from The Western Sanitary Commission: A Sketch of Its Origin, History, Labors for the Sick and Wounded of the Western Armies, and Aid Given to Freedmen and Union Refugees, With Incidents of Hospital Life Soldiers' Homes at Columbus, Ky. Memphis, Vicksburg, and Helena - Over soldier guests entertained - Further account of the St. Louis hospitals - 110m number of patients treated - Number of deaths - Per centage of deaths - The military prisons at St. Louis and Alton, Illinois - Humane treatment of sick prisoners.. Pp. 80 - 90. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.