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  • General E.A. Paine in Western Kentucky

    Assessing the "Reign of Terror" of the Summer of 1864

    When General E. A. Paine assumed command of the U.S. Army's District of Western Kentucky at Paducah in the summer of 1864, he faced a defiant populace, a thriving black market and undisciplined troops plagued by low morale. Guerrillas pillaged towns and murdered the vocal few that supported the Union. Paine's task was to enforce discipline and mollify the secessionist majority in a 2,300-square ... Leer más

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  • Unconditional Unionist

    The Hazardous Life of Lucian Anderson, Kentucky Congressman

    When U.S. Congressman Lucian Anderson from Kentucky voted for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in January 1865, abolishing slavery, he gambled more than his political career. Anderson was from Mayfield, one of the most rabidly secessionist towns in the Bluegrass State. During the Civil War, his political alignment changed from pro-slavery Union Democrat to Unconditional Unionist to ... Leer más

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  • The Fall of the House of Dixie

    The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

    de Bruce Levine ...
    In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended. Told through the words of the people who lived it, The Fall of the House of Dixie illuminates the way a war undertaken to preserve the status quo ... Leer más

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  • I Freed Myself

    African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era

    For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in the Civil War era. However, David Williams suggests that this portrayal marginalizes the role that African American slaves played in freeing themselves. At the Civil War's outset, Lincoln made clear his intent was to save the Union rather than free ... Leer más

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  • Kentucky Confederates

    Secession, Civil War, and the Jackson Purchase

    de Berry Craig ...
    "This book will become the definitive work on the political, social, and military climate of the Purchase region during the Civil War." — Kentucky LibrariesDuring the Civil War, the majority of Kentuckians supported the Union under the leadership of Henry Clay, but one part of the state presented a striking exception. The Jackson Purchase—bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio ... Leer más

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  • Biographies of the Civil War and Reconstruction

    Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and More

    Series series Impact on America: Collective Biographies
    Nowhere can intricacies of the ideological, regional, and economic tensions that erupted into the American Civil War be better seen than in the individual actors who fought both on and off the battlefields and on either side for what they believed. While some vigorously struggled for emancipation, others vehemently resisted such a notion, while still others were motivated primarily by regional ... Leer más

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  • When the Yankees Came

    Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865

    Series series Civil War America
    Southerners whose communities were invaded by the Union army during the Civil War endured a profoundly painful ordeal. For most, the coming of the Yankees was a nightmare become real; for some, it was the answer to a prayer. But as Stephen Ash argues, for all, invasion and occupation were essential parts of the experience of defeat that helped shape the southern postwar mentality.When the Yankees ... Leer más

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  • Crossroads of Freedom : Antietam

    Antietam

    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    The Battle of Antietam fought on September 17 1862 was the bloodiest single day in American history with more than 6000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. In Crossroads of Freedom America's most eminent Civil War historian James M. McPherson paints a masterful account of this pivotal battle the events that led ... Leer más

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  • Prince George's County and the Civil War

    Life on the Border

    Series series Civil War Series
    Bordered by the Federal capital but separated from Virginia and the Confederacy only by the Potomac River, the citizens of Prince George's County found themselves on the front lines of the Civil War. As Maryland's largest slave-owning county, some--including members of the Bowie and Surratt families--joined the Confederacy. Many remained loyal to the Union, losing sons and property for the cause. ... Leer más

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  • Stark Mad Abolitionists

    Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era

    A town at the center of the United States becomes the site of an ongoing struggle for freedom and equality.In May, 1854, Massachusetts was in an uproar. A judge, bound by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, had just ordered a young African American man who had escaped from slavery in Virginia and settled in Boston to be returned to bondage in the South. An estimated fifty thousand citizens rioted in ... Leer más

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  • Robert E. Lee

    A Life

    A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity—his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward calm, his disloyalty and his honor."An important contribution to reconciling the myths with the facts." —New ... Leer más

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  • 366 Days in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency

    The Private, Political, and Military Decisions of America's Greatest President

    Edición de Stephen A. Wynalda ...
    In a startlingly innovative format, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln’s decisions in office-including his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and more personal incidents like the day his eleven-year-old son, Willie, ... Leer más

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