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Letters of a Civil War Nurse: Cornelia Hancock, 1863-1865
Book by Cornelia Hancock, Henrietta Stratton Jaquette; University of Nebraska Press, 1998
Subjects: Hancock, Cornelia--1840-1927--Correspondence, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women
...for Libraries Press, Freeport, N.Y."--T.p. verso. ISBN 0-8032-7312-6 pbk.: alk. paper 1. Hancock, Cornelia, 1840-1927--Correspondence. 2. Nurses--United States--Correspondence. 3. United States--History--Civil War, 1861- 1865...
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The Army of Northern Virginia: Lee's Army in the American Civil War, 1861-1865
Book by Philip Katcher; Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003
Subjects: Confederate States Of America--Army Of Northern Virginia--History, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental Histories
...work on Field Artillery, by Mr Patten, late officer United States army, published in New York, in November, 1861. Eventually Andrews went on to publish his own Confederate...Department manual, in 1863. Indeed, the Confederate War Department even produced a booklet called A System...instruction was to screen conscripts to accept only those medically fit. Instructions went out on August 14,1862 as to...Government, and at home would be of some service in taking care of the comforting women and children. The camp of instruction...artillery piece of the war. Nature of the War The Civil War marked a turning point in the way battles were...while the traditional cavalry charge was consigned to history. In 1775 Americans went to war with smoothbore flintlock...terrain until close to their objectives. In late March 1865 Brigadier-General John B. Gordon led his troops in...
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Warriors into Workers: The Civil War and the Formation of Urban-Industrial Society in a Northern City
Book by Russell L. Johnson; Fordham University Press, 2003
Subjects: Dubuque (Iowa)--Economic Conditions--19th Century, Dubuque (Iowa)--History, Military--19th Century, Dubuque (Iowa)--Social Conditions--19th Century, Industrialization--Iowa--Dubuque--History--19th Century, Iowa--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Economic Aspects, Iowa--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social Aspects, Soldiers--Iowa--Dubuque--History--19th Century, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Economic Aspects, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social Aspects
...Thomas Lee Johnson (1927-2001) This page intentionally...Meaning of Community, 1840-1880 (Cam- bridge...Josiah Conzett, My Civil War: Be- fore, during after, 1861-1865, memoir, 1909, p. 10...Classifica- tion in History, Journal of Interdisciplinary...just 3 natives of the United States. In terms of occupation...
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Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care during the American Civil War
Book by Frank R. Freemon; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998
Subjects: Medicine, Military--United States--History--19th Century, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical Care
...references and index. ISBN 0-8386-3753-1 (alk paper) 1. United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Medical care. 2. Medicine, Military-United States-History-19th century. I. Title. DNLM: 1. Military Medicine-history. 2. War-history...
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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Book by Drew Gilpin Faust; University of North Carolina Press, 1996
Subjects: Confederate States Of America--History, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women, Women--Confederate States Of America--History
...WOMEN OF THE SLAVEHOLDING SOUTH IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill...Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines...ISBN 0-8078-2255-8 alk. paper 1. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women. 2. Women--Confederate States of America--History...not approve of this thing," she declared. "What do I care for patriotism? My husband is my country. What is country...
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Presence and Precedents: The USS Red Rover during the American Civil War, 1861-1865
Journal article by Steven Louis Roca; Civil War History, Vol. 44, 1998
Subjects: Hospital-ships--History, USS Red Rover (Ship)--History, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...served on USS Red Rover between April 1862 and November 1865, including ratings and dates of service. Western Gunboat...In "reports--Deaths--Invoices, c" she is listed as a Medical Department laundress during the fourth quarter of 1864...David Healy of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukees History Department; Craig Scott; and Trudy Hooyman. Last but...Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. 30 vols. (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1894-1922...Ships History," I; James C. Tily, The Uniforms of the United States Navy (South Brunswick: Thomas Yoseloff, 1964). Tily...provision to supplement the Navy. Congress on July 24, 1861 authorized appointment of officers in an acting capacity...Bind up the Wounds: Catholic Sister Nurses in the U.S. Civil War (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989), 37; Ann Leonard...
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In Search of Women of African Descent Who Served in the Civil War Union Navy
Journal article by Lisa Y. King; The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 83, 1998
Subjects: African American women--Military aspects, Military nursing--19th century, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, Women military personnel--19th century
...civilian organization that supplied limited medical care and humanitarian aid to wounded Union soldiers. Dorothea...took charge of the "lady volunteers" who staffed the United States Sanitary Commissions floating hospitals around Washington, D.C. These "ladies" lacked any medical training, yet they directed the tasks of other personnel...escaping to Union forces were called "contraband of war." They were put in camps and often employed by the military...pay scale for enlisted personnel. At the time of the Civil War, women were barred from both military and naval...at least a full year from December, 1863 to January, 1865. Some of the men and women appeared on board at the...presents some real challenges to students of Civil War history. Unfortunately, Lucy Berington died in the hospital...
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The Sentimental Soldier in Popular Civil War Literature, 1861-65
Journal article by Alice Fahs; Civil War History, Vol. 46, 2000
Subjects: American literature--19th century, Civil war--Literature, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, War and literature--Analysis
...Heroes," Southern Monthly 1 (Mar. 1862): 559. (17) Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, March 29 1864, in The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, "Collected Writings of Walt Whitman," 6 vols (New York: New York University Press, 1961-69...
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The Emergence of a Suffragist: Mary Livermore, Civil War Activism, and the Moral Power of Women
Journal article by Wendy Hamand Venet; Civil War History, Vol. 48, 2002
Subjects: Livermore, Mary--Conduct of life, Political activists--Conduct of life, Suffragists--Conduct of life, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, Women in politics--History, Women in war--Moral and ethical aspects, Women's rights--History, Women--Moral and ethical aspects
...Livermores article "Woman and the War," dated May 18, 1861. (31.) Livermore, My Story of the War, 185-229. (32.) Ibid., 241-49. Judith Ann Giesberg, Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Womens...Toil, 196; Maxwell, Lincolns Fifth Wheel, 300; Andreas, History of Chicago, 2:316-18. Mark Skinner discussed the employment...Leon F. Litwack, North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1961), 259-60...progress, was published in twenty-two issues from May to June 1865. (45.) Livermores speech is quoted in Dubuque (Iowa...Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1990), 135-36; Livermore...
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"A Very Disagreeable Business": Confederate Conscription in Louisiana
Journal article by John M. Sacher; Civil War History, Vol. 53, 2007
Subjects: Armed Forces--Laws, regulations and rules, Armed Forces--Mobilization, Armed Forces--Social aspects, Confederate States of America--History, Confederate States of America--Military policy, Draft registration--History, Draft registration--Laws, regulations and rules, Draft registration--Social aspects, Draft--History, Draft--Laws, regulations and rules, Draft--Social aspects, Mercenaries--Recruiting, Mercenary troops--Recruiting, Military mobilization--Laws, regulations and rules, Military mobilization--Social aspects, United States Civil War, 1861-1865--History, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--History
...population. Of course, being born outside the United States did not equate to being a foreign resident, and Confederate...conscript foreigners. Thus, Governor Moores September 1861 decree that all male residents were subject to conscription...has "always made laws to oppress the poor since this war commenced. First the twenty negro law ... next was allowed...the state." Detailing shortages in food, clothing, and medical care, this Rapides Parish resident warned the governor that...for the gubernatorial chair." During the course of the Civil War debate on conscription policy, other politicians...failed to provide enough troops to win the war. In May 1865, more than a month after Robert E. Lees surrender at...Conflict on the Texas Frontier, 1863-1865," Civil War History 36 (1990): 250-61; Douglas Clare Purcell, "Military Conscription...
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New Light on the Lady with the Lamp: Susan-Mary Grant Looks at Florence Nightingale's Influence on Medical Care in the Crimea and the US Civil War
Magazine article by Susan-Mary Grant; History Today, Vol. 52, September 2002
Subjects: Crimean War, 1853-1856--Research, Medical care--History, Nightingale, Florence--Research
...matter for the northern states during the Civil War. In July 1863, some two years into the war, one northern volunteer, Cornelia Hancock, was horrified at the conditions she witnessed in the aftermath of the battle of Gettysburg. ... The first...
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For God & Country Why Men Joined Up for the Us Civil War
Magazine article by Susan-Mary Grant; History Today, Vol. 50, July 2000
Subjects: United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
FOR GOD COUNTRY WHY MEN JOINED UP FOR THE US CIVIL WAR. by Susan-Mary Grant In a conflict fought...of the nineteenth century, the American Civil War of 1861-65, Speaking in 1924, the Scottish writer John Buchan...ranks with local men rather than with recruits from other states, a preference which caused obvious problems. Having raised...the former governor of Ohio and a major-general in the United States Volunteers, recalled the `wonderful outburst of...Civil War armies were perhaps the most religious in history. Troops who were not especially religious prior to the...emancipation is to be the policy of this war ... I do not care how quickly the country goes to pot. The Emancipation...1998); James M. McPherson, What They Fought For, 1861-1865 (Louisiana State University Press, 1994) and For Cause...
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Landscapes of Memory: Susan-Mary Grant Argues That the Cult of the Fallen Soldier Has Its Origins at Gettysburg and Other Battlefield Monuments of the American Civil War
Magazine article by Susan-Mary Grant; History Today, Vol. 56, March 2006
Subjects: Soldiers--History, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, War memorials--History
...Gettysburg and Other Battlefield Monuments of the American Civil War. by Susan-Mary Grant THE UNITED STATES was the first modern nation to establish national war cemeteries...cornerstone for the Soldiers Monument was laid at Gettysburg in 1865, it was the private volunteer who was the representative...of Gettysburg to that of Marathon in 490 BC and invoked historys most famous example of the funeral address, Pericles oration...
4.
Pride and Prejudice in the American Civil War
Magazine article by Susan-Mary Grant; History Today, Vol. 48, September 1998
Subjects: African American soldiers--History, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
Pride and prejudice in the American Civil War by Susan-Mary Grant The image of the...among the heroes of this war... (Henry S. Harmon, 3rd United States Colored Infantry, October 1863) Far better the slow...1863, when Henry Harmon expressed his optimism about historys treatment of the black soldier, and 1897, the American...when hostilities commenced between North and South in 1861 blacks throughout the North, and some in the South...a problem for many regiments, both black and white. Medical care for the black regiments was equally inadequate, and...from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army, 1861-1865 (Cambridge University Press, 1992). Susan-Mary Grant...
5.
High Expectations: African Americans in Civil War Kentucky
Magazine article by Scott J. Lucas; Negro History Bulletin, January 2001
Subjects: African Americans--History, Slavery--History, United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects
...their shanties. In a moving affidavit sent to Secretary of War Edwin B. Stanton, one recruit, Joseph Miller, described...seven, had died. (12) For Kentuckys black population, 1865 was an especially difficult year. Major General John M...and Gilbert Co., 1897), 41-42, and Marion B. Lucas, A History of Blacks in Kentucky. Vol. 1: From Slavery to Segregation...E.B. Patterson: A Perspective on Danville During the Civil War," Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 92...Autobiography of Elder Madison Campbell Pastor of the United Colored Baptist Church, Richmond, Kentucky (Richmond...Chenault, Old Cane Springs: A Story of the War between the States in Madison County. Kentucky (Louisville, KY: The Standard...Valley of the Mississippi, During the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866 (Cleveland: Fairbanks, Benedict and Co., 1871), 527...
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A Nation Struggling with Suffering, Death
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 9, 2008
Subjects: United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...Byline: Thomas J. Ryan, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Civil War was the costliest conflict in our nations history, nearly exceeding all the other wars combined. More than...as providing pensions to survivors and enabling individual states to create "Rolls of Honor." Mrs. Faust concludes her study...
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'Gods, Generals' Gets History, but Is It Truth?
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 22, 2004
Subjects: Lee, Robert E.
Gods, Generals Gets History, but Is It Truth? Byline: Mackubin Thomas Owens...it is useful to compare "Gods and Generals" to another Civil War movie from a few years ago, "Glory." The latter, which...conflict as he accepts command of Virginias forces in 1861. Both Lee and Stephen Langs Stonewall Jackson give voice...central government, which wished to tyrannize the Southern states; that the South only wished to exercise its constitutional...the Confederacy was on the verge of collapse in March of 1865, and Lee did support it then. But before those last days...during Reconstruction. The war was a heroic crisis that the United States survived and a source of pride that Americans could...
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West Point in War and Peace
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 9, 2002
...Civil War heavyweights who graduated from West Point were Robert E. Lee (class of 1829), William Tecumseh Sherman (class of 1840) and Ulysses S. Grant (class of 1843). The exhibit, featuring the military academy and its importance during war and peacetime...
4.
The 800; A Birthday Celebration of 800 People Who Put Liverpool on the Map
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), August 28, 2007
Subjects: Commonwealth games--Management, Coronation Street (Television program), Lennon, John--Achievements and awards, Manchester United--Management, McCartney, Paul--Achievements and awards, UEFA Cup (Soccer)--Management, United Kingdom. Royal Army Medical Corps--Management
...history. John Bibby (1775-1840), shipowner John Bibby...Switzerland. Ken Dodd (1927-), comedian The greatest...been based during the war, in 1947 and was MP for...became one of the first two women to gain a first class...female boss in its 100 year history. She is at the forefront...the clubs greatest post-war forward. His qualities...
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Its Issues Resonate to This Day
Newspaper article by James M. Mcpherson; The Washington Times, May 24, 1996
...several historians from the Soviet Union visited the United States to participate in the commemoration of the bicentennial...Stalingrad, the turning point in Americas great patriotic war for survival. That is one reason why nearly 2 million...tourists visit Gettysburg every year, and millions tour other Civil War battlefields. Popular fascination with the Civil War eclipses interest in any other aspect of our history. Civil War books outsell those on any other subject offered...America. Those issues still resonate. Northern victory in 1865 resolved two festering questions that had been left unresolved...periodically threatened to invoke it; 11 states did invoke it in 1861. But since 1865 no state or responsible political leader...
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Virginia , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...burgesses at Williamsburg (the capital since 1699), led by Richard Henry Lee , formed an intercolonial committee of correspondence. The Virginia leaders proposed (May, 1774) a congress of all the colonies, delegates were chosen at the First Virginia...
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Confederacy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...CONFEDERACY name commonly given to the Confederate States of America (1861 65), the government established by the Southern states of the United States after their secession from the Union. (For the...conflict between North and South which followed, see Civil War .) Formation of the Government South Carolina, the...progressed the blockade became more effective, and by 1865 one of every two blockade runners was being taken. When...Coulter, The Confederate States of America, 1861 1865 ("A History of the South" series, Vol. VII, 1950); C. Eaton, A History...


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