Author: John B. Lundstrom
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873518721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The story of the Liberators of the Ninth Minnesota, the state's "hard luck" Civil War regiment, from defying orders and saving a slave family, through bitter defeat and imprisonment, to the ultimate victory and their lives in postwar America.
One Drop in a Sea of Blue
Author: John B. Lundstrom
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873518721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The story of the Liberators of the Ninth Minnesota, the state's "hard luck" Civil War regiment, from defying orders and saving a slave family, through bitter defeat and imprisonment, to the ultimate victory and their lives in postwar America.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873518721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The story of the Liberators of the Ninth Minnesota, the state's "hard luck" Civil War regiment, from defying orders and saving a slave family, through bitter defeat and imprisonment, to the ultimate victory and their lives in postwar America.
Haunted by Atrocity
Author: Benjamin G. Cloyd
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807146293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
During the Civil War, approximately 56,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in enemy military prison camps. Even in the midst of the war's shocking violence, the intensity of the prisoners' suffering and the brutal manner of their deaths provoked outrage, and both the Lincoln and Davis administrations manipulated the prison controversy to serve the exigencies of war. As both sides distributed propaganda designed to convince citizens of each section of the relative virtue of their own prison system -- in contrast to the cruel inhumanity of the opponent -- they etched hardened and divisive memories of the prison controversy into the American psyche, memories that would prove difficult to uproot. In Haunted by Atrocity, Benjamin G. Cloyd deftly analyzes how Americans have remembered the military prisons of the Civil War from the war itself to the present, making a strong case for the continued importance of the great conflict in contemporary America. Throughout Reconstruction and well into the twentieth century, Cloyd shows, competing sectional memories of the prisons prolonged the process of national reconciliation. Events such as the trial and execution of CSA Captain Henry Wirz -- commander of the notorious Andersonville prison -- along with political campaigns, the publication of prison memoirs, and even the construction of monuments to the prison dead all revived the painful accusations of deliberate cruelty. As northerners, white southerners, and African Americans contested the meaning of the war, these divisive memories tore at the scars of the conflict and ensured that the subject of Civil War prisons remained controversial. By the 1920s, the death of the Civil War generation removed much of the emotional connection to the war, and the devastation of the first two world wars provided new contexts in which to reassess the meaning of atrocity. As a result, Cloyd explains, a more objective opinion of Civil War prisons emerged -- one that condemned both the Union and the Confederacy for their callous handling of captives while it deemed the mistreatment of prisoners an inevitable consequence of modern war. But, Cloyd argues, these seductive arguments also deflected a closer examination of the precise responsibility for the tragedy of Civil War prisons and allowed Americans to believe in a comforting but ahistorical memory of the controversy. Both the recasting of the town of Andersonville as a Civil War village in the 1970s and the 1998 opening of the National Prisoner of War Museum at Andersonville National Historic Site reveal the continued American preference for myth over history -- a preference, Cloyd asserts, that inhibits a candid assessment of the evils committed during the Civil War. The first study of Civil War memory to focus exclusively on the military prison camps, Haunted by Atrocity offers a cautionary tale of how Americans, for generations, have unconsciously constructed their recollections of painful events in ways that protect cherished ideals of myth, meaning, identity, and, ultimately, a deeply rooted faith in American exceptionalism.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807146293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
During the Civil War, approximately 56,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in enemy military prison camps. Even in the midst of the war's shocking violence, the intensity of the prisoners' suffering and the brutal manner of their deaths provoked outrage, and both the Lincoln and Davis administrations manipulated the prison controversy to serve the exigencies of war. As both sides distributed propaganda designed to convince citizens of each section of the relative virtue of their own prison system -- in contrast to the cruel inhumanity of the opponent -- they etched hardened and divisive memories of the prison controversy into the American psyche, memories that would prove difficult to uproot. In Haunted by Atrocity, Benjamin G. Cloyd deftly analyzes how Americans have remembered the military prisons of the Civil War from the war itself to the present, making a strong case for the continued importance of the great conflict in contemporary America. Throughout Reconstruction and well into the twentieth century, Cloyd shows, competing sectional memories of the prisons prolonged the process of national reconciliation. Events such as the trial and execution of CSA Captain Henry Wirz -- commander of the notorious Andersonville prison -- along with political campaigns, the publication of prison memoirs, and even the construction of monuments to the prison dead all revived the painful accusations of deliberate cruelty. As northerners, white southerners, and African Americans contested the meaning of the war, these divisive memories tore at the scars of the conflict and ensured that the subject of Civil War prisons remained controversial. By the 1920s, the death of the Civil War generation removed much of the emotional connection to the war, and the devastation of the first two world wars provided new contexts in which to reassess the meaning of atrocity. As a result, Cloyd explains, a more objective opinion of Civil War prisons emerged -- one that condemned both the Union and the Confederacy for their callous handling of captives while it deemed the mistreatment of prisoners an inevitable consequence of modern war. But, Cloyd argues, these seductive arguments also deflected a closer examination of the precise responsibility for the tragedy of Civil War prisons and allowed Americans to believe in a comforting but ahistorical memory of the controversy. Both the recasting of the town of Andersonville as a Civil War village in the 1970s and the 1998 opening of the National Prisoner of War Museum at Andersonville National Historic Site reveal the continued American preference for myth over history -- a preference, Cloyd asserts, that inhibits a candid assessment of the evils committed during the Civil War. The first study of Civil War memory to focus exclusively on the military prison camps, Haunted by Atrocity offers a cautionary tale of how Americans, for generations, have unconsciously constructed their recollections of painful events in ways that protect cherished ideals of myth, meaning, identity, and, ultimately, a deeply rooted faith in American exceptionalism.
Minnesota History Bulletin
Author: Solon Justus Buck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Vols. 2-5 include the 19th-22d Biennial reports of the Society, 1915/16-1922/23 (in v. 2-3 as supplements, in v. 4-5 as extra numbers.)
Publisher:
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Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Vols. 2-5 include the 19th-22d Biennial reports of the Society, 1915/16-1922/23 (in v. 2-3 as supplements, in v. 4-5 as extra numbers.)
Bulletin [1908-23]
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Christopher C. Andrews
Author: Helen Hedwig Kaslo
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1486
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1486
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Minnesota History
Author:
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Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Vol. 6 includes the 23d Biennial report of the Society, 1923/24, as an extra number.
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Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Vol. 6 includes the 23d Biennial report of the Society, 1923/24, as an extra number.
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston ...
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Check List of Minnesota State Documents, 1858-1923
Author: Esther Jerabek
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference Department
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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