Author: Charles Robinson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332065335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Excerpt from The Kansas Conflict AN apology may be due to the reading public for submit ting to it the pages that follow. In an address before the Kansas State Historical Society, on retiring from the Office Of president, in the winter Of 1881, I said. 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.
The Kansas Conflict (Classic Reprint)
Author: Charles Robinson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332065335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Excerpt from The Kansas Conflict AN apology may be due to the reading public for submit ting to it the pages that follow. In an address before the Kansas State Historical Society, on retiring from the Office Of president, in the winter Of 1881, I said. 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.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332065335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Excerpt from The Kansas Conflict AN apology may be due to the reading public for submit ting to it the pages that follow. In an address before the Kansas State Historical Society, on retiring from the Office Of president, in the winter Of 1881, I said. 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.
REMINISCENCE OF THE KANSAS CONFLICT (CLASSIC REPRINT).
Author: EDMUND G. ROSS
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781331460329
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781331460329
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border
Author: Donald Gilmore
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455602308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
During the Civil War, the western front was the scene of some of that conflictï¿1/2s bloodiest and most barbaric encounters as Union raiders and Confederate guerrillas pursued each other from farm to farm with equal disregard for civilian casualties. Historical accounts of these events overwhelmingly favor the victorious Union standpoint, characterizing the Southern fighters as wanton, unprincipled savages. But in fact, as the author, himself a descendant of Union soldiers, discovered, the bushwhackersï¿1/2 violent reactions were understandable, given the reign of terror they endured as a result of Lincolnï¿1/2s total war in the West. In reexamining many of the long-held historical assumptions about this period, Gilmore discusses President Lincolnï¿1/2s utmost desire to keep Missouri in the Union by any and all means. As early as 1858, Kansan and Union troops carried out unbridled confiscation or destruction of Missouri private property, until the state became known as "the burnt region." These outrages escalated to include martial law throughout Missouri and finally the infamous General Orders Number 11 of September 1863 in which Union general Thomas Ewing, federal commander of the region, ordered the deportation of the entire population of the border counties. It is no wonder that, faced with the loss of their farms and their livelihoods, Missourians struck back with equal force.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455602308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
During the Civil War, the western front was the scene of some of that conflictï¿1/2s bloodiest and most barbaric encounters as Union raiders and Confederate guerrillas pursued each other from farm to farm with equal disregard for civilian casualties. Historical accounts of these events overwhelmingly favor the victorious Union standpoint, characterizing the Southern fighters as wanton, unprincipled savages. But in fact, as the author, himself a descendant of Union soldiers, discovered, the bushwhackersï¿1/2 violent reactions were understandable, given the reign of terror they endured as a result of Lincolnï¿1/2s total war in the West. In reexamining many of the long-held historical assumptions about this period, Gilmore discusses President Lincolnï¿1/2s utmost desire to keep Missouri in the Union by any and all means. As early as 1858, Kansan and Union troops carried out unbridled confiscation or destruction of Missouri private property, until the state became known as "the burnt region." These outrages escalated to include martial law throughout Missouri and finally the infamous General Orders Number 11 of September 1863 in which Union general Thomas Ewing, federal commander of the region, ordered the deportation of the entire population of the border counties. It is no wonder that, faced with the loss of their farms and their livelihoods, Missourians struck back with equal force.
Inside War
Author: Michael Fellman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198021933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
During the Civil War, the state of Missouri witnessed the most widespread, prolonged, and destructive guerrilla fighting in American history. With its horrific combination of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and swift and bloody raids on farms and settlements, the conflict approached total war, engulfing the whole populace and challenging any notion of civility. Michael Fellman's Inside War captures the conflict from "inside," drawing on a wealth of first-hand evidence, including letters, diaries, military reports, court-martial transcripts, depositions, and newspaper accounts. He gives us a clear picture of the ideological, social, and economic forces that divided the people and launched the conflict. Along with depicting how both Confederate and Union officials used the guerrilla fighters and their tactics to their own advantage, Fellman describes how ordinary civilian men and women struggled to survive amidst the random terror perpetuated by both sides; what drove the combatants themselves to commit atrocities and vicious acts of vengeance; and how the legend of Jesse James arose from this brutal episode in the American Civil War.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198021933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
During the Civil War, the state of Missouri witnessed the most widespread, prolonged, and destructive guerrilla fighting in American history. With its horrific combination of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and swift and bloody raids on farms and settlements, the conflict approached total war, engulfing the whole populace and challenging any notion of civility. Michael Fellman's Inside War captures the conflict from "inside," drawing on a wealth of first-hand evidence, including letters, diaries, military reports, court-martial transcripts, depositions, and newspaper accounts. He gives us a clear picture of the ideological, social, and economic forces that divided the people and launched the conflict. Along with depicting how both Confederate and Union officials used the guerrilla fighters and their tactics to their own advantage, Fellman describes how ordinary civilian men and women struggled to survive amidst the random terror perpetuated by both sides; what drove the combatants themselves to commit atrocities and vicious acts of vengeance; and how the legend of Jesse James arose from this brutal episode in the American Civil War.
Three Years on the Kansas Border
Author: John McNamara
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Author: Eric Foner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039308082X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politician grounded in principle, deftly navigating the dynamic politics of antislavery, secession, and civil war. Lincoln's greatness emerges from his capacity for moral and political growth.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039308082X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politician grounded in principle, deftly navigating the dynamic politics of antislavery, secession, and civil war. Lincoln's greatness emerges from his capacity for moral and political growth.
Fifty Million Acres
Author: Paul Wallace Gates
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806129914
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The disposal of public lands in Kansas was a defining event in American history. The dispossession of Indian tribes settled on reservations along the eastern boundary of the territory, conflicts between settlers from the North and the South over land claims and slavery, the activities of land-hungry railroads, and an array of manipulative and corrupt politicians all helped make the early development of Kansas the greatest failure in the history of the American territorial system. In Fifty Million Acres. Paul Wallace Gates focuses on the elimination of Indian title, the efforts of railroads to obtain the ceded lands, public land sales, the homestead era, and the later conflicts between the railroads and Kansas agrarians. This new edition of a classic study includes a foreword by Allan G. Bogue.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806129914
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The disposal of public lands in Kansas was a defining event in American history. The dispossession of Indian tribes settled on reservations along the eastern boundary of the territory, conflicts between settlers from the North and the South over land claims and slavery, the activities of land-hungry railroads, and an array of manipulative and corrupt politicians all helped make the early development of Kansas the greatest failure in the history of the American territorial system. In Fifty Million Acres. Paul Wallace Gates focuses on the elimination of Indian title, the efforts of railroads to obtain the ceded lands, public land sales, the homestead era, and the later conflicts between the railroads and Kansas agrarians. This new edition of a classic study includes a foreword by Allan G. Bogue.
Hancock's War
Author: William Young Chalfant
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN: 9780870623714
Category : Cheyenne Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Detailed history of General Winfield Scott Hancock's 1867 "Expedition of the Plains", intended as a show of force to settle Indians angry at the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, and which disrupted U.S.-Indian relations for more than a decade.
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN: 9780870623714
Category : Cheyenne Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Detailed history of General Winfield Scott Hancock's 1867 "Expedition of the Plains", intended as a show of force to settle Indians angry at the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, and which disrupted U.S.-Indian relations for more than a decade.
Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865
Author: Jay Monaghan
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803236059
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The first phase of the Civil War was fought west of the Mississippi River at least six years before the attack on Fort Sumter. Starting with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, Jay Monaghan traces the development of the conflict between the pro-slavery elements from Missouri and the New England abolitionists who migrated to Kansas. "Bleeding Kansas" provided a preview of the greater national struggle to come. The author allows a new look at Quantrill's sacking of Lawrence, organized bushwhackery, and border battles that cost thousands of lives. Not the least valuable are chapters on the American Indians’ part in the conflict. The record becomes devastatingly clear: the fighting in the West was the cruelest and most useless of the whole affair, and if men of vision had been in Washington in the 1850s it might have been avoided.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803236059
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The first phase of the Civil War was fought west of the Mississippi River at least six years before the attack on Fort Sumter. Starting with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, Jay Monaghan traces the development of the conflict between the pro-slavery elements from Missouri and the New England abolitionists who migrated to Kansas. "Bleeding Kansas" provided a preview of the greater national struggle to come. The author allows a new look at Quantrill's sacking of Lawrence, organized bushwhackery, and border battles that cost thousands of lives. Not the least valuable are chapters on the American Indians’ part in the conflict. The record becomes devastatingly clear: the fighting in the West was the cruelest and most useless of the whole affair, and if men of vision had been in Washington in the 1850s it might have been avoided.
The Battle of Carthage, Missouri
Author: Kenneth E. Burchett
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078649283X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The Battle of Carthage, Missouri, was the first full-scale land battle of the Civil War. Governor Claiborne Jackson's rebel Missouri State Guard made its way toward southwest Missouri near where Confederate volunteers collected in Arkansas, while Colonel Franz Sigel's Union force occupied Springfield with orders to intercept and block the rebels from reaching the Confederates. The two armies collided near Carthage on July 5, 1861. The battle lasted for ten hours, spread over several miles, and included six separate engagements before the Union army withdrew under the cover of darkness. The New York Times called it "the first serious conflict between the United States troops and the rebels." This book describes the events leading up to the battle, the battle itself, and the aftermath.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078649283X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The Battle of Carthage, Missouri, was the first full-scale land battle of the Civil War. Governor Claiborne Jackson's rebel Missouri State Guard made its way toward southwest Missouri near where Confederate volunteers collected in Arkansas, while Colonel Franz Sigel's Union force occupied Springfield with orders to intercept and block the rebels from reaching the Confederates. The two armies collided near Carthage on July 5, 1861. The battle lasted for ten hours, spread over several miles, and included six separate engagements before the Union army withdrew under the cover of darkness. The New York Times called it "the first serious conflict between the United States troops and the rebels." This book describes the events leading up to the battle, the battle itself, and the aftermath.