Author: John Beauchamp Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital
Author: John Beauchamp Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Perfect Gentleman Vol. 1
Author: Bernice-Marie Yates
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1591604524
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1591604524
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Author: Terry A. Barnhart
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807139408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809--1877), a principal architect of the South's "Lost Cause" mythology, remains one of the Civil War generation's most controversial intellectuals. In Albert Taylor Bledsoe: Defender of the Old South and Architect of the Lost Cause, Terry A. Barnhart sheds new light on this provocative figure. Bledsoe gained a respectable reputation in the 1840s and 1850s as a metaphysician and speculative theologian. His two major works, An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will (1845) and A Theodicy; Or, Vindication of the Divine Glory, As Manifested in the Constitution and Government of the Moral World (1853), grapple with perplexing problems connected with causality, Christian theology, and moral philosophy. His fervent defense of slavery and the constitutional right of secession, however, solidified Bledsoe as one of the chief proponents of the idea of the Old South. In An Essay on Liberty and Slavery (1856), he assailed egalitarianism and promoted the institution of slavery as a positive good. A decade later, he continued to devote himself to fashioning the "Lost Cause" narrative as the editor and proprietor of the Southern Review from 1867 until his death in 1877. He carried on a literary tradition aimed to reconcile white southerners to what he and they viewed as the indignity of their defeat by sanctifying their lost cause. Those who fought for the Confederacy, he argued, were not traitors but honorable men who sacrificed for noble reasons. This biography skillfully weaves Bledsoe's extraordinary life history into a narrative that illustrates the events that shaped his opinions and influenced his writings. Barnhart demonstrates how Bledsoe still speaks directly, and sometimes eloquently, to the core issues that divided the nation in the 1860s and continue to haunt it today.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807139408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809--1877), a principal architect of the South's "Lost Cause" mythology, remains one of the Civil War generation's most controversial intellectuals. In Albert Taylor Bledsoe: Defender of the Old South and Architect of the Lost Cause, Terry A. Barnhart sheds new light on this provocative figure. Bledsoe gained a respectable reputation in the 1840s and 1850s as a metaphysician and speculative theologian. His two major works, An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will (1845) and A Theodicy; Or, Vindication of the Divine Glory, As Manifested in the Constitution and Government of the Moral World (1853), grapple with perplexing problems connected with causality, Christian theology, and moral philosophy. His fervent defense of slavery and the constitutional right of secession, however, solidified Bledsoe as one of the chief proponents of the idea of the Old South. In An Essay on Liberty and Slavery (1856), he assailed egalitarianism and promoted the institution of slavery as a positive good. A decade later, he continued to devote himself to fashioning the "Lost Cause" narrative as the editor and proprietor of the Southern Review from 1867 until his death in 1877. He carried on a literary tradition aimed to reconcile white southerners to what he and they viewed as the indignity of their defeat by sanctifying their lost cause. Those who fought for the Confederacy, he argued, were not traitors but honorable men who sacrificed for noble reasons. This biography skillfully weaves Bledsoe's extraordinary life history into a narrative that illustrates the events that shaped his opinions and influenced his writings. Barnhart demonstrates how Bledsoe still speaks directly, and sometimes eloquently, to the core issues that divided the nation in the 1860s and continue to haunt it today.
History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896: 1862-1864
Author: James Ford Rhodes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Final Restoration of Home Rule at the South in 1877: 1862-1864
Author: James Ford Rhodes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
General Braxton Bragg, C.S.A.
Author: Samuel J. Martin
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786461942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
General Braxton Bragg is often described as a despicable, friendless man, the most hated general of the Confederacy. Historians have denigrated Bragg by accepting without challenge the self-serving accusations of prominent, disgruntled subordinates, each of whom sought to explain their own failures by assigning them to Bragg. This biography, without dodging Bragg's deficiencies, refutes much of this false testimony. The result is a balanced view of this controversial general, from his early rise to power in the Western theater to his subsequent fall from grace in the latter years of the Civil War.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786461942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
General Braxton Bragg is often described as a despicable, friendless man, the most hated general of the Confederacy. Historians have denigrated Bragg by accepting without challenge the self-serving accusations of prominent, disgruntled subordinates, each of whom sought to explain their own failures by assigning them to Bragg. This biography, without dodging Bragg's deficiencies, refutes much of this false testimony. The result is a balanced view of this controversial general, from his early rise to power in the Western theater to his subsequent fall from grace in the latter years of the Civil War.
The Opening Battles
Author: Kevin Campbell
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514492652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 675
Book Description
Author Kevin Campbell in this work examines in detail the swirling cavalry fight at Brandy Station. He also gives a lucid, well-written account of the debacle that befell Robert H. Milroy and his ill-fated division at Winchester and Carters Woods. Those battles, bloody in their own right, were soon relegated to the back pages when the horrific Battle of Gettysburg began dominating the press and the postwar reminiscences of the veterans. We can learn much from this new work, with its treasury of pertinent eyewitness accounts and clear prose. His skill in digging through the regimentals, official records, diaries, and other materials is evident, as well as his ability to interweave them into a cohesive narrative that brings the battles, personalities, and long hours of marching to light.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514492652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 675
Book Description
Author Kevin Campbell in this work examines in detail the swirling cavalry fight at Brandy Station. He also gives a lucid, well-written account of the debacle that befell Robert H. Milroy and his ill-fated division at Winchester and Carters Woods. Those battles, bloody in their own right, were soon relegated to the back pages when the horrific Battle of Gettysburg began dominating the press and the postwar reminiscences of the veterans. We can learn much from this new work, with its treasury of pertinent eyewitness accounts and clear prose. His skill in digging through the regimentals, official records, diaries, and other materials is evident, as well as his ability to interweave them into a cohesive narrative that brings the battles, personalities, and long hours of marching to light.
History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Final Restoration of Home Rule at the South in 1877
Author: James Ford Rhodes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850
Author: James Ford Rhodes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
1862-1864
Author: James Ford Rhodes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description