Author: Thomas H. O'Connor
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1611685648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
In this engaging volume, Thomas H. O'Connor examines the unique role that Boston and its inhabitants played in the Civil War and discusses the impact of the turbulent war years on the city's civilian population. His captivating narrative follows the experiences of four distinctive and significant groups of people who formed antebellum BostonÑbusinessmen, Irish Catholic immigrants, African Americans, and women. Interweaving vivid portraits of the Boston community with major political and military events of the Civil War, O'Connor relates how the war forever changed lives, disrupted homes, altered work habits, reshaped political allegiances, and transformed ideas. Rich with colorful anecdotes about local figures, both renowned and long-forgotten, this is a fascinating account that will appeal to Civil War buffs, historians, and general readers alike.
Civil War Boston
Author: Thomas H. O'Connor
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1611685648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
In this engaging volume, Thomas H. O'Connor examines the unique role that Boston and its inhabitants played in the Civil War and discusses the impact of the turbulent war years on the city's civilian population. His captivating narrative follows the experiences of four distinctive and significant groups of people who formed antebellum BostonÑbusinessmen, Irish Catholic immigrants, African Americans, and women. Interweaving vivid portraits of the Boston community with major political and military events of the Civil War, O'Connor relates how the war forever changed lives, disrupted homes, altered work habits, reshaped political allegiances, and transformed ideas. Rich with colorful anecdotes about local figures, both renowned and long-forgotten, this is a fascinating account that will appeal to Civil War buffs, historians, and general readers alike.
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1611685648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
In this engaging volume, Thomas H. O'Connor examines the unique role that Boston and its inhabitants played in the Civil War and discusses the impact of the turbulent war years on the city's civilian population. His captivating narrative follows the experiences of four distinctive and significant groups of people who formed antebellum BostonÑbusinessmen, Irish Catholic immigrants, African Americans, and women. Interweaving vivid portraits of the Boston community with major political and military events of the Civil War, O'Connor relates how the war forever changed lives, disrupted homes, altered work habits, reshaped political allegiances, and transformed ideas. Rich with colorful anecdotes about local figures, both renowned and long-forgotten, this is a fascinating account that will appeal to Civil War buffs, historians, and general readers alike.
Boston and the Civil War
Author: Barbara F Berenson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625840241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A history of the American Civil War as experienced by the people of Boston. Boston’s black and white abolitionists forged a second American revolution dedicated to ending slavery and honoring the promise of liberty made in the Declaration of Independence. Before the war, Bostonians were bitterly divided between those who supported the Union and those opposed to its endorsement of slavery. The Fugitive Slave Act brought the horrors of slavery close to home and led many to join the abolitionists. March to war with Boston’s brave soldiers, including the grandson of Patriot Paul Revere and the Fighting Irish. The all-black Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment battled against both slavery and discrimination, while Boston’s women fought tirelessly against slavery and for their own right to be full citizens of the Union. Join local historian and author Barbara F. Berenson on a thrilling and memorable journey through Civil War Boston.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625840241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A history of the American Civil War as experienced by the people of Boston. Boston’s black and white abolitionists forged a second American revolution dedicated to ending slavery and honoring the promise of liberty made in the Declaration of Independence. Before the war, Bostonians were bitterly divided between those who supported the Union and those opposed to its endorsement of slavery. The Fugitive Slave Act brought the horrors of slavery close to home and led many to join the abolitionists. March to war with Boston’s brave soldiers, including the grandson of Patriot Paul Revere and the Fighting Irish. The all-black Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment battled against both slavery and discrimination, while Boston’s women fought tirelessly against slavery and for their own right to be full citizens of the Union. Join local historian and author Barbara F. Berenson on a thrilling and memorable journey through Civil War Boston.
A HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS IN THE CIVIL WAR
Author: WILLIAM SCHOULER
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield
Author: Thomas H. O'Connor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781306892056
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The history of Bostonians and Boston during the Civil War
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781306892056
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The history of Bostonians and Boston during the Civil War
Harvard's Civil War
Author: Richard F. Miller
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584655053
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
A regimental history of one of the Civil War's most distinguished units.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584655053
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
A regimental history of one of the Civil War's most distinguished units.
Northborough in the Civil War
Author: Robert P. Ellis
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614234957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
A small town in the center of Massachusetts seems an unlikely place for altering the tide of war and public opinion, but the town of Northborough played just such a role. Slavery had already sparked the War Between the States, but abolition was not the majority view. Abolitionists on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line gave their lives for change, perhaps nowhere more passionately than in Northborough. More than half of the towns best and brightest joined the fray, and this vigorous anti-slavery activity demands attention: were towns like Northboroughwelcoming of abolitionists and strongly involved in the fightinstrumental in changing the outcome via an emancipation that had to be proclaimed mid-war?
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614234957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
A small town in the center of Massachusetts seems an unlikely place for altering the tide of war and public opinion, but the town of Northborough played just such a role. Slavery had already sparked the War Between the States, but abolition was not the majority view. Abolitionists on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line gave their lives for change, perhaps nowhere more passionately than in Northborough. More than half of the towns best and brightest joined the fray, and this vigorous anti-slavery activity demands attention: were towns like Northboroughwelcoming of abolitionists and strongly involved in the fightinstrumental in changing the outcome via an emancipation that had to be proclaimed mid-war?
A History of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Civil and military history. v.2 Cities and towns
Author: William Schouler
Publisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
A Corporal's Story
Author: George Kimball
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806147431
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
A natural storyteller, Kimball wrote often about his military service, always with a newspaperman’s eye for detail and respect for the facts, relating only what he’d witnessed firsthand and recalled with remarkable clarity. Collected in A Corporal’s Story, Kimball’s writings form a unique narrative of one man’s experience in the Civil War, viewed through a perspective enhanced by time and reflection.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806147431
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
A natural storyteller, Kimball wrote often about his military service, always with a newspaperman’s eye for detail and respect for the facts, relating only what he’d witnessed firsthand and recalled with remarkable clarity. Collected in A Corporal’s Story, Kimball’s writings form a unique narrative of one man’s experience in the Civil War, viewed through a perspective enhanced by time and reflection.
A History of Massachusetts in the Civil War
Author: William Schouler
Publisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Commanding Boston's Irish Ninth
Author: Patrick Robert Guiney
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
These are the collected Civil War letters of Patrick Robert Guiney, an Irish immigrant from County Tipperary who relocated to Boston, Massachusetts. When the Civil War broke out, Guiney volunteered to defend the Union and, quickly rose from First Lieutenant to Colonel, to command the ninth Massachusetts regiment. A fervent supporter of Lincoln and passionately opposed to slavery, Guiney felt that, in his service to his new country, he was doing his part to gain freedom for the slaves.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
These are the collected Civil War letters of Patrick Robert Guiney, an Irish immigrant from County Tipperary who relocated to Boston, Massachusetts. When the Civil War broke out, Guiney volunteered to defend the Union and, quickly rose from First Lieutenant to Colonel, to command the ninth Massachusetts regiment. A fervent supporter of Lincoln and passionately opposed to slavery, Guiney felt that, in his service to his new country, he was doing his part to gain freedom for the slaves.