A Union Captive Andersonville Belle Isle Florence Stockade Abridged Annotated

Author : Warren Lee Goss
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Union Captive: Andersonville, Belle Isle, Florence Stockade (Abridged, Annotated) written by Warren Lee Goss and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thing you'll notice about Warren Goss’ fluid and articulate writing is that he was an educated man. A teacher before the Civil War, he joined the 2nd Regiment, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery as a sergeant. That he survived not one but two captures and incarcerations in the South is nothing short of miraculous. The heartbreak, horrendous conditions, escapes, recapture, false hopes, and death...always death...were enough to break any man. Many died from disease and the loss of a will to live. Warren Goss survived it all and spent the rest of his life writing about it. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Author : Warren Lee Goss
Publisher : Digital Scanning Inc
ISBN 13 : 1582182272
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soldier's Story written by Warren Lee Goss and published by Digital Scanning Inc. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War tens of thousands of soldiers died in prisons. In Andersonville Prison Pen alone over 11,000 soldiers of the 33,000 died of starvation, exposure and consumption or other disease. Warren Lee Goss, a member of the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment of Heavy Artillery during the war. In “The Soldier’s Story” Goss writes of his captivity at Andersonville and Belle Isle prisons. Goss was a prisoner twice, once in 1862 for four months and in 1864 for nine months. His experience in these prisons was of a kind that few endure and live to write about. Although he attempts to relate the tale of horrors experienced in these prisons without exaggeration, he realizes that it is hard to comprehend that men can live through some of the cruelties of which he writes, to understand man’s inhumanity to man. The Appendix contains the names of the Union soldiers who died at Andersonville with the number of their graves, their rank, the companies and regiments to which they belonged, the dates of their decease, and the diseases of which they died. The numerous accurate illustrations of prison life were taken from actual Rebel photographs.

Author : John McElroy
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Andersonville (Illustrated) written by John McElroy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Andersonville" is one of the best accounts about the Civil War. McElroy, the author, vividly tells his story about the time he spent as a prisoner of Andersonville and a few other Confederate prisons he was kept at. The book is full of interesting stories and amazing facts about the Confederate prison system and the way prisoners were treated in the South!

Author : William A. Dobak
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510720227
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom by the Sword written by William A. Dobak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War changed the United States in many ways—economic, political, and social. Of these changes, none was more important than Emancipation. Besides freeing nearly four million slaves, it brought agricultural wage labor to a reluctant South and gave a vote to black adult males in the former slave states. It also offered former slaves new opportunities in education, property ownership—and military service. From late 1862 to the spring of 1865, as the Civil War raged on, the federal government accepted more than 180,000 black men as soldiers, something it had never done before on such a scale. Known collectively as the United States Colored Troops and organized in segregated regiments led by white officers, some of these soldiers guarded army posts along major rivers; others fought Confederate raiders to protect Union supply trains, and still others took part in major operations like the Siege of Petersburg and the Battle of Nashville. After the war, many of the black regiments took up posts in the former Confederacy to enforce federal Reconstruction policy. Freedom by the Sword tells the story of these soldiers' recruitment, organization, and service. Thanks to its broad focus on every theater of the war and its concentration on what black soldiers actually contributed to Union victory, this volume stands alone among histories of the U.S. Colored Troops.

Author : Mary Osborn Douthit
Publisher : Portland, Or. : Presses of Anderson & Duniway
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Souvenir of Western Women written by Mary Osborn Douthit and published by Portland, Or. : Presses of Anderson & Duniway. This book was released on 1905 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A complex picture of the works and pioneer experiences of the women in the Pacific Northwest--the "old Oregon" country--from the time of woman's first appearance in these unexplored wilds to the present day. The purpose of this book is to record woman's part in working out the plan of our Western civilization; no other civilization, perhaps, bearing so conspicuously the imprint of her hand and brain"--Pref.

Author : Aurelius O. Carpenter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1072 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California written by Aurelius O. Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin G. Cloyd
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807137383
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted by Atrocity written by Benjamin G. Cloyd and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : George Brubaker Kulp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Families of the Wyoming Valley written by George Brubaker Kulp and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Newton Bateman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois written by Newton Bateman and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Josiah Coleman Kent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Northborough History written by Josiah Coleman Kent and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: