Captain James Wrens Civil War Diary

Author : James Wren
Publisher : Berkley Trade
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captain James Wren's Civil War Diary written by James Wren and published by Berkley Trade. This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years 1861-63 saw Wren--Captain of B Company, 48th Pennsylvania Volunteers--and his regiment engaged in some of the fiercest fighting of the Civil War: Second Manasses, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg. This diary lends vivid insights into the reality of war and race relations in a nation divided. Photos and maps.

Author : John M. Priest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780788150500
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captain James Wren's Civil War Diary written by John M. Priest and published by . This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young James Wren survived in the Union Army from April 1861 to May 1863. His regiment, the 48th PA Volunteers, saw some of the war's most blistering combat in North Carolina, at Second Manassas, South Mountain, Antietam & Fredericksburg. This is Capt. Wren's remarkable true story -- in his own words. Researched by 10 talented high school students, under the editor's supervision, this incredible document offers a firsthand, day-by-day account of the Civil War. The diary reveals new insights into race relations between enlisted soldiers, as well as the troops' attitudes toward the enemy & local civilians. Maps.

Author : James Wren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captain James Wren's Civil War Diary written by James Wren and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Wren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From New Bern to Fredericksburg written by James Wren and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author was a captain of the 48th Pennsylvania Volunteers, a three-year unit, during the period in which he kept this diary. The diary begins in February 1862 after the author's arrival on Hatteras Island as part of the North Carolina Expedition of 1862. There the narrative describes drill, social events with the local residents, and life in camp, all looking towards the forthcoming battles. After participating in the New Bern campaign and occupation, the author and his company returned to Washington. The Battles of Second Manassas, South Mountain, Antietam, and Fredericksburg follow. On May 18, 1863, the author resigned his commission at Lexington, Kentucky, and returned to his home in Pennsylvania, where the diary concludes.

Author : George C. Rable
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807867934
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! written by George C. Rable and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the battle of Gettysburg, as Union troops along Cemetery Ridge rebuffed Pickett's Charge, they were heard to shout, "Give them Fredericksburg!" Their cries reverberated from a clash that, although fought some six months earlier, clearly loomed large in the minds of Civil War soldiers. Fought on December 13, 1862, the battle of Fredericksburg ended in a stunning defeat for the Union. Confederate general Robert E. Lee suffered roughly 5,000 casualties but inflicted more than twice that many losses--nearly 13,000--on his opponent, General Ambrose Burnside. As news of the Union loss traveled north, it spread a wave of public despair that extended all the way to President Lincoln. In the beleaguered Confederacy, the southern victory bolstered flagging hopes, as Lee and his men began to take on an aura of invincibility. George Rable offers a gripping account of the battle of Fredericksburg and places the campaign within its broader political, social, and military context. Blending battlefield and home front history, he not only addresses questions of strategy and tactics but also explores material conditions in camp, the rhythms and disruptions of military life, and the enduring effects of the carnage on survivors--both civilian and military--on both sides.

Author : Ethan S. Rafuse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351147781
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Civil War written by Ethan S. Rafuse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The largest and most destructive military conflict between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, the American Civil War has inspired some of the best and most intriguing scholarship in the field of United States history. This volume offers some of the most important work on the war to appear in the past few decades and offers compelling information and insights into subjects ranging from the organization of armies, historiography, the use of intelligence and the challenges faced by civil and military leaders in the course of America‘s bloodiest war.

Author : Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700612971
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book While God is Marching On written by Steven E. Woodworth and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2001-10-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They read the same Bible and prayed to the same God, but they faced each other in battle with rage in their hearts. The Civil War not only pitted brother against brother but also Christian against Christian, with soldiers from North and South alike devoutly believing that God was on their side. Steven Woodworth, one of our most prominent and provocative Civil War historians, presents the first detailed study of soldiers' religious beliefs and how they influenced the course of that tragic conflict. He shows how Christian teaching and practice shaped the worldview of soldiers on both sides: how it motivated them for the struggle, how it influenced the way they fought, and how it shaped national life after the war ended. Through the diaries, letters, and reminiscences of common soldiers, Woodworth illuminates religious belief from the home front to the battlefield, where thoughts of death and the afterlife were always close at hand. Woodworth reveals what these men thought about God and what they believed God thought about the war. Wrote one Unionist, "I believe our cause to be the cause of liberty and light . . . the cause of God, and holy and justifiable in His sight, and for this reason, I fear not to die in it if need be." With a familiar echo, his Confederate counterpart declared that "our Cause is Just and God is Just and we shall finally be successful whether I live to see the time or not." Woodworth focuses on mainstream Protestant beliefs and practices shared by the majority of combatants in order to help us better understand soldiers' motivations and to realize what a strong role religion played in American life throughout the conflict. In addition, he provides sharp insights into the relationship between Christianity and both the abolition movement in the North and the institution of slavery in the South. Ultimately, Woodworth shows us how opposing armies could put their trust in the same God while engaging in four years of organized slaughter and destruction. His compelling work provides a rich new perspective on religion in American life and will forever change the way we look at the Civil War.

Author : James J. Womack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civil War Diary of Capt. J.J. Womack written by James J. Womack and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew F. Lang
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807167088
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Wake of War written by Andrew F. Lang and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War era marked the dawn of American wars of military occupation, inaugurating a tradition that persisted through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and that continues to the present. In the Wake of War traces how volunteer and even professional soldiers found themselves tasked with the unprecedented project of wartime and peacetime military occupation, initiating a national debate about the changing nature of American military practice that continued into Reconstruction. In the Mexican-American War and the Civil War, citizen-soldiers confronted the complicated challenges of invading, occupying, and subduing hostile peoples and nations. Drawing on firsthand accounts from soldiers in United States occupation forces, Andrew F. Lang shows that many white volunteers equated their martial responsibilities with those of standing armies, which were viewed as corrupting institutions hostile to the republican military ethos. With the advent of emancipation came the enlistment of African American troops into Union armies, facilitating an extraordinary change in how provisional soldiers interpreted military occupation. Black soldiers, many of whom had been formerly enslaved, garrisoned regions defeated by Union armies and embraced occupation as a tool for destabilizing the South’s long-standing racial hierarchy. Ultimately, Lang argues, traditional fears about the army’s role in peacetime society, grounded in suspicions of standing military forces and heated by a growing ambivalence about racial equality, governed the trials of Reconstruction. Focusing on how U.S. soldiers—white and black, volunteer and regular—enacted and critiqued their unprecedented duties behind the lines during the Civil War era, In the Wake of War reveals the dynamic, often problematic conditions of military occupation.

Author : Mark Bulik
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823262251
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sons of Molly Maguire written by Mark Bulik and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensational tales of true-life crime, the devastation of the Irish potato famine, the upheaval of the Civil War, and the turbulent emergence of the American labor movement are connected in a captivating exploration of the roots of the Molly Maguires. A secret society of peasant assassins in Ireland that re-emerged in Pennsylvania’s hard-coal region, the Mollies organized strikes, murdered mine bosses, and fought the Civil War draft. Their shadowy twelve-year duel with all powerful coal companies marked the beginning of class warfare in America. But little has been written about the origins of this struggle and the folk culture that informed everything about the Mollies. A rare book about the birth of the secret society, The Sons of Molly Maguire delves into the lost world of peasant Ireland to uncover the astonishing links between the folk justice of the Mollies and the folk drama of the Mummers, who performed a holiday play that always ended in a mock killing. The link not only explains much about Ireland’s Molly Maguires—where the name came from, why the killers wore women’s clothing, why they struck around holidays—but also sheds new light on the Mollies’ re-emergence in Pennsylvania. The book follows the Irish to the anthracite region, which was transformed into another Ulster by ethnic, religious, political, and economic conflicts. It charts the rise there of an Irish secret society and a particularly political form of Mummery just before the Civil War, shows why Molly violence was resurrected amid wartime strikes and conscription, and explores how the cradle of the American Mollies became a bastion of later labor activism. Combining sweeping history with an intensely local focus, The Sons of Molly Maguire is the captivating story of when, where, how, and why the first of America’s labor wars began.