Maryland Confederate Faces

Author : Dave Mark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692719213
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maryland Confederate Faces written by Dave Mark and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maryland's role in the Civil War continues to attract interest, study, and collection beyond its 150th anniversary. One reason for this continued popularity is the vast photographic legacy left us that recorded the people, places and events that breathes life into this increas-ingly distant time period. This book presents the largest collection, public or private, ever assembled of original photographs of Marylanders who fought for the Confederacy. Mary-land's location between the North and South during the Civil War placed its population in a unique position literally as a "House Divided" when sizeable numbers of citizens served in both the Union and Confederate armies. It is estimated that about 12,000 of those men volunteered for the Southern forces, and faces of nearly 200 of those men are published here, many for the first time. This remarkable collection marks the culmination of more than forty-two years of dedicated collecting and researching by collector and author Dave Mark. Through his tireless effort, the compelling stories of bravery, sacrifice, triumph and tragedy on the part of these Marylanders can now be told through this collection of original photographs that recorded this chapter of Maryland's heritage.

Author : Ronald S. Coddington
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421400308
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faces of the Confederacy written by Ronald S. Coddington and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Extensive research, fascinating characters . . . The author has done an admirable job of literally placing a face on the ordinary Confederate soldier.” —The Journal of Southern History “The history of the Civil War is the stories of its soldiers,” writes Ronald S. Coddington in the preface to Faces of the Confederacy. This book tells the stories of seventy-seven Southern soldiers—young farm boys, wealthy plantation owners, intellectual elites, uneducated poor—who posed for photographic portraits, cartes de visite, to leave with family, friends, and sweethearts before going off to war. Coddington, a passionate collector of Civil War-era photography, conducted a monumental search for these previously unpublished portrait cards, then unearthed the personal stories of their subjects, putting a human face on a war rife with inhuman atrocities. The Civil War took the lives of twenty-two of every hundred men who served. Coddington follows the exhausted survivors as they return home to occupied cities and towns, ravaged farmlands, a destabilized economy, and a social order in the midst of upheaval. This book is a haunting and moving tribute to those brave men. Like its companion volume, Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories, this book offers readers a unique perspective on the war and contributes to a better understanding of the role of the common soldier. “With his meticulous research and a journalist’s eye for good stories, Ron Coddington has brought new life to Civil War photographic portraits of obscure and long-forgotten Confederates whose wartime experiences might otherwise have been lost to history.” —Bob Zeller, cofounder and president of the nonprofit Center for Civil War Photography

Author : William A. Albaugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confederate Faces written by William A. Albaugh and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William A. Albaugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Confederate Faces written by William A. Albaugh and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. Aubrey Bodine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780910254304
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Face of Maryland written by A. Aubrey Bodine and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ross J. Kelbaugh
Publisher : Maryland Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780984213511
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maryland's Civil War Photographs written by Ross J. Kelbaugh and published by Maryland Historical Society. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare images from a border state caught between the Union and the Confederacy, secession and loyalty, slavery and freedom. Maryland’s role in the Civil War continues to attract wide interest, study, and collection at the war's 150th anniversary. One reason is a vast photographic record of the people, places, and events surrounding the war, a legacy that breathes life into the sepia-toned past. Maryland's Civil War Photographs presents the largest collection of original Maryland-related Civil War photographs ever published. Thanks to the dedicated efforts of institutions and a small group of collectors, the compelling stories of Marylanders’ patriotism, bravery, sacrifice, tragedy, and triumph have been preserved for future generations. What we present here is a collection of the most significant outdoor views, interiors (which had to be made with only natural light), and studio portraits combined to place them in the historical context of their creation.

Author : Charles W. Mitchell
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801886218
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maryland Voices of the Civil War written by Charles W. Mitchell and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most contentious event in our nation's history, the Civil War deeply divided families, friends, and communities. Both sides fought to define the conflict on their own terms -- Lincoln and his supporters struggled to preserve the Union and end slavery, while the Confederacy waged a battle for the primacy of local liberty or "states' rights." But the war had its own peculiar effects on the four border slave states that remained loyal to the Union. Internal disputes and shifting allegiances injected uncertainty, apprehension, and violence into the everyday lives of their citizens. No state better exemplified the vital role of a border state than Maryland -- where the passage of time has not dampened debates over issues such as the alleged right of secession and executive power versus civil liberties in wartime. In Maryland Voices of the Civil War, Charles W. Mitchell draws upon hundreds of letters, diaries, and period newspapers to portray the passions of a wide variety of people -- merchants, slaves, soldiers, politicians, freedmen, women, clergy, civic leaders, and children -- caught in the emotional vise of war. Mitchell reinforces the provocative notion that Maryland's Southern sympathies -- while genuine -- never seriously threatened to bring about a Confederate Maryland. Maryland Voices of the Civil War illuminates the human complexities of the Civil War era and the political realignment that enabled Marylanders to abolish slavery in their state before the end of the war.

Author : Ronald S. Coddington
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 142140723X
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Faces of the Civil War written by Ronald S. Coddington and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the men of color who fought for their freedom during the Civil War through profiles illustrated with original wartime photographs. A renowned collector of Civil War photographs and a prodigious researcher, Ronald S. Coddington combines compelling archival images with biographical stories that reveal the human side of the war. This third volume in his series on Civil War soldiers contains previously unpublished photographs of African American Civil War participants?many of whom fought to secure their freedom. During the Civil War, 200,000African American men enlisted in the Union army or navy. Some of them were free men and some escaped from slavery; others were released by sympathetic owners to serve the war effort. African American Faces of the Civil War tells the story of the Civil War through the images of men of color who served in roles that ranged from servants and laborers to enlisted men and junior officers. Coddington discovers these portraits?cartes de visite, ambrotypes, and tintypes?in museums, archives, and private collections. He has pieced together each individual’s life and fate based upon personal documents, military records, and pension files. These stories tell of ordinary men who became fighters, of the prejudice they faced, and of the challenges they endured. African American Faces of the Civil War makes an important contribution to a comparatively understudied aspect of the war and provides a fascinating look into lives that helped shape America. “It does nothing to diminish the depth and precision of Coddington’s research to say that each compelling vignette prompts the reader to hurriedly flip to the next one.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Author : Matthew Borders
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467147435
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faces of Union Soldiers at South Mountain and Harpers Ferry written by Matthew Borders and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Confederate invasion of the North in the fall of 1862 led to a series of engagements known as the Maryland Campaign. Though best remembered for its climax, there was desperate fighting at both South Mountain and Harpers Ferry prior to the bloodletting at Antietam Creek. These battles in particular were desperate affairs of bloody attacks and determined defense. In this work are the images of thirty Union soldiers, published here for the first time, that help give a face and a history to those men who struggled up the slopes of South Mountain or sheltered from Confederate cannons at Harpers Ferry. Join Matthew Borders and Joseph Stahl as they introduce you to these men, their battles and their stories.

Author : Gary L. Dyson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781716415418
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confederate Row written by Gary L. Dyson and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides biographies of all of the known Confederate dead buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, Maryland. Also included are narratives of how and where each soldier received the wounds or developed the sickness that eventually took their lives. Appendices show a roster of the dead along Confederate Row and a list of the regiments they served.