Bushwhackers: The Civil War in North Carolina: The Mountains, Paperback - William R. Trotter

Reducere. Bushwhackers recounts hundreds of incidents that brought the Civil War home to the mountains of the Old North State. Some are violent, some humorou...

From the drama of blockade-running to graphic descriptions of battles on the state's islands and sounds, this book portrays the explosive events th...

Reducere. In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relat...

Reducere. To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by...

Reducere. In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As ...

DescriptionFew issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But a...

On 30 November 1939, Soviet bombers unloaded their bombs on Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Stalin's ultimatum, demanding the cession of huge tra...

Reducere. "First at Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga and last at Appomattox" is a phrase that is often used to encapsulate the role of North Ca...

This guidebook is the first of three regional volumes that invite residents and out-of-state visitors to explore North Carolina while reading liter...

Reducere. In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the secession movement and which would remain loyal to...

Reducere. When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turne...

Reducere. How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S...

Reducere. As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and wh...

Reducere. During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, ...

Reducere. The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the ...

During the Civil War, Americans confronted profound moral problems about how to fight in the conflict. In this innovative book, D.H. Dilbeck reveal...

Reducere. As William T. Sherman's Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they encountered Confederate forces employing field fo...

Reducere. During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the confli...

Reducere. When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people--th...

Reducere. The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north t...

Reducere. "We Gave Them Thunder" is an authoritative study of Marmaduke's raid into Southwest Missouri, the Battle of Springfield (January 8, 1863), and the ...

Reducere. When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing fo...

Reducere. Deserve s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review " Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brillian...

Reducere. In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War-era African Amer...

DescriptionAs many as 20, 000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various soc...

Reducere. While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to tre...

Reducere. Provides the most comprehensive overview of the American war memorial as a cultural form and reframes the national debate over Civil War monuments ...

From battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious prison camps, prisoners seemed to be everywhere during the American Civil War. Li...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychologi...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Defending South Carolina's Coast: The Civil War from Georgetown to Little River, area native Rick Simmons relates the often overlooke...

Reducere. Wellred edition featuring a new introduction providing the historical background to the Paris Commune, as well as Engels' 1891 introduction and art...

Reducere. When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that "Men is cheep here to Day, " he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart o...

Reducere. The Mountains-to-Sea Trail is an 1, 175-mile destination trail that crosses North Carolina from Clingmans Dome in Great Smoky Mountains National Pa...

Reducere. Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically ...