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Confederate Bushwhacker is a microbiography set in the most important and pivotal year in the life of its subject. In 1885, Mark Twain was at the peak of his career as an author and a businessman, as his own publishing firm brought out not only the U.S. edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn but also the triumphantly successful Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. Twenty years after the end of the Civil War, Twain finally tells the story of his past as a deserter from the losing side, while simultaneously befriending and publishing the general from the winning side. Coincidentally, the year also marks the beginning of TwainÕs descent into misfortune, his transformation from a humorist into a pessimist and determinist. Interwoven throughout this portrait are the headlines and crises of 1885Ñblack lynchings, Indian uprisings, anti-Chinese violence, labor unrest, and the death of Grant. The year was at once TwainÕs annus mirabilis and the year of his undoing. The meticulous treatment of this single year by the esteemed biographer Jerome Loving enables him to look backward and forward to capture both Twain and the country at large in a time of crisis and transformation.
Soldier or vicious killer? Examine history to decide. As a very young man bent on revenge after his sister's rape and murder, John P. Gatewood deserts the Confederate forces and returns to his Tennessee home. There he joins a group of Confederate bushwhackers and, as the "Red Headed Beast of Georgia, " carries out a bloody rampage of strikes against Union sympathizers, both military and civilian alike. This closely researched study tells his story from boyhood to the postwar years and his attempt to adapt to civilian life. A fascinating read for any history buff!
The bushwhackers of the Confederate Army were some of the most controversial troops of the American Civil War. The names John S. Mosby, William Clarke Quantrill and William "Bloody Bill" Anderson struck terror in the hearts of their northern opponents. But why were they so feared and how did they revolutionize warfare through the course of this ferocious war? This edition aims to answer these questions through the use of primary source materials to get to the core of who guerilla soldiers were and why they fought in the way they did. The first book in the collection is by a soldier, John McCorkle, who fought alongside William Clarke Quantrill for three years. It provides a perfect introduction in the vicious world of the Confederate bushwhacker along the Missouri-Kansas borderland. Quantrill's most controversial moment occurred in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1863. Rather than simply providing the reader with McCorkle's account of this event we have decided also to include the eyewitness account of the massacre from the perspective of a citizen of Lawrence, Judge L. D. Bailey, which is the second book in the collection. Samuel Hildebrand's personal memoir is the third book in the collection. Confederate sympathizers styled him as a Rob Roy of the south whilst Union supporters thought he was little more than a ruthless murderer. Unlike many of the other bushwhackers within this collection Hildebrand operated as more a lone-wolf striking at will deep in enemy territory. William Anderson, as his epithet "Bloody Bill" indicates, was a ruthless operator. After killing a large body of Union troops at Centralia he allowed Sergeant Thomas Goodman to live and continue with his guerilla troops for ten further days. Goodman's account of his time in captivity provides brilliant insight into the terror that these Confederate irregular soldiers could cause. The fifth book in the collection is by one of the most famous confederate soldiers of the American Civil War, John S. Mosby. Unlike the previous guerilla fighters Mosby fought on the eastern front, largely in northern central Virginia. His partisan rangers were feared and respected by their union opponents in equal measure. What would it have been like to have had these guerillas as your opponents? Frederick Mitchell's short account of fighting bushwhackers on the Lafourche in Louisiana captures such a moment in vivid detail. Thomas Berry fought within two of the most formidable partisan brigades that wreaked havoc through 1862 and 1863. His accounts of life under the leadership of John Hunt Morgan and Nathan Bedford Forrest provide gripping reading of the lighting raids that destroyed railroad bridges, logistical hubs and other strategic targets. The last two books in the collection provide a view into the end of the road for these Confederate guerrillas. The first, by Jefferson Duffey, discusses the last charge of John Hanson McNeill who died with his uniform still on, just like so many other partisan raiders. The last book, covering the activities of the Younger brothers, provides insight into the soldiers who survived the war but refused to put down their weapons after it had finished and shifted from bushwhackers to outlaws, continuing to use the techniques that they had perfected through the course of the war.
Author : Matthew C. Hulbert Publisher : University of Georgia Press Page : 340 pages File Size : 25,88 MB Release : 2016 Category : History ISBN : 082035001X
During the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Jacob Knight returns from the cornfield one day to find bushwhackers—Confederate sympathizers in the Union state of Missouri—terrorizing his family. At the insistence of his mother, Jacob and his seven-year-old sister, Eliza, flee the house for safety. When the two young people dare to return home the following morning, their family is nowhere to be found, and their home is burnt to the ground. Not knowing what else to do, Jacob and Eliza take their one remaining horse and journey north to their aunt's home in Iowa, hoping to find their missing family members there. Jennifer Johnson Garrity brings the American Civil War era to life in this story about family, trust, and courage during a time of great uncertainty.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who later achieved fame as the writer Mark Twain, served as second lieutenant in a Confederate militia, but only for two weeks, leading many to describe his loyalty to the Confederate cause as halfhearted at best. In The Reconstruction of Mark Twain, Joe B. Fulton challenges these long-held assumptions about Twain's advocacy of the Union cause, arguing that Clemens traveled a long and arduous path, moving from pro-slavery, secession, and the Confederacy to pro-union, and racially enlightened. A deft blend of biography, history, and literary studies, this book offers a bold new assessment of the work of one of America's most celebrated writers.
"This book examines the guerilla experience and then traces its progresion from the Western Theater in 1861 to its apogee in the East in the last two years of the war."--Pg. 5.
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The award-winning author provides “a look at the women who supported the male border raiders . . . includes heartrending stories from a savage war” (HistoryNet). In this fascinating look at an often overlooked subject, historian Larry Wood delves into the hidden lives of the brave belles of Missouri. Sometimes connected by blood but always united in purpose, these wives, sisters, daughters, lovers, friends, and mothers risked their lives and their freedom to give aid and comfort to their menfolk. They used subterfuge and occasionally sheer luck to feed, clothe, and shelter the guerrillas. These courageous women of every age and station acted as essential go-betweens, scouts, spies, guides, and mail handlers. They often joined in on the bushwhackers’ campaigns, assisting them in any way possible. They even received and traded stolen property for their Confederate brethren. Many of the women were arrested or banished from their home state of Missouri; many were forced to give an oath of allegiance to the Union in order to gain their freedom; a few were able to carry out their clandestine missions undetected. Wood traces these women through their own diaries and other primary sources from the era. The poignant tales of these women are punctuated by images of many of them; the stiff, posed portraits give silent testimony to their resiliency and strength during tumultuous times. “A fascinating glimpse into the irregular warfare that embroiled the state during the Civil War.” —Jefferson City News Tribune