[PDF] Desertion During The Civil War Abridged Annotated eBook

Author : Ella Lonn
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Page : 219 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 2016-12-22
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ISBN : 9781520212746

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This is the great classic work on desertions during the American Civil War. While you might be forgiven for expecting a dry recitation of statistics, it is a fascinating look at the problems and realities of deserters for both sides during the conflict.Dr. Lonn looks at the reasons for desertion, how deserters were hunted, how they hid, and how they were used by the enemy among other topics. She even covers the places where hundreds of deserters banded together into criminal enterprises.A huge drain for the Union and the Confederacy, the overall impact on both is examined here. Throughout, Lonn tells the story like a novelist, despite including important statistics.Every examination of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.

Author : Ephraim McD. Anderson
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Page : 435 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2016-11-17
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ISBN : 9781519054289

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Ephraim Anderson's time in the First Missouri Confederate Brigade left him bitter and in broken health. Yet he penned a fascinating look at life inside the Rebel army on the march and during the siege of Vicksburg, one of the most important campaigns of the war.With humor, keen observation, and an unreconstructed view of the conflict, Anderson's book is a highly-readable account of his brigade's history and his personal experiences.Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.

Author : Mark A. Weitz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
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"Coupled with problems such as speculation, food and clothing shortages, conscription, taxation, and a pervasive focus on the protection of local interests, desertion started as a military problem and spilled over into the civilian world. Fostered by a military culture that treated absenteeism leniently early in the war, desertion steadily increased and by 1863 reached epidemic proportions. A Union policy that permitted Confederate deserters to swear allegiance to the Union and then return home encouraged desertion. Equally important in persuading men to desert was the direct appeal from loved ones on the home front - letters from wives begging soldiers to come home for harvests, births, and other events.".

Author : Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
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Category : Literary Collections
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"Great anxiety is expressed by all to reach home by the Fourth of July, which at present looks very probable. But, dear Journal, I cannot write, I feel too good." Jenk Jones would make it home on the 3rd of July, 1865. After three long years away from home with the 6th Wisconsin Artillery Battery, his reunion with family was, to him, indescribably joyful. Much had changed but the bonds remained the same. Along the way he'd seen horror and bloodshed, heartbreak, lost friends, and final victory. He was at Vicksburg and other major battles and kept "Mr. Journal" throughout, with the exception of his time in quarantine for smallpox. He recorded the ecstasy of news that Richmond had fallen, followed by Lee's surrender soon after. He writes of the sorrow he and his comrades felt at the news of Lincoln's assassination and how they all felt they'd lost a family member. Frontline diaries of the Civil War bring an immediacy to a long-ago event and connect us to these everyday men and women who lived it. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.

Author : John Will Dyer
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Page : 243 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 2016-11-16
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ISBN : 9781519052698

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When former Confederate sergeant John Dyer sat down to write this engaging memoir, his goal was to tell the story of the rank and file soldiers who were mostly anonymous. What he wrote was an often witty, sometimes sad, but very good history of his time in the Kentucky 1st Cavalry Regiment.Through the entire war, Dyer and his comrades faced death by bullet, shell, and starvation, while managing to keep their spirits up in a losing cause. Of his former foes, he wrote:I write this from a Southern standpoint, but I can assure my brother who wore the blue that he will find nothing in these pages derogatory to the reputation of a brave and true soldier.The book is filled with plenty of thrilling action, and Dyer is very modest in his account of his own bravery. He was part of Jeff Davis' escort at the end of the war and was with him when Davis got the telegram of Lincoln's assassination. He also recounts sweet stories like this one:"Immediately every voice on the boat joined in the singing, and, although the old song is full of pathos and susceptible of great effects, and I have heard it sung many times under all sorts of circumstances, I have never known it sung with so much feeling and effect as on that occasion. Men, with the tears streaming down their cheeks, rushed into each other's arms as brother to brother and I have often thought that heaven opened her gates and rejoiced at the sight. The captain, a grizzled old veteran, was standing on the roof, and, gulping down a sob, said to the pilot, 'Run her slow, Jim, don't land till the boys get over this.'"Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.

Author : Edward H. Rogers
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 34,23 MB
Release : 2016-11-19
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ISBN : 9781519057099

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The aptly-named Tiger Regiment was the 43rd Massachusetts Infantry. This is one of the better examples of regimental histories from the Civil War, containing many personal stories and anecdotes.This is not the memoir of a famous general but life as lived by the common soldier. Edward Rogers, who did an admirable job writing the history, was a ship's carpenter before and after the war. He writes of the horror of combat, the boredom of camp, the humor of comrades, and the experience of meeting former slaves."As I was strolling around yesterday (in my second visit to Newbern), I found a colored man, a little rising fifty years of age, engaged upon a wharf in siding an oak-knee. I entered into conversation with him, and found that he had been a slave until the battle of Newbern. (He was nearly white.) He was doing his work excellently; and in a quiet and prepossessing manner, in answer to a question of mine, said that he was thoroughly acquainted with his trade, and had worked at it all his days in Newbern, Beaufort, and other North-Carolina ports, paying his owner about three hundred dollars a y ear, retaining only enough for the barest necessaries of life for himself and family. I asked about his children, to which he replied, that, when the secesh went off, they took three of them away It was quite an experience to me to see a man evidently as intelligent, respectable, and skilled as any of our Northern mechanics, handling the familiar tools of my own calling, and yet so recently delivered from so abject a condition. I felt more than ever, that, if the South rules, it will ruin."Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.

Author : Adelaide W. Smith
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Medical
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One of the most prominent nurses to serve in the American Civil War, Ada Smith was at the center of action. She met Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, and many of the other military men and civilians in the conflict. This lively and engaging memoir is like many of those by nurses of the Civil War. They saw the horrible cost of the war in terms of shattered bodies and shattered minds. They held the hand of many a dying man and Ada's story is very much the story of the human side of war. But they also heard the guns and had rifle balls whistling through their hospital tents. After the war, Ada continued her work to help veterans, as well as engaging in the fight for women's suffrage. 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 : Lafayette C. Baker
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 1874-01-01
Category : History
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He was the War Department intelligence chief during the American Civil War, a spy, and a colonel in the cavalry. He was put in charge of the investigation of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, was at the capture and death of John Wilkes Booth, and brought away the items in Booth's pockets...including Booth's diary. Lafayette C. Baker's name appears in over 150 New York Times articles between 1861 and 1868. His work was important, well-regarded,and of great interest to the public (at least what could be told publicly). He was in close contact with Abraham Lincoln, Edwin Stanton, and other high officials. When he was accused later of spying on the White House, he was dismissed and set about writing this memoir of his time in service during the Civil War. Conspiracy theories are completely unnecessary to make Lafayette Baker an important and fascinating figure in Civil War history. His writing is intelligent, thrilling, and clearly in earnest. Read him for what he offers to the history of the period and for the associations he had during his life and you’ll be more than rewarded for your time. 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.