[PDF] Knights In Fustian A War Time Story Of Indiana eBook

Author : Caroline Brown
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 2012-01-09
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ISBN : 9781468187632

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Knights in Fustian: A War Time Story of Indiana

Author : Caroline Brown
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2018-11-20
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ISBN : 9780483074187

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Excerpt from Knights in Fustian: A War Time Story of Indiana Knights of the Golden Circle as a matter of little moment; and we of a later generation can hardly credit the extent of the organization, and the heinousness of its aims, which included crime and the disruption of the Union. Yet Governor Mor ton managed to keep every act of these Knights under surveillance. There was not a moment, says Dudley Foulke, in which they were not held securely in the grip of the war governor of Indiana. Quietly and firmly he broke up the organization by arresting the leaders, and pre vented an uprising which, if successful, would have told very seriously on the outcome of the war. Six men who were the leaders Of the order in Indiana were tried before a military commis sion and found guilty of treason, but were par doued by Mr. Johnson, after the assassination of President Lincoln, through the intercession of Governor Morton himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : James Alvin Huston
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780761816140

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In A Hoosier Sampler, James A. Huston provides a thorough compilation of the works of some of Indiana's most notable writers. Huston brings to the foreground such world renowned authors as Lew Wallace, Lloyd C. Douglas, Charles Major, Kurt Vonnegut, and James Whitcomb Riley among others, to produce a comprehensive volume of great works that provides the true flavor of each author's style as well as interesting, enjoyable, and instructive reading. Covering nearly every accomplished Indiana writer, this anthology will be of great use to students and professors of literature as well as the general reader.

Author : Nicole Etcheson
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0700635157

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For all that has been written about the Civil War's impact on the urban northeast and southern home fronts, we have until now lacked a detailed picture of how it affected specific communities in the Union's Midwestern heartland. Nicole Etcheson offers a deeply researched microhistory of one such community--Putnam County, Indiana, from the Compromise of 1850 to the end of Reconstruction-and shows how its citizens responded to and were affected by the war. Delving into the everyday life of a small town in one of the nineteenth century's bellwether states, A Generation at War considers the Civil War within a much broader chronological context than other accounts. It ranges across three decades to show how the issues of the day-particularly race and sectionalism-temporarily displaced economic and temperance concerns, how the racial attitudes of northern whites changed, and how a generation of young men and women coped with the transformative experience of war. Etcheson interrelates an impressively wide range of topics. Through temperance and alcohol she illustrates nativism and class consciousness, while through an account of a murder she probes ethnicity, politics, and gender. She reveals how some women wanted to "maintain dependence" and how the war gave independence to others, as pensions allowed them to survive without a male provider. And she chronicles the major shift in race relations as the most revolutionary change: blacks had been excluded from Indiana in the 1850s but were invited into Putnam County by 1880. Etcheson personalizes all of these issues through human stories, bringing to life people previously ignored by history, whether veterans demanding recognition of their sacrifice, women speaking out against liquor, or Copperheads parading against Republicans. The introduction of race with the North Carolina Exodusters marks a particularly effective lens for seeing how the idealism unleashed by Lincoln's war influenced the North. Etcheson also helps us understand how white Southerners tried to reunify the country on the basis of shared white racism. Drawing on personal papers, local newspapers, pension petitions, Exoduster pamphlets, and more, Etcheson demonstrates how microhistory helps give new meaning to larger events. A Generation at War opens a new window on the impact of the Civil War on the agrarian North.