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Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In Jones County, Mississippi, a farmer named Newton Knight led his neighbors, white and black alike, in an insurrection against the Confederacy at the height of the Civil War. Knight's life story mirrors the little-known story of class struggle in the South--and it shatters the image of the Confederacy as a unified front against the Union.
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Lexile measure
1440L
Physical Desc
xxvii, 502 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Crofts examines Unionists in three pivotal southern states--Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee--and shows why the outbreak of the war enabled the Confederacy to gain the allegiance of these essential, if ambivalent, governments.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hc ed.
Physical Desc
416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Historian Bobrick argues here that George H. Thomas was the greatest and most successful general of the Civil War. Because Thomas didn't live to write his memoirs, his reputation has been largely shaped by others, most notably Grant and Sherman, who, Bobrick says, diminished Thomas' successes in their favor in their own memoirs. Born in Virginia, Thomas remained loyal to the Union, unlike fellow Virginian Robert E. Lee. In the entire Civil War, he...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 324 pages : illustrations, maps, charts, genealogical tables ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, and aided by women, slaves, and children who spied on the Confederacy and provided food and shelter, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River. There, legend has it, they declared the Free State of Jones. The...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xi, 221 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Long Shadow of the Civil War relates uncommon narratives about common Southern folks who fought not with the Confederacy, but against it. Focusing on regions in three Southern states--North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas--Victoria E. Bynum introduces Unionist supporters, guerrilla soldiers, defiant women, socialists, populists, free blacks, and large interracial kin groups that belie stereotypes of Southerners as uniformly supportive of the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xiii, 250 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
New Orleans was the largest city--and one of the richest--in the Confederacy, protected in part by Fort Jackson, which was just sixty-five miles down the Mississippi River. On April 27, 1862, Confederate soldiers at Fort Jackson rose up in mutiny against their commanding officers. New Orleans fell to Union forces soon thereafter. Although the Fort Jackson mutiny marked a critical turning point in the Union's campaign to regain control of this vital...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book examines Southerners' claims to loyal citizenship in the reunited nation after the American Civil War. Southerners - male and female; elite and non-elite; white, black, and American Indian - disagreed with the federal government over the obligations citizens owed to their nation and the obligations the nation owed to its citizens. Susanna Michele Lee explores these clashes through the operations of the Southern Claims Commission, a federal...