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Faust, Drew Gilpin.
This republic of suffering :
death and the American Civil War /
Drew Gilpin Faust.
New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2008.
xviii, 346 p. :
ill. ;
25 cm.
The work of death -- Dying: "to lay down my life" -- Killing: "the harder courage" -- Burying: "new lessons caring for the dead" -- Naming: "the significant word UNKNOWN" -- Realizing: civilians and the work of mourning -- Believing and doubting: "what means this carnage?" -- Accounting: "our obligations to the dead" -- Numbering: "how many? how many?" -- Epilogue: Surviving.
An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. This book explores the impact of this enormous death toll from every angle: material, political, intellectual, and spiritual. Historian Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation and its understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. She describes how survivors mourned and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the slaughter with its belief in a benevolent God, and reconceived its understanding of life after death.--From publisher description.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Social aspects.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Psychological aspects.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Influence.
Death
Social aspects
United States
History
19th century.
Death
United States
Psychological aspects
History
19th century.
Burial
Social aspects
United States
History
19th century.
Burial
United States
Psychological aspects
History
19th century.
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
gtt
Soldaten.
gtt
Dood.
gtt
Coping.
gtt
Verenigde Staten.
gtt
Table of contents only
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Silvey, Anita.
I'll pass for your comrade :
women soldiers in the Civil War /
Anita Silvey.
New York :
Clarion Books,
c2008.
115 p. :
ill., maps ;
24 cm.
"The music of regimental bands": the first Battle of Bull Run -- "Won't you let me come with you?": reasons for becoming a soldier -- "Don the breeches": enlisting in the military -- "A skirmish drill is the prettiest drill": a soldier's life -- "The whole landscape for an instant turned slightly red": women at Antietam -- "I would rather have been shot dead": hospitals and prisons -- "Touched with fire": after the war.
Sarah Emma Edmonds enlisted because she believed in the Union cause; Melverina Peppercorn joined to stay near her twin brother. Although women were not allowed to enlist as soldiers in the Civil War, many disguised themselves as men and fought anyway.
A Junior Library Guild selection
Women soldiers
United States
History
19th century
Juvenile literature.
Women soldiers
Confederate States of America
History
19th century
Juvenile literature.
Women
United States
History
19th century
Juvenile literature.
Women
Confederate States of America
History
Juvenile literature.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Participation, Female
Juvenile literature.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Women
Juvenile literature.
War stories.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Participation, Female.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Women.
Women soldiers
United States
History
19th century.
Women soldiers
Confederate States of America
History
19th century.
Women
United States
History
19th century.
Women
Confederate States of America
History.
Table of contents only
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0817/2008018053.html
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Warren, Andrea.
Under siege! :
three children at the Civil War battle for Vicksburg /
by Andrea Warren.
Three children at the Civil War battle for Vicksburg
New York :
Melanie Kroupa Books,
2009.
166 p. :
ill., maps ;
25 cm.
War comes to Vicksburg : December 1862 -- The Christmas Eve Ball : December 24, 1862 -- The general's boy goes to war : spring 1863 -- Burying the family silver : late spring 1863 -- At the battle front : late spring 1863 -- The Yankees are coming! : May 1863 -- The road to Vicksburg : May 15-18, 1863 -- Enemy at the gates : May 17-25, 1863 -- Into the caves : late May and early June 1863 -- Dangerous days : early June 1863 -- Growing desperation : middle June 1863 -- Empty stomachs : late June 1863 -- Surrender! : July 4, 1863 -- The unfinished war : July 1863 and beyond -- Postscripts -- Other information about the war -- Facts about the war -- Children orphaned by war -- Women and the war -- Reconstruction.
This book looks at the 1862-63 battle for Vicksburg through the eyes of three children: ten-year-old Lucy, the daughter of a Vicksburg merchant; eleven-year-old Willie, the son of a minister; and twelve-year old Frederick, the son of Ulysses S. Grant.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
Vicksburg (Miss.)
History
Siege, 1863
Juvenile literature.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Children
Juvenile literature.
Children
Mississippi
Vicksburg
History
19th century
Juvenile literature.
Vicksburg (Miss.)
History
Siege, 1863.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Children.
Children
Mississippi
Vicksburg
History
19th century.
Contributor biographical information
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0902/2008001136-b.html
Publisher description
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0902/2008001136-d.html
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9780679990673 (lib. bdg.)
Osborne, Mary Pope.
Civil War on Sunday /
[Mary Pope Osborne ; illustrated by Sal Murdocca].
New York :
Random House,
2000.
72 p. :
ill. ;
20 cm.
Magic tree house ;
#21
"A Stepping Stone book."
Jack and Annie are transported by their magic tree house to the time of the Civil War where they meet Clara Barton.
Time travel
Fiction.
Magic
Fiction.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Fiction.
Barton, Clara,
1821-1912
Fiction.
Tree houses
Fiction.
Barton, Clara,
1821-1912
Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters
Juvenile fiction.
Time travel
Juvenile fiction.
Magic
Juvenile fiction.
Tree houses
Juvenile fiction.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Juvenile fiction.
Murdocca, Sal,
ill.
Publisher description
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random045/99054072.html
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Stanchak, John E.
Civil War /
written by John Stanchak.
New York :
Dorling Kindersley Pub.,
c2000.
64 p. :
ill. (some col.), 1 col. map ;
29 cm.
DK eyewitness books
Includes index.
Long argument -- Slave life -- Election of 1860 -- Underground Railroad -- Secession -- Raising armies -- Everyone's war -- Women at war -- Young and the old -- Outfitting armies -- Bull Run -- Sick and wounded -- Great commanders -- Arming soldiers -- Black volunteers -- Horsemen -- Army camp life -- Field artillery -- Gettysburg -- Siege of Vicksburg -- Northern life -- Confederate culture -- War on the water -- Secret war -- March to the Sea -- Confederacy surrenders -- Fates of two leaders -- Life of freedom -- New era begins -- Index.
Examines many aspects of the Civil War, including the issue of slavery, secession, the raising of armies, individual battles, the commanders, Northern life, Confederate culture, the surrender of the South, and the aftermath.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Juvenile literature.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Keegan, John,
1934-
The American Civil War :
a military history /
John Keegan.
New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2009.
xvi, 396 p., [16] p. of plates :
ill., maps, ports. ;
25 cm.
North and South divide -- Will there be a war? -- Improvised armies -- Running the war -- The military geography of the Civil War -- The life of the soldier -- Plans -- McClellan takes command -- The war in middle America -- Lee's war in the East, Grant's war in the West -- Chancellorsville and Gettysburg -- Vicksburg -- Cutting the Chattanooga-Atlanta link -- The overland campaign and the fall of Richmond -- Breaking into the South -- The battle off Cherbourg and the Civil War at sea -- Black soldiers -- The home fronts -- Walt Whitman and wounds -- Civil War generalship -- Civl War battle -- Could the South have survived? -- The end of the war.
Analyzes many puzzling aspects of the Civil War, from its mismatched sides to the absence of decisive outcomes for dozens of skirmishes, and offers insight into the war's psychology, ideology, and economics while discussing the pivotal roles of leadership and geography.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Campaigns.
Military geography
United States
History
19th century.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Strategic aspects.
United States
Geography.
Contributor biographical information
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1005/2009019469-b.html
Publisher description
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1005/2009019469-d.html
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Ward, Andrew,
1946-
The slaves' war :
the Civil War in the words of former slaves /
Andrew Ward.
Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Co.,
2008.
xiv, 386 p., [16] p. of plates :
ill. ;
24 cm.
The first narrative history of the Civil War as told by the very people it freed. Historian of nineteenth-century and African-American history Andrew Ward weaves together hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs. Here is the Civil War as seen from slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, swamps, and fields. Body servants, army cooks and launderers, runaways, teamsters, and gravediggers bring the war to richly detailed life. From slaves' theories about the causes of the Civil War to their frank assessments of major figures; from their searing memories of the carnage of battle to their often startling attitudes toward masters and liberators alike; and from their initial jubilation at the Yankee invasion of the slave South to the crushing disappointment of freedom's promise unfulfilled, this is a transformative vision of America's second revolution.--From publisher description.
Preface --
pt. 1. The
Union, 1850 to 1860 --
Prologue :
"We done now" --
1.
"Before their time" --
2. "A
grand man" --
3. "The
Union, gentlemen, the Union" --
pt. 2. The
East, 1861 --
4.
"Worser for us than ever" --
5.
"They's folks!" --
pt. 3. The
West, 1861 and 1862 --
6.
" Grant shelling the rebels!" --
7. "The
blood run deep" --
8.
"I couldn't leave" --
pt. 4. The
East, 1862 --
9.
"This child just pray" --
10. "A
squally time" --
11.
"Ain't God the captain?" --
pt. 5. The
West, 1863 --
12.
"I rejoiced all i could" --
13.
"Ungodly times" --
14.
"Ain't over yet" --
15.
"Running from the war" --
16. "A
drizzly day" --
pt. 6. The
East, 1863 --
17.
"All the poor soldiers" --
18.
"Fearing and trembling" --
pt. 7. The
West, 1864 --
19.
"Still I rebelled" --
20. "A
rugged cross" --
21.
"Don't want any such again" --
pt. 8. The
East, 1864 --
22.
"All that killing" --
23. "A
most scandalous thing" --
pt. 9.
Sherman, 1864 --
24.
"Ain't gonna be long now" --
25.
"What they care? " --
pt. 10.
East and West, 1865 --
26.
"I have seen father Abraham" --
27. " The
plans of God" --
28. "A
tired old man" --
29. "The
row's end" --
30.
"Nowhere to go" --
31.
"I got my own again --
Epilogue :
"All alike" --
Author's note :
"We'll talk this story over" ---
A
directory of witnesses --
Acknowledgments --
Sources --
Index.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Personal narratives.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
African Americans.
Slaves
Southern States
Biography.
Freedmen
United States
Biography.
African Americans
Biography.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Social aspects.
Contributor biographical information
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Publisher description
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0905/2008001532-d.html
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0905/2008001532-s.html
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The Civil War
[videorecording] /
American Documentaries, Inc., Florentine Films and Time-Life Video presents a film by Ken Burns ; producers, Ken Burns, Ric Burns ; writers, Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward ; director, Ken Burns.
Burbank, CA :
PBS Home Video :
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment,
[2004], c1990.
5 videodiscs (700 min.) :
sd., col. with b&w sequences ;
4 3/4 in.
DVD, 5.1 surround sound, digitally remastered.
Closed-captioned.
Originally produced as a television mini-series in 1990.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Disc 1. Episode one : the Cause (1861), DVD special features -- Disc 2. Episodes two and three : A Very Bloody Affair, Forever Free (1862) -- Disc 3. Episodes four and five : Simply Murder, the Universe of Battle (1863) -- Disc 4. Episodes six and seven : Valley of the Shadow of Death, Most Hallowed Ground (1864) -- Disc 5. Episodes eight and nine : War is All Hell, the Better Angles of Our Nature (1865)
An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
Emmy Awards, 1991: Emmy Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming (Geoffrey C. Ward (writer), Ric Burns (writer), Ken Burns (writer) - For episode #9: "The Better Angels Of Our Nature") ; Outstanding Informational Series (Ken Burns (producer), Ric Burns (producer), Stephen Ives (co-producer), Julie Dunfey (co-producer), Mike Hill (co-producer), Catherine Eisele (coordinating producer) - For episode #5 "The Universe Of Battle").
Special features: behind-the-scenes: "The Civil War Reconstruction" ; commentary track by Ken Burns ; interviews with George Will, Shelby Foote and Stanley Crouch ; biography cards and battlefield maps.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865.
Confederate States of America
History, Military.
Military art and science
History.
Lincoln, Abraham,
1809-1865.
Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861.
Historical television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Television mini-series.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
DVD-Video discs.
Television documentary.
migfg
Burns, Ken,
1953-
Burns, Ric.
Dewhurst, Colleen.
Fishburne, Larry.
Freeman, Morgan.
Irons, Jeremy,
1948-
Jacobi, Derek.
Robards, Jason.
Waterston, Sam.
Shaw, Bruce.
Axton, Hoyt.
Ward, Geoffrey C.
McCullough, David G.
American Documentary, Inc.
Florentine Films.
Time-Life Video.
PBS Home Video.
Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
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0195313666 (hardcover : alk. paper)
McPherson, James M.
This mighty scourge :
perspectives on the Civil War /
James M. McPherson.
Oxford ;
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
xii, 260 p. ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-251) and index.
Slavery and the coming of the war. And the war came ; Escape and revolt in black and white -- The lost cause revisited. The Confederacy : a house divided? ; Was the best defense a good offense? : Jefferson Davis and Confederate strategies ; The Saratoga that wasn't : the impact of Antietam abroad ; To conquer a peace? : Lee's goals in the Gettysburg campaign ; The last rebel : Jesse James ; Long-legged Yankee lies : the lost cause textbook crusade -- Architects of victory. "We stand by each other always" : Grant and Sherman ; The hard hand of war : Unvexed to the sea : Lincoln, Grant, and the Vicksburg campaign -- Home front and battle front. Brahmins at war ; "Spend much time in reading the daily papers" : the press and army morale in the Civil War ; No peace without victory, 1861-1865 -- Lincoln. To remember that he had lived ; "As commander-in-chief I have the right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865.
États-Unis
Histoire
1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
Sezessionskrieg <1861-1865>
swd
Table of contents only
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Contributor biographical information
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/2006035523-b.html
Publisher description
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/2006035523-d.html
Book review (H-Net)
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f5s7-aa
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0805067396
9780805067392
Bahr, Howard,
1946-
The Judas Field :
a novel of the Civil War /
Howard Bahr.
New York :
H. Holt.,
2006.
292 p. ;
25 cm.
It's been twenty years since Cass Wakefield returned from the Civil War to his hometown in Mississippi, but he is still haunted by battlefield memories. Now he is presented with a chance to literally retrace his steps from the past, as his dying friend Alison urges him to accompany her on a trip to Franklin, Tennessee, to recover the bodies of her father and brother. As they make their way north over the battlefields, they are joined by two of Cass's former brothers-in-arms, and his memories reemerge with overwhelming vividness. Before long the group has assembled on the haunted ground of Franklin, where past and present--the legacy of the war and the narrow hope of redemption--will draw each of them toward a painful confrontation. Moving between harrowing scenes of battle and the novel's present-day quest, author Bahr recreates this era with devastating authority.--From publisher description.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Fiction.
Southern States
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
gsafd
War stories.
gsafd
Historical fiction.
gsafd
War stories.
gsafd
Contributor biographical information
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005055011-b.html
Publisher description
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005055011-d.html
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