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Author | : Timothy B. Smith |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 503 |
Release | : 2010-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1626744386 |
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In Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front, Timothy B. Smith examines Mississippi's Civil War defeat by both outside and inside forces. From without, the Union army dismantled the state's political system, infrastructure, economy, and fighting capability. The state saw extensive military operations, destruction, and bloodshed within her borders. One of the most frightful and extended sieges of the war ended in a crucial Confederate defeat at Vicksburg, the capstone to a tremendous Union campaign. As Confederate forces and Mississippi became overwhelmed militarily, the populace's morale began to crumble. Realizing that the enemy could roll unchecked over the state, civilians, Smith argues, began to lose the will to continue the struggle. Many white Confederates chose to return to the Union rather than see continued destruction in the name of a victory that seemed ever more improbable. When the tide turned, Unionists and African Americans boldly stepped up their endeavors. The result, Smith finds, was a state vanquished and destined to endure suffering far into its future. The first examination of the state's Civil War home front in seventy years, this book tells the story of all classes of Mississippians during the war, focusing new light on previously neglected groups such as women and African Americans. The result is a revelation of the heart of a populace facing the devastating impact of total war.
Author | : Ben Wynne |
Publisher | : Mercer University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780881460391 |
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This book examines Mississippi's Civil War experience. It begins with an introductory overview of the socio-political climate of the state during the1850s and ends with a treatment of Mississippi's post-war environment and the rise of Lost Cause mythology. In between, the work covers the pivotal events, issues, and personalities of the period. Wynne emphasizes the experiences of Mississippians?male and female, black and white?as they struggled to deal with the crisis. The political events leading to seces-sion, Mississippians? initial enthusiasm for war, voices of dissent, the disbursement of troops in and out of the state, the home front, freedom for the slave community, waning enthusiasm (both in the military and on the home front) as the war dragged on, defeat, and the ultimate struggle to turn defeat into a moral victory through Lost Cause mythology are also discussed. This book makes significant contributions to Civil War literature.
Author | : Michael B. Ballard |
Publisher | : Heritage of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-09-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781628461701 |
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From the first Union attack on Vicksburg in the spring of 1862 through Benjamin Grierson's last raid through Mississippi in late 1864 and early 1865, this book traces the campaigns, fighting, and causes and effects of armed conflict in central and North Mississippi, where major campaigns were waged and fighting occurred.
Author | : Michael B. Ballard |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 160473843X |
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The only volume dedicated entirely to the military history of embattled Mississippi
Author | : Timothy B. Smith |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1604734302 |
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A full examination of a population's passion and defeat
Author | : Michael B. Ballard |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2000-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1578061962 |
Download Civil War Mississippi Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A handbook to the state's Civil War battles, battlefields, and sites to visit
Author | : Victoria E. Bynum |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2003-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807875244 |
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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, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River, where, legend has it, they declared the Free State of Jones. The story of the Jones County rebellion is well known among Mississippians, and debate over whether the county actually seceded from the state during the war has smoldered for more than a century. Adding further controversy to the legend is the story of Newt Knight's interracial romance with his wartime accomplice, Rachel, a slave. From their relationship there developed a mixed-race community that endured long after the Civil War had ended, and the ambiguous racial identity of their descendants confounded the rules of segregated Mississippi well into the twentieth century. Victoria Bynum traces the origins and legacy of the Jones County uprising from the American Revolution to the modern civil rights movement. In bridging the gap between the legendary and the real Free State of Jones, she shows how the legend--what was told, what was embellished, and what was left out--reveals a great deal about the South's transition from slavery to segregation; the racial, gender, and class politics of the period; and the contingent nature of history and memory.
Author | : John C. Willis |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813919713 |
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Examining the lives of individuals - freedmen, planters, and merchants - Willis explores the reciprocal interests of former slaves and former slaveholders. He shows how, in a cruel irony replicated in other areas of the South, the backbreaking work that African Americans did to clear, settle, and farm the land away from the river made the land ultimately too valuable for them to retain.
Author | : Robert G. Evans |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Mississippi |
ISBN | : 9781578064861 |
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"The words of these common soldiers fighting in one of the most notable units in the Army of Northern Virginia will fascinate both civil war buffs and historians.".
Author | : Jeff T. Giambrone |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 073859413X |
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Remembering Mississippi's Confederates is a collection of never-before-seen images which document the history of these soldiers. The Confederate States of America engaged in a battle for national survival that lasted four long and incredibly bloody years. The conflict went on for so long because thousands of rebels were willing to lay down their lives and defend their homes to the last man and last cartridge. Many of these soldiers were Mississippians--approximately 78,000 citizens of the Magnolia State can be documented as having served in the Civil War. Of this number, over 27,500 died either of disease or in combat. Remembering Mississippi's Confederates is a photographic tribute to the men who fought so gallantly for their state. Many of the images in this volume have never been published and come from the proud descendants of the soldiers themselves; others were acquired from collections spread across the United States.