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Shows readers the US Civil War through the recollections of Bartholomew Diggins, a young sailor who fought under US Admiral David G. Farragut in the battles for control of the Mississippi River. Diggins's memoir, one of a very few written by a sailor on either side, allows readers to experience a Northern seamen's daily existence and the perilous battles he endured during the war.

This is a work that for more than a century has been an invaluable primary source for historians of the Civil War era. In this long-awaited scholarly edition, editors John David Smith and Micheal J. Larson provide a detailed introduction and chapter-by-chapter annotations to highlight the lasting significance of John Eaton's narrative.

In chapters that span the Atlanta Campaign to the Battle of Nashville in 1864, this book draws on a broad set of sources - newspapers, manuscripts, archives, diaries, and official documents - to tell a story that knits together accounts of officers, the final campaigns of the Western Theater, and the experiences of the civilians and rebel soldiers.

From the Pratt Street riot in Baltimore to a chance encounter with Red Cross founder Clara Barton to a firsthand view of Hicks Hospital, this sweeping yet brief memoir provides a unique opportunity to examine the experiences of a child during the USS Civil War and to explore the nuances of memory.

Thomas W. Colley served in one of the most active and famous units in the Civil War, the 1st Virginia Cavalry. The first modern scholarly edition of Colley's writings, In Memory of Self and Comrades dramatizes Colley's fate as a wounded soldier mustered out before the war's conclusion.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Massachusetts native Gilbert Thompson joined the regular army. While serving, Thompson kept a journal that eventually filled three volumes. His wartime musings and postwar recollections have much to offer.

Born near Guntersville, Alabama, Catherine (Cassie) Fennell was nineteen when the Civil War began. Starting with her time at a female academy in Washington, DC, these diaries continue through the war's end and discuss civilian experiences in Alabama and the Tennessee Valley.

Discovered in a smokehouse in the mid-1980s, the diary of Serepta Jordan provides a unique window into the lives of Confederates living in occupied territory in upper middle Tennessee. A massive tome, written in a sturdy store ledger, the diary records every day from the fall of 1857 to June 1864.

Emory Upton (1839-1881) was thrust into the Civil War immediately upon graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point in May of 1861. He participated in nearly ever major battle in the Eastern Theater. The two-volume Correspondence of Major General Emory Upton follows Upton from West Point to his extensive Army activities following the Civil War.

Emory Upton (1839-1881) was thrust into the Civil War immediately upon graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point in May of 1861. He participated in nearly ever major battle in the Eastern Theater. The two-volume Correspondence of Major General Emory Upton follows Upton from West Point to his extensive Army activities following the Civil War.

Only rarely does a Civil War diarist combine detailed observations of events with an intelligent understanding of their significance. John Campbell, a newspaperman before the war, left such a legacy. A politically aware Union soldier with strong moral and abolitionist beliefs, Campbell recorded not only his own reflections on wartime matters but also those of his comrades and the southerners--soldiers, civilians, and slaves--that he encountered. Campbell served in the Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry from 1861 to 1864. He participated in the war's major theaters and saw early action at Island No. 10, Iuka, and Corinth. His diary is especially valuable because he viewed the war as both a field-commissioned officer able to make intelligent comments about combat and as a former enlisted man with a feel for the soldier's life. He was present during Grant's campaign at Vicksburg and depicted the bloody failure of the May 22 storming of Confederate fortifications in unsparing terms; he then went on to fight at Chattanooga and took Gen. William T. Sherman to task for his poor leadership at Missionary Ridge. The Union Must Stand contains more than Campbell's journal. Editors Mark Grimsley and Todd Miller have written an introduction that provides background information and places the diary in the context of current debate over the ideological commitments of Civil War soldiers. An appendix reproduces fifteen of Campbell's letters to his hometown newspaper, in which he shared his impressions of both war and slavery.>The Editors: Mark Grimsley is an associate professor of history at the Ohio State University and the author of The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865. Todd D. Miller is a history teacher and an independent researcher for Time-Life Books' Civil War series. He lives in Ashland, Ohio.

Many soldiers who served in the American Civil War found solace in their faith during the most trying times of the war. But few soldiers took such a providential view of life and the Civil War as Charles Henry Howard. Born in a small town in Maine, Howard came from a family with a distinguished history of soldiering: his grandfather was a Revolutionary War veteran and his brother, the older and more well-known Oliver Otis Howard, attended West Point and rose to command an army in the Civil War. Following in his brother's footsteps, Charles Henry Howard graduated from Bowdoin College in 1859. Following graduation, Charles visited his older brother at West Point during the tumultuous election of 1860. While at West Point, Howard saw the tensions between Northern and Southern cadets escalate as he weighed his options for a military or theological career. The choice was made for him on April 12, 1861, with the firing on Fort Sumter. Responding to his brother's plea for the sons of Maine to join the Union cause, Charles found himself a noncommissioned officer fighting in the disastrous Battle of First Bull Run. All told, Howard fought in several major battles of the Eastern Theater, including Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, and went on to participate in various military actions in the Western Theater including Sherman's bloody Atlanta Campaign. He was wounded twice, first at the Battle of Fair Oaks and again at Fredericksburg. Yet, despite facing the worst horrors of war, Howard rarely wavered in his faith and rose steadily in rank throughout the conflict. By war's end, he was a brevet brigadier general in command of the 128th U.S. Colored Troop Regiment. Howard's letters cover a wide-ranging period, from 1852 to 1908. His concern for his family is typical of a Civil War soldier, but his exceptionally firm reliance on divine providence is what makes these letters an extraordinary window into the mind of a Civil War officer. Howard's grounded faith was often tested by the viciousness of war, and as a result his letters are rife with stirring confessions and his emotional grappling with the harsh realities he faced. Howard's letters expose the greater theological and metaphysical dilemmas of the war faced by so many on both sides.

In 1863, while living in Clarksville, Tennessee, Martha Ann Haskins, known to friends and family as Nannie, began a diary. The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern Woman's Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863-1890 provides valuable insights into the conditions in occupied Middle Tennessee.

A Documentary History of the American Civil War Era is the first comprehensive collectionof public policy actions, political speeches, and judicial decisions related to the AmericanCivil War. Collectively, the four volumes in this series give scholars, teachers, and studentseasy access to the full texts of the most important, fundamental documents as well as hardto->The first two volumes of the series, Legislative Achievements and Political Arguments, were released last year. The final installment, Judicial Decisions, is divided into two volumes.The first volume, spanning the years 1857 to 1866, was released last year. This secondvolume of Judicial Decisions covers the years 1867 to 1896. Included here are some ofthe classic judicial decisions of this time such as the 1869 decision in Texas v. White andthe first judicial interpretation of the 1868 Fourteenth Amendment, the 1873 Slaughter-House Cases. Other decisions are well known to specialists but deserve wider readershipand discussion, such as the 1867 state and 1878 federal cases that upheld the separation ofthe races in public accommodations (and thus constituted the common law of commoncommerce) long before the more notorious 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson (also included).These judicial voices constitute a lasting and often overlooked aspect of the age of AbrahamLincoln. Mackey's headnotes and introductory essays situate cases within their historicalcontext and trace their lasting significance. In contrast to decisions handed downduring the war, these judicial decisions lasted well past their immediate political and legal>This document collection presents the raw "stuff" of the Civil War era so that students, scholars, and interested readers can measure and gauge how that generation met Lincoln'schallenge to "think anew, and act anew." A Documentary History of the American CivilWar Era is an essential acquisition for academic and public libraries in addition to being avaluable resource for courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, legal history, politicalhistory, and nineteenth-century American history.