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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"1861-1865"”.
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Confederate Lynchburg, 1861-1865
… problem. The end finally came on April 12, 1865, when Mayor Branch surrendered the city to Federal troops.
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Old Capital Prison, 1861-1865
… government assumed control of the building in 1861, it served as a prison for several classes of persons before its ultimate demise in 1865. Federal officials were overwhelmingly unprepared for the task of prisoner control. At no point before the outbreak of hostilities had any official …
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Education in the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865
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Marching masters: slavery, race, and the Confederate Army, 1861-1865
Many historians have examined the Civil War soldier, but few scholars have explored the racial attitudes and policies of the Confederate army. Although Southern men did not fight for slavery alone, the defense of the peculiar institution, and the racial control they believed it assured, united …
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Sisson's Kingdom: Loyalty Divisions in Floyd County, Virginia, 1861-1865
"Sisson's Kingdom" uses a community study paradigm to offer an interpretation of the Confederate homefront collapse of Floyd County, Virginia. The study focuses primarily on residents' conflicting loyalty choices during the war, and attempts to explain the myriad of ways that their discord operated …
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“All the Land Thrown Open:” Southern Culture and Southern Baptist Chaplains: 1861-1865
Southern Baptist chaplains informed Confederate culture and religious belief during the American Civil War by contributing to a unique narrative of Southern identity. One sees the narrative through the letters and sermons of these chaplains to the working- class soldiery. Encompassed in Southern …
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Two paths to command: command systems of the Union and the Confederacy, 1861-1865
… the command system devised by the Confederacy in 1861 assigned him both tasks. Throughout the war, Davis retained a firm grip on both jobs despite a succession of military reversals and repeated attempts by his political opponents to dilute his war powers. On two occasions, in March 1862 and …
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Voting with Their Feet: Union Desertion in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865
<p>Unlike most topics pertaining to the history of the American Civil War, the study of desertion has received little attention from historians of the conflict. The historiography of the Civil War is saturated with volumes of texts dealing with nearly every topic imaginable. Yet, in a war that is …
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The land mourneth: a study of the homefront Baptist churches in Virginia, 1861-1865
Throughout the Civil War, Americans relied upon religion to shape their understanding of the conflict. As furious campaigns raged across the national landscape, Northerners and Southerners saw the hand of God at work in human history. Unfortunately, historians have not adequately dealt with this …
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'We Are Abolitionizing The West': The Union Army and the Implementation of Federal Emancipation Policy, 1861–1865
<p>This project provides a new history of the implementation of federal emancipation policy by the Union armies during the Civil War. It examines five geographic regions occupied by the Union army—the Mississippi River Valley, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, and Kentucky—focusing …
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Backdrop Explorer: A Human-AI Collaborative Approach for Exploring Studio Backdrops in Civil War Portraits
… the painted backdrops of the American Civil War (1861 -- 1865), we present Backdrop Explorer, a content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system incorporating computer vision and novel user interactions. We evaluated Backdrop Explorer on nine users of diverse experience levels and found that all were …
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Messages for contemporary governance from the administrative history of the Confederate States of America
… government of the Confederate States of America (1861-1865). Public administration at the national level in the Confederacy was characterized by administrative dualism (deference to state administrative norms and policy imperatives), restrained national level policy prerogatives, a normative …
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Competing Narratives: St. Louis Journalism During the Secession Crisis, 1860-1861
… or Confederacy during the American Civil War, 1861-1865. This study analyzes the role of the St. Louis press during the secession crisis, December 1860 to May 1861, to determine the relationship between newspaper coverage and public opinion, a topic which historians have treated inadequately. …
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The Education of a Staff Officer: The Life and Career of Samuel Cooper, 1798-1852
… an officer in the United States Army from 1815-1861, and a Confederate States Army officer from 1861-1865. Cooper's long career as a staff officer in the U.S. Army culminated in his appointment to the post of adjutant general in 1852. With the onset of the sectional crisis in 1861, Cooper …
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The Body as a Battlefield: A practice-based, empathic approach towards non-suicidal self-injury through Schema Therapy, the American Civil War, and Bodily Performance
… assess American Civil War photography (1861-1865) of corpses and written accounts of the Battle of the Wilderness (1864). One of my practical methodologies utilises bodily fluids as an experimental material to investigate fragmentation and evidence of trauma. My practical methodologies …
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Six feet under : a temática da morte nos Estados Unidos da América
… no seu “way of life”, a partir da Guerra Civil (1861-1865) adoptou posturas e práticas mortuárias que se conservam até aos dias de hoje, tendo determinado a expansão de uma indústria funerária e criado um “way of death” único no mundo. Ao longo da sua história, a sociedade americana tem mudado de …
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The struggle for recognition by the Confederate States of America
Purpose From 1861 until 1865 the South staged a dramatic struggle for its independence. The military side of that struggle has received much attention from the historians, but the diplomatic aspect has not received an equal share of attention. There is a close relationship between the military and …
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"We never met a foe in open field we did not drive, nor did we ever meet a foe who could drive us" : the 9th Texas Infantry.
The 9th Texas Infantry was formed at the start of the Civil War from companies recruited from North Texas. They fought with the Army of Tennessee until the end of the war. The men joined because of a variety of reasons from support for an independent Confederacy to a fear of being called cowards. …
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