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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"United States - Civil War"”.
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A Unique Hell in Southwestern Virginia: Confederate Guerrillas and the Defense of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad
During the United States Civil War, southwestern Virginia was mired in a bloody guerrilla conflict that involved Confederate irregular combatants defending the region from invading or raiding Union Army forces. Simmering for the entirety of the war, this conflict revolved around the Virginia and …
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Cloverdale Furnace: a century of iron manufacture in Botetourt County Virginia, 1789-1889
… continued into, and beyond the period of the United States Civil War, depended upon a variety of causes. It probably would have ceased operation in 1859 - 1860, but for crisis of the Union. Other causes for Cloverdale's success and perseverance included: availability of capital, labor, raw …
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Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, the indefatigable and courageous
The outbreak of civil war convulsed the entire nation. Nowhere were its effects felt stronger than in the border states. The states of Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri found their inhabitants loyalties closely split over the secessionist issue. Under such an explosive situation, men of great courage …
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"Of old Puritan stock" : shifting Catholic memory of the Puritans across the long nineteenth century, 1788–1920.
… used "Puritan" to mean bigot and hypocrite, but Civil War-era rhetoric connected North and Union with "Puritan," catalyzing a shift in the meaning of "Puritan" among American-born Catholics and converts to Catholicism in the North. This group used positive memory of the Puritans to position …
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General Henry Hopkins Sibley and the Grand Plan of the Confederate States of America
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A "scourge and minister" : Lyman Abbott, liberal Protestantism, and American warfare, 1861-1920.
… writings concerning the three major American wars fought during his lifetime: the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I. In these three wars, Abbott strongly supported the United States and elevated each conflict to the status of a holy war. This thesis argues that the main …
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The Confederate Pension Systems in Texas, Georgia, and Virginia: The Programs and the People
The United States government began paying pensions to disabled Union veterans before the Civil War ended in April 1865. By 1890 its pension programs included any Union veteran who had fought in the Civil War, regardless of his financial means, as well as surviving family members, including mothers, …
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The specter of the American Civil War in British writing of the mid-nineteenth century.
… that in the years leading up to the American Civil War, America became Britain's gothic double, making manifest some of Britain's most keenly felt anxieties. The increasing tensions in America, which finally erupted in civil war in 1861, unsettled the relationship between America and Britain, …
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Dismantling Lost Cause fables : a content analysis examining narrative and visual representations of slavery in U.S. history textbooks.
… its significance as the cause of the American Civil War. Misperceptions about enslavement and the social construction of race abound in modern classrooms due to vague coverage and Eurocentric perspectives in U.S. history textbooks. Thus, slavery is simultaneously decontextualized and normalized …
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Making their own faith : Lutheranism and American culture in the Civil War era.
… Divided into numerous competing church bodies, wary of and often hostile toward other Protestants, and ardently committed to their church's historic confessions, the vast majority of Lutherans stood as conservative outsiders in American religious life. The fulcrum of this change was the Civil …