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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"United States--History--Civil War"”.
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Deadweight loss and the American civil war : the political economy of slavery, secession, and emancipation
Two broad positions have dominated the history of economic thought with respect to chattel slavery. The view of the classical economists, dating back as far as Adam Smith and including a good many abolitionists, was that slavery was inefficient and therefore unprofitable. The contrasting position …
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A history of the bounty system used during the Civil War
<p>The purpose of this thesis is to trace the history of one of the chief elements which entered into the securing of recruits during the Civil War. This was the bounty system as it was used by the National, State, and local governments.</p>
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The Civil War experiences of Newton Asbury Keen
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Combat Reconsidered: A Statistical Analysis of Small-Unit Actions During the American Civil War
… formations, earthworks, etc.in assessments of Civil War combat. Most scholars agree that these external combat conditions strongly influenced battle performance. Other historians accentuate the ways in which the mental stresses of soldiering affected combat performance. These scholars tend to …
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Sherman's Preparations for the Atlanta Campaign: The Rome and Snake Gap Plans
This paper covers the history of Sherman's spring campaign from the date he acceded to the command of the Military Division of the Mississippi on March 18, 1864, until the end of the Snake Creek Gap affair on May 13, 1864. It includes a history of both the Rome and Snake Creek Gap plans, with …
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Cedar Falls Civil War
57 p. : ill.
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Charles Mason and the Civil War : the Story of a Jacksonian in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
The Civil War period was an era of intense political emotions when many traditional allegiances were severed or strengthened. Since Jacksonian Democrats had dominated the political stage in America for many of the years preceding the war, their reactions to the growing tensions and war itself …
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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.
… 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. They …
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The Break-up of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Army, 1865
… Confederate armies at the conclusion of the Civil War, General Edmund Kirby Smith's Trans-Mississippi Army disbanded, often without orders, rather than surrender formally. Despite entreaties from military and civilian leaders to fight on, for Confederate soldiers west of the Mississippi …
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Grant's Third Charge : a Tale of Scapegoating, Atonement, and Affirmation During the Era of Reconstruction (1863-1877)
… reputation as the eighteenth president of these United States. Even though historical evidence supports the claim that Grant was inept as President, there exists a body of evidence suggesting that he was adept in other matters related to social justice and civil rights. More importantly, the …
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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 …