Vicksburg''s Long Shadow - The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance

Informationen zum Autor By Christopher Waldrep Klappentext In this highly-anticipated new work, Christopher Waldrep takes a fresh look at how the Vicksburg campaign was fought and remembered. He begins with a gripping account of the battle, deftly recounting the experiences of African-American troops fighting for the Union. Waldrep shows how as the scars of battle faded, the memory of the war was shaped both by the Northerners who controlled the battlefield and by the legacies of race and slavery that played out over the decades that followed. Zusammenfassung In the longest single campaign of the war! the siege of Vicksburg left 19!000 dead and wounded on both sides! gave the Union Army control of the Mississippi! and left the Confederacy cut in half. Waldrep takes a fresh look at how the Vicksburg campaign was fought and remembered. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPrologueChapter 1: WarChapter 2: The Meaning of the Civil War in ReconstructionChapter 3: The Generals' WarChapter 4: The Boys from IowaChapter 5: The Great ReunionChapter 6: A Farewell to ArmsChapter 7: A New DealEpilogueAppendix 1: Herman Lieb's Report on Milliken's BendAppendix 2: "The Battle of Milliken's Bend," by David CornwellAppendix 3: Reported Lynchings in Warren County, MississippiAppendix 4: State Monuments on the Vicksburg BattlegroundBibliographic essay

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Waldrep, Waldrep Christopher
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2005
• EAN: 9780742548688
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-4868-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era; American Crisis; American Crisis Series: Books; The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era; American Crisis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, American Civil War, HISTORY / Military / Early Modern Warfare (1500-1800)