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Enduring The Elements: Civil War Soldiers’ Struggles Against The Weather, Cameron Boutin Jan 2023

Enduring The Elements: Civil War Soldiers’ Struggles Against The Weather, Cameron Boutin

Theses and Dissertations--History

This dissertation is an environmental history that studies the variety of ways that soldiers in the American Civil War experienced the pressures of weather over the course of their military service. For the troops of the U.S. and Confederacy, the weather was more than simply a passive backdrop to their time in the military, but a central preoccupation. This dissertation analyzes how weather intersected with some of the most central experiences of soldiering – tent camping and winter quarters, marching, bivouacking, manning sentry posts and field fortifications, and fighting in battles. Life in Civil War armies consisted of all of …


American Mnemonic: Racial Identity In Women’S Life Writing Of The Civil War, Katherine Waddell Jan 2018

American Mnemonic: Racial Identity In Women’S Life Writing Of The Civil War, Katherine Waddell

Theses and Dissertations--English

American Mnemonic: Racial Identity in Women’s Life Writing of the Civil War takes up three American women's autobiographies: Emilie Davis’s pocket diaries (1863-65), Elizabeth Keckley’s Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four in the White House (1868), and Louisa May Alcott’s Hospital Sketches (1863). Chapter one is devoted to literary review and methodology. Chapter two, "the all-absorbing topic': Belonging and Isolation in Emilie Davis’s Diaries," explores the everyday record of Emilie Davis in the context of Philadelphia’s free black community during the war. Davis’s position as a working-class free woman offers a fresh perspective on the much-discussed “elite” …


Free Labor: The Civil War And The Making Of An American Working Class By Mark A. Lause (Review), Joanne Pope Melish Jul 2017

Free Labor: The Civil War And The Making Of An American Working Class By Mark A. Lause (Review), Joanne Pope Melish

History Faculty Publications

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Transylvania Medical Alumni Served Both Sides During The Civil War, Charles T. Ambrose Apr 2011

Transylvania Medical Alumni Served Both Sides During The Civil War, Charles T. Ambrose

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Faculty Publications

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A Transylvania Medical Graduate Searches For His Sons After A Civil War Battle, Charles T. Ambrose Apr 2011

A Transylvania Medical Graduate Searches For His Sons After A Civil War Battle, Charles T. Ambrose

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Faculty Publications

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The Rhetoric Of Destruction: Racial Identity And Noncombatant Immunity In The Civil War Era, James M. Bartek Jan 2010

The Rhetoric Of Destruction: Racial Identity And Noncombatant Immunity In The Civil War Era, James M. Bartek

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

This study explores how Americans chose to conduct war in the mid-nineteenth century and the relationship between race and the onset of “total war” policies. It is my argument that enlisted soldiers in the Civil War era selectively waged total war using race and cultural standards as determining factors. A comparative analysis of the treatment of noncombatants throughout the United States between 1861 and 1865 demonstrates that nonwhites invariably suffered greater depredations at the hands of military forces than did whites. Five types of encounters are examined: 1) the treatment of white noncombatants by regular Union and Confederate forces; 2) …


Slavery In Kentucky: A Civil War Casualty, Lowell H. Harrison Oct 1983

Slavery In Kentucky: A Civil War Casualty, Lowell H. Harrison

The Kentucky Review

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Anxiety Of Authorship And Self Civil War In Anne Bradstreet's Poetry, Roberta Gupta Oct 1983

Anxiety Of Authorship And Self Civil War In Anne Bradstreet's Poetry, Roberta Gupta

The Kentucky Review

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