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Enduring The Elements: Civil War Soldiers’ Struggles Against The Weather, Cameron Boutin
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 …
Free Labor: The Civil War And The Making Of An American Working Class By Mark A. Lause (Review), Joanne Pope Melish
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
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
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
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
Slavery In Kentucky: A Civil War Casualty, Lowell H. Harrison
The Kentucky Review
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