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Ulster, Georgia, And The Civil War: Stories Of Variation, William Loveless

Honors Theses

Ulster, Georgia, and The Civil War: Stories of Variation explores the lives of 13 men from Northern Ireland who immigrated to the American South and fought for the Confederacy. The author pursues the stories of each man’s life in order to have a more thorough understanding of what life looked like for Irish/Ulster immigrants in the South during the 19^th century. By looking at the lives of the men in Ulster, their first experiences in the United States, their experiences in the Civil War, and their lives following the war, the author identifies more variation than consistent trends.

Sinnet, Edwin, 1827-1902 (Sc 3528), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below). Letter, 21 January 1862, written to his wife in Granville, Ohio, by Dr. Edwin Sinnet while serving as a surgeon with the 94th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. From Mill Springs Kentucky, he writes of the fate of the Confederate forces after the recent battle: their ill-advised attack from their winter quarters; their flight and abandonment of arms, equipment and horses; their burning of flatboats used to cross the Cumberland River; and the “bloody corpses” scattered across fields and roads. He tells of encountering a survivor still lying wounded on the battlefield.

The Face Of Intervention: Military Humanitarianism During The 1965 Dominican Crisis, Wesley Hazzard

Dissertations

On April 28, 1965 the US military intervened in the Dominican Republic’s civil war. This dissertation argues that the military did not deploy to fight a war but to create a favorable environment for the establishment of a pro-US government. The US military relied on humanitarian aid through civic action programs and civil affairs operations to diminish the Dominican populations’ interest in leftist political organizations and platforms. The civil affairs and civic action programs served to both alleviate the hardships of the Dominican people, turn them away from leftist policies, and build support for a US friendly government. The US …

Requisitioned: American War Art Of The Second World War, Spenser Carroll-Johnson

War, Diplomacy, and Society (MA) Theses

The United States requisitioned artists to assist with military objectives and servicemen requisitioned art as a form of rhetoric. This research reexamines the role of “official artists” and thereby extends its definition to include the multitude of art they produced during the Second World War. The underpinnings of this thesis reside during the economic crises of the 1930s that brought about American emergency relief initiatives for artists under the direction of Holger Cahill and, by extension, Edward Bruce. For the first time in history, the American public engaged with state-sponsored art. Due to a symbiotic relationship that formed between the …

Collegiate Codebreakers: Winthrop, Women, And War, Marlana Mayton

Graduate Theses

During World War II, college-aged women from across the nation filled United States Army and Navy secretive cryptanalysis facilities to help win the war. For many women, colleges facilitated involvement in codebreaking. Through information gathered in oral histories, this thesis primarily explores war related programs at American colleges and the young women that became cryptanalysts. Academic institutions, like Winthrop College, became the nuclei for colligate codebreakers. They acted as early crypt education centers, through the offering of cryptology classes, functioned as recruitment centers, and operated as essential training hubs. While in school, young women were saturated by a climate of …

The Fabric Of Civil War Society: The Effect Of Uniforms, Badges, And Flags, 1861 To 1939, Shae Cox

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The story of the American Civil War is usually told though a chronological framework and the author typically selects an event or place for focus, but this dissertation uses the lens of uniforms, flags, and post-war badges to travel through chronology and highlight new negotiations of well-known stories. While uniforms might just seem to be articles of clothing to wear on the battlefield, both the Union and the Confederacy used uniforms and flags as specific representations of identity during and after the war to present their “true history.” Citizens and veterans from the former Union used the uniforms and the …

A Forgotten Shade Of Blue: Support For The Union And The Constitutional Republic In Southeastern Kentucky During The Civil War Era., Howard Muncy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis analyzes Southeastern Kentucky’s political and military support for the Union during the Civil War era. In the decades prior to the 1860 election, Kentucky developed deep social and economic ties with all sections of the country. After the secession winter that followed Abraham Lincoln’s presidential election, the statewide population divided and pockets of significant Confederate sympathies emerged. Kentucky’s southeastern counties aligned with the Union at the outbreak of the Civil War because of a strong national identity and the absence of a large slave population. As the war unfolded, Southeastern Kentuckians played an important role in the disruption …

Battlefield Of Bandages: A Case Study On Sanitation Policy, Medical Reform, And Disease Prevention During The War Of Rebellion, Ashley L. Simpson

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

The American Civil War was a devastating conflict costing over 750,000 lives and millions of dollars in the aftermath. However, the most urgent threat was not musket balls, cannons or grapeshot. Afflictions such as typhoid fever, malaria, smallpox, measles, pneumonia, and diarrhea contracted from crowded, unsanitary camp and hospital conditions were responsible for two-thirds of all Civil War casualties. In April 1861, a group of Union women met at church to organize a relief agency whose goal was to aid the thousands of Union soldiers dying from disease. Armed with enlightenment ideas about medical care and sanitation, the Women's Central …

The Unknown War: Army Of The Republic Of Vietnam Combat Operations 1962-1963, Justin Major

Master's Theses

The American historiography of the Vietnam War has tended to focus on the actions of the United States Armed Forces, the People’s Army of Vietnam, and the Viet Cong, while the history of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) has remained largely untold. ARVN, when mentioned, is usually portrayed as incompetent, ineffective, and even cowardly. Recently, historians like Andrew Wiest and Mark Moyar have challenged this view of ARVN that was originally advanced by journalists Neil Sheehan and David Halberstam. Moyar even suggested that ARVN was winning the war until the assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh …

Helmand: The U.S. Marines And Counterinsurgency In Afghanistan, 2010-2012, Taylor L. Lewis

Master's Theses

In the years following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, American troops contended with insurgent forces resistant to conventional tactics. General David Petraeus, along with other military experts, addressed the need for new strategies with the publication of Warfighting Publication 3-33.5 (3-33.5) in 2006. The manual laid out methods by which American troops should quell insurgent threats in Iraq and Afghanistan. This thesis is concerned with how the Marine Corps enacted the policies of 3-33.5 in Helmand Province between 2010 and 2012.

The tenants of this new manual were tested in the years following President Barak Obama’s commitment of …

15 Nr 244 Regiment Von Trümbach, From October 1778 Regiment Von Bose -1779, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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Haskins, Lee Owsley, 1890-1964 (Sc 3525), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3525. Letters to Captain Lee Owsley Haskins, written by his family in Bowling Green, Kentucky during his World War I military service. His father describes his business activities, discusses his son’s plans after the war, and reports in November 1918 of the ebbing of the influenza epidemic and the Board of Health’s plan to “lift the Ban.” His mother refers to his recent surgery, and his sister writes of the arrival of a troop train in Bowling Green and the soldiers’ march downtown for canteen service.

15 Nr 124 Teil 2 Fusilier Regiment Von Knyphausen -Angelegenheiten Des Regiments Knyphausen,1763-1776, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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15 Nr 68 Regiment Von Wutginau, From March 1777 Regiment Landgraf, From March 1783 Leib Infantry Regiment -1778, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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15 Nr 124 Teil 1 Fusilier Regiment Von Knyphausen -Angelegenheiten Des Regiments Knyphausen,1763-1776, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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15 Nr 114 Teil 3 Regiment Von Donop -Angelegenheiten Des Regiments Prinz Isenburg, Ab 1759 Regiment Bischhausen, Ab 1762 Regiment Wilcke, Ab 1764 Regiment Donop, Ab 1784 Regiment Knyphausen, Ab 1788 Regiment Hanstein, Ab 1789 Regiment Kospoth, 1. Und 2. Bat., 1758-1789, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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15 Nr 293 Teil 1 Garrison Regiment Von Huyn, From October 1780 Garrison Regiment Von Benning -Angelegenheiten Der Landausnahmekompanien Des OberfüRstentums, Dann Landbataillons Dernbach, Dann Garnisonsbataillon Freywald, Dann Kutzleben, Dann Garnisonsregiment Wurmb, Dann Knoblauch, Dann Huyn, Dann Mirbach, Dann Benning, Dann Normann, Dann Knoblauch, 1688, 1705, 1735-1789, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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15 Nr 799 Teil 2 Regiment Prinz Carl Angelegenheiten Des Regiments Prinz Carl, 1776- 1789, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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15 Nr 749 Teil 5 Fusilier Regiment Von Ditfurth -Angelegenheiten Des Regiments Ditfurth, 1777-1789, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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15 Nr 1508 Fusilier Regiment Von Lossberg -Ranglisten, 1775-1776, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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15a Nr 84 Teil 7 Leib Fusilier Regiment, From 1776 Leib Infantry Regiment, From March 1783 Regiment Erbprinz, From April 1784 Fusilier Regiment Erbprinz -Angelegenheiten Des Regiments Erbprinz, Dann FüSilierregiment Erbprinz, 1784, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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15a Nr 84 Teil 1 Leib Fusilier Regiment, From 1776 Leib Infantry Regiment, From March 1783 Regiment Erbprinz, From April 1784 Fusilier Regiment Erbprinz -Angelegenheiten Des Regiments Erbprinz, Dann FüSilierregiment Erbprinz, 1784, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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15 Nr 7 Fusilier Regiment Erbprinz, From March 1783 Vacant, From May 1783 Prinz Friedrich, 1784 Prinz Wilhelm -1775 (January – May, July – December), Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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4 H Nr 4201 Montirungsreglement Fuer Cavallerie, Dragoner, Husaren Und Infanterie, 1784, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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15 Nr 172 Garrison Regiment Von Stein, Von Seitz, Von Porbeck -1779, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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15 Nr 170 Garrison Regiment Von Stein, Von Seitz, Von Porbeck -1776 (April – December), Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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15 Nr 174 Garrison Regiment Von Stein, Von Seitz, Von Porbeck -1781, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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15 Nr 108 Regiment Von Donop -1776 (April – December) – 1777 – 1778, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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15 Nr 195 Garrison Regiment Von BüNau -1780, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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15 Nr 221 Regiment Prinz Carl -1779, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

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