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Author | : Karl Jacoby |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2016-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393253864 |
Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award "An American 'Odyssey,' the larger-than-life story of a man who travels far in the wake of war and gets by on his adaptability and gift for gab." —Wall Street Journal A black child born on the US-Mexico border in the twilight of slavery, William Ellis inhabited a world divided along ambiguous racial lines. Adopting the name Guillermo Eliseo, he passed as Mexican, transcending racial lines to become fabulously wealthy as a Wall Street banker, diplomat, and owner of scores of mines and haciendas south of the border. In The Strange Career of William Ellis, prize-winning historian Karl Jacoby weaves an astonishing tale of cunning and scandal, offering fresh insights on the history of the Reconstruction era, the US-Mexico border, and the abiding riddle of race in America.
Author | : William Ellis |
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Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1750 |
Genre | : Chores |
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Author | : Edmund Kell Blyth |
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Release | : 1892 |
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Author | : William Ellis |
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Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1826 |
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Author | : William Ellis |
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Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1744 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : William Elliott Ellis |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 252 |
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Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813127965 |
During the Civil War, John Singleton Mosby led the Forty-third Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, better known as MosbyÕs Rangers, in bold and daring operations behind Union lines. Throughout the course of the war, more than 2000 men were members of MosbyÕs command, some for only a short time. Mosby had few confidants (he was described by one acquaintance as Òa disturbing companionÓ) but became close friends with one of his finest officers, Samuel Forrer Chapman. Chapman served with Mosby for more than two years, and their friendship continued in the decades after the war. Take Sides with the Truth is a collection of more than eighty letters, published for the first time in their entirety, written by Mosby to Chapman from 1880, when Mosby was made U.S. consul to Hong Kong, until his death in a Washington, D.C., hospital in 1916. These letters reveal much about MosbyÕs character and present his innermost thoughts on many subjects. At times, MosbyÕs letters show a man with a sensitive nature; however, he could also be sarcastic and freely derided individuals he did not like. His letters are critical of General Robert E. LeeÕs staff officers (Òthere was a lying concert between themÓ) and trace his decades-long crusade to clear the name of his friend and mentor J. E. B. Stuart in the Gettysburg campaign. Mosby also continuously asserts his belief that slavery was the cause of the Civil WarÑa view completely contrary to a major portion of the Lost Cause ideology. For him, it was more important to Òtake sides with the TruthÓ than to hold popular opinions. Peter A. Brown has brought together a valuable collection of correspondence that adds a new dimension to our understanding of a significant Civil War figure.
Author | : John Eimeo Ellis |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2023-09-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368194631 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Author | : William Ellis |
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Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1831 |
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Author | : William Thomas Ellis |
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Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1917 |
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Author | : Karl Jacoby |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2009-11-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101159510 |
A masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American history In April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O?odham Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly 150 men, women, and children in their sleep. In the past century the attack, which came to be known as the Camp Grant Massacre, has largely faded from memory. Now, drawing on oral histories, contemporary newspaper reports, and the participants? own accounts, prize-winning author Karl Jacoby brings this perplexing incident and tumultuous era to life to paint a sweeping panorama of the American Southwest?a world far more complex, diverse, and morally ambiguous than the traditional portrayals of the Old West.