States at War, Volume 5

States at War, Volume 5
Author: Richard F. Miller
Publisher: University Press of New England
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 161168689X

While many Civil War reference books exist, there is no single compendium that contains important details about the combatant states (and territories) that Civil War researchers can readily access for their work. People looking for information about the organizations, activities, economies, demographics, and prominent personalities of Civil War States and state governments must assemble data from a variety of sources, with many key sources remaining unavailable online. This crucial reference book, the fifth in the States at War series, provides vital information on the organization, activities, economies, demographics, and prominent personalities of Ohio during the Civil War. Its principal sources include the Official Records, state adjutant-general reports, legislative journals, state and federal legislation, federal and state executive speeches and proclamations, and the general and special orders issued by the military authorities of both governments, North and South. Designed and organized for easy use by professional historians and amateurs, this book can be read in two ways: by individual state, with each chapter offering a stand-alone history of an individual stateÕs war years; or across states, comparing reactions to the same event or solutions to the same problems.

Between Extremes

Between Extremes
Author: Jack Furniss
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2024-11-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807183113

Between 1861 and 1865, northern voters fortified Abraham Lincoln’s administration as it oversaw the end of the institution of slavery and an unprecedented expansion in the size and scope of the federal government. Since the United States never considered suspending the democratic process during the Civil War, these revolutionary developments—indeed the entire war effort—depended on ballots as much as bullets. Why did civilians who, at the start of the conflict, had not anticipated or desired these transformations to their society nonetheless vote to uphold them? Jack Furniss’s Between Extremes proposes an answer to this question by revealing a potent strand of centrist politics that took hold across the Union and provided the conservative rationales that allowed most northerners to accept the war’s radical outcomes.

Report of the State Librarian

Report of the State Librarian
Author: Pennsylvania State Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 570
Release: 1855
Genre: Pennsylvania
ISBN:

Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.

The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Correspondence, April 1863-1864

The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Correspondence, April 1863-1864
Author: Salmon Portland Chase
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1993
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780873385671

This fourth volume of the Salmon P. Chase papers covers the last 15 months of his tenure as Treasury secretary and concludes with his nomination as Chief Justice of the United States. Letters that document his increasing alienation from the Lincoln administration are featured.