Michigan Labor and the Civil War
Author | : Michigan. Civil War Centennial Observation Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michigan. Civil War Centennial Observation Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michigan Civil War Centennial Observance Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John W. Quist |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2019-03-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0821446282 |
When it came to the Civil War, Michiganians never spoke with one voice. At the beginning of the conflict, family farms defined the southern Lower Peninsula, while a sparsely settled frontier characterized the state’s north. Although differing strategies for economic development initially divided Michigan’s settlers, by the 1850s Michiganians’ attention increasingly focused on slavery, race, and the future of the national union. They exchanged charges of treason and political opportunism while wrestling with the meanings of secession, the national union, emancipation, citizenship, race, and their changing economy. Their actions launched transformations in their communities, their state, and their nation in ways that Americans still struggle to understand. Building upon the current scholarship of the Civil War, the Midwest, and Michigan’s role in the national experience, Michigan’s War is a documentary history of the Civil War era as told by the state’s residents and observers in private letters, reminiscences, newspapers, and other contemporary sources. Clear annotations and thoughtful editing allow teachers and students to delve into the political, social, and military context of the war, making it ideal for classroom use.
Author | : Jack Dempsey |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2019-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439666717 |
With vivid battlefield accounts based on extensive primary research, award-winning author Jack Dempsey's masterful biography tells the amazing story of an unsung hero. Detroit's Alpheus Starkey Williams never tired in service to his city or his country. A veteran of the Mexican-American War, he was a preeminent military figure in Michigan before the Civil War. He was key to the Lost Order, the Battle of Gettysburg, the March to the Sea and the Carolinas Campaign. His generalship at Antietam made possible the Emancipation Proclamation, and Meade and Sherman relied on his unshakable leadership. A steady hand in wartime and in peacetime, Williams was a Yale graduate, lawyer, judge, editor, municipal official, militia officer, diplomat and congressman who stood on principle over party.
Author | : Jack Dempsey |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2011-02-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1614230226 |
Michigan undertook a rapid and robust response to Lincoln's call to arms during the Civil War and in many of its great battles. Read the much overlooked history in this volume. With lively narration, telling anecdotes, and vivid battlefield accounts, Michigan and the Civil War tells the story as never before of Michigan's heroic contributions to saving the Union. Beginning with Michigan's antebellum period and anti-slavery heritage, the book proceeds through Michigan's rapid response to President Lincoln's call to arms, its participation in each of the War's greatest battles, portrayal of its most interesting personalities, and the concluding triumph as Custer corners Lee at Appomattox and the 4th Michigan Cavalry apprehends the fleeing Jeff Davis. Based on thorough and up-to-date research, the result is surprising in its breadth, sometimes awe-inspiring, and always a revelation given how contributions by the Great Lake State in the Civil War are too often overlooked, even by its own citizens.
Author | : Sidney Fine |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2017-12-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0814343295 |
Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights documents an important shift in state level policy to make clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced all people. Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally important developments at the state level. Few states underwent a more dramatic transformation with regard to civil rights than Michigan did. In 1948, the Michigan Committee on Civil Rights characterized the state of civil rights in Michigan as presenting "an ugly picture." Twenty years later, Michigan was a leader among the states in civil rights legislation. Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights documents this important shift in state level policy and makes clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced not only blacks but women, the elderly, native Americans, migrant workers, and the physically handicapped.
Author | : Mark Hoffman |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2013-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814338534 |
Readers interested in military history and the Civil War will enjoy the inside perspective of Among the Enemy.
Author | : Kim Crawford |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 759 |
Release | : 2019-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1628953748 |
On the hot summer evening of July 2, 1863, at the climax of the struggle for a Pennsylvania hill called Little Round Top, four Confederate regiments charge up the western slope, attacking the smallest and most exposed of their Union foe: the 16th Michigan Infantry. Terrible fighting has raged, but what happens next will ultimately—and unfairly—stain the reputation of one of the Army of the Potomac’s veteran combat outfits, made up of men from Detroit, Saginaw, Ontonagon, Hillsdale, Lansing, Adrian, Plymouth, and Albion. In the dramatic interpretation of the struggle for Little Round Top that followed the Battle of Gettysburg, the 16th Michigan Infantry would be remembered as the one that broke during perhaps the most important turning point of the war. Their colonel, a young lawyer from Ann Arbor, would pay with his life, redeeming his own reputation, while a kind of code of silence about what happened at Little Round Top was adopted by the regiment’s survivors. From soldiers’ letters, journals, and memoirs, this book relates their experiences in camp, on the march, and in battle, including their controversial role at Gettysburg, up to the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House.
Author | : Paul Taylor |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814339301 |
Readers interested in American history, Civil War history, or the ethnic history of Detroit will appreciate the full picture of the time period Taylor presents in "Old Slow Town."