Behind the Blue and Gray

Behind the Blue and Gray
Title Behind the Blue and Gray PDF eBook
Author Delia Ray
Publisher Perfection Learning
Pages 0
Release 1997-09
Genre
ISBN 9780780768062

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History of the Civil War series.

Baseball in Blue and Gray

Baseball in Blue and Gray
Title Baseball in Blue and Gray PDF eBook
Author George B. Kirsch
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 167
Release 2013-10-24
Genre History
ISBN 140084925X

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During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, players and fans struggled over the form of the national pastime. George Kirsch gives us a color commentary of the growth and transformation of baseball during the Civil War. He shows that the game was a vital part of the lives of many a soldier and civilian--and that baseball's popularity had everything to do with surging American nationalism. By 1860, baseball was poised to emerge as the American sport. Clubs in northeastern and a few southern cities played various forms of the game. Newspapers published statistics, and governing bodies set rules. But the Civil War years proved crucial in securing the game's place in the American heart. Soldiers with bats in their rucksacks spread baseball to training camps, war prisons, and even front lines. As nationalist fervor heightened, baseball became patriotic. Fans honored it with the title of national pastime. War metaphors were commonplace in sports reporting, and charity games were scheduled. Decades later, Union general Abner Doubleday would be credited (wrongly) with baseball's invention. The Civil War period also saw key developments in the sport itself, including the spread of the New York-style of play, the advent of revised pitching rules, and the growth of commercialism. Kirsch recounts vivid stories of great players and describes soldiers playing ball to relieve boredom. He introduces entrepreneurs who preached the gospel of baseball, boosted female attendance, and found new ways to make money. We witness bitterly contested championships that enthralled whole cities. We watch African Americans embracing baseball despite official exclusion. And we see legends spring from the pens of early sportswriters. Rich with anecdotes and surprising facts, this narrative of baseball's coming-of-age reveals the remarkable extent to which America's national pastime is bound up with the country's defining event.

A Blue and Gray Christmas

A Blue and Gray Christmas
Title A Blue and Gray Christmas PDF eBook
Author Joan Medlicott
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 281
Release 2009-11-10
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1416597433

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A buried cache inspires the ladies of Covington to plan an unforgettable Christmas for two families forever changed by a long-ago war. A rusty old tin box holding nineteenth-century letters and diaries is unearthed at the Covington Homestead, and the contents reveal a thrilling drama to longtime housemates Grace, Amelia, and Hannah. Two Civil War soldiers—one Union and one Confederate—were found dying on a battlefield by an old woman and nursed back to health. After the war, they chose to stay in Covington, caring for their rescuer as she grew frail . . . but they never contacted the families they had left behind. With Christmas coming, Amelia is inspired. What if she and her friends were to find the two soldiers’ descendants and invite them to Covington to meet? What better holiday gift could there be than the truth about these two heroic men and their dramatic shared fate? With little time left, the ladies spring into action to track down the men’s families . . . and to make preparations for the most memorable, most historic Covington Christmas yet.

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green
Title The Blue, the Gray, and the Green PDF eBook
Author Brian Allen Drake
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 262
Release 2015
Genre History
ISBN 0820347140

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An unusual collection of Civil War essays as seen through the lens of noted environmental scholars, this book's provocative historical commentary explores how nature--disease, climate, flora and fauna, etc.--affected the war and how the war shaped Americans' perceptions, understanding, and use of nature.

Confederate Colonels

Confederate Colonels
Title Confederate Colonels PDF eBook
Author Bruce S. Allardice
Publisher University of Missouri Press
Pages 450
Release 2008
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0826266487

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"Allardice provides detailed biographical information on 1,583 Confederate colonels, both staff and line officers and members of all armies. In his introduction, he explains how one became a colonel -- the mustering process, election of officers, reorganizing of regiments -- and discusses problems of the nominating process, seniority, and "rank inflation""--Provided by publisher.

Soldiers Blue and Gray

Soldiers Blue and Gray
Title Soldiers Blue and Gray PDF eBook
Author James I. Robertson
Publisher Univ of South Carolina Press
Pages 278
Release 1998
Genre History
ISBN 9781570032998

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The poignant tale of Johnny Reb & Billy Yank.

From Blue to Gray

From Blue to Gray
Title From Blue to Gray PDF eBook
Author Gerard A. Patterson
Publisher Stackpole Books
Pages 174
Release 2001
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780811706827

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Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox started off his military career as a promising young West Point cadet and proved himself in battle with service as an officer in the Mexican War. But when the South seceded in 1861, Wilcox, along with 305 other West Point graduates, sided with the Confederacy. Aside from the historical perspective his life provides, a closer analysis reveals Wilcox as a man whose life, like those of many of his colleagues, was forever altered by the Civil War. Author Gerard Patterson brings his little-known subject to life in this fascinating biography.