Civil War Battles of Macon, The
Title | Civil War Battles of Macon, The PDF eBook |
Author | Niels Eichhorn, PhD |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2021-02-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467146943 |
Macon was a cornerstone of the Confederacy's military-industrial complex. As a transportation hub, the city supplied weapons to the Confederacy, making it a target once the Union pushed into Georgia in 1864. In the course of the war's last year, Macon faced three separate cavalry assaults. The battles were small in the grand scheme but salient for the combatants and townspeople. Once the war concluded, it was from Macon that cavalry struck out to capture the fugitive Jefferson Davis, allowing the city to witness one of the last chapters of the conflict. Author Niels Eichhorn brings together the first comprehensive analysis of the military engagements and battles in Middle Georgia.
Civil War Macon
Title | Civil War Macon PDF eBook |
Author | Richard William Iobst |
Publisher | Mercer University Press |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780881461725 |
In 1860, on the eve of the Civil War, Macon was a business community dedicated to supplying the needs of its citizens, of the cotton planters who grew the short-staple upland cotton, the principal foundation of wealth for the antebellum South. This book offers an encyclopedic history of Macon, Georgia, during the Civil War.
Bridges: Battles of the Civil War
Title | Bridges: Battles of the Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Rosen |
Publisher | Benchmark Education Company |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Readers |
ISBN | 1616721731 |
The War Outside My Window
Title | The War Outside My Window PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Elizabeth Croon |
Publisher | Casemate Publishers |
Pages | 489 |
Release | 2018-06-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1611213894 |
A remarkable account of the collapse of the Old South and the final years of a young boy’s privileged but afflicted life. LeRoy Wiley Gresham was born in 1847 to an affluent slave-holding family in Macon, Georgia. After a horrific leg injury left him an invalid, the educated, inquisitive, perceptive, and exceptionally witty twelve-year-old began keeping a diary in 1860—just as secession and the Civil War began tearing the country and his world apart. He continued to write even as his health deteriorated until both the war and his life ended in 1865. His unique manuscript of the demise of the Old South is published here for the first time in The War Outside My Window. LeRoy read books, devoured newspapers and magazines, listened to gossip, and discussed and debated important social and military issues with his parents and others. He wrote daily for five years, putting pen to paper with a vim and tongue-in-cheek vigor that impresses even now, more than 150 years later. His practical, philosophical, and occasionally Twain-like hilarious observations cover politics and the secession movement, the long and increasingly destructive Civil War, family pets, a wide variety of hobbies and interests, and what life was like at the center of a socially prominent wealthy family in the important Confederate manufacturing center of Macon. The young scribe often voiced concern about the family’s pair of plantations outside town, and recorded his interactions and relationships with servants as he pondered the fate of human bondage and his family’s declining fortunes. Unbeknownst to LeRoy, he was chronicling his own slow and painful descent toward death in tandem with the demise of the Southern Confederacy. He recorded—often in horrific detail—an increasingly painful and debilitating disease that robbed him of his childhood. The teenager’s declining health is a consistent thread coursing through his fascinating journals. “I feel more discouraged [and] less hopeful about getting well than I ever did before,” he wrote on March 17, 1863. “I am weaker and more helpless than I ever was.” Morphine and a score of other “remedies” did little to ease his suffering. Abscesses developed; nagging coughs and pain consumed him. Alternating between bouts of euphoria and despondency, he often wrote, “Saw off my leg.” The War Outside My Window, edited and annotated by Janet Croon with helpful footnotes and a detailed family biographical chart, captures the spirit and the character of a young privileged white teenager witnessing the demise of his world even as his own body slowly failed him. Just as Anne Frank has come down to us as the adolescent voice of World War II, LeRoy Gresham will now be remembered as the young voice of the Civil War South. Winner, 2018, The Douglas Southall Freeman Award
Civil War Sites Advisory Commission (CWSAC) Battle Summaries: Fort Macon
Title | Civil War Sites Advisory Commission (CWSAC) Battle Summaries: Fort Macon PDF eBook |
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The American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) of the U.S. National Park Service presents the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission (CWSAC) battle summary of the Battle of Fort Macon in North Carolina, which was considered a Union victory. The summary notes other names for the battle, its location, the campaign it was a part of, dates, commanders, forces engaged, estimated casualties, and battle description.
Fort Macon
Title | Fort Macon PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Branch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2020-05-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780788459528 |
This is a story of Fort Macon, one of America's most visited forts, describing the many dramatic parts it has played in our history. Paul Branch, a ranger/historian at Fort Macon has illustrated his book with original engineering drawings, maps, sketches, and photographs from the 1800s to the present. He begins with the need for coastal defense in 18th century North Carolina and the construction of Fort Macon. He describes the pre-Civil War years leading to its seizure by the Confederacy. The battle for possession of the fort and the subsequent Union occupation is related in vivid detail and illustrated with several maps. Use of the fort and its armaments during the Spanish-American War and World War II are examined. Today the site is in a state park which attracts over one million visitors each year. Chapters include: Early Problems of Defense, Fort Hampton, Construction of Fort Macon, The Antebellum Years, Confederate Occupation, The Siege of Fort Macon, Union Occupation, Postwar Years, and The Twentieth Century. Appendices include: Garrisons of Fort Macon, Armament of Fort Macon, Soldier Life, and Casemate Uses. A wealth of photographs and illustrations; several maps; a glossary, a bibliography; and an index of full-names, places and subjects adds to the value of this work.
Macon to Manassas
Title | Macon to Manassas PDF eBook |
Author | Edward DeVries |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 596 |
Release | 2019-10-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0359960782 |
"Macon, Georgia raised 23 Confederate combat units. By the War's end, there were not enough survivors of those 23 companies to muster 7 units. With so many men from Macon giving their lives for "The Cause," the authors wanted to write a novel that would not only be good reading, but also tell the story of the brave and honorable men from Macon. Those who survived the war, and those who did not." -- from back cover