Miserable Little Conglomeration (eBook)

A Social History of the Port Hudson Campaign

Christopher Thrasher (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2023 | 1
326 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
978-1-62190-792-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The essential starting point to understand the experiences of the soldiers, enslaved people, and civilians involved in the Port Hudson campaign. H-Net Reviews While Vicksburg and Gettysburg tend to receive the most attention among Civil War battles, it is Port Hudson that holds the record for the longest-running siege in American history. During the summer of 1863, US soldiers fought in the infamous heat and damp of Louisiana for forty-eight grueling days, having severely underestimated the Confederates' determination to win. Previous accounts of these events have rested on the leaders, well-known figures, and familiar faces of the Civil War. Here, social historian Christopher Thrasher draws from a robust collection of archival sources to tell the story of the common people's experience throughout the Port Hudson Campaign: the soldiers who fought, the civilians who persisted, and the men who persevered, for those long days. With more than forty illustrations and maps depicting the battles of Port Hudson and the defenses of the place itself, Miserable Little Conglomeration builds upon previous scholarship to present a social history of this campaign through the eyes of the people who lived, fought, and died within it. Filling a long-empty gap within Civil War scholarship, Thrasher's fresh approach to the Port Hudson campaign will be of interest to Civil War scholars, students of Louisiana history, and younger learners who are interested in the voices of American history.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.9.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Voices of the Civil War
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Admiral Farragut • African American soldiers • Baton Rouge • Benjamin Butler • brown water battles • confederate army • Frank Gardner • John Breckenridge • Louisiana • Louisiana Gulf • Louisiana Infantry • Mississippi River • Nathaniel Banks • Native Guards • New Orleans • Port Hudson • Sam Watkins • Trans-Mississippi theater • union army • U.S. Grant • USS Essex • USS Richmond • Vicksburg • western theater
• ISBN-10: 1-62190-792-9 / 1621907929
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-792-3 / 9781621907923