Confederate Cities : The Urban South During the Civil War Era

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Published Date: 15 Dec 2015
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Book Format: Hardback::336 pages
ISBN10: 022630017X
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
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Other Irish played key roles in supporting the Confederate war effort in a non-military capacity, serving in manufacturing and commissary positions. The desperate economic straits that many Irish found themselves in cities like New Orleans offers an insight into the harsh reality of the war for Irish civilians in the South. APOLOGIA. The material here presented is meant to illuminate certain aspects of American history from the Civil War era, but it is also meant to establish arguments and to answer other arguments, either among professional historians or average Americans. CIVIL WAR AND INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES. The Civil War used the advances of the Industrial Revolution to foster great changes in industrial and technological development. Both the North and the South made use of advances in railroad and riverine transportation. The Union, however, was far more advanced technologically than the Confederate states. the evolving historiography on Southern cities before, during, and after the war. American urban history—like religious history, economic history, and legal history—is swiftly becoming part of the mainstream because innovative. 1 Parrish: Confederate Cities: The Urban South During the Civil War Era Published LSU Digital Commons, 2016 The North was more urban. There weren’t many big cities in the South. Like I basically said earlier, almost everyone lived on farms or plantations. At the beginning of the Civil War the Kirsch, Baseball in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime During the Civil War, 43. Hugh Tulloch, ed. The Routledge Companion to the American Civil War Era, (Routledge, 2006), 141. Kirsch, Baseball in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime During the Civil War, 45. John … Before the Civil War in the United States, there were a lot of differences between the North and the South. These social, economic, and educational “African Americans’ Struggle for Education, Citizenship and Freedom, in Mobile, Alabama, 1865-1868,” in Confederate Cities: The Urban South During the Civil War Era, Andrew L. Slap and Frank Towers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 215-236. In a filthy shack near the wharves, a young prostitute dies alone from a laudanum overdose. These kinds of stories are rarely commemorated with monuments or dramatized in reenactments. But they are all Civil War stories, and they all find a place in Stephen V. Ash’s outstanding Rebel Richmond: Life and Death in the Confederate Capital. It also will provide opportunities for comparative analysis if read alongside other urban histories, such as Wendy Hamand Venet’s study of Civil War-era Atlanta and William Warren Rogers Jr.’s work on Montgomery.[2] Indeed, what Richmond shared with other Confederate cities may be as important as what set it apart. The first book of its kind to appear in a generation, this comprehensive study details the experiences of the black men, women, and children who lived in the South during the traumatic time of secession and civil war. The Black Experience in the Civil War South is the first comprehensive study of the Southern black wartime experience to appear in a generation. Industry and Economy during the Civil War. Benjamin T. Arrington, National Park Service. Only about a tenth of the southern population lived in urban areas. The twin disadvantages of a smaller industrial economy and having so much of the war fought in the South hampered Confederate growth and development. Southern farmers (including Background. In the border states, slavery was already dying out in urban areas and the regions without cotton.Several cities were rapidly industrializing, including Baltimore, Louisville, and St. Louis. 1860, most of the African Americans in Delaware were free. the start of the Civil War, slave ownership in the south had become concentrated into fewer and fewer hands. Get this from a library! Confederate cities:the urban South during the Civil War era. [Andrew L Slap; Frank Towers; David R Goldfield;] - When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of the Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era (Historical Studies of Urban America) - Kindle edition David Goldfield, Andrew L. Slap, Frank Towers. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era (Historical Studies of Despite its title, Confederate Cities presents a balanced and diverse exploration of how the Civil War era transformed urban spaces in the American South. One of the rare edited collections without a clear weak contribution, Confederate Cities deserves a close look, not only those interested in the Civil War era, but also urban historians. Map of the division of the states during the Civil War. Blue represents Union states, including those admitted during the war; light blue represents border states; red represents Confederate states. Unshaded areas were not states before or during the Civil War. In the context of the American Civil War (1861-1865), the border states were slave states that had not declared a secession from the Family Life During Civil War 1608 Words | 7 Pages. Family Life During Civil War As a pivotal point in our nation’s history, the civil war holds a special fascination in the land and minds of the American people. It was a war entirely fought Americans, often dividing families and even brothers against brothers. in a city. Just under one million people lived in the 25 largest slave-state cities on the eve of the Civil War. Southern cities grew faster than the South's rural population between 1840 and 1860, and 1860 slave-state cities housed factories, banks, and marketplaces that commercial sectors of the rural economy could not live without. This is a very interesting and well-reasoned book that looks at the role Southerners played in the Union's victory in the Civil War. The author concentrates on "border state whites," his term for white folks who lived in the Union slave states that bordered the South, such as Kentucky and Maryland.

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