Susannah Ural
Auteur de Don't Hurry Me Down to Hades: The Civil War In The Words of Those Who Lived It
A propos de l'auteur
Susannah J. Ural is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi and a Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of War and Society. She is the author of The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865 (NYU Press, 2006).
Œuvres de Susannah Ural
Don't Hurry Me Down to Hades: The Civil War In The Words of Those Who Lived It (2013) 60 exemplaires
The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865 (2006) 28 exemplaires
Hood's Texas Brigade: The Soldiers and Families of the Confederacy's Most Celebrated Unit (Conflicting… (2017) 22 exemplaires
Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America's Bloodiest Conflict (2010) 15 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Bruce, Susannah
- Date de naissance
- 1973
- Sexe
- female
- Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
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Critiques
By using accounts of the people who actually experienced the US Civil War, the author allows us to have a better understanding of the hardships, and difficult feelings of those times. We really get a sense of the anguish created by this conflict that literally divided, not just the country, but neighbors and families. I also loved the way the author finished by showing what happened, after the war, to the individuals in the book, both famous and ordinary people. I learned many interesting things and now have a deeper understanding of this terrible yet integral part of our history.
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The Civil War affected a far higher percentage of the American population than any other conflict. Either side could have won this dreadful war and even after the Civil War was ended, the wounds continued to run deep for both the North and South.
Susannah Ural has cleverly woven together a chronological view of the Civil War through many descriptive documents and letters written from this era. She has truly brought the Civil War to life with rich historical detail.
Varina Howell Davis was the 2nd wife of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy. Varina Davis was very opposed to secession, and her strong opinions, which she was not able to easily suppress, would cause problems for Jefferson Davis, but she was one of his closest confidents.
Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Lincoln, impressed very few people. She was self absorbed and used people in any way necessary to add to her security and her reputation suffered. She became a social embarrassment. She misused government funds for fictitious improvements on the White House. The First Lady lost her husband's attention to an all-consuming war and it took its toll on her. As a result she lived an astonishingly tragic life.
General Ulysses S Grant had a young son, Fred, who joined his father in camp during the war. While the war was separating nearly every family, North and South, the Grants' were determined to stay together. The General had his 12 year old son tagging along. Grant was a homebody who needed to be surrounded by his wife, Julia, and children. The General had a soft heart and reflective soul and Julia had been her husband's greatest champion.
Lizzie Bowler had fallen in love with James Madison Bowler when he was a schoolteacher in Minnesota, but now her faith was wavering. In four years of war, they shared only a total of 12 weeks together. And now it was time for him to come home and focus on his family.
The assassination of President Lincoln is told through Major Henry Rathbone and his wife Clara. The Rathbones attended the Ford Theater with President Lincoln and the First Lady, as their guests, on that fateful night. The Rathbone's story continues with lingering trauma and their lives end tragically.
So many stories to be told, most of them poignant, but the stories continue to unfold in this beautifully crated book by this amazing writer. The extensive historical research in this book just astounds me - a wealth of information. Don't miss this one! 5 stars.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from NetGalley to read and review. All opinions shared are solely my own.… (plus d'informations)
Susannah Ural has cleverly woven together a chronological view of the Civil War through many descriptive documents and letters written from this era. She has truly brought the Civil War to life with rich historical detail.
Varina Howell Davis was the 2nd wife of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy. Varina Davis was very opposed to secession, and her strong opinions, which she was not able to easily suppress, would cause problems for Jefferson Davis, but she was one of his closest confidents.
Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Lincoln, impressed very few people. She was self absorbed and used people in any way necessary to add to her security and her reputation suffered. She became a social embarrassment. She misused government funds for fictitious improvements on the White House. The First Lady lost her husband's attention to an all-consuming war and it took its toll on her. As a result she lived an astonishingly tragic life.
General Ulysses S Grant had a young son, Fred, who joined his father in camp during the war. While the war was separating nearly every family, North and South, the Grants' were determined to stay together. The General had his 12 year old son tagging along. Grant was a homebody who needed to be surrounded by his wife, Julia, and children. The General had a soft heart and reflective soul and Julia had been her husband's greatest champion.
Lizzie Bowler had fallen in love with James Madison Bowler when he was a schoolteacher in Minnesota, but now her faith was wavering. In four years of war, they shared only a total of 12 weeks together. And now it was time for him to come home and focus on his family.
The assassination of President Lincoln is told through Major Henry Rathbone and his wife Clara. The Rathbones attended the Ford Theater with President Lincoln and the First Lady, as their guests, on that fateful night. The Rathbone's story continues with lingering trauma and their lives end tragically.
So many stories to be told, most of them poignant, but the stories continue to unfold in this beautifully crated book by this amazing writer. The extensive historical research in this book just astounds me - a wealth of information. Don't miss this one! 5 stars.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from NetGalley to read and review. All opinions shared are solely my own.… (plus d'informations)
This monograph is an unsentimental examination of the realities of the Irish experience during the American Civil War, in that their real contributions could not trump the realities of conditional loyalty among Irish-Americans on one side ("...the Union as it was and the Constitution as it is...") and the hardened prejudice represented by Nativism on the other, culminating in the Irish voting bloc largely supporting George McClellan in 1864; a choice that had reverberations for a generation.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 125
- Popularité
- #160,151
- Évaluation
- 4.5
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 15
- Favoris
- 1
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