The Fishing Creek Confederacy : A Story of Civil War Draft Resistance /

One hundred fifty years after the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln is thought of as one of the best presidents of the United States. However, most Americans forget that he was elected with only 40 percent of the popular vote. Many Democratic newspapers across the North mistrusted Lincoln's claim that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sauers, Richard Allen
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Otros Autores: Tomasak, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia [Mo.] : University of Missouri Press, 2012
Colección:Shades of blue and gray series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Draft > United States > History > 19th century.
Draft resisters > Pennsylvania > Columbia County.
Pennsylvania > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Columbia County (Pa.) > History, Military > 19th century.
Fishing Creek (Pa. : Township) > History, Military > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Draft resisters.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Columbia County goes to war 1861-1862
  • 2. The Democrats grow stronger
  • 3. The draft comes to the North
  • 4. Columbia County and the draft, 1863
  • 5. Columbia County and the draft, January-July 1864
  • 6. A shooting
  • 7. Military intervention
  • 8. Soldiers and civilians
  • 9. Prison
  • 10. The military trials
  • 11. The war's end and Knob Mountain
  • 12. Postwar reverberations
  • 13. Historiography
  • 14. Conclusions
  • Appendix: List of prisoners sent to Fort Mifflin, September 1, 1864.

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