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Michigan and the Civil War : a great and bloody sacrifice / Jack Dempsey.

By: Dempsey, Jack, 1952-.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Charleston, SC : History Press, 2011Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: 188 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781609491734; 1609491734.Subject(s): Michigan -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865DDC classification: 977.4/03
Contents:
Preface -- 1: Rockets' red glare -- 2: Coming fury -- 3: Answering Lincoln's call -- 4: 1862: swings of the pendulum -- 5: Women of war -- 6: War on water -- 7: Special forces -- 8: Turning the tide -- 9: Fighting 102nd -- 10: Generals -- 11: War politicians -- 12: POWs: the hard life and Andersonville -- 13: 1864: year of ascendancy -- 14: Coda: Appomattox, Irwinville, and the Sultana -- Epilogue: Furling the flags -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Anecdotes and accounts of Michigan's involvement in the Civil War. Covers the state's antebellum period, its antislavery heritage, its rapid response to President Lincoln's call to arms.
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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 977.403 D399 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003620333

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- 1: Rockets' red glare -- 2: Coming fury -- 3: Answering Lincoln's call -- 4: 1862: swings of the pendulum -- 5: Women of war -- 6: War on water -- 7: Special forces -- 8: Turning the tide -- 9: Fighting 102nd -- 10: Generals -- 11: War politicians -- 12: POWs: the hard life and Andersonville -- 13: 1864: year of ascendancy -- 14: Coda: Appomattox, Irwinville, and the Sultana -- Epilogue: Furling the flags -- Acknowledgments.

Anecdotes and accounts of Michigan's involvement in the Civil War. Covers the state's antebellum period, its antislavery heritage, its rapid response to President Lincoln's call to arms.

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