Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove: Scenes and Incidents Fo the War in Arkansas
With the goal of sketching at least some of the bright lights and dark shadows of the war, William Baxter authored his regional classic, Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, in 1864, before the actual end of the Civil War. Primarily focusing on the civilians of the region, Baxter vividly describes their precarious and vulnerable positions during the advances and retreats of armies as Confederate and Federal forces marched across their homeland. In his account, Baxter describes skirmishes and cavalry charges outside his front door, the firing of his town's buildings during a Confederate retreat, dashes between secessionist and Unionist neighbors, the…
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Weitere Autoren: Shea, William L. (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-1-55728-591-1
- EAN: 9781557285911
- Produktnummer: 9397973
- Verlag: Univ Of Arkansas Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 126 S.
- Masse: H21.7 cm x B14.4 cm x D2.3 cm 200 g
- Gewicht: 200
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William Baxter was the president of Arkansas College and a clergyman in Fayetteville, Arkansas, when the Civil War started in 1861. William L. Shea is a professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Monticello and coauthor of Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West (1992, University of North Carolina Press).
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