650 research outputs found
Cwbr Author Interview: Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined The Army After 1861
No full textInterview with Dr. Kenneth W. Noe, Professor of History at Auburn University Interviewed by Nathan Buman Civil War Book Review (CWBR): I\u27m here today with Kenneth Noe, author of Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861. Professor Noe, thank you for joining me. Kenneth Noe (KN): I\u27m happy to be here Nathan
The Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans
No full textReviewer Kenneth W. Noe writes that Allison M. Johnson\u27s curatorship of the writings by Civil War amputees is an impressive example of historical editing and a worthy monument to soldiers who suffered for their country long after they left the battlefield
Improved synthesis of tadalafil using dimethyl carbonate and ionic liquids
No full textAn improved synthesis of tadalafil, a drug for the treatment of male erectile dysfunction, involves the use of safer solvents and reagents as well as a reduced number of steps
L-Glutamine Use In The Treatment And Prevention Of Mucositis And Cachexia: A Naturopathic Perspective
No full textThis is an article on the topic, there is also a poster from this author by the same title.L-Glutamine (L-GLN) is considered a nonessential amino acid that has a variety of applications in naturopathic medicine. It has been postulated that in the critically ill patient, GLN becomes an essential amino acid for recovery, restoration, and repair at a cellular level. Mucositis is an intestinal mucosal damage of the gastrointestinal tract—mouth, throat, stomach, intestines, rectum, and anus-that is caused directly by chemotherapies and radiotherapies. Cancer cachexia is a significant biochemical event, which is characterized by weight loss, fatigue, and indicative of depletion of skeletal muscle GLN-a hypercatabolic state. There has been some question as to the use of GLN in this patient population because of its role as a preferred energy source not only for enterocytes and lymphocytes but for malignant cells as well. This article will address the questions of safety, efficacy, dosing, and toxicity of GLN used as an integrative therapeutic in ongoing integrative cancer treatment.http://ict.sagepub.com.libproxy.bridgeport.edu/content/8/4/409.full.pdf+htm
Pluto and Juno
No full textAuthor: Makayla Wang | Illustrator: Noe Castillo | Visual Designer: Marie Esquivel | Editor: Vanessa HerreraThe story explores two identical siblings who are unable to be set apart from one another and can be relational to children who are experiencing a sense of neglect within their upbringing. Thus, encouraging readers to perceiver and find connections to family/ friends who will see them for who they are
'On A Great Battlefield': The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg National Military Park, 1933 – 2009
No full textSince July 1863 historians have written a great deal on the three-day Battle of Gettysburg, but have devoted little attention to the history of the battlefield itself. In the decades since the sound of artillery and muskets silenced and the soldiers retreated from the field, the Gettysburg battlefield has become a place of commemoration, veneration, celebration, and controversy. It is a site unlike any other on American soil. This dissertation provides an innovative perspective on the Civil War and Gettysburg historiography by examining how the National Park Service (NPS) has administered the battlefield from its acquisition of the site in August 1933 through 2009. Underlying the National Park Service’s expansive history are variables of management philosophies, land acquisition, planning initiatives, competing notions of privatization and commercialism, and evolving interpretive efforts. Between August 1933 and October 2009 ten superintendents have administered the Gettysburg National Military Park. This inevitable change in management has resulted in an ever-evolving battlefield. Superintendent’s backgrounds, whether as landscape architects, government bureaucrats, or historians, consistently shape their vision for the battlefield. Additionally, several landmark eras became evident, all dramatically changing the management, interpretation, and memory of the battlefield. Those four eras are the Great Depression period, 1933-1940; World War II, 1941-1945; the MISSION 66 and Civil War Centennial years, 1955 to 1955; and the fifteen years of John Latschar’s administration, 1994 to 2009. Notwithstanding the degree of change at the battlefield, however, many variables remained constant. Management decisions made by the National Park Service receive America’s close securitization because of Gettysburg’s prominent place within American History and the sensationalism of the site. Controversy and heated debates underscore each administration. Additionally, throughout the twentieth century the battlefield has been used as a landscape of patriotic expression, which was seen most evidently during World War II. This dissertation examines the successes and failures of the National Park Service at Gettysburg. In its simplest form the Gettysburg battlefield is a memorial landscape to war. Yet to many Americans Gettysburg is more than a battlefield; it is a place of patriotic expression, of public display, and a place of veneration
Transcendent Hunger: Poor Women and Resource Raids in Civil War Georgia
No full textPoor women in Civil War Georgia organized and participated in resource raids of varying sizes in cities, towns, and rural areas throughout the state from 1862 to 1865. While the largest “bread riots” in cities across the Confederacy during the spring of 1863 are the most-commonly studied incidents, they were not the only instances of poor women’s expression of discontent. Their targets were often symbolic of their lack of access to food and clothing, and included Confederate warehouses and commissaries, railroad depots, mills and factories, and planter property. Women’s motivations and objectives were complex and nuanced combinations of desperation to feed and clothe themselves and their families, resentment of local and Confederate officials, and opposition to Confederate policies. Rather than dichotomous or isolated incidents, the resource raids also occurred on a spectrum of poor women’s expression that returns them to the center of the narrative and takes seriously their decisions and actions. Many employed a shared strategy of leveraging the state-defined identity of soldier’s wife to both shield themselves form consequences and to evoke reaction and ensure that they would be heard. Reactions to the resource raids further reveal evolving home-front attitudes, and that rhetoric was a tool employed to reinforce the social boundaries on which Confederate ideology rested
War Fought and Felt: The Influence of Interpersonal Relationships on Confederate Soldier Motivations in the American Civil War
No full textWhen white Southern men initially marched off to war, they took with them masculine and martial ideals that undergirded their romantic notions of war and the importance of their service. Soon, the astonishing brutality and bloodletting of the war broke men and eroded the stoic and self-reliant masculine ideal. Soldiers turned to their comrades, their wives and sweethearts, and their children for emotional strength and support. Those individuals provided an emotional bulwark for Confederate soldiers which helped buffer the corrosive effects of war on soldier morale, self-worth, and even national identity. Furthermore, they kept the soldier tethered to his humanity and often kept him from losing his sense of self and individual identity within large Civil War armies.
This dissertation argues that the American Civil War represented an emotional and masculine epoch in the history of Southern men, one that compelled them to both receive and express intimacy with their families and comrades on a level which ran contrary to the prevailing pre-war cultural dictates. It does so specifically by examining three major concentric rings of human relationships ranging from the least to the greatest level of intimacy: friendship (relationships between soldiers), familial relationships (primarily between soldier-fathers and their children), and romantic relationships (between husbands and wives, or beaus and sweethearts). It is based on the careful study of 1,790 letters exchanged between 200 soldiers and 366 family members, fifteen friends, and seven sweethearts. Primary sources also provide a statistical analysis of the number of expressions of emotion, descriptions of battle, religious declarations, inquiries and references to children, and expressions of ideology, in order to understand what was most prevalent and most important to the common soldier.
This dissertation finds that contrary to prevailing historical assumptions, Confederate soldiers were very emotionally expressive. As the war progressed, they did not seem concerned with maintaining the masculine ideal of emotional stoicism. Confederate soldiers expressed emotion or affection over twice as much as they made inquiries or references to their children, four times more than they made religious declarations, eleven times more than they provided descriptions of battle, and nineteen times more than they expressed ideology or spoke of duty. Furthermore, the primary source base for this dissertation provides written historical evidence from periods during and after the war and compares these sources with the more common historical interpretation of white Southern males during the war. During the period of Reconstruction, the emotional stoicism, rigid patriarchy, and desire for dominance that pervaded the masculine consciousness in the years leading up to the war made a virulent reappearance, one that would forever alter the course of the United States
"The Old First is With the South:" The Civil War, Reconstruction, and Memory in the Jackson Purchase Region of Kentucky
No full textThis dissertation examines the secession crisis and the Civil War as a watershed moment in the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky. In 1819, following the acquisition of land from the Chickasaw, the Purchase became the last area added to Kentucky. It was settled by small farmers who migrated from the Bluegrass and Green River areas of the state, as well as other parts of the south, particularly Tennessee and North Carolina. During the antebellum period, the Purchase became a Democratic Party stronghold in a state dominated by the Whig Party. During the 1850s the area experienced an economic boom through river trade with the south and railroad construction. The improved cultivation of tobacco during the same period greatly increased the number of slaves and slaveholders at a time when the institution declined in the rest of the state.
During the secession crisis, the Purchase was the only area of the state to overwhelmingly support John C. Breckinridge and agitate for separation from the Union. After Kentucky voted for neutrality, Purchase secessionists threatened to secede from Kentucky and join west Tennessee. In addition, the area contributed more soldiers to the Confederate Army than any other region of Kentucky. Yet from late 1861 to 1865, the Federal army occupied the Jackson Purchase. The area was overrun with guerrilla warfare and irregular activity. The 1864 so-called “reign of terror” instituted by Union General Eleazor A. Paine had a particularly profound effect on Purchase citizens. Federal occupation continued through Reconstruction as the area became one of the few regions of Kentucky to host a branch of the Freedman’s Bureau.
In the decades following the Civil War the area increasingly celebrated its Confederate roots through veterans and memorial groups. Residents increasingly defined themselves through their wartime experiences. They added to their regional distinctiveness by emphasizing their southern roots and highlighting their devotion to the Confederacy. As such, they reinforced their “separate” identity from the rest of Kentucky
"Our Village Looks Like A Collection of Bee Hives”: The Iron Brigade and Military Encampments During the American Civil War, 1861-1863.
No full textCivil War historians regard the Iron Brigade as one of the preeminent fighting units of the American Civil War. The 2nd Wisconsin, 6th Wisconsin, and 7th Wisconsin regiments; the 19th Indiana; and beginning in October 1862, the 24th Michigan, made up this all-western brigade. Known for its fighting reputation, black Hardee hats, and white leggings, the Iron Brigade fought in many of the vital battles that unfolded in the Civil War’s Eastern Theater. Their military accolades are well-documented in Civil War historiography. Despite suffering astonishing casualties at the battles of Gainesville (or Brawner’s Farm), South Mountain, and Gettysburg, the western brigade remained one of the Federal Army’s most reliable units. While an emphasis on the brigade’s role in the war’s outcome is known, however, their lives away from the battlefield have not been studied sufficiently. They offer a fresh perspective of how men endured life as Civil War soldiers. Building on the methods of environmental historians, my research analyzes the encampment experience of a sample of Iron Brigade soldiers to understand how the relationship between encampment and soldier developed over the course of the war. The study of Civil War camps is a vastly understudied topic. This work posits that the role of the camp in a soldier’s life helped men cope with the uncertainties of warfare. Soldiers received little training on how to navigate military encampments, yet this sample of Iron Brigade soldiers demonstrates that in their effort to control and combat the nuisances of camp, an awareness for navigating camps emerges by the summer campaigns of 1862, and winter of 1862-53. Tracking the western brigade from its camps of instruction in 1861 to its winter quarters outside Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1862-63, this research provides a new angle for understanding the agency military encampments played in Civil War soldiers’ military experiences
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