Though removed from the frontlines, Cleveland played an active role in national events before, during, and after the Civil War. President Lincoln visited this abolitionist hotbed after his 1860 election. Following his assassination five years later, his funeral train made a stop there. Cleveland and Cuyahoga County sent over 9,000 troops to war. More than 1,700 never returned. Born just outside Cleveland, James Garfield emerged from the war to become President of the United States. Most vitally, the economic prosperity of the war years began the transformation of this small but thriving village into a future manufacturing powerhouse. Author W. Dennis Keating, member and past president of the Cleveland Civil War Roundtable, creates a panoramic view of the city through one of the nation's most troubled times.

master historian gives readers a fresh new picture of the Civil War as it really was. Buell examines three pairs of commanders from the North and South, who met each other in battle. Following each pair through the entire war, the author reveals the human dimensions of the drama and brings the battles to life. 38 b&w photos.

The Civil War interrupted the area around Cleveland, Ohio, in the middle of its great leap into prosperity, redirecting its men into military camps and its industrial strength into munitions and provisions. Dale Thomas roots his story in the letters that kept the ordinary soldiers from Cuyahoga County tethered to their families and friends on the home front, even as they moved from battlefield to battlefield, through sickness and captivity. For many, these letters were the only part of them to make it back--their final legacy to a community they had helped to build.

"Comprises six chapters of the West Point history of warfare that have been revised and expanded for the general reader"--Page vii.

"The authors use moving first-person commentaries and accounts to illustrate and explain these issues and situations. Additionally, the text is illustrated with rare photographs from the Western Reserve Historical Society's archives."--BOOK JACKET.

Civil War People and Events in What Became Cleveland County Arkansas is the story of the people and events during the Civil War in what is now Cleveland County, Arkansas. It is a publication of the Cleveland County (Arkansas) Historical Society in conjunction with the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Part One gives a short review of the service records and a brief biography of all known Confederate and Union soldiers who lived at some point in their lives in what is now Cleveland County. Also in Part One are copies of letters written home by a couple of the soldiers, excerpts from "Journal Records of James B. Lockney" of Co "G" 28th Wisconsin Infantry on an expedition from Pine Bluff to Mount Elba in January 1865, some slave narratives, and other stories. Part Two is a history of the Battle of Mt. Elba and Part Three is a history of the Battle of Marks' Mills. These are the two Civil War battles that were fought in Cleveland County. Both battles were fought in the same vicinity near the Saline River.

In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much more complicated and significant figure. Raised in a fiercely pro-slavery household in bitterly divided Misssouri, at age sixteen James became a bushwhacker, one of the savage Confederate guerrillas that terrorized the border states. After the end of the war, James continued his campaign of robbery and murder into the brutal era of reconstruction, when his reckless daring, his partisan pronouncements, and his alliance with the sympathetic editor John Newman Edwards placed him squarely at the forefront of the former Confederates’ bid to recapture political power. With meticulous research and vivid accounts of the dramatic adventures of the famous gunman, T. J. Stiles shows how he resembles not the apolitical hero of legend, but rather a figure ready to use violence to command attention for a political cause—in many ways, a forerunner of the modern terrorist.