Earle Lamar Kasson is a man of his time and place. He was born in 1937, and has lived his whole life on the Kansas River bottom, between Lawrence and Lecompton. In his career, he was both a full-time electrician and a full-time farmer. He personally saw the transition in the 1960s where small family farms could no longer make it without additional income. As a matter of fact, his income as a farmer was only a fraction of what he made as an electrician, yet he never stopped farming (and still runs a combine today). Earle Kasson is a man dedicated to the land, even though the land ceased to be...
Earle Lamar Kasson is a man of his time and place. He was born in 1937, and has lived his whole life on the Kansas River bottom, between Lawrence and ...
South Carolina, the first state to secede, had no single huge battle, a la Antietam, Chickamauga or Gettysburg. However, it experienced two of the greatest naval battles of the War in Charleston Harbor and Port Royal. South Carolina also experienced the wrath of Sherman's troops as they marched through the state in 1865. Columbia, engulfed in a great fire, experienced damage on par with Atlanta and Richmond. This book will examine several facets of the war in South Carolina, including Key Players (influential people in the war who were either born in South Carolina or had a great influence on...
South Carolina, the first state to secede, had no single huge battle, a la Antietam, Chickamauga or Gettysburg. However, it experienced two of the gre...
Alabama's role in the Civil War cannot be understated. Union raids into northern Alabama, the huge manufacturing infrastructure in central Alabama and the Battle of Mobile Bay all played significant parts. A number of important Civil War figures also called Alabama home. Major General Joseph Wheeler was one of the most remarkable Confederate cavalry commanders in the west. John "the Gallant" Pelham earned the nickname for his bravery during the Battle of Fredericksburg. John Semmes commanded two of the most famous commerce raiders of the war--the CSS Sumter and the CSS Alabama. Author Robert...
Alabama's role in the Civil War cannot be understated. Union raids into northern Alabama, the huge manufacturing infrastructure in central Alabama and...
It was the first major mobilization for war of United States forces since the Civil War. And quite a mobilization it was - 4,355,000 United States forces were mobilized. The United States had resisted joining what many people considered to be a European war in 1914, 1915 and 1916. Even the sinking of the Lusitania on May 7, 1915 with 128 American deaths didn't prod the public to demand entry into the war. It would take unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917, as well as the Zimmerman telegram of January 19, 1917 (which revealed that Germany was encouraging Mexico to go to war with the...
It was the first major mobilization for war of United States forces since the Civil War. And quite a mobilization it was - 4,355,000 United States for...
There were many technological developments during the Civil War, including rifled artillery, repeating rifles, trench warfare, armored ships, submarines and air reconnaissance (balloons). But perhaps none of these had as much impact as an existing technology - railroads - that were used in a widespread manner for the first time in the Civil War. Railroads shipped supplies, troops, wounded soldiers, horses and mules. Whole battles were fought over the possession of railroads (Shiloh, Monocacy, High Bridge, Allatoona Pass). The purpose of Cavalry changed radically between the beginning of the...
There were many technological developments during the Civil War, including rifled artillery, repeating rifles, trench warfare, armored ships, submarin...
