Guarding Greensboro

Released on by G. Ward Hubbs
preview-18

  • Guarding Greensboro Book Detail

  • Author : G. Ward Hubbs
  • Release Date : 2003
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 356
  • ISBN 13 : 9780820325057
  • File Size : 50,50 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Guarding Greensboro by G. Ward Hubbs PDF Summary

Book Description: Historian G. Ward Hubbs first encountered the Confederate soldiers known as the Greensboro Guards through their Civil War diaries and letters. Later he discovered that the Guards had formed some forty years before the war, soon after the founding of the Alabama town that was their namesake. Guarding Greensboro examines how the yearning for community played itself out across decades of peace and war, prosperity and want. Greensboro sprang up as a wide-open frontier town in Alabama's Black Belt, an exceptionally fertile part of the Deep South where people who dreamed of making it rich as cotton planters flocked. Although prewar Greensboro had its share of overlapping communities--ranging from Masons to school-improvement societies--it was the Guards who brought together the town's highly individualistic citizenry. A typical prewar militia unit, the Guards mustered irregularly and marched in their finest regalia on patriotic holidays. Most significantly, they patrolled for hostile Indians and rebellious slaves. In protecting the entire white population against common foes, Hubbs argues, the Guards did what Greensboro's other voluntary associations could not: move citizens beyond self-interest. As Hubbs follows the Guards through their Civil War campaigns, he keeps an eye on the home front: on how Greensborians shared a sense of purpose and sacrifice while they dealt with fears of a restive slave populace. Finally, Hubbs discusses the postwar readjustments of Greensboro's veterans as he examines the political and social upheaval in their town and throughout the South. Ultimately, Hubbs argues, the Civil War created the South of legend and its distinctive communities.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Guarding Greensboro books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Guarding Greensboro

Guarding Greensboro

File Size : 1,1 MB
Total View : 6682 Views
DOWNLOAD

Historian G. Ward Hubbs first encountered the Confederate soldiers known as the Greensboro Guards through their Civil War diaries and letters. Later he discover

Voices from Company D

Voices from Company D

File Size : 35,35 MB
Total View : 7282 Views
DOWNLOAD

An unprecedented contribution to the field of Civil War history, Voices from Company D collects writings from the diaries of eight members of the Greensboro Gua