Silent cavalry
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alabama who played a decisive role in the Civil War, and how they were scrubbed from the history books. We all know how the Civil War was won: by courageous Yankees who triumphed over the South. But as vet...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Varieties of racial education. What happened to me at Ma 'n' Ada's
- The centrality of Gradystein Williams Hutchinson
- Saved by Uncle Sam
- Reading the stars
- My Rosetta Stone
- Chris Sheats: phantom of the hills
- A discovery in Atlanta
- Part II: Connecting the dots. How the First Alabama almost saved Atlanta from burning
- Quoth the General
- Open season in the Hill Country
- A revolving spy
- The tattler of the hills
- In the Unionist pod
- Part III: Marching to Savannah. Cotton thieves and draft dodgers
- The slave owners' friend
- Chris Sheats in the wilderness
- A murderous conspiracy in the Whirling Hills
- Natural-born spies of the First Alabama
- The first fights of the Fighting First
- Partners: a meeting of the minds
- In praise of amateur historians
- Dr. Kaeiser versus the feudists
- Meanwhile, back at the war
- Paths of glory and obscurity
- Uncle Billy and his boys
- Skedaddling home
- Part IV: Hiding the evidence. Viral Tuscaloosa and the aristocratic fallacy
- Bad boys of Richmond
- Lee's bad old man
- Hail Columbia
- Tom and Marie
- Smoking letters
- A scholarly lynching
- Birmingham money: the houses of Chisholm and Percy
- Three kingdoms
- The mountain king
- Last answer, last question
- The cutting room floor
- Forgotten, but not gone.
