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- ISBN
- 9780593137758
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0593137752
ISBN-13
9780593137758
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11059326406
Product Key Features
Book Title
Silent Cavalry : How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta--And Then Got Written Out of History
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Military / United States, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Publication Year
2023
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
29.7 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2023-021001
Reviews
"Howell Raines is a legendary writer, editor, and social critic. With Silent Cavalry he has yet again revealed that the history of the U.S. South is one of far greater complexity and depth than what is commonly ascribed to it, from both outside and inside the region. It is my sincere hope that this compelling and submerged history is integrated into our understanding of our nation, and allows us to embrace new heroes of the past." --Imani Perry, professor, Harvard University, and National Book Award-winning author of South to America "Following breadcrumbs from family lore, Howell Raines has uncovered the remarkable story of white men from Alabama's hill country who fought for the Union and, equally important, the century-long effort by Confederate sympathizers to erase them from history. . . . An invaluable addition to revisionist--as in, actual--history." --Cynthia Tucker, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-author of The Southernization of America " Silent Cavalry marks another chapter in Raines's storied career of giving voice to the voiceless, highlighting the men and women who, without proper credit, did their part to make America a better, more equitable place." --Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University "Remarkable . . . A massive story told in an intimate, personal way." --John Archibald, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Shaking the Gates of Hell " Silent Cavalry is a rescue mission. Shedding new light on the dramatic hidden battlegrounds of the Lost Cause, Howell Raines has restored forgotten north Alabama contrarians to where they always deserved to be, where they always were--on the right side of history." --Kyle Whitmire, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, Alabama Media Group, " Silent Cavalry marks another chapter in Raines's storied career of giving voice to the voiceless by highlighting the men and women who, without proper credit, did their part to make America a better, more equitable place. He draws on his personal and family history, along with typically prodigious research, to show not only the importance of these oft-ignored Alabama Unionists but also to excoriate the scholars and writers who buried this history to propagate the infamous Lost Cause interpretation of the Civil War." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University "Following breadcrumbs from family lore, Howell Raines has uncovered the remarkable story of white men from Alabama's hill country who fought for the Union, and, equally important, the century-long effort by Confederate sympathizers to erase them from history. As an African-American native of Alabama, I thought I knew all about Lost Cause perfidy, but Raines' masterful detective work has dug up long-buried deceit, duplicity and manipulation, all in the service of racist propaganda masquerading as fact. This book is an invaluable addition to revisionist--as in, actual--history." --Cynthia Tucker, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-author of The Southernization of America, " Silent Cavalry marks another chapter in Raines's storied career of giving voice to the voiceless by highlighting the men and women who, without proper credit, did their part to make America a better, more equitable place. He draws on his personal and family history, along with typically prodigious research, to show not only the importance of these oft-ignored Alabama Unionists but also to excoriate the scholars and writers who buried this history to propagate the infamous Lost Cause interpretation of the Civil War." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University, "Howell Raines is a legendary writer, editor, and social critic. With Silent Cavalry he has yet again revealed that the history of the U.S. South is one of far greater complexity and depth than what is commonly ascribed to it, from both outside and inside the region. It is my sincere hope that this compelling and submerged history is integrated into our understanding of our nation, and allows us to embrace new heroes of the past." --Imani Perry, professor, Harvard University, and National Book Award-winning author of South to America "Remarkable. Not only does Howell Raines tell us something even die-hard Southerners didn't know about the Civil War--how a band of obstinate Alabamians had a hand in burning the South with Gen. Sherman--he unveils the cover-up. A massive story told in an intimate, personal way." --John Archibald, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author of Shaking the Gates of Hell "What generations of Southerners have been taught in school has been a myth as worthless as Confederate currency. A network of professionals and amateurs buried the truth beneath fairy tales that turned villains into heroes and heroes into villains. Silent Cavalry is a rescue mission. Shedding new light on the dramatic hidden battlegrounds of the Lost Cause, Howell Raines has restored forgotten north Alabama contrarians to where they always deserved to be, where they always were--on the right side of history." --Kyle Whitmire, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, Alabama Media Group " Silent Cavalry marks another chapter in Raines's storied career of giving voice to the voiceless by highlighting the men and women who, without proper credit, did their part to make America a better, more equitable place. He draws on his personal and family history, along with typically prodigious research, to show not only the importance of these oft-ignored Alabama Unionists but also to excoriate the scholars and writers who buried this history to propagate the infamous Lost Cause interpretation of the Civil War." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University "Following breadcrumbs from family lore, Howell Raines has uncovered the remarkable story of white men from Alabama's hill country who fought for the Union, and, equally important, the century-long effort by Confederate sympathizers to erase them from history. As an African-American native of Alabama, I thought I knew all about Lost Cause perfidy, but Raines' masterful detective work has dug up long-buried deceit, duplicity and manipulation, all in the service of racist propaganda masquerading as fact. This book is an invaluable addition to revisionist--as in, actual--history." --Cynthia Tucker, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-author of The Southernization of America
Synopsis
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. "It is my sincere hope that this compelling and submerged history is integrated into our understanding of our nation, and allows us to embrace new heroes of the past."--Imani Perry, professor, Harvard University, and National Book Award-winning author of South to America We all know how the Civil War was won: Courageous Yankees triumphed over the South. But is there more to the story? As Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Howell Raines shows, it was not only soldiers from northern states who helped General William Tecumseh Sherman burn Atlanta to the ground but also an unsung regiment of 2,066 Alabamian yeoman farmers--including at least one member of Raines's own family. Called the First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A., this regiment of mountain Unionists, which included sixteen formerly enslaved Black men, was the point of the spear that Sherman drove through the heart of the Confederacy. The famed general hailed their skills and courage. So why don't we know anything about them? Silent Cavalry is part epic American history, part family saga, and part scholarly detective story. Drawing on the lore of his native Alabama and investigative skills honed by six decades in journalism, Raines brings to light a conspiracy that sought to undermine the accomplishments of these renegade southerners--a key component of the Lost Cause effort to restore glory to white southerners after the war, even at the cost of the truth. In this important new contribution to our understanding of the Civil War and its legacy, Raines tells the thrilling tale of the formation of the First Alabama while exposing the tangled web of how its wartime accomplishments were silenced, implicating everyone from a former Confederate general to a gaggle of Lost Cause historians in the Ivy League and a sanctimonious former keeper of the Alabama state archives. By reversing the erasure of the First Alabama, Silent Cavalry is a testament to the immense power of historians to destroy as well as to redeem.
LC Classification Number
E495.6 1st.R35 2023
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