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Author Pierson, Michael D.

Title Mutiny at Fort Jackson : the untold story of the fall of New Orleans / Michael D. Pierson
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Civil War America
Civil War America (Series)
Contents Introduction: Massacre on the Levee -- Fort Jackson and the Defense of New Orleans -- Confederate New Orleans, February 1861 to May 1862 -- Cannoneers, Regulars, and Jagers: Inside Fort Jackson before the Mutiny -- The Mutiny at Fort Jackson and the Collapse of Confederate Authority -- The many fates of the Fort Jackson Garrison -- Benjamin F. Butler and Unionist New Orleans -- Epilogue: Why the Mutiny at Fort Jackson Matters
Summary In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Books, magazines, and newspapers were produced more quickly and more cheaply, reaching ever-increasing numbers of readers. Volume 4 of A History of the Book in America traces the complex, even contradictory consequences of these changes in the production, circulation, and use of print
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-246) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Confederate States of America. Army -- History
SUBJECT Confederate States of America. Army fast
Subject Mutiny -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century
Soldiers -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Unionists (United States Civil War) -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Military participation -- German American
Military participation -- Irish American
Mutiny
Social aspects
Soldiers -- Social conditions
Unionists (United States Civil War)
SUBJECT Fort Jackson (La.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95002196
New Orleans (La.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091384
New Orleans (La.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, German American
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Irish American
Subject Louisiana -- Fort Jackson
Louisiana -- New Orleans
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780807887028
0807887021
9781469606187
1469606186