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Black Jack : John A. Logan and Southern Illinois in the Civil War era / James Pickett Jones ; with a foreword by John Y. Simon.
LIBRA E664.L83 J63 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, James Pickett.
- Series:
- Shawnee classics
- A Shawnee classic
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Logan, John Alexander, 1826-1886.
- Logan, John Alexander.
- Generals--United States--Biography.
- Generals.
- United States.
- United States. Army--Biography.
- United States. Army.
- Illinois--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Illinois.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [1995]
- Summary:
- John A. Logan, called "Black Jack" by the men he led in Civil War battles from the Henry-Donelson campaign to Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and on to Atlanta, was one of the Union Army's most colorful generals.
- James Pickett Jones places Logan in his southern Illinois surroundings as he examines the role of the political soldier in the Civil War. When Logan altered his stance on national issues, so did the southern part of the state. Although secession, civil strife, Copperheadism, and the new attitudes created by the war contributed to this change of position in southern Illinois, Logan's role as political and military leader was important in the region's swing to strong support of the war against the Confederacy, to the policies of Lincoln, and eventually, to the Republican party.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Tallahassee : Florida State University, 1967.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0809320010
- 0809320029
- OCLC:
- 31435846
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