Blood Image: Turner Ashby in the Civil War and the Southern Mind - Couverture rigide

Anderson, Paul Christopher

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807127523 ISBN 13 : 9780807127520

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2002

Synopsis

With Blood Image, his compellingly original biography of Confederate cavalry leader Turner Ashby, Paul Anderson demonstrates that the symbol of a man can be just as important as the man himself. Renowned as a born leader, graceful horseman, and violent partisan warrior, Turner Ashby was one of the most famous fighting men of the Civil War. Rising to colonel of the 7th Virginia Cavalry, Ashby fought brilliantly under Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson during the 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign until he died in battle near Harrisonburg, Virginia. These bare facts of Ashby's wartime exploits scarcely convey the majesty and shaping force of the legend that grew around him while he lived and fought. Anderson explores how and why Ashby's admirers in the Shenandoah Valley made him into their essential icon of "home." Anderson also demonstrates that Ashby's image - a catalytic, mesmerizing, and often contradictory combination of southern antebellum cultural ideals and wartime hopes and fears - emerged during his own lifetime and was not a later creation of the Lost Cause. Recognizing the power of Ashby's fame as knightly horseman, family defender, natural man and savage, and Confederate warrior, Anderson boldly organizes his study in four radial chapters that capture and reflect the circular energy of those images, each facet reinforcing and refreshing the others. With superb scholarship he shows that the force of Ashby's image was double-edged: it inspired admirers in the Shenandoah Valley, but it also shielded them from the savagery of a war that challenged the very ideals at the heart of their defense of home.

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À propos de l'auteur

Paul Christopher Anderson was born in Lima, Ohio, and raised in Wilmington, North Carolina. After a brief career as a newspaper reporter, he earned his doctorate in history and now teaches at Clemson University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807127523
• ISBN 13: 9780807127520
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Éditeur: Parrish T. Michael
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