Civil War Eufaula

Civil War Eufaula

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Publication Date: 1st October 2013

Told here for the first time is the compelling story of the Bluff City during the Civil War. Historian and preservationist Mike Bunn takes you from the pivotal role Eufaula played in Alabama's secession and early enthusiasm for the Confederate cause to its aborted attempt to become the state's capital and its ultimate capture by Union forces, chronicling the effects of the conflict on Eufaulans along the way. Civil War Eufaula "draws on a wide range of firsthand individual perspectives, including those of husbands and wives, political leaders, businessmen, journalists, soldiers, students and s... Read More
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Told here for the first time is the compelling story of the Bluff City during the Civil War. Historian and preservationist Mike Bunn takes you from the pivotal role Eufaula played in Alabama's secession and early enthusiasm for the Confederate cause to its aborted attempt to become the state's capital and its ultimate capture by Union forces, chronicling the effects of the conflict on Eufaulans along the way. Civil War Eufaula "draws on a wide range of firsthand individual perspectives, including those of husbands and wives, political leaders, businessmen, journalists, soldiers, students and s... Read More
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Told here for the first time is the compelling story of the Bluff City during the Civil War. Historian and preservationist Mike Bunn takes you from the pivotal role Eufaula played in Alabama's secession and early enthusiasm for the Confederate cause to its aborted attempt to become the state's capital and its ultimate capture by Union forces, chronicling the effects of the conflict on Eufaulans along the way. Civil War Eufaula "draws on a wide range of firsthand individual perspectives, including those of husbands and wives, political leaders, businessmen, journalists, soldiers, students and slaves, to produce a mosaic of observations on shared experiences. Together, they communicate what it was like to live in this riverside trading town during a prolonged and cataclysmic war. It is the story of ordinary people in extraordinary times."
Details
  • Pages: 160
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: Civil War Series
  • Publication Date: 1st October 2013
  • State: Alabama
  • Illustration Note: 100% Mono
  • ISBN: 9781626192447
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
    HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
    HISTORY / United States / General
Author Bio

Mike Bunn serves as the director of Historic Blakeley State Park in Spanish Fort, Alabama. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Fort Stoddert: American Sentinel on the Mobile River, 1799–1814, Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America’s Revolutionary Era and The Assault on Fort Blakeley: “The Thunder and Lightning of Battle.” Clay Willams graduated from Mississippi State University with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in history and public policy administration. He has cowritten two books, Battle for the Southern Frontier: The Creek War and the War of 1812 and Old Southwest to Old South: Mississippi, 1798–1840. He currently serves as program manager for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.


Told here for the first time is the compelling story of the Bluff City during the Civil War. Historian and preservationist Mike Bunn takes you from the pivotal role Eufaula played in Alabama's secession and early enthusiasm for the Confederate cause to its aborted attempt to become the state's capital and its ultimate capture by Union forces, chronicling the effects of the conflict on Eufaulans along the way. Civil War Eufaula "draws on a wide range of firsthand individual perspectives, including those of husbands and wives, political leaders, businessmen, journalists, soldiers, students and slaves, to produce a mosaic of observations on shared experiences. Together, they communicate what it was like to live in this riverside trading town during a prolonged and cataclysmic war. It is the story of ordinary people in extraordinary times."
  • Pages: 160
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: Civil War Series
  • Publication Date: 1st October 2013
  • State: Alabama
  • Illustrations Note: 100% Mono
  • ISBN: 9781626192447
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
    HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
    HISTORY / United States / General

Mike Bunn serves as the director of Historic Blakeley State Park in Spanish Fort, Alabama. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Fort Stoddert: American Sentinel on the Mobile River, 1799–1814, Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America’s Revolutionary Era and The Assault on Fort Blakeley: “The Thunder and Lightning of Battle.” Clay Willams graduated from Mississippi State University with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in history and public policy administration. He has cowritten two books, Battle for the Southern Frontier: The Creek War and the War of 1812 and Old Southwest to Old South: Mississippi, 1798–1840. He currently serves as program manager for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.