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Mutiny at Fort Jackson : the untold story of the fall of New Orleans / Michael D. Pierson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Civil War America (Series)Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780807887028
  • 0807887021
  • 9781469606187
  • 1469606186
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mutiny at Fort Jackson.DDC classification:
  • 973.7/31 22
LOC classification:
  • F379.N557 P54 2008eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-246) and index.

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.

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.

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