Miserable Little Conglomeration by Christopher Thrasher
While Vicksburg and Gettysburg tend to receive the most attention among Civil War battles, it is Port Hudson that holds the record for the longest-running siege in American history. During the summer of 1863, US soldiers fought in the infamous heat and damp of Louisiana for forty-eight grueling days, having severely underestimated the Confederates’ determination to win.Previous accounts of these events have rested on the leaders, well-known figures, and familiar faces of the Civil War. Here, social historian Christopher Thrasher draws from a robust collection of archival sources to tell the story of the common people’s experience throughout the Port Hudson Campaign: the soldiers who fought, the civilians who persisted, and the men who persevered, for those long days.
With more than forty illustrations and maps depicting the battles of Port Hudson and the defenses of the place itself, The Miserable Little Conglomeration builds upon previous scholarship to present a social history of this campaign through the eyes of the people who lived, fought, and died within it.
Filling a long-empty gap within Civil War scholarship, Thrasher’s fresh approach to the Port Hudson campaign will be of interest to Civil War scholars, students of Louisiana history, and younger learners who are interested in the voices of American history.
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Second Manassas
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Imprisoned at Camp Douglas
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Fighting with Stonewall in the Valley
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John Dooley's Civil War
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Memoirs of Lieut.-General Winfield Scott
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Sailing with Farragut
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The Lynches of South Carolina
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A Yankee Horseman in the Shenandoah Valley
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To Succeed or Perish
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No Pardons to Ask, nor Apologies to Make
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Haunted by Memory
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In Memory of Self and Comrades
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Quest for a Star
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From Huntsville to Appomattox
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A Southern Boy in Blue
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Two Germans in the Civil War
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The Civil War Diaries of Cassie Fennell
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A Legacy of Valor
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Correspondence of Major General Emory Upton, Volume 1, 1857-1875
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Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen
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Correspondence of Major General Emory Upton, Volume 2, 1875-1881
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Dear Courier
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The Letters of General Richard S. Ewell
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Last to Leave the Field
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Little to Eat and Thin Mud to Drink
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The Union Must Stand
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Suffering in the Army of Tennessee
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Sanctified Trial
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The Folly and the Madness
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My Dearest Lilla
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New Fields of Adventure
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The Peninsula
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The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams
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Chickamauga Voices of the Civil War
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Shenandoah 1862
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As Wolves Upon a Sheep Fold
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The Civil War Memoir of a Boy from Baltimore
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Lee and Jackson's Bloody Twelfth
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Three Years a Soldier
Christopher Thrasher is an instructor of history and political science at Fayetteville Technical Community College. He is the author of Fight Sports and American Masculinity: Salvation in Violence from 1607 to the Present and Suffering in the Army of Tennessee: A Social History of the Confederate Army of the Heartland from the Battles for Atlanta to the Retreat from Nashville, winner of the 2022 Douglas Southall Freeman award.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781621907916 |
| ISBN 10 | 1621907910 |
| Title | Miserable Little Conglomeration |
| Author | Christopher Thrasher |
| Series | Voices Of The Civil War |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Tennessee Press |
| Year published | 2024-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |