Title:
Fort Snelling and the Civil War / Stephen E. Osman ; with a foreword by James I. Robertson Jr.
ISBN:
9780934294768
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Publication Information:
Saint Paul, Minnesota : Ramsey County Historical Society, [2017]
Physical Description:
xii, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 x 28 cm
Contents:
Frontier Fort to valuable real estate -- Minnesota goes to war -- Restoration and repair -- The business of making soldiers -- Leaving for the front -- Soldier life at the Fort -- Boys will be boys - the fun of camp life -- War at home transforms Fort Snelling -- The Indian camps : internees, deportees, Dakota scouts -- Civilians at the post -- Like any military post - whiskey & crime -- Command, control, and management -- They put us in the bull pen : the draft rendezvous -- Our last duty as soldiers -- The regulars return - and stay for 80 years -- What remains?
Summary:
"Fort Snelling was an integral part of our national history, but the crisis over slavery in the 1850s provoked fierce debate over whether the west would be slave or free. Abraham Lincoln's election as president in 1860 and civil war that followed dramatically changed Fort Snelling. This book tells stories of the 24,000 men (and a few women) who passed through the Fort on their way to Union Army service. The U.S.-Dakota Conflict of 1862 and its aftermath accelerated Fort Snelling's transformation. This book does not retell the story of that war; instead it depicts what that war meant to Fort Snelling's soldiers and civilians"-- Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
ocn986799340
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