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- Title
- Civil War Memory and the Preservation of the Olustee Battlefield.
- Creator
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Trelstad, Steven, Gannon, Barbara, Walker, Ezekiel, Cassanello, Robert, University of Central Florida
- Abstract / Description
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This thesis explores the absence of a Union monument at the Olustee Battlefield one hundred and fifty-five years after the battle concluded though this field has a number of Confederate monuments. Moreover, after the Battle of Olustee in February 1864, the largest battle of the Civil War fought on Florida soil, the victorious Confederates killed wounded African American soldiers left behind after the Union retreat. This thesis examines why Olustee battlefield became a place of Confederate...
Show moreThis thesis explores the absence of a Union monument at the Olustee Battlefield one hundred and fifty-five years after the battle concluded though this field has a number of Confederate monuments. Moreover, after the Battle of Olustee in February 1864, the largest battle of the Civil War fought on Florida soil, the victorious Confederates killed wounded African American soldiers left behind after the Union retreat. This thesis examines why Olustee battlefield became a place of Confederate memory, enshrining the Lost Cause within its monuments for well over a half of a century that consciously excluded any commemoration of the Union dead. The lack of proper commemoration to the costly Union sacrifices at Olustee comes as a surprise, since some of the Union dead still rest in a mass grave on the battlefield. They remain on this field because after the war, federal soldiers reburied the Olustee dead in a mass grave and erected a temporary memorial that marked their final resting place. This neglect contradicted War department policy that mandated that the reinterred Union dead be in separate graves and marked by individual permanent headstones. When the temporary monument marking their presence disappeared, this also erased the memory of their presence and their sacrifice from the Olustee landscape. This left room for champions of the Confederate Lost Cause - Southern, Confederate Civil War memory - like the United Daughters of Confederacy (UDC) to build monuments to the Confederate cause. In fact, these women worked actively to ensure that the Union dead were not memorialized, particularly the African American casualties. The UDC managed the site until 1949, when the State of Florida assumed control of those grounds. Seventy years of direct control by the state of Florida failed to make a difference in the landscape of memory at Olustee: the Union dead have no monument to commemorate their sacrifice. This thesis explores why the markers, monuments, and policies still honor the Lost Cause memory of the battle, even as the park services in charge of the site promote a reconciliationist narrative and the resurgence of Union memory, including the sacrifice of black US soldiers. Sources used include Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, meeting minutes of the UDC, newspaper articles, official documents from the Florida Division of Parks and Recreation, documents from the National Park Service, private correspondences, and state legislature bills.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2019
- Identifier
- CFE0007869, ucf:52763
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007869
- Title
- A friend of the Seminole.
- Creator
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Walsh, George Ethelbert, Caswell, Edward C., David C. Cook Publishing Co., PALMM (Project)
- Abstract / Description
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The fictional adventures of two boys in southwestern Florida and the Seminole Indian they befriend.
- Date Issued
- 1911
- Identifier
- AAB6355QF00001/18/200505/17/200722050BfamIa D0QF, FHP C CF 2005-01-19, FCLA url 20050425xOCLC, 60544775, CF00001707, 2582870, ucf:18973
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001707.jpg
- Title
- THE ANCIENT CITY OCCUPIED: ST. AUGUSTINE AS A TEST CASE FOR STEPHEN ASH'S CIVIL WAR OCCUPATION MODEL.
- Creator
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Totten, Eric, Sacher, John, University of Central Florida
- Abstract / Description
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This thesis intends to prove that Stephen V. Ash's model of occupation from his work, When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, is applicable to St. Augustine's occupation experience in the Civil War. Three overarching themes in Ash's work are consistent with Civil War St. Augustine. First, that Union policy of conciliation towards southern civilians was abandoned after the first few months of occupation due to both non-violent and violent resistance from those...
Show moreThis thesis intends to prove that Stephen V. Ash's model of occupation from his work, When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, is applicable to St. Augustine's occupation experience in the Civil War. Three overarching themes in Ash's work are consistent with Civil War St. Augustine. First, that Union policy of conciliation towards southern civilians was abandoned after the first few months of occupation due to both non-violent and violent resistance from those civilians. Second, that Ash's "zones of occupation" of the occupied South, being garrisoned towns, no-man's-land, and the Confederate frontier apply to St. Augustine and the surrounding countryside. Finally, Ash's assertions that the southern community was changed by the war and Union occupation, is reflected in the massive demographic shifts that rocked St. Augustine from 1862 to 1865. This thesis will show that all three of Ash's themes apply to St. Augustine's Civil War occupation experience and confirms the author's generalizations about life in the occupied South.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2011
- Identifier
- CFE0004031, ucf:49172
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004031
- Title
- From Skeptical Disinterest to Ideological Crusade: The Road to American Participation in the Greek Civil War, 1943-1949.
- Creator
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Villiotis, Stephen, Solonari, Vladimir, Zhang, Hong, Beiler, Rosalind, University of Central Florida
- Abstract / Description
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This thesis examines the way in which the United States formulated its policy toward Greece during the Greek civil war (1943-1949). It asserts that U.S. intervention in Greece was based on circumstantial evidence and the assumption of Soviet global intentions, rather than on dispatches from the field which consistently reported from 1943-1946 that the Soviets were not involved in that country's affairs. It also maintains that the post-Truman Doctrine American policy in Greece was in essence,...
Show moreThis thesis examines the way in which the United States formulated its policy toward Greece during the Greek civil war (1943-1949). It asserts that U.S. intervention in Greece was based on circumstantial evidence and the assumption of Soviet global intentions, rather than on dispatches from the field which consistently reported from 1943-1946 that the Soviets were not involved in that country's affairs. It also maintains that the post-Truman Doctrine American policy in Greece was in essence, a continuation of British policy there from 1943-1946, which meant to impose an unpopular government on the people of Greece, and tolerated unlawful violence of the extreme Greek right-wing.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2013
- Identifier
- CFE0005068, ucf:49959
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005068
- Title
- The autobiography of an ex-coloured man.
- Creator
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Johnson, James Weldon, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract / Description
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Fictional autobiography of a fair-skinned African American and his observations on race problems in America. Written by the first African American leader of the NAACP and native of Jacksonville, Fla.
- Date Issued
- 1927
- Identifier
- AAC3709QF00001/23/200704/17/200719161BnamI D0QF, FHP C CF 2007-1-23, FCLA url 20070405xOCLC, 123187352, CF00001739, 2702961, ucf:21601
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001739.jpg
- Title
- Bluegrass, Blueprints, and Bildung: The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come as an Appalachian Bildungsroman.
- Creator
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Shoemaker, Leona, Meehan, Kevin, Campbell, James, Jones, Donald, University of Central Florida
- Abstract / Description
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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come takes as its backdrop the American Civil War, as the author, John Fox, Jr., champions Kentucky's social development during the Progressive Era. Although often criticized for capitalizing on his propagation of regional stereotypes, I argue that the structure of The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come is much more problematic than that. Recognizing the Bildungsroman as a vehicle for cultural and social critique in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century...
Show moreThe Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come takes as its backdrop the American Civil War, as the author, John Fox, Jr., champions Kentucky's social development during the Progressive Era. Although often criticized for capitalizing on his propagation of regional stereotypes, I argue that the structure of The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come is much more problematic than that. Recognizing the Bildungsroman as a vehicle for cultural and social critique in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century writing, this project offers an in-depth literary analysis of John Fox, Jr.'s novel, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, in which I contend the story itself is, in fact, an impassioned account of human progress that juxtaposes civilized Bluegrass society and the degraded culture of the southern mountaineer. Indicative of the Progressive Era scientific attitude toward social and cultural evolution, Fox creates a narrative that advances his theory of southern evolution in which southern mountaineers are directed away from their own culturally inferior notions of development and towards a sense of duty to adapt to the civility of Bluegrass culture.This study focuses briefly on defining the Bildungsroman as a genre, from its eighteenth-century German origins to its influence on the American literary tradition. Beginning with Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, the Bildungsroman, in its most traditional form, narrates the development of the protagonist's mind and character from childhood to adulthood. Focus will be placed on how the Bildungsroman engages with literature's ability to facilitate the relationship between an individual and social development, as well as how easily the Bildungsroman lends itself to being appropriated and reconfigured. This study will then demonstrate how The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Fox's local-color narrative, in its focus on the growth of the protagonist, Chad, as an allegory of the development of an Appalachian identity during the Progressive Era, might usefully be understood as an Appalachian Bildungsroman. While Chad, ultimately acquires the polished savoir faire of a skilled Bluegrass gentleman, the tensions between the southern mountaineers and the Bluegrass bourgeois makes his socialization into any one culture impossible, a situation illustrative of the disparity between Appalachia and the rest of America during the Progressive Era. By adapting the Bildungsroman to represent this historical situation, Fox's novel demonstrates the kind of conflict that furthered Appalachian difference as point of contention for the problematic ideals of social and cultural evolution, thus, indicating the need for reconciling Appalachia's marginal position.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2015
- Identifier
- CFE0006002, ucf:51021
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0006002
- Title
- The Texar's revenge: or, North against South.
- Creator
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Verne, Jules, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract / Description
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Fictional story of Florida during the Civil War with many descriptions of flora and fauna. Original Date Field: 189?
- Date Issued
- 1890
- Identifier
- AAB6351QF00001/18/200512/01/200615903BfamI D0QF, FHP C CF 2005-01-19, FIPS12109, huc30801, FCLA url 20050623, FCLA url 20061117xOCLC, 76835911, CF00001701, 2700143, ucf:18673
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- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001701.jpg
- Title
- The war and slavery, and their relations to each other : a discourse, delivered in the Old South Church, Reading, Mass., December 28, 1862.
- Creator
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Barrows, W. (William)
- Description
- This pamphlet is a discourse delivered by Reverend William Barrows about the relations between the War and Slavery. The pamphlet is a second edition and, as noted on the title page, was "published by request."
- Date Created
- 1863
- Identifier
- DP0010862, E449.B276 1863
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0010862
- Title
- Pioneering in the southwest.
- Creator
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Holt, A. J. (Adoniram Judson), PALMM (Project)
- Abstract / Description
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Autobiography of the author and his adventures in Florida, Texas, and Tennessee during the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries.
- Date Issued
- 1923
- Identifier
- AAB6339QF00001/18/200508/04/200516257BfamI D0QF, FHP C CF 2005-01-19, FCLA url 20050302xOCLC, 60545028, CF00001694, 2580797, ucf:17346
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001694.jpg