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Title: The Dahlgren Affair: Terror and Conspiracy in the Civil War by Duane Schultz ISBN: 0-393-31986-5 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Well worth reading......
Comment: This proves to be a pretty interesting conspiracy book which in some way, may related to our current problems with terrorist activites. Here, we have an alleged set of papers found on the body of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren who was leading one of the cavalry columns which was supposed to free the Union POWs in Richmond. The papers found states that Dahlgren and his men planned to mass murder the Confederate government and burn Richmond to the ground. These papers gave a pretext for the South to go ahead with their own plans to conduct terroristic actions against the North. Was the papers planted and forged? Its a story of truth, half-truths and lies. One of the central themes that the book covered was if these Dahlgren papers were real or fake. Duane Schultz (the author) believed them to be fake. I find logic in what he is saying and believed that faked papers were meant to arouse the Southern spirit which have been in doldrum and give pretext for deseperate actions in the north. Well written, nicely researched and well presented, the book proves to be informative and easy to read. Of course, you have keep an open mind as well.
Rating: 1
Summary: The Dahlgren Affair
Comment: I found this book lacking in true facts about Ulric Dahlgren, the nephew of Charles Dahlgren of Natchez. To get an unbiased view of Ulric read "Charles Dahlgren of Natchez" by Herschel Grower, a professor emeritius of English and American literature at Vanderbilt, University.
Ulric was while enjoying his uncle Charles's hospitality in Natchez, MS and in Beersheba Springs, TN found to be full of arrogance and very condescending to others. No one was surprised that he would have concocted and tried to pull off the assination of President Davis, or the burning of Richmond.
He was very ambitious and ln 1860 Ulric wrote to his father his decision not to stay in the South, "The Deep South, Ulric wrote, as contrasted with Texas, Arizona, or Kansas, was "too civilized" and there was no room to move ahead in these weathly cotton states" without ownership of vast acreage and a number of slaves.
The fact that Ulric's father was Admiral John A. Dahlgren the famous inventor of the Dahlgren guns made him newsworthy as well as contributed greatly to his rise in rank, which ensured his hero status to the Northern people, and also an elaborate publicized Military funeral of his remains after the War.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Infamous Dahlgren Raid and Condfederate Espionage
Comment: A book of parallel stories, one of the infamous Dahlgren Raid captained by the egotistical Kilpatrick and the story that I was less familiar with, Confederate espionage efforts in the north by way of Canada. It also includes information on Elizabeth van Lew and other Union sympathizers in Richmond. Although familiar with Dahlgren's attempted raid on Richmond and Libby prison I was less familiar with Hines'attempts to free Confederate prisoners in Chicago. Brings up a lot of information I was not aware of such as the loss of Dahlgren's body, how the attempts to free Confederate prisoner's in the north were orchestrated, the depths of Kilpatrick's failure to attack Richmond and support Dahlgren, Dahlgren's own turn at espionage, Libbey Prison escapes and life inside and life in Canada among escaped Confederates. Well written and the book motivates me to read more about the Dahlgren affair which is still a raging controversy.
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Title: Tempest at Ox Hill: The Battle of Chantilly by David A. Welker ISBN: 0306811189 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Glory in the Name : A Novel of the Confederate Navy by James L. Nelson ISBN: 0060199695 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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