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03844aam a2200337 a 4500 001 D9097A7AC59D11E188F7F9E06AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120704010152 008 090611s2010 fluab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2009023128 020 $a 0813034191 (alk. paper) 020 $a 9780813034195 (alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)406945239 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BWX $d CDX $d WIH $d MIX $d NhCcYME $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 043 $a n-us-fl 050 00 $a F319.J1 $b S35 2010 050 00 $a F319.J1 $b S35 2010 100 1 $a Schafer, Daniel L. 245 1 $a Thunder on the river : $b the Civil War in northeast Florida / $c Daniel L. Schafer. 260 $a Gainesville : $b University Press of Florida, $c c2010. 300 $a xi, 348 p. : $b ill., maps ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-329) and index. 520 $a "This fast-paced narrative explores the impact of the Civil War on Florida's St. Johns River region. Moving chronologically through the war years, Thunder on the River brings to light the story of the city of Jacksonville, including the surrounding countryside and its residents, be they white or black, supporters of the Confederacy or of the Union." "Northeast Florida was the most hotly contested region of Florida during the Civil War. For the enslaved population of the region, Union control of the St. Johns meant that freedom was as close as the river. Hundreds of slaves and free blacks of northeast Florida made important wartime contributions, including many who escaped from bondage and joined the Union army to fight for freedom. The white residents of Jacksonville were so convinced that Northerners intended to limit the right granted by the Constitution to carry human property into the western territories, and to eventually abolish the institution of slavery altogether, that they embraced secession and war as their last desperate chance to preserve their way of life. Daniel Schafer delves into the complex dynamics of race and culture in the region, demonstrating how and why fears about the black population increased, and revealing the true motives behind state and federal initiatives that drove freed blacks from the cities back to the plantations even before war's end." "The city of Jacksonville was captured multiple times by Federal forces during the Civil War. During the fourth occupation it was used as a staging ground for the planned Union invasion of the Florida interior. This ill-fated expedition ended in the bloody Battle of Olustee in February 1864. This late Confederate victory - one of the last significant ones of the war - along with the deadly use of underwater mines against the U.S. Navy along the St. Johns, nearly succeeded in ending the final Union occupation of the city." "Thunder on the River touches on such important themes as secession, contested places, occupation, emancipation, invasions, hard war, and reconstruction. It presents local history in a national context and offers a comprehensive telling of the story of Florida's Civil War experience from the Missouri Compromise to Reconstruction-of Confederates and Unionists, of soldiers and civilians, of enlisted men and officers, of die-hards and deserters, of slaves and plantation owners, of ordinary men and women caught up in extraordinary events." --Book Jacket. 651 0 $a Jacksonville (Fla.) $x History, Military $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Jacksonville (Fla.) $x Social conditions $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Saint Johns River Region (Fla.) $x History, Military $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Saint Johns River Region (Fla.) $x Social conditions $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Florida $x History $y Civil War, 1861-1865. 941 $a 1 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20120704011804.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D9097A7AC59D11E188F7F9E06AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search