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The Fishing Creek Confederacy : a story of Civil War draft resistance / Richard A. Sauers and Peter Tomasak.

Author: Sauers, Richard Allen

Imprint:Columbia, Mo. ; London : University of Missouri Press, c2012.

Descriptionxiii, 224 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Note:1. Columbia County goes to war 1861-1862 -- 2. The Democrats grow stronger -- 3. The draft comes to the North -- 4. Columbia County and the draft, 1863 -- 5. Columbia County and the draft, January-July 1864 -- 6. A shooting -- 7. Military intervention -- 8. Soldiers and civilians -- 9. Prison -- 10. The military trials -- 11. The war's end and Knob Mountain -- 12. Postwar reverberations -- 13. Historiography -- 14. Conclusions -- Appendix: List of prisoners sent to Fort Mifflin, September 1, 1864.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-220) and index.



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Author:
Sauers, Richard Allen
Title:
Civil War draft resistance
Series Added Entry
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Subject:
Draft resisters -- Pennsylvania -- Columbia County.
Draft -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Draft resisters.
Fishing Creek (Pa. : Township) -- History, Military -- 19th century.
Columbia County (Pa.) -- History, Military -- 19th century.
Pennsylvania -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Contributor
Tomasak, Peter.