03930cam a2200673 4500 702134802 TxAuBib 20230317120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781640125759 1640125752 B0BJSYNZL2 Amazon d06cc450-9440-401b-83b3-a330891eb409 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9575360 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hooper, Candice Shy. Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom's Mail [Libby]. Potomac Books, 2023. general sherman. Biography. racism. bigotry. Ku Klux Klan. american history. Civil Rights. Civil War. union army. reconstruction. us post office. Abraham Lincoln. Military History. History. Postal Service. executive power. President Lincoln. military studies. General Grant. President Grant. ulysses s grant. union soldiers. Civil War studies. william techumseh sherman. civil rights law. mail delivery. Postal Agent. Honorary Colonel. Military Mail System. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 5610kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. History. Nonfiction. HTML:During the Civil War his movements from battlefield to battlefield were followed in the North and in the South nearly as closely as those of generals, though he was not in the military. After the war, his swift response to Ku Klux Klan violence sparked passage of a landmark civil rights law, though he was not a politician. When he died in 1888 newspapers reported his death from coast to coast, yet he's unknown today. He was the man who delivered the most valuable ingredient in U.S. soldiers' fighting spirit during those terrible war years—letters between the front lines and the home front. He was Absalom Markland, special agent of the United States Post Office, and this is his first biography.<br /> At the beginning of the Civil War, at the request of his childhood friend Ulysses S. Grant, Markland created the most efficient military mail system ever devised, and Grant gave him the honorary title of colonel. He met regularly with President Abraham Lincoln during the war and carried important messages between Lincoln and Generals Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman at crucial points in our nation's peril. When the Ku Klux Klan waged its reign of terror and intimidation after the Civil War, Markland's decisive action secured the executive powers President Grant needed to combat the Klan. Nearly every biography of Lincoln, Sherman, and Grant includes at least one footnote about Markland, but his important, sometimes daily interaction with them during and after the war has escaped modern notice, until now. Absalom Markland is a forgotten American hero. <i>Delivered Under Fire</i> tells his amazing story. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-03-16 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d06cc450-9440-401b-83b3-a330891eb409&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d06cc450-9440-401b-83b3-a330891eb409&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d06cc450-9440-401b-83b3-a330891eb409&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)