Just This Side of Madness

Univ Central Arkansas Pr

Original Essays on the Poetry of Anne Sexton

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Biography of important and controversial civil war and reconstruction era soldier and political figure. May 1861 Clayton was formally mustered into the Union Army as a captain rising the the ranks to the level of brigadier general. During the morning and early afternoon of October 25, 1863, Clayton commanded federal troops occupying Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He successfully repulsed a three-pronged confederate attack of the forces of General John S. Marmaduke. His troops had piled cotton bales around the Pine Bluff courthouse and surrounding streets to make a barricade for the Union defenders, and it worked. After the war, Powell decided to stay in Arkansas. He married and together with his brother William (W.H.H. Clayton), purchased a plantation in Jefferson County, Arkansas, Mississippi Delta. As in other southern states, violence did not end with the war. Hostilities continued and intensified as whites used lynchings, other physical attacks and intimidation against emancipated freedmen to repress black voting and maintain white supremacy. They intimidated white Republicans as well to regain political power. Other planters told Powell that they would just pretend to go along with Reconstruction. Powell at first tried to stay out of the conflicts. When his neighbors became more threatening, he decided to enter politics. In 1868 Clayton was elected as the first Republican governor of Arkansas. His tenure was marked by soaring state debt , corruption, and violence. He was forced to declare martial law at the beginning of his term because of racial tensions, which were eventually cleared by General Daniel Phillips Upham. Many members of his administration, and colleagues in his party were charged with corruption while he was governor. Clayton was impeached but never formally convicted. He was reportedly involved with the tampering of a US senate election between Thomas Boles and John Edwards. His administration is mainly blamed for the Brooks-Baxter War...

The Honorable Powell Clayton

Burnside, William H.

Biographies & Memoirs

Old Testament Women in Western Literature

Frontain, Raymond-Jean

The title refers to what astronomers call an unexplainable phenomenon, in this case, the extraordinary accomplishments of Lily Peter (1891-1991) self-made millionaire farmer, gifted poet, photographer, musician, conservationist, environmentalist, and patron of the arts who rose to lofty status from poverty-stricken farm life. Her biographer is a scholar/writer who had both direct and indirect contact with Peter for many years. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

A Nude Singularity: Lily Peter of Arkansas : A Biography

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Jaggers, Annielaura M.

Gardening & Landscape Design

Book by Gorsky, A. A., Gorinov, M. M., Danilov, A. A.

Essays on the Motherland: A Brief History of Modern Russia (The University of Central Arkansas Russian Studies Series)

History

Gorsky, A. A.

Gorinov, M. M.

Russia

Art historian Donald Harington narrates a gallery tour of George Dombek's artistic life. In this book, more than 70 reproductions (62 color, 12 black &amp; white) depict Dombek's mastery of the watercolor medium, light and rhythmic randomness, in each of his six major painting series from 1975 to 1994: Arkansas Barns, San Francisco Fire Escapes, Youngstown Steel Mills, Florida Tobacco Barns, Rocks, and Bikes &amp; Trees.

On a Clear Day: The Paintings of George Dombek 1975-1994

Harington, Donald

Dombek, George

Arts & Photography

One hundred sixty-three years ago the steamboat WAVERLY appeared on the White River...the first of over 400 steamers to travel that waterway. Steamers played a significant role in the social and economic development of the region. Steamboats and Ferries is a meticulously researched and carefully written account of this aspect of cultural development along the White River.

Steamboats and Ferries on White River: A Heritage Revisited

Huddleston, Duane

Rose, Sammie

Wood, Pat

Americas

Donne's religious life ... - and the imaginative works that his religion inspired - are among the most troublesome sets of paradoxes and problems to emerge from the English Renaissance. Donne was born into one of the most visible and influential of Catholic families, yet he concluded his life as one of the most visible and influential spokesmen for the Anglican compromise. The author of poems of extraordinary interiority and of prose meditations that betray a pained self-scrutiny, Donne was fascinated by the conversion experiences of Saints Paul and Augustine, but, paradoxically, he left little conclusive evidence by which the modern reader or biographer may chart his spiritual progress. He has, alternately, been accused of guilt-ridden recusancy, condemned for gross political expediency, and lauded for maintaining an extraordinary integrity in a religiously volatile age. Every scholar who believes he has defined Donne's religious life is, ultimately, undone: there is always more.

John Donne's Religious Imagination: Essays in Honor of John T. Shawcross

Phil Stephenson wrote his Civil War Memoirs late in 1865, when he was twenty, full of hate and pain, and wandering the streets of St. Louis, back home but unwelcome. Thirty years later he revised and expanded these memories with the longer view of a fifty-year-old. He kept the smells of the battle field, the cries of the wounded and dying, the agonies of the surgeon's table, yet he did his best to interpret for himself and for others these war experiences, "so fresh they stand out from the rest of my life as though photographed in letters of fire." Passionate in his honesty, Phil spares no man - priest or commanding general or slave holder or himself. "Truth in history is sacred and these things must be said."Phil tells the story of the Army of Tennessee as known by a sixteen-year-old private who survives to become a veteran infantryman and artilleryman. Fighting with the 13th Arkansas and the 5th Company, Washington Artillery, Phil Stephenson saw the war in the west from Belmont to Peachtree Creek to Spanish Fort. He knew the crack of Pat Cleburne's voice and sat squirming in a parlor under the penetrating eyes of Gen. Hardee. He saw Leonidas Polk killed, shared a blanket with a sleeping Gen. Breckinridge, and stared into the commanding eyes of Joseph Johnston. His pages yield stories of drunks and heroes, kind nurses and cruel sergeants, the brilliant and the blundering.The significance of Phil's story is not his depiction of grand events. It is the details of the war within the war, having to go house to house begging for a blanket, creating "jumble lia" as his New Orleans battery mates look on condescendingly, freezing in an open railcar and watching fellow passengers lose their hold and fall to their deaths. Phil sits on the piazza with the master and shares bread in a cabin with a slave. A dying South comes alive once again.Phil Stephenson is a charming, compelling story teller whose narrative rewards aficionados and students of the Civil War.

The Civil War Memoir of Philip Daingerfield Stephenson, D.D.: Private, Company K, 13th Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, and Loader, Piece No. 4, 5th

Stephenson, Philip Daingerfield

Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs, Jr.

Historical

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