Author: Frank Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War
Author: Frank Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War
Author: Frank Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781418123130
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781418123130
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South. 1860-1865
Author: Frank Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore
Author: Benjamin Albert Botkin
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803261723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Stories of bravery, humor, and faith reflect the emotions and attitudes of freedmen, women, deserters, patriots, and resisters towards the war, as well as their opinions of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, and "Stonewall" Jackson.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803261723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Stories of bravery, humor, and faith reflect the emotions and attitudes of freedmen, women, deserters, patriots, and resisters towards the war, as well as their opinions of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, and "Stonewall" Jackson.
Cataloging of Resources Digitized for Preservation
Author: Association of Research Libraries. Systems and Procedures Exchange Center
Publisher: Association of Research Libr
ISBN:
Category : Cataloging of computer files
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher: Association of Research Libr
ISBN:
Category : Cataloging of computer files
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Destructive War
Author: Charles Royster
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307760596
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, the men who came to embody the apocalyptic passions of North and South, and re-creates their characters, their strategies, and the feelings they inspired in their countrymen. At once an incisive dual biography, hypnotically engrossing military history, and a cautionary examination of the American penchant for patriotic bloodshed, The Destructive War is a work of enormous power.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307760596
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, the men who came to embody the apocalyptic passions of North and South, and re-creates their characters, their strategies, and the feelings they inspired in their countrymen. At once an incisive dual biography, hypnotically engrossing military history, and a cautionary examination of the American penchant for patriotic bloodshed, The Destructive War is a work of enormous power.
Guide to the Study and Reading of American History
Author: Edward Channing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Pea Ridge
Author: William L. Shea
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807846698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The first definitive study of a Civil War battle in the Trans-Mississippi shows how the battle of Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas dramatically altered the balance of power and helped ensure Union victory
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807846698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The first definitive study of a Civil War battle in the Trans-Mississippi shows how the battle of Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas dramatically altered the balance of power and helped ensure Union victory
The Battle of Belmont
Author: Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807866814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The battle of Belmont was the first battle in the western theater of the Civil War and, more importantly, the first battle of the war fought by Ulysses S. Grant. It set a pattern for warfare not only in the Mississippi Valley but at Fort Donelson and Shiloh as well. Grant's 7 November 1861 strike against the Southern forces at Belmont, in southeastern Missouri on the Mississippi River, made use of the newly outfitted Yankee timberclads and all the infantry available at the staging area in Cairo, Illinois. The Confederates, led by Leonidas Polk and Gideon Pillow, had the advantages of position and superior numbers. They hoped to smash Grant's expeditionary force on the Missouri shore and cut off the escape of the Illinois and Iowa troops from their boats. The confrontation was a bloody, all-day fight that a veteran of a dozen major battles would later call "frightful to contemplate." At first successful, the Federals were eventually driven from the field and withdrew up the Mississippi to safety. The battle cost some twenty percent of his troops, but as a result of this engagement Grant became known as an audacious fighting general. Using diaries and letters of participants, official documents, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Nathaniel Hughes provides the only full-length tactical study of the battle that catapulted Grant into prominence. Throughout the narrative, Hughes draws sketches of the lives and fates of individual soldiers who fought on both sides, especially of the colorful and enormously dissimilar principal actors, Grant and Polk.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807866814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The battle of Belmont was the first battle in the western theater of the Civil War and, more importantly, the first battle of the war fought by Ulysses S. Grant. It set a pattern for warfare not only in the Mississippi Valley but at Fort Donelson and Shiloh as well. Grant's 7 November 1861 strike against the Southern forces at Belmont, in southeastern Missouri on the Mississippi River, made use of the newly outfitted Yankee timberclads and all the infantry available at the staging area in Cairo, Illinois. The Confederates, led by Leonidas Polk and Gideon Pillow, had the advantages of position and superior numbers. They hoped to smash Grant's expeditionary force on the Missouri shore and cut off the escape of the Illinois and Iowa troops from their boats. The confrontation was a bloody, all-day fight that a veteran of a dozen major battles would later call "frightful to contemplate." At first successful, the Federals were eventually driven from the field and withdrew up the Mississippi to safety. The battle cost some twenty percent of his troops, but as a result of this engagement Grant became known as an audacious fighting general. Using diaries and letters of participants, official documents, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Nathaniel Hughes provides the only full-length tactical study of the battle that catapulted Grant into prominence. Throughout the narrative, Hughes draws sketches of the lives and fates of individual soldiers who fought on both sides, especially of the colorful and enormously dissimilar principal actors, Grant and Polk.
Cultural History of Reading [2 volumes]
Author: Sara E. Quay
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313071675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1083
Book Description
What is it about some books that makes them timeless? Cultural History of Reading looks at books from their earliest beginnings through the present day, in both the U.S. and regions all over the world. Not only fiction and literature, but religious works, dictionaries, scientific works, and home guides such as Mrs. Beeton's all have had an impact on not only their own time and place, but continue to capture the attention of readers today. Volume 1 examines the history of books in regions throughout the world, identifying both literature and nonfiction that was influenced by cultural events of its time. Volume 2 identifies books from the pre-colonial era to the present day that have had lasting significance in the United States. History students and book lovers alike will enjoy discovering the books that have impacted our world.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313071675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1083
Book Description
What is it about some books that makes them timeless? Cultural History of Reading looks at books from their earliest beginnings through the present day, in both the U.S. and regions all over the world. Not only fiction and literature, but religious works, dictionaries, scientific works, and home guides such as Mrs. Beeton's all have had an impact on not only their own time and place, but continue to capture the attention of readers today. Volume 1 examines the history of books in regions throughout the world, identifying both literature and nonfiction that was influenced by cultural events of its time. Volume 2 identifies books from the pre-colonial era to the present day that have had lasting significance in the United States. History students and book lovers alike will enjoy discovering the books that have impacted our world.