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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Lieutenant-General Theophilus Hunter Holmes, C.S.A.
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ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Theophilus Hunter Holmes
Author: Walter C. Hilderman IIIPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476602832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The son of a North Carolina governor, Theophilus Hunter Holmes graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1829 and served on the frontier during the Trail of Tears. He fought in the Second Seminole War and in the U.S.-Mexican War. In 1859, he became the U.S. Army's chief recruiting officer and was assigned to Governors Island at New York City. Only days before resigning from the U.S. Army, he helped organize the naval expedition sent to relieve Fort Sumter from the Confederacy's blockade. But then casting his lot with his native state, Holmes led a Confederate brigade at First Manassas and a division during the Peninsular Campaign, commanded armies in the Trans-Mississippi, and organized North Carolina's young boys and old men into the Confederate Reserves. Holmes served with some of America's most notable historic figures: Zachary Taylor, Winfield Scott, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis. In modern times, however, he is virtually unknown. The man and the soldier possessed traits of both triumph and tragedy, as demonstrated in this biography.
Battle of Helana
Author: Theophilus Hunter HolmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant
Author: William Garrett PistonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082034625X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
In the South, one can find any number of bronze monuments to the Confederacy featuring heroic images of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, J. E. B. Stuart, and many lesser commanders. But while the tarnish on such statues has done nothing to color the reputation of those great leaders, there remains one Confederate commander whose tarnished image has nothing to do with bronze monuments. Nowhere in the South does a memorial stand to Lee's intimate friend and second-in-command James Longstreet. In Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant, William Garrett Piston examines the life of James Longstreet and explains how a man so revered during the course of the war could fall from grace so swiftly and completely. Unlike other generals in gray whose deeds are familiar to southerners and northerners alike, Longstreet has the image not of a hero but of an incompetent who lost the Battle of Gettysburg and, by extension, the war itself. Piston's reappraisal of the general's military record establishes Longstreet as an energetic corps commander with an unsurpassed ability to direct troops in combat, as a trustworthy subordinate willing to place the war effort above personal ambition. He made mistakes, but Piston shows that he did not commit the grave errors at Gettysburg and elsewhere of which he was so often accused after the war. In discussing Longstreet's postwar fate, Piston analyzes the literature and public events of the time to show how the southern people, in reaction to defeat, evolved an image of themselves which bore little resemblance to reality. As a product of the Georgia backwoods, Longstreet failed to meet the popular cavalier image embodied by Lee, Stuart, and other Confederate heroes. When he joined the Republican party during Reconstruction, Longstreet forfeited his wartime reputation and quickly became a convenient target for those anxious to explain how a "superior people" could have lost the war. His new role as the villain of the Lost Cause was solidified by his own postwar writings. Embittered by years of social ostracism resulting from his Republican affiliation, resentful of the orchestrated deification of Lee and Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet exaggerated his own accomplishments and displayed a vanity that further alienated an already offended southern populace. Beneath the layers of invective and vilification remains a general whose military record has been badly maligned. Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant explains how this reputation developed—how James Longstreet became, in the years after Appomattox, the scapegoat for the South's defeat, a Judas for the new religion of the Lost Cause.
Report of Lieutenant General Holmes of the Battle of Helena; Also, Report of Lieutenant General A.P. Hill of the Battle of Bristoe Station; Also, Report of Major General Stevenson of Expedition Into East Tennessee. Published by Order of Congress
Author: Confederate States of America. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bristoe Station, Battle of, Va., 1863
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Report of Lieutenant General Holmes of the Battle of Helena
Author: Confederate States of America. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bristoe Station, Battle of, Va., 1863
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Theophilus Hunter Holmes
Author: Walter C. Hilderman IIIPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078647310X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The son of a North Carolina governor, Theophilus Hunter Holmes graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1829 and served on the frontier during the Trail of Tears. He fought in the Second Seminole War and in the U.S.-Mexican War. In 1859, he became the U.S. Army's chief recruiting officer and was assigned to Governors Island at New York City. Only days before resigning from the U.S. Army, he helped organize the naval expedition sent to relieve Fort Sumter from the Confederacy's blockade. But then casting his lot with his native state, Holmes led a Confederate brigade at First Manassas and a division during the Peninsular Campaign, commanded armies in the Trans-Mississippi, and organized North Carolina's young boys and old men into the Confederate Reserves. Holmes served with some of America's most notable historic figures: Zachary Taylor, Winfield Scott, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis. In modern times, however, he is virtually unknown. The man and the soldier possessed traits of both triumph and tragedy, as demonstrated in this biography.
Civil War Arkansas
Author: Anne BaileyPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610750993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This collection of essays represents the best recent history written on Civil War activity in Arkansas. It illuminates the complexity of such issues as guerrilla warfare, Union army policies, and the struggles hetween white and black civilians and soldiers, and also shows that the war years were a time of great change and personal conflict for the citizens of the state, despite the absence of "great" battles or armies. All the essays, which have been previously published in scholarly journals, have been revised to reflect recent scholarship in the field. Each selection explores a military or social dimension of the war that has been largely ignored or which is unique to the war in Arkansas—gristmill destruction, military farm colonies, nitre mining operations, mountain clan skirmishes, federal plantation experiments, and racial atrocities and reprisals. Together, the essays provoke thought on the character and cost of the war away from the great battlefields and suggest the pervasive change wrought by its destructiveness. In the cogent introduction Daniel E. Sutherland and Anne J. Bailey set the historiographic record of the Civil War in Arkansas, tracing a line from the first writings through later publications to our current understanding. As a volume in The Civil War in the West series, Civil War Arkansas elucidates little-known but significant aspects of the war, encouraging new perspectives on them and focusing on the less studied western theater. As such, it will inform and challenge both students and teachers of the American Civil War.
Military Records of General Officers of the Confederate States of America
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Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Military Records of General Officers of the Confederate States of America
Author: Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 1410211835
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Originally published in 1898, with 108 portraits and biographies of the Commander-in-Chief, Generals, Lieutenant Generals and Major Generals of the Confederate States of America, arranged in order of their rank, with their military records in the Confederate Army and previous records in the United States Army. In most cases and, indeed, wherever possible, the portrait is one taken during the war and shows the man as he was known to his own soldiers and contemporaries.
