Author: Luke Ward Conerly
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Category : Pike County (Miss.)
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Author: E. Russ Williams
Publisher: Southern Historical Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780893081041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577

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Title on spine: Source records from Pike County, Mississippi, 1798-1910.

Author: Luke Ward Conerly
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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034183
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Author: John J. Fox
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1940669162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499

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The first book-length study about the bloody, chaotic Battle of Fort Gregg: “Sweeping . . . insightful . . . military history at its best.” —Civil War News By April 2, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant’s men had tightened their noose around the vital town of Petersburg, Virginia. Trapped on three sides with a river at their back, the soldiers from General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had never faced such dire circumstances. To give Lee time to craft an escape, a small motley group of threadbare Southerners made a suicidal last stand at a place called Fort Gregg. The venerable Union commander Major General John Gibbon called the struggle “one of the most desperate ever witnessed.” At 1:00 p.m., hearts pounded in the chests of thousands of Union soldiers in Gibbon’s 24th Corps. These courageous men fixed bayonets and charged across 800 yards of open ground into withering small arms and artillery fire. A handful of Confederates rammed cartridges into their guns and fired over Fort Gregg’s muddy parapets at this tidal wave of fresh Federal troops. Short on ammunition and men but not on bravery, these Southerners wondered if their last stand would make a difference. Many of the veterans who fought at this place considered it the nastiest fight of their war experience. Most could not shake the gruesome memories, yet when they passed on, the battle faded with them. On these pages, award-winning historian John Fox resurrects these forgotten stories, using numerous unpublished letters and diaries to take the reader from the Union battle lines all the way into Fort Gregg’s smoking cauldron of hell. Fourteen Federal soldiers would later receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for their valor during this hand-to-hand melee, yet the few bloody Confederate survivors would experience an ignominious end to their war. This richly detailed account is filled with maps, photos, and new perspectives on the strategic effect this little-known battle really had on the war in Virginia.

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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Elmo Howell
Publisher: Roscoe Langford
ISBN: 9780962202667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 906

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 778

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A world list of books in the English language.

Author: United States. War Department. Library
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1172

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