Author: Virginia Military Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Register of the Officers and Cadets of the Virginia Military Institute
Author: Virginia Military Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Ghost Cadet
Author: Elaine Marie Alphin
Publisher: Hither Page Press
ISBN: 9780979833250
Category : New Market, Battle of, New Market, Va., 1864
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting his grandmother, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch.
Publisher: Hither Page Press
ISBN: 9780979833250
Category : New Market, Battle of, New Market, Va., 1864
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting his grandmother, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch.
Biographical Register of the Officers
Author: George Cullum
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429021292
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429021292
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Young Lions
Author: James Lee Conrad
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0811768406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Focusing on the South’s four major military colleges—the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), the South Carolina Military Academy (later The Citadel), the Georgia Military Institute, and the University of Alabama—The Young Lions is the story of young Confederate military cadets at war. From the opening of VMI in 1839 through the struggles of all the schools to remain open during the war, the death of Stonewall Jackson (a VMI professor), and the Pyrrhic victory of the Battle of New Market to the burning of the University of Alabama in 1865, this book reveals the everyday dramatic actions of cadets on battlefield and beyond.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0811768406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Focusing on the South’s four major military colleges—the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), the South Carolina Military Academy (later The Citadel), the Georgia Military Institute, and the University of Alabama—The Young Lions is the story of young Confederate military cadets at war. From the opening of VMI in 1839 through the struggles of all the schools to remain open during the war, the death of Stonewall Jackson (a VMI professor), and the Pyrrhic victory of the Battle of New Market to the burning of the University of Alabama in 1865, this book reveals the everyday dramatic actions of cadets on battlefield and beyond.
Register of Former Cadets : Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia, 1927
Author: Virginia Military Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lexington (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lexington (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Gullah Statesman
Author: Edward A. Miller, Jr.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643362976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A political biography of the first African American hero of the Civil War A native of Beaufort, South Carolina, Robert Smalls was born into slavery but—through acts of remarkable courage and determination—became the first African American hero of the Civil War and one of the most influential African American politicians in South Carolina history. In this largely political biography of Smalls's inspirational story, Edward A. Miller, Jr., traces the triumphs and setbacks of the celebrated U.S. congressman and advocate of compulsory, desegregated public education to illustrate how the life and contributions of this singular individual were indicative of the rise and fall of political influence for all African Americans during this rough transitional period in American history.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643362976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A political biography of the first African American hero of the Civil War A native of Beaufort, South Carolina, Robert Smalls was born into slavery but—through acts of remarkable courage and determination—became the first African American hero of the Civil War and one of the most influential African American politicians in South Carolina history. In this largely political biography of Smalls's inspirational story, Edward A. Miller, Jr., traces the triumphs and setbacks of the celebrated U.S. congressman and advocate of compulsory, desegregated public education to illustrate how the life and contributions of this singular individual were indicative of the rise and fall of political influence for all African Americans during this rough transitional period in American history.
Summer Session Catalogue
Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy
Author: Robert M. S. McDonald
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813922980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Although Jefferson feared the potential power of a standing army, the contributors point out he also contended that "whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace." They take a broad view of Jeffersonian security policy, exploring the ways in which West Point bolstered America's defenses against foreign aggression and domestic threats to the ideals of the American Revolution." "Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy should appeal to scholars and general readers interested in military history and the founding generation."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813922980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Although Jefferson feared the potential power of a standing army, the contributors point out he also contended that "whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace." They take a broad view of Jeffersonian security policy, exploring the ways in which West Point bolstered America's defenses against foreign aggression and domestic threats to the ideals of the American Revolution." "Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy should appeal to scholars and general readers interested in military history and the founding generation."--BOOK JACKET.
The Armed Forces Officer
Author: Richard Moody Swain
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160937583
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In 1950, when he commissioned the first edition of The Armed Forces Officer, Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall told its author, S.L.A. Marshall, that "American military officers, of whatever service, should share common ground ethically and morally." In this new edition, the authors methodically explore that common ground, reflecting on the basics of the Profession of Arms, and the officer's special place and distinctive obligations within that profession and especially to the Constitution.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160937583
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In 1950, when he commissioned the first edition of The Armed Forces Officer, Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall told its author, S.L.A. Marshall, that "American military officers, of whatever service, should share common ground ethically and morally." In this new edition, the authors methodically explore that common ground, reflecting on the basics of the Profession of Arms, and the officer's special place and distinctive obligations within that profession and especially to the Constitution.
Memorial, Virginia Military Institute
Author: Charles D. Walker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description