Author: Robert Jones Burdette
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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A narrative of service in the 47th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, 1862-1865.

Author: Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307427064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 965

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Composed almost entirely of Midwesterners and molded into a lean, skilled fighting machine by Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, the Army of the Tennessee marched directly into the heart of the Confederacy and won major victories at Shiloh and at the rebel strongholds of Vicksburg and Atlanta.Acclaimed historian Steven Woodworth has produced the first full consideration of this remarkable unit that has received less prestige than the famed Army of the Potomac but was responsible for the decisive victories that turned the tide of war toward the Union. The Army of the Tennessee also shaped the fortunes and futures of both Grant and Sherman, liberating them from civilian life and catapulting them onto the national stage as their triumphs grew. A thrilling account of how a cohesive fighting force is forged by the heat of battle and how a confidence born of repeated success could lead soldiers to expect “nothing but victory.”

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 842

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Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Author: William Ian Miller
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041054
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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Few of us spend much time thinking about courage, but we know it when we see it--or do we? Is it best displayed by marching into danger, making the charge, or by resisting, enduring without complaint? Is it physical or moral, or both? Is it fearless, or does it involve subduing fear? Abner Small, a Civil War soldier, was puzzled by what he called the "mystery of bravery"; to him, courage and cowardice seemed strangely divorced from character and will. It is this mystery, just as puzzling in our day, that William Ian Miller unravels in this engrossing meditation. Miller culls sources as varied as soldiers' memoirs, heroic and romantic literature, and philosophical discussions to get to the heart of courage--and to expose its role in generating the central anxieties of masculinity and manhood. He probes the link between courage and fear, and explores the connection between bravery and seemingly related states: rashness, stubbornness, madness, cruelty, fury; pride and fear of disgrace; and the authority and experience that minimize fear. By turns witty and moving, inquisitive and critical, his inquiry takes us from ancient Greece to medieval Europe, to the American Civil War, to the Great War and Vietnam, with sidetrips to the schoolyard, the bedroom, and the restaurant. Whether consulting Aristotle or private soldiers, Miller elicits consistently compelling insights into a condition as endlessly interesting as it is elusive.

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Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: Earl J. Hess
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807159387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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EARL J. HESS is Stewart W. McClelland Chair in History at Lincoln Memorial University and the author of fifteen books on the Civil War, including Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign ; The Knoxville Campaign: Burnside and Longstreet in East Tennessee ; and The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi.

Author: Johnson Brigham
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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Author: Toronto Public Library
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Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Author: Library Company of Philadelphia
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1090

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