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A Broken Regiment

Author : Lesley J. Gordon
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807157325
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book A Broken Regiment written by Lesley J. Gordon and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Broken Regiment recounts the tragic history of one of the Civil War's most ill-fated Union military units. Organized in the late summer of 1862, the 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was unprepared for battle a month later, when it entered the fight at Antietam. The results were catastrophic: nearly a quarter of the men were killed or wounded, and Connecticut's 16th panicked and fled the field. In the years that followed, the regiment participated in minor skirmishes before surrendering en masse in North Carolina in 1864. Most of its members spent months in southern prison camps, including the notorious Andersonville stockade, where disease and starvation took the lives of over one hundred members of the unit. The struggles of the 16th led survivors to reflect on the true nature of their military experience during and after the war, and questions of cowardice and courage, patriotism and purpose, were often foremost in their thoughts. Over time, competing stories emerged of who they were, why they endured what they did, and how they should be remembered. By the end of the century, their collective recollections reshaped this troubling and traumatic past, and the "unfortunate regiment" emerged as the "Brave Sixteenth," their individual memories and accounts altered to fit the more heroic contours of the Union victory. The product of over a decade of research, Lesley J. Gordon's A Broken Regiment illuminates this unit's complex history amid the interplay of various, and often competing, voices. The result is a fascinating and heartrending story of one regiment's wartime and postwar struggles.

A Monstrous Regiment of Women

Author : Laurie R. King
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429936525
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book A Monstrous Regiment of Women written by Laurie R. King and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 1995-07-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award It is 1921 and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology--is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance. Independent at last, with a passion for divinity and detective work, her most baffling mystery may now involve Holmes and the burgeoning of a deeper affection between herself and the retired detective. Russell's attentions turn to the New Temple of God and its leader, Margery Childe, a charismatic suffragette and a mystic, whose draw on the young theology scholar is irresistible. But when four bluestockings from the Temple turn up dead shortly after changing their wills, could sins of a capital nature be afoot? Holmes and Russell investigate, as their partnership takes a surprising turn in A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King.

Hood's Texas Brigade

Author : Susannah J. Ural
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807167606
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Hood's Texas Brigade written by Susannah J. Ural and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia was one of the best units to fight on either side in the American Civil War. Three factors made that success possible: their strong self-identity as Confederates, the mutual respect shared between the brigade's junior officers and their men, and a constant desire to maintain their reputation not just as Texans, but also as the best soldiers in Robert E. Lee's army and all the Confederacy. Hood's Texas Brigade is a study of the soldiers and families of this elite unit that challenges key historical arguments about soldier motivation, volunteerism and desertion, home front morale, and veterans' postwar adjustment.

Don Troiani's Regiments and Uniforms of the Civil War

Author : Don Troiani
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811705202
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Don Troiani's Regiments and Uniforms of the Civil War written by Don Troiani and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world of historical painting, Don Troiani stands alone, universally acclaimed for the accuracy, drama, and sensitivity of his depictions of America's past. His Civil War paintings and limited edition prints hang in the finest collections in the country and are noted by collectors from around the world. Now, in "Don Troiani's Regiments and Uniforms of the Civil War", the artist turns his brush to one of the most colourful and captivating aspects of Civil War history: the individual units that earned their reputations on the battlefield and the distinctive uniforms they wore. In addition to 130 paintings of battle scenes and individual figures, the book also includes more than 250 full-colour photographs of the uniforms the soldiers wore and the accoutrements they carried. Supporting the illustrations is text by two of the leading military artefact experts. Taken together, it makes for one of the most comprehensive books on Civil War uniforms ever undertaken.

Lost Battalion of Tet

Author : Charles A Krohn
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612512070
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Lost Battalion of Tet written by Charles A Krohn and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-05-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, this new paperback edition brings back into print a book that became an essential source for a 2006 study of the battle by the U.S. Army s Center of Military History. It takes a critical look at what went wrong in early 1968 during one of the first engagements of Tet, when a U.S. infantry battalion was ordered to attack a large North Vietnamese force near Hue City without air or artillery support. The tragic military foul-up resulted in over 60 percent casualties for the 2d Battalion, 12th Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, when the soldiers were surrounded by the enemy and began running out of ammunition. The bold decision by battalion commander Lt. Col. Richard Sweet to break out with his remaining soldiers under cover of darkness saved this encirclement from being a total disaster. Author Charles Krohn, the unit s intelligence officer at the time, provides a much-needed analysis of what took place and fills his account with details that have been confirmed as factual by other survivors. Krohn examines the battalion s involvement in two other major attacks for lessons learned when vital systems break down lessons, he says, that are timeless and applicable anywhere. This book is published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army.

The Second Georgia Infantry Regiment, 1861-1865

Author : F. Mikell Harper
Publisher : Indigo Custom Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 0976287536
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (762 download)

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Download or read book The Second Georgia Infantry Regiment, 1861-1865 written by F. Mikell Harper and published by Indigo Custom Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Georgia Infantry Regiment fought in all of the most famous and important campaigns of the Eastern theater of the American Civil War. This written and pictorial history is told by or on behalf of the men who comprised the unit.

Where Death and Glory Meet

Author : Russell Duncan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820321362
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Where Death and Glory Meet written by Russell Duncan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 18, 1863, the African American soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry led a courageous but ill-fated charge on Fort Wagner, a key bastion guarding Charleston harbor. Confederate defenders killed, wounded, or made prisoners of half the regiment. Only hours later, the body of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the regiment's white commander, was thrown into a mass grave with those of twenty of his men. The assault promoted the young colonel to the higher rank of martyr, ranking him alongside the legendary John Brown in the eyes of abolitionists. In this biography of Shaw, Russell Duncan presents a poignant portrait of an average young soldier, just past the cusp of manhood and still struggling against his mother's indomitable will, thrust unexpectedly into the national limelight. Using information gleaned from Shaw's letters home before and during the war, Duncan tells the story of the rebellious son of wealthy Boston abolitionists who never fully reconciled his own racial prejudices yet went on to head the North's vanguard black regiment and give his life to the cause of freedom. This thorough biography looks at Shaw from historical and psychological viewpoints and examines the complex family relationships that so strongly influenced him.

Congress's Own

Author : Holly A. Mayer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806169923
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Congress's Own written by Holly A. Mayer and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel Moses Hazen’s 2nd Canadian Regiment was one of the first “national” regiments in the American army. Created by the Continental Congress, it drew members from Canada, eleven states, and foreign forces. “Congress’s Own” was among the most culturally, ethnically, and regionally diverse of the Continental Army’s regiments—a distinction that makes it an apt reflection of the union that was struggling to create a nation. The 2nd Canadian, like the larger army, represented and pushed the transition from a colonial, continental alliance to a national association. The problems the regiment raised and encountered underscored the complications of managing a confederation of states and troops. In this enterprising study of an intriguing and at times “infernal” regiment, Holly A. Mayer marshals personal and official accounts—from the letters and journals of Continentals and congressmen to the pension applications of veterans and their widows—to reveal what the personal passions, hardships, and accommodations of the 2nd Canadian can tell us about the greater military and civil dynamics of the American Revolution. Congress’s Own follows congressmen, commanders, and soldiers through the Revolutionary War as the regiment’s story shifts from tents and trenches to the halls of power and back. Interweaving insights from borderlands and community studies with military history, Mayer tracks key battles and traces debates that raged within the Revolution’s military and political borderlands wherein subjects became rebels, soldiers, and citizens. Her book offers fresh, vivid accounts of the Revolution that disclose how “Congress’s Own” regiment embodied the dreams, diversity, and divisions within and between the Continental Army, Congress, and the emergent union of states during the War for American Independence.

Health of the Seventh Cavalry

Author : P. Willey
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080615330X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Health of the Seventh Cavalry written by P. Willey and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its charismatic leader George Custer and its memorable encounters with Plains Indians, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Seventh Cavalry serves as the iconic regiment in the post–Civil War U.S Army. Voluminous written documentation as well as archaeological and osteological research suggest that the soldiers of the Seventh represented a cross section of the men who joined the army as a whole at the time. In Health of the Seventh Cavalry, editors P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott and their co-contributors—experts in history, medicine, human biology, epidemiology, and human osteology—examine the Seventh’s medical records to determine the health of the nineteenth-century U.S. Army, and the prevalence and treatment of the numerous conditions that plagued soldiers during the Indian Wars. Building on previous comparisons of archaeological evidence and medical records, Willey and Scott follow multiple lines of inquiry to assess the health of the Seventh, from its organization in 1866 to its 1884 station on the Northern Great Plains. Pairing general overviews of nineteenth- and twentieth-century health care with essays on malaria, injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other specific ailments, Health of the Seventh Cavalry provides fresh insights into the health, disease, and trauma that the regiment experienced over two decades. More than 100 tables, graphs, and maps track the troops’ illnesses and diseases by month, season, year, and location, as well as their stress periods, desertions, and deaths. A glossary of medical terms rounds out the volume. As an ideal exemplar of regiments of its time, the Seventh Cavalry affords scholars and enthusiasts a better understanding of nineteenth-century health and medicine. This volume reveals the struggles that the post–Civil War Seventh, and the entire U.S. Army, faced on the battlefield and elsewhere.

Maneuver and Firepower

Author : John B. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Maneuver and Firepower written by John B. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Infantry in Battle

Author : Infantry School (U.S.)
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428916911
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Infantry in Battle written by Infantry School (U.S.) and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1934 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Operation Broken Reed

Author : Arthur L. Boyd
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 078673261X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Operation Broken Reed written by Arthur L. Boyd and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the Korean War, President Truman launched one of the most important intelligence -- gathering operations in history. So valuable were the mission's findings about the North Korean-Soviet-Chinese alliance that it is no stretch to say they prevented World War III. Only one man -- sworn to secrecy for a half-century -- survived Operation Broken Reed. Arthur Boyd recalls his role as cryptographer on a team of Army Rangers, Navy Frogmen, Air Force officers, and CIA operatives that posed as the captured crew of a B-29 bomber in January 1952. Given cover names and cyanide capsules in case of discovery, the men were transported by Chinese Nationalists wearing Communist uniforms across North Korea, where undercover allies delivered information about troop strengths, weaponry, and intention. Fraught with danger, the mission came apart on its last day when the Americans came under fire from Chinese forces wise to the operation. The members of Broken Reed supplied Truman with proof of massive Chinese and Soviet buildups and a heavy Soviet bomber group in Manchuria, fully loaded with atomic weapons. With the potential destruction of the world outlined in front of him, Truman chose not to escalate the Korean War, saving millions of lives.

Freedom by the Sword

Author : William A. Dobak
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510720227
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Freedom by the Sword written by William A. Dobak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War changed the United States in many ways—economic, political, and social. Of these changes, none was more important than Emancipation. Besides freeing nearly four million slaves, it brought agricultural wage labor to a reluctant South and gave a vote to black adult males in the former slave states. It also offered former slaves new opportunities in education, property ownership—and military service. From late 1862 to the spring of 1865, as the Civil War raged on, the federal government accepted more than 180,000 black men as soldiers, something it had never done before on such a scale. Known collectively as the United States Colored Troops and organized in segregated regiments led by white officers, some of these soldiers guarded army posts along major rivers; others fought Confederate raiders to protect Union supply trains, and still others took part in major operations like the Siege of Petersburg and the Battle of Nashville. After the war, many of the black regiments took up posts in the former Confederacy to enforce federal Reconstruction policy. Freedom by the Sword tells the story of these soldiers' recruitment, organization, and service. Thanks to its broad focus on every theater of the war and its concentration on what black soldiers actually contributed to Union victory, this volume stands alone among histories of the U.S. Colored Troops.

The Little Regiment, and Other Episodes of the American Civil War

Author : Stephen Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781318932290
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book The Little Regiment, and Other Episodes of the American Civil War written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

"Co. Aytch"

Author : Samuel R. Watkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book "Co. Aytch" written by Samuel R. Watkins and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865

Author : George Anson Bruce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865 written by George Anson Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Little Regiment, and Other Episodes of the American Civil War

Author : Stephen Crane
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5041331332
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The Little Regiment, and Other Episodes of the American Civil War written by Stephen Crane and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: