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Author : United States Military Academy. War Department
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cadet Life Before the Mexican War written by United States Military Academy. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Corporal Sidney Forman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Cadet Life Before the Mexican War written by Corporal Sidney Forman and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sidney Forman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Cadet Life Before the Mexican War written by Sidney Forman and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heidi Kimmel
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516242309
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (423 download)
Download or read book West Point written by Heidi Kimmel and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of the military academy at West Point, New York, including its role in the American Revolution, the Mexican War, the Civil War, and World Wars I and II, and discusses the daily life of a cadet and the enrollment of minorities.
Author : Davney Herndon Maury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781613930267
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars written by Davney Herndon Maury and published by . This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing memoir follows the life and long military career of the author, from his life as a cadet at West Point and being wounded at Cerro Gordo during the Mexican War to his engagements with Indians, experiences on the Manassas battlefield, and life after the Civil War. Maury, who was a classmate of George McClellan, Ulysses S. Grant and Stonewall Jackson, graduated from West Point in 1846 and went on to serve as a second lieutenant in the Mexican War. Upon the secession of Virginia, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and was appointed Colonel of the Virginia Cavalry. After the Civil War ended, Maury explored various careers, ultimately serving as the United States Minister to Columbia. This narrative provides a unique perspective into the life of an extensive military career. It also includes rare sketches of Grant, Jackson and McClellan as West Point cadets.
Author : Ulysses Simpson Grant
Publisher : New York, C. L. Webster & Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant ... written by Ulysses Simpson Grant and published by New York, C. L. Webster & Company. This book was released on 1885 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with failing health and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future - and won himself a unique place in American letters. Devoted almost entirely to his life as a soldier, Grant's Memoirs traces the trajectory of his extraordinary career - from West Point cadet to general-in-chief of all Union armies. For their directness and clarity, his writings on war are without rival in American literature, and his autobiography deserves a place among the very best in the genre.
Author : Thomas Settles
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807149632
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book John Bankhead Magruder written by Thomas Settles and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the major figures of the Civil War era, Confederate general John Bankhead Magruder is perhaps the least understood. The third-ranking officer in Virginia's forces behind Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston, Magruder left no diary, no completed memoirs, no will, not even a family Bible. There are no genealogical records and very few surviving personal papers. Unsurprisingly, then, much existing literature about Magruder contains incorrect information. In John Bankhead Magruder, an exhaustive biography that reflects more than thirty years of painstaking archival research, Thomas M. Settles remedies the many factual inaccuracies surrounding this enigmatic man and his military career. Settles traces Magruder's family back to its seventeenth-century British American origins, describes his educational endeavors at the University of Virginia and West Point, and details his early military career and his leading role as an artillerist in the war with Mexico. Tall, handsome, and flamboyant, Magruder earned the nickname "Prince John" from his army friends and was known for his impeccable manners and social brilliance. When Virginia seceded in April of 1861, Prince John resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and offered his services to the Confederacy. Magruder won the opening battle of the Civil War at Big Bethel. Later, in spite of severe shortages of weapons and supplies and a lack of support from Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, Samuel Cooper, and Joseph E. Johnston, Prince John, with just 13,600 men, held his position on the Peninsula for a month against George B. McClellan's 105,000-man Federal army. This successful stand, at a time when Richmond was exceedingly vulnerable, provided, according to Settles, John Magruder's greatest contribution to the Confederacy. Following the Seven Days' battles, however, his commanders harshly criticized Magruder for being too slow at Savage Station, then too rash at Malvern Hill and they transferred him to command the District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. In Texas, he skillfully recaptured the port of Galveston in early 1863 and held it for the Confederacy until the end of the war. After the war, he joined the Confederate exodus to Mexico but eventually returned to the United States, living in New York City and New Orleans before settling in Houston, where he died on February 18, 1871. John Bankhead Magruder offers fresh insight into many aspects of the general's life and legacy, including his alleged excesses, his family relationships, and the period between Magruder's death and his memorialization into the canon of Lost Cause mythology. With engaging prose and impressive research, Settles brings this vibrant Civil War figure to life.
Author : Matthew Moten
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890969250
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (692 download)
Download or read book The Delafield Commission and the American Military Profession written by Matthew Moten and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although historically underrated, the commission and the members' reports constituted an important step in the development of U.S. military professionalism. In The Delafield Commission and the American Military Profession, Matthew Moten is the first to explore in detail this connection between the commission and military professionalization.".
Author : Theodore J. Crackel
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book West Point written by Theodore J. Crackel and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Authored by Theodore Crackel, West Point: A Bicentennial History celebrates one of America's most prominent establishments. A revision and refinement of the author's earlier Illustrated History of West Point, published more than ten years ago, it provides the most accurate and comprehensive history yet available on the Academy. It features new research and new perspectives in every chapter, adds a decade of coverage, and has garnered the West Point Bicentennial Committee's official seal of approval."--Jacket.
Author : Hugh T Reed
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Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Cadet Life at West Point written by Hugh T Reed and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was not more than eight years old when I first heard about West Point, and then I was told that it was Uncle Sam's Military School; that the young men there were called cadets; that they were soldiers, and that they wore pretty uniforms with brass buttons on them. The impression made upon me at the time was such that I never tired talking and asking questions about West Point. I soon learned to indicate the site on the map, and I longed to go there, that I might be a cadet and wear brass buttons. I talked about it so much that my good mother made me a coat generous with brass buttons. I called it my cadet coat, and wore it constantly. Ah! for the day I should be a big boy and be a real cadet. With a wooden gun I played soldier, and when the war broke out and the soldiers camped in our old fair grounds, I was in their camp at every opportunity. The camp was about half-way between our home farm and father's store in town, and many is the time I have been scolded for being so much at the camp. My only regret at that time was that I was not old enough to enlist, for I loved to watch the drills and linger around the camp-fires, listening to stories of the war.
Author : Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the Mexican War written by Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ron McFarland
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476623880
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Edward J. Steptoe and the Indian Wars written by Ron McFarland and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Steptoe's escape from encirclement by 1,000 Northern Plateau Indians in 1858 is a familiar story from the Indian Wars. Yet the details of the Battle of Pine Creek (or Tohotonimme) and its aftermath remain subjects of debate. Outnumbered six to one, Steptoe's 164 troops slipped away in the night. Newspapers called it a "disaster." A few weeks later, Colonel George Wright avenged the defeat and Steptoe, who had suffered a stroke months before the battle, lived his final years in relative obscurity in his native Virginia as the Civil War erupted. This definitive biography of Steptoe chronicles the career of a field officer who served nearly four years in the Second Seminole War, won commendation for gallantry during the Mexican War, performed admirably (though controversially) in the Utah Territory, undertook construction of forts at Walla Walla in the newly defined Washington Territory and engaged with various tribes throughout his deployments. His personal letters reveal a thoughtful, sensitive commander who came to question his choice of career even before his final battle.
Author : Allen H. Mesch
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078649834X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Teacher of Civil War Generals written by Allen H. Mesch and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From West Point to Fort Donelson, General Charles Ferguson Smith was a soldier's soldier. He served at the U.S. Military Academy from 1829 to 1842 as Instructor of Tactics, Adjutant to the Superintendent and Commandant of Cadets. During his 42-year career he was a teacher, mentor and role model for many cadets who became prominent Civil War generals, and he was admired by such former students as Grant, Halleck, Longstreet and Sherman. Smith set an example for junior officers in the Mexican War, leading his light battalion to victories and earning three field promotions. He served with Albert Sidney Johnston and other future Confederate officers in the Mormon War. He mentored Grant while serving with him during the Civil War, and helped turn the tide at Fort Donelson, which led to Grant's rise to fame. He attained the rank of major general, while refusing political favors and ignoring the press. Drawing on never before published letters and journals, this long overdue biography reveals Smith as a faithful officer, excellent disciplinarian, able commander and modest gentleman.
Author : Michael Van Wagenen
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 155849930X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (584 download)
Download or read book Remembering the Forgotten War written by Michael Van Wagenen and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title addresses the deeper questions of how remembrance of the U.S.-Mexican War has influenced the complex relationship between these former enemies now turned friends.
Author : Herman Albert Norton
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Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Struggling for Recognition written by Herman Albert Norton and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John C. Waugh
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307775399
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Class of 1846 written by John C. Waugh and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No single group of men at West Point--or possibly any academy--has been so indelibly written into history as the class of 1846. The names are legendary: Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, George B. McClellan, Ambrose Powell Hill, Darius Nash Couch, George Edward Pickett, Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, and George Stoneman. The class fought in three wars, produced twenty generals, and left the nation a lasting legacy of bravery, brilliance, and bloodshed. This fascinating, remarkably intimate chronicle traces the lives of these unforgettable men--their training, their personalities, and the events in which they made their names and met their fates. Drawing on letters, diaries, and personal accounts, John C. Waugh has written a collective biography of masterful proportions, as vivid and engrossing as fiction in its re-creation of these brilliant figures and their pivotal roles in American history.
Author : Hugh T. Reed
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Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Cadet Life at West Point written by Hugh T. Reed and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
