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Author : Lyman S. Widney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Campaigning with "Uncle Billy". written by Lyman S. Widney and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lyman Summerfield Widney
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1425178871
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Campaigning with Uncle Billy written by Lyman Summerfield Widney and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campaigning with Uncle Billy is the memoir of the service of Sgt. Lyman S. Widney of Illinois who served throughout the Civil War with the 34th Illinois Infantry. Widney's account of his wartime service is based on the diary he kept during the conflict. As a regimental clerk, he was in a position to meet many prominent people and to know the plans and thinking of the command staff. Widney's narrative is personal, highly detailed, vividly descriptive and accurate. He writes with emotion and humor. He details the life of the volunteer soldiers as they enlist, adapt to military life and learn the trade of soldiering. His descriptions of the horrors of the battlefield, its grisly aftermath and the toll that sickness exacted on the rank and file is highly personal. Through Widney's eyes we explore the countryside, tour Mammoth Cave, learn firsthand about combat and sickness and endure life in the trenches in the relentless fighting of the Atlanta Campaign and the grueling March to the Sea and through the Carolinas. Widney's memoir is a worthy addition to the literature of the Civil War from the point of view of the common soldier.
Author : Robert I. Girardi
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466957239
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Campaigning with Uncle Billy written by Robert I. Girardi and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-17 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campaigning with Uncle Billy is the memoir of the service of Sgt. Lyman S. Widney of Illinois who served throughout the Civil War with the 34th Illinois Infantry. Widney's account of his wartime service is based on the diary he kept during the conflict. As a regimental clerk, he was in a position to meet many prominent people and to know the plans and thinking of the command staff. Widney's narrative is personal, highly detailed, vividly descriptive and accurate. He writes with emotion and humor. He details the life of the volunteer soldiers as they enlist, adapt to military life and learn the trade of soldiering. His descriptions of the horrors of the battlefield, its grisly aftermath and the toll that sickness exacted on the rank and file is highly personal. Through Widney's eyes we explore the countryside, tour Mammoth Cave, learn firsthand about combat and sickness and endure life in the trenches in the relentless fighting of the Atlanta Campaign and the grueling March to the Sea and through the Carolinas. Widney's memoir is a worthy addition to the literature of the Civil War from the point of view of the common soldier.
Author : William Tecumseh Sherman
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1075 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Life of Uncle Billy - Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman written by William Tecumseh Sherman and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 1075 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published ten years after the end of the Civil War, "Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman" were among the first memoirs written by one of the prominent Civil War generals. The memoirs caused a lot of controversy, especially because of the author's unfair treatment of General Grant. General Sherman replied to his critics: "...any witness who may disagree with me should publish his own version of facts in the truthful narration of which he is interested." Contents: From 1820 to the Mexican War, 1846 Early Recollections of California—1846-1848 Missouri, Louisiana, and California—1850-1855 California—1855-1857 California, New York, and Kansas—1857-1859 Louisiana—1859-1861 Missouri—April and May, 1861 From the Battle of Bull Run to Paducah—1861-1862 Battle of Shiloh— March and April, 1862 Shiloh to Memphis- April to July, 1862 Memphis to Arkansas Post— July, 1862, to January, 1863 Vicksburg— January to July, 1863 Chattanooga and Knoxville— July to December, 1863 Meridian Campaign— January and February, 1864 Atlanta Campaign- Nashville and Chattanooga to Kenesaw— March, April, and May, 1864 Atlanta Campaign— Battles About Kenesaw Mountain— June, 1864 Atlanta Campaign— Battles About Atlanta—july, 1864 Capture of Atlanta— August and September, 1864 Atlanta and After— Pursuit of Hood— September and October, 1864 The March to the Sea--from Atlanta to Savannah-- November and December, 1864 Savannah and Pocotaligo-- December, 1864, and January, 1865 Campaign of the Carolinas-- February and March, 1865 End of the War-- From Goldsboro' to Raleigh and Washington-- April and May, 1865 Military Lessons of the War After the War
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Uncle Billy's narrative written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Tecumseh Sherman
Publisher : Madison & Adams Press
ISBN 13 : 9788027333790
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (337 download)
Download or read book The Life of Uncle Billy written by William Tecumseh Sherman and published by Madison & Adams Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published ten years after the end of the Civil War, "Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman" were among the first memoirs written by one of the prominent Civil War generals. The memoirs caused a lot of controversy, especially because of the author's unfair treatment of General Grant. General Sherman replied to his critics: "...any witness who may disagree with me should publish his own version of facts in the truthful narration of which he is interested." Contents: From 1820 to the Mexican War, 1846 Early Recollections of California--1846-1848 Missouri, Louisiana, and California--1850-1855 California--1855-1857 California, New York, and Kansas--1857-1859 Louisiana--1859-1861 Missouri--April and May, 1861 From the Battle of Bull Run to Paducah--1861-1862 Battle of Shiloh-- March and April, 1862 Shiloh to Memphis- April to July, 1862 Memphis to Arkansas Post-- July, 1862, to January, 1863 Vicksburg-- January to July, 1863 Chattanooga and Knoxville-- July to December, 1863 Meridian Campaign-- January and February, 1864 Atlanta Campaign- Nashville and Chattanooga to Kenesaw-- March, April, and May, 1864 Atlanta Campaign-- Battles About Kenesaw Mountain-- June, 1864 Atlanta Campaign-- Battles About Atlanta--july, 1864 Capture of Atlanta-- August and September, 1864 Atlanta and After-- Pursuit of Hood-- September and October, 1864 The March to the Sea--from Atlanta to Savannah-- November and December, 1864 Savannah and Pocotaligo-- December, 1864, and January, 1865 Campaign of the Carolinas-- February and March, 1865 End of the War-- From Goldsboro' to Raleigh and Washington-- April and May, 1865 Military Lessons of the War After the War
Author : Donald L. Miller
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451641397
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Vicksburg written by Donald L. Miller and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award “A superb account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war. Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled Midwest and New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The Union navy tried to take Vicksburg, which sat on a high bluff overlooking the river, but couldn’t do it. It took Grant’s army and Admiral David Porter’s navy to successfully invade Mississippi and lay siege to Vicksburg, forcing the city to surrender. In this “elegant…enlightening…well-researched and well-told” (Publishers Weekly) work, Donald L. Miller tells the full story of this year-long campaign to win the city “with probing intelligence and irresistible passion” (Booklist). He brings to life all the drama, characters, and significance of Vicksburg, a historic moment that rivals any war story in history. In the course of the campaign, tens of thousands of slaves fled to the Union lines, where more than twenty thousand became soldiers, while others seized the plantations they had been forced to work on, destroying the economy of a large part of Mississippi and creating a social revolution. With Vicksburg “Miller has produced a model work that ties together military and social history” (Civil War Times). Vicksburg solidified Grant’s reputation as the Union’s most capable general. Today no general would ever be permitted to fail as often as Grant did, but ultimately he succeeded in what he himself called the most important battle of the war—the one that all but sealed the fate of the Confederacy.
Author : Jonathan M. Steplyk
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700631860
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Fighting Means Killing written by Jonathan M. Steplyk and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “War means fighting, and fighting means killing,” Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest famously declared. The Civil War was fundamentally a matter of Americans killing Americans. This undeniable reality is what Jonathan Steplyk explores in Fighting Means Killing, the first book-length study of Union and Confederate soldiers’ attitudes toward, and experiences of, killing in the Civil War. Drawing upon letters, diaries, and postwar reminiscences, Steplyk examines what soldiers and veterans thought about killing before, during, and after the war. How did these soldiers view sharpshooters? How about hand-to-hand combat? What language did they use to describe killing in combat? What cultural and societal factors influenced their attitudes? And what was the impact of race in battlefield atrocities and bitter clashes between white Confederates and black Federals? These are the questions that Steplyk seeks to answer in Fighting Means Killing, a work that bridges the gap between military and social history—and that shifts the focus on the tragedy of the Civil War from fighting and dying for cause and country to fighting and killing.
Author : Dan Lee
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786492902
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Thomas J. Wood written by Dan Lee and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas J. Wood, Kentuckian, graduated fifth in his West Point class in 1846 and joined the staff of General Zachary Taylor. The Mexican War was just beginning and Wood fought in several battles after which he served under General Winfield Scott in Mexico City. In 1861, Wood became a brigadier general of volunteers and began his Civil War service with the Army of the Cumberland, with whom he fought in every campaign and most of its major battles. Wood has never before been the subject of a full length biography but is well known for a notorious lapse of judgment resulting in a Confederate breakthrough at Chickamauga that shattered the Union right flank and threatened the survival of the Army of the Cumberland. It is a moment in the war still argued about. Wood learned from his mistake, became a better general from that time on (notably at Missionary Ridge and Nashville), and redeemed himself in the eyes of his fellow officers and his civilian superiors.
Author : Ellis Parker Butler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (778 download)
Download or read book The Reformation of Uncle Billy written by Ellis Parker Butler and published by . This book was released on with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen R. Wise
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643362828
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861–1893 written by Stephen R. Wise and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continued history of Beaufort County, South Carolina, during and following the Civil War In Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861-1893, the second of three volumes on the history of Beaufort County, Stephen R. Wise and Lawrence S. Rowland offer details about the district from 1861 to 1893, which influenced the development of the South Carolina and the nation. During a span of thirty years the region was transformed by the crucible of war from a wealthy, slave-based white oligarchy to a county where former slaves dominated a new, radically democratic political economy. This volume begins where volume I concluded, the November 1861 Union capture and occupation of the Sea Islands clustered around Port Royal Sound, and the Confederate retreat and re-entrenchment on Beaufort District's mainland, where they fended off federal attacks for three and a half years and vainly attempted to maintain their pre-war life. In addition to chronicling numerous military actions that revolutionized warfare, Wise and Rowland offer an original, sophisticated study of the famous Port Royal Experiment in which United States military officers, government officials, civilian northerners, African American soldiers, and liberated slaves transformed the Union-occupied corner of the Palmetto State into a laboratory for liberty and a working model of the post-Civil War New South. The revolution wrought by Union victory and the political and social Reconstruction of South Carolina was followed by a counterrevolution called Redemption, the organized campaign of Southern whites, defeated in the war, to regain supremacy over African Americans. While former slave-owning, anti-black "Redeemers" took control of mainland Beaufort County, they were thwarted on the Sea Islands, where African Americans retained power and kept reaction at bay. By 1893, elements of both the New and Old South coexisted uneasily side by side as the old Beaufort District was divided into Beaufort and Hampton counties. The Democratic mainland reverted to an agricultural-based economy while the Republican Sea Islands and the town of Beaufort underwent an economic boom based on the phosphate mining industry and the new commercial port in the lowcountry town of Port Royal.
Author : Ernest A. Dollar
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611215137
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Hearts Torn Asunder written by Ernest A. Dollar and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This study goes beyond the military aspects to examine the psychological and emotional impacts on the participants, both military and civilian.” —Charles R. Knight, author of From Arlington to Appomattox One day after General Robert E. Lee’s surrender on April 9, 1865, more than 120,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were still in the field bringing war with them as they moved across North Carolina’s verdant heartland. Thousands of paroled Rebels, desperate, distraught, and destitute, added to the chaos by streaming into the state from Virginia. Grief-stricken civilians, struggling to survive in a collapsing world, were caught in the middle. The collision of these groups formed a perfect storm long ignored by those wielding pens. Hearts Torn Asunder explores the psychological experience of these soldiers and civilians during the chaotic closing weeks of the war. Their letters, diaries, and accounts reveal just how deeply the killing, suffering, and loss had hurt and impacted these people by the spring of 1865. Dollar deftly recounts the experiences of men, women, and children who endured intense emotional, physical, and moral stress during the war’s dramatic climax. Their emotional, irrational, and often uncontrollable reactions mirror symptoms associated with trauma victims today, all of which combined to shape memory of the war’s end. Once the armies left North Carolina after the surrender, their stories faded with each passing year. Neither side looked back and believed there was much that was honorable to celebrate. Hearts Torn Asunder recounts at a very personal level what happened during those closing days that made a memory so painful that few wanted to celebrate, but none could forget.
Author : Michael Falco
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1581575203
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (815 download)
Download or read book Echoes of the Civil War: Capturing Battlefields through a Pinhole Camera written by Michael Falco and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and surprising look at the American Civil War through pinhole camera photographs of sesquicentennial battlefield reenactments In 2011, Michael Falco set out to document the American Civil War's 150th anniversary by photographing reenactments of more than 20 major battles—from the First Manassas, Antietam, and Chancellorsville to Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Appomattox. But rather than shooting these historic re-creations in high-definition, Falco opted for a different, older medium: a pinhole camera. This antebellum photographic technology, shot from an on-the-ground perspective, captures these battlefields in a way that feels more “real” and fully realized than even the famous daguerrotypes made during the war itself. In Falco's transporting photographs, the smoke-filled battle reenactments become blurred and dreamlike, echoing the sentiments found in the actual letters and journals of soldiers who fought and died there. Throughout, historical photographs from the period offer context to the modern-day re-creations, showing just how much—or how little—has changed on this hallowed ground. One hundred and fifty years after the last soldier fell, Echoes of the Civil War provides beautiful and compelling evidence of a Civil War landscape that is, literally and metaphorically, still with us.
Author : Robert Pugh
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1642995592
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)
Download or read book The Campaign at 349 Glory Drive written by Robert Pugh and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergeant William C. "Grandpa Billy" Stallings, a World War II veteran who always took great pride in being self-sufficient and self-reliant, reluctantly moved in with his son Jeb. Now, one year later, early symptoms of dementia are evident and beginning to have an impact on Grandpa Billy's everyday routines and family interactions. Never having imagined the burden his father was becoming, Jeb considers relocating him to an assisted-living facility, setting into motion a series of challenging and stressful circumstances. The Battle of the Bulge, a well-documented and reported period during World War II, serves as the historical backdrop for Grandpa's stories and the narrative of the story. One of Grandpa's favorite stories, however, noticeably begins to be told differently by him, where his wit and crusty charm are no longer able to conceal advancing health issues. Sadly, the truth of the story is not uncovered until after his death. His son Jeb, a veteran of the Vietnam War, and grandson Colin, a veteran of Gulf War I, learn of the secret through unusual and surprising circumstances, which had been veiled by Grandpa Billy for almost seventy years.
Author : J. W. Spear
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258967727
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (677 download)
Download or read book Uncle Billy Reminisces written by J. W. Spear and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1940 edition.
Author : Chuck Hornung
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476663440
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Wyatt Earp's Cow-boy Campaign written by Chuck Hornung and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can be learned from another retelling of the Tombstone saga? Recent revelations challenge the traditional view of Wyatt Earp's campaign against the Cow-boy confederation as a bloody personal feud a la western fiction. It was a seek and destroy mission sanctioned by the United States attorney general, the U.S. marshal and the Arizona Territory governor, following a year of corrupt law enforcement in league with the Cow-boys' livestock raids, stagecoach holdups and other atrocities. Presented in three sections, this book establishes the major players involved in the convergence on Tombstone, provides an account of Earp's activities during the 18 months prior to the final action and discusses the provenance and credibility of the "Otero Letter." Discovered in 2001, the letter--believed to be written by New Mexico Territory Governor Miguel Otero--offers evidence that Earp's party was given government aid. The author examines the details of the letter, including the shotgun dual between Earp and Curly Bill, the split between Earp and Doc Holliday, sanctuary for the Earp posse in Colorado and Holliday's extradition fight, Earp's covert assault resulting in Johnny Ringo's death, and the controversial courtship and marriage of Earp and Josephine Marcus.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Memorials of Deceased Companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States: From January 1, 1912 to Dec. 31, 1922 written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
