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Colonel John Pelham: Lee's Boy Artillerist [Illustrated Edition]

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Author : William W. Hassler
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782898433
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Colonel John Pelham: Lee's Boy Artillerist [Illustrated Edition] written by William W. Hassler and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes more than 30 maps, diagrams and portraits of Pelham, his artillery and his commanders. “Even before the end of the Civil War Colonel John Pelham had become a legendary figure of the Confederacy. General Lee called him “the gallant Pelham,” and on seeing the young artillerist employ but a single gun to hold up the advance of three Union divisions and over a hundred guns at Fredericksberg, he exclaimed: “It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.” “Stonewall” Jackson, who relied implicitly on Pelham in tight situations said: “It is really extraordinary to find such nerve and genius in a mere boy. With a Pelham on each flank I believe I could whip the world.” “Jeb” Stuart, the dashing cavalry chief, claimed that “John Pelham exhibited a skill and courage which I have never seen surpassed. I loved him as a brother.” Major John Esten Cooke, a fellow-officer and tent-mate, wrote: “He is the bravest human being I ever saw in my life.” And one of Pelham's veteran gunners asserted: “We knew him-we trusted him-we would have followed him anywhere, and did.” Shortly after the outbreak of hostilities in the spring of 1861, Cadet Pelham slipped away from West Point to join the Confederacy. Following the fierce Battle of First Manassas, in which he fought side-by-side with “Stonewall” Jackson, Pelham was assigned to “Jeb” Stuart's command with orders to organize the Stuart Horse Artillery. This mounted unit-dashing from action to action on the battlefield-provided General Lee's army with invaluable mobile firepower which saved many desperate situations. In over sixty battles Pelham's blazing guns saw furious action against Union infantry, cavalry, artillery, gunboats and even locomotives. Although he fought against tremendous odds, Pelham never lost an artillery duel or a single gun! This action-packed book fully describes the incredible feats of the adventurous, romantic artillery genius of the Confederacy.”-Print Ed.

Colonel John Pelham

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Author : William Woods Hassler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258512163
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Colonel John Pelham written by William Woods Hassler and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even before the end of the Civil War Colonel John Pelham had become a legendary figure of the Confederacy. General Lee called him "the gallant Pelham," and on seeing the young artillerist employ but a single gun to hold up the advance of three Union divisions and over a hundred guns at Fredericksberg, he exclaimed: "It is glorious to see such courage in one so young." "Stonewall" Jackson, who relied implicitly on Pelham in tight situations said: "It is really extraordinary to find such nerve and genius in a mere boy. With a Pelham on each flank I believe I could whip the world." "Jeb" Stuart, the dashing cavalry chief, claimed that "John Pelham exhibited a skill and courage which I have never seen surpassed. I loved him as a brother." Major John Esten Cooke, a fellow-officer and tent-mate, wrote: "He is the bravest human being I ever saw in my life." And one of Pelham's veteran gunners asserted: "We knew him--we trusted him--we would have followed him anywhere, and did." Shortly after the outbreak of hostilities in the spring of 1861, Cadet Pelham slipped away from West Point to join the Confederacy. Following the fierce Battle of First Manassas, in which he fought side-by-side with "Stonewall" Jackson, Pelham was assigned to "Jeb" Stuart's command with orders to organize the Stuart Horse Artillery. This mounted unit--dashing from action to action on the battlefield--provided General Lee's army with invaluable mobile firepower which saved many desperate situations. In over sixty battles Pelham's blazing guns saw furious action against Union infantry, cavalry, artillery, gunboats and even locomotives. Although he fought against tremendous odds, Pelham never lost an artillery duel or a single gun! Colonel Pelham was an outstanding figure on the battlefield and off. The modest, boyish-looking commander of the Horse Artillery was as calm and popular with his gunners under fire as he was with beautiful Southern belles in the ballroom. This action-packed book fully describes the incredible feats of the adventurous, romantic artillery genius of the Confederacy.

The Perfect Lion

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Author : Jerry H. Maxwell
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081731735X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Lion written by Jerry H. Maxwell and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of John Pelham, an Alabama native who left West Point for service in the Confederacy and distinguished himself as an artillery commander in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Blond, blue-eyed, and handsome, Pelham's modest demeanor charmed his contemporaries, and he was famously attractive to women. He was killed in action at the battle of Kelly's Ford in March of 1863, at age twenty four, and reportedly three young women of his acquaintance donned mourning at the loss of the South's ?beau ideal.?.

John Pelham

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Author : James Noles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781594210082
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book John Pelham written by James Noles and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was baby faced and fair skinned. Some teased that he was too pretty to be a soldier. But before a Union shell cut him down at the age of 25, all of the confederacy knew him as The Gallant Pelham--one of the toughest, smartest, most daring and clever artillery officers in the Confederate army.

Gallant Pelham, American Extraordinary

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Author : Charles G. Milham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gallant Pelham, American Extraordinary written by Charles G. Milham and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gallant Pelham, American Extraordinary. [A Biography of Major John Pelham.].

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Author : Charles G. MILHAM
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Gallant Pelham, American Extraordinary. [A Biography of Major John Pelham.]. written by Charles G. MILHAM and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Real Horse Soldiers

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Author : Timothy B. Smith
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1611214297
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Real Horse Soldiers written by Timothy B. Smith and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This epic account is as thrilling and fast-paced as the raid itself and will quickly rival, if not surpass, Dee Brown’s Grierson’s Raid as the standard.” —Terrence J. Winschel, historian (ret.), Vicksburg National Military Park Winner, Operational/Battle History, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award Winner, Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, Civil War Round Table of New York There were other simultaneous operations to distract Confederate attention from the real threat posed by U. S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee. Benjamin Grierson’s operation, however, mainly conducted with two Illinois cavalry regiments, has become the most famous, and for good reason: For 16 days (April 17 to May 2) Grierson led Confederate pursuers on a high-stakes chase through the entire state of Mississippi, entering the northern border with Tennessee and exiting its southern border with Louisiana. Throughout, he displayed outstanding leadership and cunning, destroyed railroad tracks, burned trestles and bridges, freed slaves, and created as much damage and chaos as possible. Grierson’s Raid broke a vital Confederate rail line at Newton Station that supplied Vicksburg and, perhaps most importantly, consumed the attention of the Confederate high command. While Confederate Lt. Gen. John Pemberton at Vicksburg and other Southern leaders looked in the wrong directions, Grant moved his entire Army of the Tennessee across the Mississippi River below Vicksburg, spelling the doom of that city, the Confederate chances of holding the river, and perhaps the Confederacy itself. Based upon years of research and presented in gripping, fast-paced prose, Timothy B. Smith’s The Real Horse Soldiers captures the high drama and tension of the 1863 horse soldiers in a modern, comprehensive, academic study. Readers will find it fills a wide void in Civil War literature.

The Parting

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Author : Richard Barlow Adams
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483602265
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book The Parting written by Richard Barlow Adams and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is July 18, 1861 in Winchester, Virginia. The Civil War has begun, and Lieutenant John Pelham, formerly of the West Point Class of 1861, is about to play a pivotal role in the First Battle of Bull Run. The confident Lieutenant Pelham bears little resemblance to the seventy-year-old who journeyed alone five years earlier from Jacksonville, Alabama, to West Point, New York, to attend the United States Military Academy. As he immerses himself in West Point, both Pelham’s life and his beloved country see substantial change. While Pelham and his classmates witness the unraveling of the Union and the birth of the Confederacy, Pelham meets Clara Bolton, a Philadelphian belle who captures his heart–all while Pelham and his compatriots are preparing for the reality of combat. Told against the backdrop of slavery and states’ rights, the Democratic and Republican Parties, the fire-eaters of the South and the abolitionists of the North, The Parting portrays how profoundly historical events divided West Point’s graduating class of 1861 on the eve of the Civil War, changing all of their lives forever.

Colonel John Pelham

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Author : William Woods Hassler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Colonel John Pelham written by William Woods Hassler and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even before the end of the Civil War Colonel John Pelham had become a legendary figure of the Confederacy. General Lee called him "the gallant Pelham," and on seeing the young artillerist employ but a single gun to hold up the advance of three Union divisions and over a hundred guns at Fredericksburg, he exclaimed: "It is glorious to see such courage in one so young."

On the Field of Honor

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Author : Annah Walker Robinson Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book On the Field of Honor written by Annah Walker Robinson Watson and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation

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Author : John Matteson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247082
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation written by John Matteson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America. December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country’s law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American. Guided by patriotism, driven by desire, all five moved toward singular destinies. A young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. confronted grave challenges to his concept of duty. The one-eyed army chaplain Arthur Fuller pitted his frail body against the evils of slavery. Walt Whitman, a gay Brooklyn poet condemned by the guardians of propriety, and Louisa May Alcott, a struggling writer seeking an authentic voice and her father’s admiration, tended soldiers’ wracked bodies as nurses. On the other side of the national schism, John Pelham, a West Point cadet from Alabama, achieved a unique excellence in artillery tactics as he served a doomed and misbegotten cause. A Worse Place Than Hell brings together the prodigious forces of war with the intimacy of individual lives. Matteson interweaves the historic and the personal in a work as beautiful as it is powerful.

A Gunner in Lee's Army

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Author : Thomas Henry Carter
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469618745
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book A Gunner in Lee's Army written by Thomas Henry Carter and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gunner in Lee's Army: The Civil War Letters of Thomas Henry Carter

Sacred Ties

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Author : Tom Carhart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101187409
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Ties written by Tom Carhart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping story of six West Point graduates-including George Armstrong Custer-who fought each other in the Civil War. With Civil War storm clouds darkening the horizon, they were strangers from different states thrown together as West Point cadets: George Armstrong Custer, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Henry Algernon DuPont, John Pelham, Thomas Lafayette Rosser, and Wesley Merritt. Educated and trained there to be not only officers and gentlemen but also courageous battlefield leaders, their shared experience at West Point forged bonds between them stronger than brotherhood. Right after their graduations, war erupted in 1861. They stayed blue or went gray, and even faced each other in battle. Acclaimed military historian Tom Carhart brings to life the human side of valiant victories and crushing defeats, and, most vividly, of these young men of individual valor and personal honor.

The Life of the Gallant Pelham

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (95 download)

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Plain Folk of the Old South

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Author : Frank Lawrence Owsley
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807133422
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Plain Folk of the Old South written by Frank Lawrence Owsley and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1949, Frank Lawrence Owsley’s Plain Folk of the Old South refuted the popular myth that the antebellum South contained only three classes—planters, poor whites, and slaves. Owsley draws on a wide range of source materials—firsthand accounts such as diaries and the published observations of travelers and journalists; church records; and county records, including wills, deeds, tax lists, and grand-jury reports—to accurately reconstruct the prewar South’s large and significant “yeoman farmer” middle class. He follows the history of this group, beginning with their migration from the Atlantic states into the frontier South, charts their property holdings and economic standing, and tells of the rich texture of their lives: the singing schools and corn shuckings, their courtship rituals and revival meetings, barn raisings and logrollings, and contests of marksmanship and horsemanship such as “snuffing the candle,” “driving the nail,” and the “gander pull.” A new introduction by John B. Boles explains why this book remains the starting point today for the study of society in the Old South.

Prominent Families of New York

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Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prominent Families of New York written by Lyman Horace Weeks and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Antietam Campaign

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Author : Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807824818
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book The Antietam Campaign written by Gary W. Gallagher and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New insights are offered into the bloodiest day of the Civil War--September 17, 1862--where more than 23,000 men fell at the Battle of Antietam. 40 illustrations. Maps. Index.