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Book Synopsis Confederate Echoes (Abridged, Annotated) by : Rev. Albert Theodore Goodloe
Download or read book Confederate Echoes (Abridged, Annotated) written by Rev. Albert Theodore Goodloe and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unreconstructed Rebel, Albert Goodloe, looked back from the distance of forty years at his time in Company D, Alabama 35th Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. He saw the carnage and horror of war but unlike many former Rebels, held on to his cherished beliefs about the "Lost Cause" long after the guns were silent.As an example of Southern literature of the post-bellum period it is rigid in its adherence, forty-two years after the war, to an ideology divorced from any critical examination of the role of the southern states in starting and prosecuting the Civil War.There are many memoirs of former rebels that did make this examination and came to see the preservation of the Union and the end of slavery as being of universal benefit. Reverend Goodloe did not and his memoir not only provides us a view inside the mind of an unreconstructed rebel (one who finds sufficient religious justification for his beliefs) but also offers a look inside Rebel camps during the war.Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.
Book Synopsis Echoes of the Civil War as I Hear Them: (Abridged, Annotated) by : Michael Hendrick Fitch
Download or read book Echoes of the Civil War as I Hear Them: (Abridged, Annotated) written by Michael Hendrick Fitch and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 1905-01-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chickamauga, Stone River, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, and Sherman's March to the Sea. Lieutenant Colonel Michael Hendrick Fitch was at all of them and more. Looking back 40 years, he recounts the battles, the humorous tales, the anecdotes of Grant and other famous soldiers whom he met, and simple soldier stories. "As we crossed a creek before arriving at the battlefield, the horses all stopped to drink. Grant pulled out his match-box and lighted a cigar. While he was doing this, his horse let fly with his hind foot at [Baldy] Smith’s horse. Whereupon Smith hit Grant’s horse across the rump with his stick and at the same time made some familiar remark to Grant about riding such a vicious horse. I was looking intently at Grant at the time and was struck with his perfect stolid indifference. He never for an instant changed the position of his hand or head in lighting his cigar, nor said a word, nor did he seem conscious of the episode, though his horse moved up suddenly. I thought it very characteristic of his qualities as a soldier." Front-line letters, diaries, and stories of the Civil War bring an immediacy to a long-ago event and connect us to these everyday men and women who lived it. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Book Synopsis Birge's Western Sharpshooters in the Civil War (Abridged, Annotated) by : Lorenzo A. Barker
Download or read book Birge's Western Sharpshooters in the Civil War (Abridged, Annotated) written by Lorenzo A. Barker and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though less famous than Hiram Berdan's sharpshooters, Birge's Western Sharpshooters played a significant role in the American Civil War. Here is their history, told by one of their own.At Shiloh, Corinth, Atlanta,and on Sherman's great march, the Western Sharpshooters dispensed fifty caliber death at a thousand yards.
Book Synopsis Kentucky Cavaliers: By a Rebel Cavalryman (Abridged, Annotated) by : George Dallas Mosgrove
Download or read book Kentucky Cavaliers: By a Rebel Cavalryman (Abridged, Annotated) written by George Dallas Mosgrove and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were the epitome of Southern dash and chivalry, modern cavaliers in the modern American Civil War. George Dallas Mosgrove became one of them when he mounted a charger in Kentucky and rode off to Dixie to serve the cause of the Confederacy. Only eighteen years old, Mosgrove fought with some of the leading lights of the Southern cause as he risked life and limb with his comrades in battle. In a work of great affection and erudition that took him years to write, Mosgrove tells the true story of his time in arms with the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry Regiment. After the war, Mosgrove became a lawyer, got married and had a family, and published this work in 1895. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers, tablets, and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Book Synopsis The Battle of Beecher Island (Abridged, Annotated) by : General George "Sandy" Forsyth
Download or read book The Battle of Beecher Island (Abridged, Annotated) written by General George "Sandy" Forsyth and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the legendary figures of the frontier U.S. Army and the Indian Wars, Sandy Forsyth is unknown to most Americans. This volume contains his exciting account of the Battle of Beecher Island in September, 1868. Forsyth commanded a tiny force pinned down on a sand bar in the Republican River for nine days against hundreds of Cheyenne warriors led by Roman Nose. Forsyth was badly wounded but stayed in command as men and horses fell around him. Earlier in his career, he had been an aide-de-camp to Major-General Phil Sheridan during the Civil War. He rode with Sheridan on his famous nighttime ride from Winchester to avert catastrophe at the Battle of Cedar Creek. That story is here, as well as Forsyth's memory of his presence at the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. This is one of the most exciting and well-written memoirs of an officer who served in the Civil War and on the frontier. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers, tablets, and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Book Synopsis Echoes of the Confederacy by : Viola Cobb Bivins
Download or read book Echoes of the Confederacy written by Viola Cobb Bivins and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Desertion During The Civil War by : Ella Lonn
Download or read book Desertion During The Civil War written by Ella Lonn and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desertion during the Civil War, originally published in 1928, remains the only book-length treatment of its subject. Ella Lonn examines the causes and consequences of desertion from both the Northern and Southern armies. Drawing on official war records, she notes that one in seven enlisted Union soldiers and one in nine Confederate soldiers deserted. Lonn discusses many reasons for desertion common to both armies, among them lack of such necessities as food, clothing, and equipment; weariness and discouragement; non-commitment and resentment of coercion; and worry about loved ones at home. Some Confederate deserters turned outlaw, joining ruffian bands in the South. Peculiar to the North was the evil of bounty-jumping. Captured deserters generally were not shot or hanged because manpower was so precious. Moving beyond means of dealing with absconders, Lonn considers the effects of their action. Absenteeism from the ranks cost the North victories and prolonged the war even as the South was increasingly hurt by defections. This book makes vivid a human phenomenon produced by a tragic time.-Print ed. “[The book is] better calculated to convey a sense of the sickening realities of the Civil War than many volumes of military history.”—American Historical Review “An excellent piece of historical research.”—Journal of Negro History
Book Synopsis A Woman's Civil War by : Cornelia Peake McDonald
Download or read book A Woman's Civil War written by Cornelia Peake McDonald and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornelia Peake McDonald kept a diary during the Civil War (1861- 1865) at her husband's request, but some entries were written between the lines of printed books due to a shortage of paper and other entries were lost. In 1875, she assembled her scattered notes and records of the war period into a blank book to leave to her children. The diary entries describe civilian life in Winchester, Va., occupation by Confederate troops prior to the 1st Manassas, her husband's war experiences, the Valley campaigns and occupation of Winchester and her home by Union troops, the death of her baby girl, the family's "refugee life" in Lexington, reports of battles elsewhere, and news of family and friends in the army.
Book Synopsis The Civil War Story of Bloody Bill Anderson by : Larry Wood
Download or read book The Civil War Story of Bloody Bill Anderson written by Larry Wood and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Civil War broke out, Missouri was secured for the Union, but many Southern-leaning citizens in the border state resented the Federal occupation. Fighting along the border flared up again as hundreds of boys and young men took to the bush to champion the Rebel cause. Waging a particularly vicious brand of guerilla warfare, they stayed to fight long after regular Confederate forces had been driven from the state. Although William "Bloody Bill" Anderson always warrants special mention in books about Confederate Civil War guerrilla William Quantrill, Anderson's story has scarcely been told in its own right. In "The Civil War Story of Bloody Bill Anderson," Larry Wood aims to neither condemn nor to justify, but merely to tell a story that is fascinating-the story of perhaps the bloodiest man in America's bloodiest war.
Book Synopsis At Gettysburg and Elsewhere (Expanded, Annotated) by : General John Gibbon
Download or read book At Gettysburg and Elsewhere (Expanded, Annotated) written by General John Gibbon and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important figures of the American Civil War penned this fascinating and unique memoir. John Gibbon's recollections of his service at Gettysburg and other great battles is frank and personal. This is not an overview of great battles but a soldier's account of the trials and triumphs of four years of horrific conflict. Gibbon wrote plainly about the great men with whom he served, some of whom he greatly admired and some who were difficult. Here are anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Meade, Hancock, Hooker, Pope, and many others that you won't read anywhere else. Gibbon was a central figure at Gettysburg, with Pickett's Charge aimed right at the forces he commanded. Wounded on the third day of the battle, he supplemented his memoir with portions of the outstanding narrative of that day by his aide, Lieutenant Frank Haskell. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.
Book Synopsis Confederate Reckoning by : Stephanie McCurry
Download or read book Confederate Reckoning written by Stephanie McCurry and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. When the grandiosity of Southerners’ national ambitions met the harsh realities of wartime crises, unintended consequences ensued. Although Southern statesmen and generals had built the most powerful slave regime in the Western world, they had excluded the majority of their own people—white women and slaves—and thereby sowed the seeds of their demise.
Book Synopsis Letters from the Front by : James E. Alford
Download or read book Letters from the Front written by James E. Alford and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After Secession written by Paul D. Escott and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1992-08-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secession of the southern states from the Union was not merely a culmination of certain events; it was also the beginning of the trial of Confederate nationalism. The slaveholding elite which had led the South out of the Union now had to solidify its support among the nonslaveholding small farmers, a class that constituted the bulk of the white population.But Jefferson Davis and the new government were greatly hampered in their bid for widespread public support, partially because of the same force that had resulted in secession -- the strong states' rights predisposition of many southerners and their opposition to a strong central government -- and partially because of the great social and economic gap that separated the governed from the governors.In After Secession Paul Escott focuses on the challenge that the South's widespread political ideals presented to Jefferson Davis and on the way growing class resentments among citizens in the countryside affected the war effort. New material is included on Jefferson Davis and his policies, and interesting new interpretations of the Confederate government's crucial problems of decision making and failure to respond to the common people are offered. The result is both a fresh look at the pivotal role that strong leadership plays in the establishment of a new nation and a revealing study of how Jefferson Davis' frustrations increasingly affected the quality of his presidency.
Book Synopsis Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy by : Richard S. Brownlee
Download or read book Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy written by Richard S. Brownlee and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1983-12-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy is a history of the Confederate guerrillas who—under the ruthless command of such men as William C. Quantrill and “Bloody Bill” Anderson—plunged Missouri into a bloody, vicious conflict of an intensity unequaled in any other theater of the Civil War. Among their numbers were Frank and Jesse James and Cole and James Younger, who would later become infamous by extending the tactics they had learned during the war into civilian life.
Book Synopsis Jack Hinson's One-Man War by : Tom McKenney
Download or read book Jack Hinson's One-Man War written by Tom McKenney and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of one man's reluctant but relentless war against the invaders of his country.A quiet, wealthy plantation owner, Jack Hinson watched the start of the Civil War with disinterest. Opposed to secession and a friend to Union and Confederate commanders alike, he did not want a war. After Union soldiers seized and murdered his sons, placing their decapitated heads on the gateposts of his estate, Hinson could remain indifferent no longer. He commissioned a special rifle for long-range accuracy, he took to the woods, and he set out for revenge. This remarkable biography presents the story of Jack Hinson, a lone Confederate sniper who, at the age of 57, waged a personal war on Grant's army and navy. The result of 15 years of scholarship, this meticulously researched and beautifully written work is the only account of Hinson's life ever recorded and involves an unbelievable cast of characters, including the Earp brothers, Jesse James, and Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Book Synopsis Confederate Broadside Poems by : William Moss
Download or read book Confederate Broadside Poems written by William Moss and published by Greenwood Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bibliography of some 275 Confederate broadsheet poems from the collection in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, North Carolina which will be of interest both to scholars of literature and of American history. There is an informative introduction on the development of Southern poetry during the American Civil War, and illustrations of broadsheets are also included.
Book Synopsis The Partisan Rangers of the Confederate States Army by : Adam Rankin Johnson
Download or read book The Partisan Rangers of the Confederate States Army written by Adam Rankin Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: