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Confederate Goliath

Author : Rod Gragg
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807131527
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Goliath written by Rod Gragg and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P>The only comprehensive account of the Battle of Fort Fisher and the basis for the television documentary Confederate Goliath, Rod Gragg's award-winning book chronicles in detail one of the most dramatic events of the American Civil War. Known as "the Gibraltar of the South," Fort Fisher was the largest, most formidable coastal fortification in the Confederacy, by late 1864 protecting its lone remaining seaport -- Wilmington, North Carolina. Gragg's powerful, fast-paced narrative recounts the military actions, politicking, and personality clashes involved in this unprecedented land and sea battle. It vividly describes the greatest naval bombardment of the war and shows how the fort's capture in January 1865 hastened the South's surrender three months later. In his foreword, historian Edward G. Longacre surveys Gragg's work in the context of Civil War history and literature, citing Confederate Goliath as "the finest book-length account of a significant but largely forgotten episode in our nation's most critical conflict."

Fort Fisher

Author : Rod Gragg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book Fort Fisher written by Rod Gragg and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fort Fisher, December 1864-January 1865

Author : David W. Kummer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Fort Fisher, December 1864-January 1865 written by David W. Kummer and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Leaders of the Lost Cause

Author : Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811700870
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Leaders of the Lost Cause written by Gary W. Gallagher and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two well-known historians of the American Civil War collect new essays on eight major military commanders of the Confederacy.

Freedom for Themselves

Author : Richard M. Reid
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 080783727X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Freedom for Themselves written by Richard M. Reid and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 5,000 North Carolina slaves escaped from their white owners to serve in the Union army during the Civil War. In Freedom for Themselves Richard Reid explores the stories of black soldiers from four regiments raised in North Carolina. Constructing a multidimensional portrait of the soldiers and their families, he provides a new understanding of the spectrum of black experience during and aftger the war.

Civil War Delaware

Author : Michael Morgan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614237115
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Civil War Delaware written by Michael Morgan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years preceding the Civil War, Delaware was essentially divided--as a slave state, it had many ties to the South, but as the first state to ratify the federal Constitution, it was fiercely loyal to the Union. With the outbreak of war, the First State rallied to Lincoln's call and sent proportionally more troops to fight for the Union than any free state. Yet even as the renowned Du Pont mills provided half of the Union gunpowder, Southern sympathizers transported war materiel to the Confederacy via the Nanticoke River. Author Michael Morgan deftly navigates this complex history. From Wilmington abolitionist Thomas Garrett, who helped 2,700 fugitive slaves flee north, to the prison camp at Fort Delaware that held thousands of captured Confederates and political prisoners, Morgan reveals the remarkable stories of the heroes and scoundrels of Civil War Delaware.

Stonewall's Prussian Mapmaker

Author : Richard Brady Williams
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469614359
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Stonewall's Prussian Mapmaker written by Richard Brady Williams and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-07-19 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prussian-born cartographer Oscar Hinrichs was a key member of Stonewall Jackson's staff, collaborated on maps with Jedediah Hotchkiss, and worked alongside such prominent Confederate leaders as Joe Johnston, Richard H. Anderson, and Jubal Early. After being smuggled along the Rebel Secret Line in southern Maryland by John Surratt Sr., his wife Mary, and other Confederate sympathizers, Hinrichs saw action in key campaigns from the Shenandoah Valley and Antietam to Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Appomattox. After the Confederate surrender, Hinrichs was arrested alongside his friend Henry Kyd Douglas and imprisoned under suspicion of having played a role in the Booth conspiracy, though the charges were later dropped. Hinrichs's detailed wartime journals, published here for the first time, shed new light on mapmaking as a tool of war, illuminate Stonewall Jackson's notoriously superior strategic and tactical use of terrain, and offer unique perspectives on the lives of common soldiers, staff officers, and commanders in Lee's army. Impressively comprehensive, Hinrichs's writings constitute a valuable and revelatory primary source from the Civil War era.

Blood and War at my Doorstep

Author : Brenda Chambers McKean
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453543651
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Blood and War at my Doorstep written by Brenda Chambers McKean and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-08 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing from Volume I, Volume II intersperses numerous soldiers’ letters with those from home. The issue of slavery from both the owners and individuals is brought forth. Did colored men really serve as Confederate soldiers? Did free black men? Union soldiers described southern women as defi ant, beautiful, crude, and pitiful. Read of women aboard blockade-runners, the fall of Wilmington, Sherman’s march, Stoneman’s western raiders, and the end of the war. Did any civilians die due to these raids? Did they idly sit by as their lives and homes were destroyed? The war did come to their doorstep during the second half of the confl ict. Both Volume I and II tell something from each of the state’s 87 counties. Perhaps you may fi nd information about your ancestor among these pages. Information from period newspapers, as well as mostly unpublished letters, tell their stories.

The Civil War in North Carolina

Author : John G. Barrett
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469639661
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Civil War in North Carolina written by John G. Barrett and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven battles and seventy-three skirmishes were fought in North Carolina during the Civil War. Although the number of men involved in many of these engagements was comparatively small, the campaigns and battles themselves were crucial in the grand strategy of the conflict and involved some of the most famous generals of the war. John Barrett presents the complete story of military engagements across the state, including the classical pitched battle of Bentonville, the siege of Fort Fisher, the amphibious campaigns on the coast, and cavalry sweeps such as Stoneman's raid. From and through North Carolina, men and supplies went to Lee's army in Virginia, making the Tar Heel state critical to Lee's ability to remain in the field during the closing months of the war, when the Union had cut off the West and Gulf South. This dependence upon North Carolina led to Stoneman's cavalry raid and Sherman's march through the state in 1865, the latter of which brought the horrors of total war and eventual defeat.

The 117th New York Infantry in the Civil War

Author : James S. Pula
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476648247
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The 117th New York Infantry in the Civil War written by James S. Pula and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Not known to the historic pen, or platform orator," wrote a soldier in the 117th New York Volunteer Infantry, "but the private led in the horror of the fight." Drawing on firsthand accounts, this history of the regiment narrates the monotony and privation of camp life, the exhaustion of long marches and the terror of combat from the perspective of the regular soldier. The operations of the 117th are fully detailed, including actions in the 1863 Suffolk Campaign, the siege of Charleston, the sieges of Petersburg and Richmond, and the conquest of Fort Fisher, North Carolina.

Ending the Civil War

Author : Benton Rain Patterson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786491027
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Ending the Civil War written by Benton Rain Patterson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatically and authentically, using eyewitness accounts where possible, this book recounts the final 13 months of the Civil War, a year in which a new U.S. Army general in chief was appointed, a new course for the war was charted, a massive new campaign was begun, the abolition of slavery was confirmed by the re-election of Abraham Lincoln, and the course of history was altered by the assassination of America's most revered president. It was the year that the United States won the final battle and the year that the sundered nation was reunited. The book describes those events and the key figures in them.

The American Civil War

Author : Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313008302
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The American Civil War written by Steven E. Woodworth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-12-09 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The single most important volume for anyone interested in the Civil War to own and consult. (From the foreword by James M. McPherson) The first guide to Civil War literature to appear in nearly 30 years, this book provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and informative survey and analysis of the vast body of Civil War literature. More than 40 essays, each by a specialist in a particular subfield of Civil War history, offer unmatched thoroughness and discerning assessments of each work's value. The essays cover every aspect of the war from strategy, tactics, and battles to logistics, intelligence, supply, and prisoner-of-war camps, from generals and admirals to the men in the ranks, from the Atlantic to the Far West, from fighting fronts to the home front. Some sections cover civilian leaders, the economy, and foreign policy, while others deal with the causes of war and aspects of Reconstruction, including the African-American experience during and after the war. Breadth of topics is matched by breadth of genres covered. Essays discuss surveys of the war, general reference works, published and unpublished papers, diaries and letters, as well as the vast body of monographic literature, including books, dissertations, and articles. Genealogical sources, historical fiction, and video and audio recordings also receive attention. Students of the American Civil War will find this work an indispensable gateway and guide to the enormous body of information on America's pivotal experience.

Freedom for Themselves (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)

Author :
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458719103
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Freedom for Themselves (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Howling Storm

Author : Kenneth W. Noe
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807174203
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Howling Storm written by Kenneth W. Noe and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Lincoln Prize! Traditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenneth W. Noe suggests it should instead be understood as a war between the North, the South, and the weather. In The Howling Storm, Noe retells the history of the conflagration with a focus on the ways in which weather and climate shaped the outcomes of battles and campaigns. He further contends that events such as floods and droughts affecting the Confederate home front constricted soldiers’ food supply, lowered morale, and undercut the government’s efforts to boost nationalist sentiment. By contrast, the superior equipment and open supply lines enjoyed by Union soldiers enabled them to cope successfully with the South’s extreme conditions and, ultimately, secure victory in 1865. Climate conditions during the war proved unusual, as irregular phenomena such as El Niño, La Niña, and similar oscillations in the Atlantic Ocean disrupted weather patterns across southern states. Taking into account these meteorological events, Noe rethinks conventional explanations of battlefield victories and losses, compelling historians to reconsider long-held conclusions about the war. Unlike past studies that fault inflation, taxation, and logistical problems for the Confederate defeat, his work considers how soldiers and civilians dealt with floods and droughts that beset areas of the South in 1862, 1863, and 1864. In doing so, he addresses the foundational causes that forced Richmond to make difficult and sometimes disastrous decisions when prioritizing the feeding of the home front or the front lines. The Howling Storm stands as the first comprehensive examination of weather and climate during the Civil War. Its approach, coverage, and conclusions are certain to reshape the field of Civil War studies.

The A to Z of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Author : William L. Richter
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810863367
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of the Civil War and Reconstruction written by William L. Richter and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-07-24 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the history of the United States cannot be overstated. There was a very real possibility that the union could have been sundered, resulting in a very different American history, and probably world history. But the union was held together by tough and determined leaders and by the economic muscle of the North. Following the end of the war, the period of American history known as Reconstruction followed. This was a period construed in many different ways. While the states were once again 'united,' many of the postwar efforts divided different segments of the population and failed to achieve their goals in an era too often remembered for carpetbaggers and scalawags, and Congressional imbroglios and incompetent government. This one-volume dictionary, with more than 800 entries covering the significant events, persons, politics, and economic and social themes in the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, is a research tool for all levels of readers from high school and up. The extensive chronology, introductory essay, dictionary entries, and comprehensive bibliography introduce and lead the reader through the military and non-military actions of one of the most pivotal events in American history.

A History of the Civil War

Author : Benson John Lossing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Civil War written by Benson John Lossing and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

General Robert F. Hoke

Author : Daniel W. Barefoot
Publisher : John F. Blair, Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Robert F. Hoke written by Daniel W. Barefoot and published by John F. Blair, Publisher. This book was released on 1996 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert F. Hoke was the youngest Southern general in the Civil War, rumored to be Lee's successor, but once he returned home, "he declined every honor offered him by North Carolinians, including the governorship."--Jacket.