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Confederate Waterloo

Author : Michael J. McCarthy
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 161121310X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Waterloo written by Michael J. McCarthy and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Engrossing . . . A lengthy review of the events of the final days of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and the road to Appomattox” (Mark Silo, author of The 115th New York in the Civil War). The Battle of Five Forks broke the long siege of Petersburg, Virginia, triggered the evacuation of Richmond, precipitated the Appomattox Campaign, and destroyed the careers and reputations of two generals. Michael J. McCarthy’s Confederate Waterloo is the first fully researched and unbiased book-length account of this decisive Union victory and the aftermath fought in the courts and at the bar of public opinion. When Gen. Phil Sheridan’s forces struck at Five Forks on April 1, the attack surprised and collapsed Gen. George Pickett’s Confederate command and turned General Lee’s right flank. An attack along the entire front the following morning broke the siege and forced the Virginia army out of its defenses and, a week later, into Wilmer McLean’s parlor to surrender at Appomattox. Despite this decisive Union success, Five Forks spawned one of the most bitter and divisive controversies in the postwar army when Sheridan relieved Fifth Corps commander Gouverneur K. Warren for perceived failures connected to the battle. McCarthy’s Confederate Waterloo is grounded upon extensive research and a foundation of primary sources, including the meticulous records of a man driven to restore his honor in the eyes of his colleagues, his family, and the American public. The result is a fresh and dispassionate analysis that may cause students of the Civil War to reassess their views about some of the Union’s leading generals. “A detailed, scholarly analysis of one of the final battles of the American Civil War . . . A studious, unbiased account of the entire affair.” —Midwest Book Review

Confederate Waterloo

Author : Michael Joseph McCarthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611213096
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Waterloo written by Michael Joseph McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confederate Waterloo is the first fully researched and unbiased book-length account of the Battle of Five Forks and the aftermath fought in the courts and at the bar of public opinion.

Five Forks

Author : Robert Alexander
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Five Forks written by Robert Alexander and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Five Forks was one of the the last battles of the American Civil War. A week later, Lee surrendered. Two weeks later, Lincoln was dead. In this meditation on that battle, Alexander juxtaposes the story of the battle, which he tells through narrative, letters, and journal entries, with his own impressions, viewing the South through Northern eyes. Alexander is not a historian, and this is much more a literary work than a battle story. However, the immediacy with which Alexander tells his tale leads the reader to experience Five Forks--the land, the smells, the cries--as if present there in 1865. Thus, he does not just describe a battle; he captures the spirit of all battles, all wars.

Waterloo And Gettysburg: A Campaign Comparison

Author : Lieutenant-Colonel George E. Teague
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782896376
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Book Synopsis Waterloo And Gettysburg: A Campaign Comparison by : Lieutenant-Colonel George E. Teague

Download or read book Waterloo And Gettysburg: A Campaign Comparison written by Lieutenant-Colonel George E. Teague and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June of 1815 Napoleon led French forces on an offensive campaign into Belgium against the Allied Anglo-Dutch and Prussian armies under Wellington and Blucher. During this campaign Napoleon and several of his marshals made serious errors that led to missed opportunities for victory and ultimately to defeat at Waterloo. Less than 50 years later Robert E. Lee led Confederate forces on an offensive campaign into Maryland and Pennsylvania against the Union Army under Hooker initially, then Meade. A meeting engagement near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania led to three days of fighting during which Lee and several of his generals made critical errors that allowed opportunities for victory to pass and ultimately led to decisive defeat. These campaigns were remarkably alike in a number of ways. This paper reviews the campaigns and discusses similarities in the strategic settings, campaign objectives, size and disposition of forces, battlefield terrain, tactics employed, and leadership of each army. In particular, the paper compares the performances of selected French and Confederate leaders and how they contributed to the defeat of their respective armies. These comparisons provide valuable lessons learned for the conduct of future military operations.

Five Forks: Waterloo of the Confederacy

Author : Robert Alexander
Publisher : White Pine Press (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9781945680281
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Five Forks: Waterloo of the Confederacy written by Robert Alexander and published by White Pine Press (NY). This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Forks is a splendid and intriguing study of the South's Waterloo.

Waterloo and Gettysburg

Author : George E. Teague
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Waterloo and Gettysburg written by George E. Teague and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Great Fields

Author : Ronald C. White
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0525510095
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book On Great Fields written by Ronald C. White and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero. “A vital and vivid portrait of an unlikely military hero who played a key role in the preservation of the Union and therefore in the making of modern America.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of And There Was Light FINALIST FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN LINCOLN PRIZE AND THE AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST BOOK PRIZE FOR HISTORY Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North’s greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round Top, he ordered his men to wield their bayonets in a desperate charge down a rocky slope that routed the Confederate attackers. Despite being wounded at Petersburg—and told by two surgeons he would die—Chamberlain survived the war, going on to be elected governor of Maine four times and serve as president of Bowdoin College. How did a stuttering young boy come to be fluent in nine languages and even teach speech and rhetoric? How did a trained minister find his way to the battlefield? Award-winning historian Ronald C. White delves into these contradictions in this cradle-to-grave biography of General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, from his upbringing in rural Maine to his tenacious, empathetic military leadership and his influential postwar public service, exploring a question that still plagues so many veterans: How do you make a civilian life of meaning after having experienced the extreme highs and lows of war? Chamberlain is familiar to millions from Michael Shaara’s now-classic novel of the Civil War, The Killer Angels, and Ken Burns’s timeless miniseries The Civil War, but in this book, White captures the complex and inspiring man behind the hero. Heavily illustrated and featuring nine detailed maps, this gripping, impeccably researched portrait illuminates one of the most admired but least known figures in our nation’s bloodiest conflict.

Waterloo and Gettysburg

Author : George E. Teague
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Waterloo and Gettysburg written by George E. Teague and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Confederate Veteran

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Veteran written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seneca County and the Civil War

Author : Walter Gable
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625851618
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Seneca County and the Civil War written by Walter Gable and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though hundreds of miles away from the death and destruction of the battlefield, Seneca County, New York, contributed more than its share for the preservation of the Union. Many brave men left home to fight, suffering hardships and casualties. John Hoster was captured in 1864 and held at the infamous Andersonville prison camp, and his journal has provided invaluable insight into what soldiers held there endured. At home, Seneca farmers fed Lincoln's hungry army, and the legend of the Scythe Tree is a reminder of those who never returned from battle. After the war, Waterloo's celebration in remembrance of fallen soldiers was mimicked around the country, and Waterloo is recognized as the official birthplace of Memorial Day. Local historian Walter Gable recounts the remarkable story of Seneca County during the Civil War.

Confederate Military History

Author : Clement Anselm Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Military History written by Clement Anselm Evans and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Confederate Military History

Author : Clement A. Evans
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781410213747
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Military History written by Clement A. Evans and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one volume in a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South, and edited by Gen. Clement A. Evans of Georgia. A generation after the Civil War, the Southern protagonists wanted to tell their story, and in 1899 these twelve volumes appeared under the imprint of the Confederate Publishing Company. The first and last volumes comprise such subjects as the justification of the Southern States in seceding from the Union and the honorable conduct of the war by the Confederate States government; the history of the actions and concessions of the South in the formation of the Union and its policy in securing the territorial dominion of the United States; the civil history of the Confederate States; Confederate naval history; the morale of the armies; the South since the war, and a connected outline of events from the beginning of the struggle to its close. The other ten volumes each treat a separate State with details concerning its peculiar story, its own devotion, its heroes, and its battlefields. Volume 3 is Virginia.

Confederate Military History: Virginia

Author : Clement Anselm Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Military History: Virginia written by Clement Anselm Evans and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In v. 1-11 each state has at end a "Biographical" section; "Additional sketches illustrating the services of officers and privates and patriotic citizens" are appended in v. 2 (Maryland, p. 185-447; West Virginia, p. 139-296) ; in v. 3 (Virginia) p. 693-1295 ; in v. 4 (North Carolina) p. 355-813; in v. 5 (South Carolina) p. 425-931. 1. Curry, J. L. M.; Legal justification of the South in secession. Garrett, W.R.; The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States. Evans, C. A.; The Civil history of the Confederate States.--2. Johnson, B. T.; Maryland. White, Robert; West Virginia.--3. Hotchkiss, Jed; Virginia.--4. Hill, D. H. Jr.; North Carolina.--5. Capers, Ellison; South Carolina.--6. Derry, J. T.; Georgia.--7. Wheeler, Joseph; Alabama. Hooker, C. E.; Mississippi.--8. Porter, J. D.; Tennessee.--9. Johnston, J. S.; Kentucky. Moore, J. C.; Missouri.--10. Dimitry, John; Louisiana. Harrell, J. M.; Arkansas.--11. Roberts, O. M.; Texas. Dickinson, J. J.; Florida.--12. Parker, W. H.; The Confederate States navy. Jones, J. W.; The morale of the Confederate armies. Evans, C. A.; An outline of Confederate military history. Lee, S. D.; The South since the war. Documental and statistical appendix.

Confederate Military History: Hotchkiss, Jed; Virginia

Author : Clement Anselm Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Military History: Hotchkiss, Jed; Virginia written by Clement Anselm Evans and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

"My Will Is Absolute Law"

Author : Jonathan A. Noyalas
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786425083
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book "My Will Is Absolute Law" written by Jonathan A. Noyalas and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-04-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the South fired the first shot of the Civil War in April 1861, hundreds of volunteers flocked to answer President Lincoln's call to arms, anxious to defend their country and uphold the sanctity of the Union. Among these first volunteers was Robert H. Milroy. Determined to obtain a military education and denied his wish to attend West Point, Milroy had at last secured a position to attend Captain Partridge's Military Academy at Norwich University in Vermont. After graduating, however, he was thwarted time and again in his desire for a military career, quickly discovering that military appointments tended to favor West Point graduates. A fervent abolitionist and dedicated patriot, Milroy craved military action and viewed the Civil War as his long-awaited opportunity to achieve the glorious reputation he so ardently desired. Compiled from primary sources such as Milroy's correspondence and the letters of those who knew him, this biography details the life and times of General Robert H. Milroy. Although perhaps not one of the major players on the stage of Civil War drama, Milroy was one of the staunchest defenders not only of the Union but of the Emancipation Proclamation as well. Focusing primarily on Milroy's Civil War career, this work serves to provide information about lesser known operations in western Virginia during 1861 and 1862 as well as illustrate the bonds that formed between commanders and their men. It also provides a case study of how an abolitionist general enforced his will in various regions throughout the Confederacy. Appendices contain a portion of Milroy's unfinished autobiography and a list of troops commanded by Milroy in combat.

Confederate Veteran

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Veteran written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War

Author : Peter T. Lubrecht
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614232326
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War written by Peter T. Lubrecht and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Jersey Butterflies, officially the Third New Jersey Cavalry, was formed for the last year of the Civil War. They were also known as the First American Hussars; their creation by an alcoholic ex-officer of the Union Army was supposed to entice men to join a galloping, dashing, romantic cavalry unit. Clothed in orange gilt trimmed hats and capes, they were supposed to charge armed only with a saber, in most traditional European Cavalry fashion, into battle and subdue an enemy armed with rifles. This book is not about battlefield configurations, but rather about the men themselves. Individual stories from original accounts will examine how this glorious, historically victorious, difficult and often tragic year affected their return to the daily world of doctors, teachers, lawyers, clerks and workmen.