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Author : David R. Logsdon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Eyewitnesses at the Battle of Stones River written by David R. Logsdon and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Cozzens
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062292
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book No Better Place to Die written by Peter Cozzens and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1991-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mere handful of battlefields have come to epitomize the anguish and pain of America's Civil War: Gettysburg, Shiloh, Chancellorsville, Chickamauga. Yet another name belongs on that infamous list: Stones River, the setting for Peter Cozzens's No Better Place to Die. It was here that both the Union and Confederate armies lost over one-quarter of their forces in battle casualties. The Confederacy's defeat at Stones River unleashed a wave of dissension that crippled the army's high command and ultimately closed Tennessee to the South for two years. The loss deterred the British and French from coming to the aid of the South in the Civil War, with tragic effects for the Southern cause. In the 126 years since the guns fell silent at Stones River, few books have examined the bloody clash and its impact on the war's subsequent outcome. No Better Place to Die recounts the events and strategies that brought the two armies to the banks of this central Tennessee river on December 31, 1862. Cozzens re-creates the battle itself, following the movements and performance of individual regiments. A series of maps clarifies the combat activity. Cozzens frequently lets the men who fought the battle speak for themselves, through letters, diaries, memoirs, and battlefield communications. Here we learn about such critical moments as General Philip Sheridan's gallant defense along the Wilkinson Pike, one of the war's most tenacious stands against overwhelming odds, and the bravery in battle exemplified by Brekenridge's attack on the Union left, a doomed assault with the poignancy of Pickett's charge. Over twenty thousand Union and Confederate soldiers were killed, wounded, or captured in the bloody New Year's battle of Stone's River. The impact of their struggle extended far beyond the thousands of shattered human lives, ultimately imperiling the fortunes of the Confederacy. No Better Place to Die pays tribute to the heroes, the scoundrels, the mistakes, the bravery, and the grief at Stone's River.
Author : Wilson J. Vance
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Stone's River, the Turning-point of the Civil War written by Wilson J. Vance and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David R. Logsdon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Eyewitnesses at the Battle of Nashville written by David R. Logsdon and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Larry J. Daniel
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807145165
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Battle of Stones River written by Larry J. Daniel and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three days of savage and bloody fighting between Confederate and Union troops at Stones River in Middle Tennessee ended with nearly 25,000 casualties but no clear victor. The staggering number of killed or wounded equaled the losses suffered in the well-known Battle of Shiloh. Using previously neglected sources, Larry J. Daniel rescues this important campaign from obscurity. The Battle of Stones River, fought between December 31, 1862, and January 2, 1863, was a tactical draw but proved to be a strategic northern victory. According to Daniel, Union defeats in late 1862—both at Chickasaw Bayou in Mississippi and at Fredericksburg, Virginia—transformed the clash in Tennessee into a much-needed morale booster for the North. Daniel's study of the battle's two antagonists, William S. Rosecrans for the Union Army of the Cumberland and Braxton Bragg for the Confederate Army of Tennessee, presents contrasts in leadership and a series of missteps. Union soldiers liked Rosecrans's personable nature, whereas Bragg acquired a reputation as antisocial and suspicious. Rosecrans had won his previous battle at Corinth, and Bragg had failed at the recent Kentucky Campaign. But despite Rosecrans's apparent advantage, both commanders made serious mistakes. With only a few hundred yards separating the lines, Rosecrans allowed Confederates to surprise and route his right ring. Eventually, Union pressure forced Bragg to launch a division-size attack, a disastrous move. Neither side could claim victory on the battlefield. In the aftermath of the bloody conflict, Union commanders and northern newspapers portrayed the stalemate as a victory, bolstering confidence in the Lincoln administration and dimming the prospects for the "peace wing" of the northern Democratic Party. In the South, the deadlock led to continued bickering in the Confederate western high command and scorn for Braxton Bragg.
Author : Richard Rollins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811770133
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Pickett's Charge written by Richard Rollins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 firsthand accounts of the American Civil War, many of them long forgotten and previously unpublished. Includes accounts from Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Meade, and Hancock. Maps pinpoint each writer's location on the battlefield.
Author : Peter Cozzens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780915992676
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Stones River written by Peter Cozzens and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kirk Jenkins
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813128668
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Battle Rages Higher written by Kirk Jenkins and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " The Battle Rages Higher tells, for the first time, the story of the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry, a hard-fighting Union regiment raised largely from Louisville and the Knob Creek valley where Abraham Lincoln lived as a child. Although recruited in a slave state where Lincoln received only 0.9 percent of the 1860 presidential vote, the men of the Fifteenth Kentucky fought and died for the Union for over three years, participating in all the battles of the Atlanta campaign, as well as the battles of Perryville, Stones River and Chickamauga. Using primary research, including soldiers’ letters and diaries, hundreds of contemporary newspaper reports, official army records, and postwar memoirs, Kirk C. Jenkins vividly brings the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry to life. The book also includes an extensive biographical roster summarizing the service record of each soldier in the thousand-member unit. Kirk C. Jenkins, a descendant of the Fifteenth Kentucky's Captain Smith Bayne, is a partner in a Chicago law firm. Click here for Kirk Jenkins' website and more information about the 15th Kentucky Infantry.
Author : United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Stones River National Battlefield, Tennessee written by United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Stones River National Battlefield General Management Plan, Rutherford County written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Wheeler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811770125
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Witness to Gettysburg written by Richard Wheeler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the events that led to the clash at Gettysburg in July 1863 to the retreat of Robert E. Lee's defeated Confederates, Richard Wheeler uses the words of participants—both Northern and Southern—to bring one of the Civil War's bloodiest, most pivotal battles to life. Wheeler blends these compelling personal accounts into a startlingly vivid tapestry of war and a dramatic narrative that entertains as well as informs. This is eyewitness history at its best.
Author : Frank Haskell
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307768112
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Gettysburg written by Frank Haskell and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique series the Civil War comes vividly to life. Here an eyewitness accounts--many available for the first time in decades--by generals, journalist, and ordinary foot soldiers, both blue and gray, who relive the conflict in all its terrible glory. Each volume brings you a human perspective on the war--its most decisive battles, its most remarkable personalities. Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts is American history at its finest--and a reading experience you will never forget. In some ways it epitomized the entire war: three hot days in July filled with missed opportunities, great courage, inconsistent leadership, and horrific, relentless carnage. In rare volume we see the battle from both sides, as experienced by two very different combatants, one Union and the other Confederate. From Little Round Top to Devil's Den to Pickett's Charge, Lt. Frank A. Haskell and Col. William C. Oates, one in a meticulous hindsight and the other still feverish with war, re-create three days that changed American history. Here are the momentous decisions of Lee, Longstreet, and Meade. Here are the fatal maneuverings of the forces in the field. And here, in descriptions unmatched in Civil War literature, is all the heartbreak and triumph of Gettysburg.
Author : Joseph Wheelan
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306821095
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Terrible Swift Sword written by Joseph Wheelan and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alongside Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan is the least known of the triumvirate of generals most responsible for winning the Civil War. Yet, before Sherman's famous march through Georgia, it was General Sheridan who introduced scorched-earth warfare to the South, and it was his Cavalry Corps that compelled Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. Sheridan's innovative cavalry tactics and "total war" strategy became staples of twentieth-century warfare. After the war, Sheridan ruthlessly suppressed the raiding Plains Indians much as he had the Confederates, by killing warriors and burning villages, but he also defended reservation Indians from corrupt agents and contractors. Sheridan, an enthusiastic hunter and conservationist, later ordered the US cavalry to occupy and operate Yellowstone National Park to safeguard it from commercial exploitation.
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Author : James R. Arnold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440844062
Total Pages : 1120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Americans at War [3 volumes] written by James R. Arnold and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unprecedented compilation of eyewitness accounts records the thoughts and emotions of American soldiers spanning nearly 250 years of national history, from the American Revolution to the Afghanistan War. Understanding primary sources is essential to understanding warfare. This outstanding collection provides a diverse set of eyewitness accounts of Americans in combat throughout U.S. history. Offering riveting true stories, it includes accounts from participants in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Indian Wars, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, the Spanish American War and Philippine Insurrection, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, The Persian Gulf War, the Afghanistan War, and the Iraq War. Most eyewitness accounts of war currently available to the public are those of writers who enjoy higher military rank. Americans at War addresses this imbalance between officers' accounts and enlisted men's accounts by invoking oral history archives. Contextual essays and timelines allow the reader to place the accounts in time and place, while the entries themselves allow the reader to experience the thoughts and emotions of Americans who engaged in combat.
Author : Milo S. Hascall
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Personal recollections and experiences concerning the Battle of Stone River written by Milo S. Hascall and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Personal recollections and experiences concerning the Battle of Stone River" is a short personal account written years after the war by the eye-witness of the events. The author was involved in the fighting near the Nashville Turnpike toward the close of the first day's battle and in repelling Brekenridge's assault on the second day, which he describes in the presented book here.
Author : Daniel Singleton
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481727338
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Standing on the Edge of Time written by Daniel Singleton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Jarman lived in Hempstead County, in what was known as the “wilds of Arkansas.” Hearing of the war coming to Arkansas, Robert and his three friends soon joined the 4th Arkansas Infantry, Confederate States of America, having to leave their families and sweethearts behind. The war took the four friends through the battles of Elkhorn Tavern (Pea Ridge) in Arkansas; Farmington, Mississippi; Richmond, Kentucky; and Murfreesboro, Tennessee (Stones River), all in 1862. Having volunteered to defend their homes in Arkansas, they ended up fighting their first four battles in four different states. Standing on the Edge of Time brings out the many hardships and the suffering the soldiers endured on the campaigns and long marches sometimes through the worst weather conditions. Hundreds of historical facts are included, giving a unique view of the Civil War as rarely seen.
Author : David R. Logsdon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962601835
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Eyewitnesses at the Battle of Franklin written by David R. Logsdon and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
