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Book Synopsis Terrible Swift Sword by : Joseph Wheelan
Download or read book Terrible Swift Sword written by Joseph Wheelan and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling new biography of General Sheridan, whose leadership and aggressive tactics helped win the Civil War, crush the Plains Indians, and save Yellowstone National Park
Book Synopsis The Cavalry at Appomattox by : Edward G. Longacre
Download or read book The Cavalry at Appomattox written by Edward G. Longacre and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final campaign of the American Civil War in the eastern theatre witnessed the zenith of American cavalry warfare, the salient aspect of the operation. The Appomattox Campaign not only determined whether the conflict would continue, but also which army had better assimilated the intricate, difficult lessons of mounted service. The outcome indicated why the Union troopers emerged victorious: They displayed greater tactical versatility -- the ability to fight mounted and afoot -- whereas the Confederate horsemen considered the outdated 'saber charge' the essence of mounted battle.
Book Synopsis Last Days of the Civil War by : Bruce Catton
Download or read book Last Days of the Civil War written by Bruce Catton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning history A Stillness at Appomattox, an electrifying account of the end of the Civil War—Grant and Lee’s final maneuvers as four years of internecine conflict inched to a close. “The end of the war was like the beginning, with the army marching down the open road under the spring sky.” Here is the triumphant close of Bruce Catton’s history of the Army of the Potomac, the major Union army that fought and ultimately won the war. In the spring of 1865, the war was in its endgame, as Grant broke through the defenses at Petersburg and chased Lee’s army for the final clash. Meanwhile, Lee had one final option open to him: escape to North Carolina and join up with General Joe Johnston or otherwise accept defeat. Here are the war’s final days and minutes, the race to the finish of America’s bloodiest years.
Book Synopsis The Last Battle of Winchester by : Scott C. Patchan
Download or read book The Last Battle of Winchester written by Scott C. Patchan and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, The Last Battle of Winchester is the first serious study to chronicle the largest, longest, and bloodiest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley. The fighting began about daylight and did not end until dusk, when the victorious Union army routed the Confederates off the field. It was the first time Stonewall Jackson's former corps had ever been driven from a battlefield, and the stinging defeat set the stage for the final climax of the 1864 Valley Campaign at Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek. The Northern victory was a long time coming. After a spring and summer of Union defeat in the Valley, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant cobbled together a formidable force under redoubtable cavalryman Phil Sheridan. His task was a tall one: sweep Jubal Early's Confederate army out of the bountiful Shenandoah and reduce the verdant region of its supplies. Thus far, the aggressive Early had led Jackson's veterans to one victory after another at Lynchburg, Monocacy, Snickers Gap, and Kernstown. Author Scott Patchan, recognized as the foremost authority on the 1864 Valley Campaign, dissects the five weeks of complex maneuvering and sporadic combat before the opposing armies ended up at Winchester, an important town in the northern end of the Valley that had changed hands dozens of times during the war. Tactical brilliance and ineptitude were on display throughout the day-long affair as Sheridan threw infantry and cavalry against the thinning Confederate ranks, and Early and his generals shifted to meet each assault. A final blow against Early's left flank collapsed the Southern army, killed one of the Confederacy's finest combat generals in Robert Rodes, and planted the seeds of the sweeping largescale victory at Cedar Creek the following month. Patchan's vivid prose is based upon more than two decades of meticulous firsthand research and an unparalleled understanding of the battlefield. Nearly two dozen original maps, scores of photos, hundreds of explanatory footnotes, and seven invaluable appendices enhance our understanding of this watershed battle. Rich in analysis and dramatic character development, The Last Battle of Winchester is certain to become a classic Civil War battle study.
Book Synopsis Their Last Full Measure by : Joseph Wheelan
Download or read book Their Last Full Measure written by Joseph Wheelan and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic developments unfolded during the first months of 1865 that brought America's bloody Civil War to a swift climax. As the Confederacy crumbled under the Union army's relentless "hammering," Federal armies marched on the Rebels' remaining bastions in Alabama, the Carolinas, and Virginia. General William T. Sherman's battle-hardened army conducted a punitive campaign against the seat of the Rebellion, South Carolina, while General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant sought to break the months-long siege at Petersburg, defended by Robert E. Lee's starving Army of Northern Virginia. In Richmond, Confederate President Jefferson Davis struggled to hold together his unraveling nation while simultaneously sanctioning diplomatic overtures to bid for peace. Meanwhile, President Abraham Lincoln took steps to end slavery in the United States forever. Their Last Full Measure relates these thrilling events, which followed one on the heels of another, from the battles ending the Petersburg siege and forcing Lee's surrender at Appomattox to the destruction of South Carolina's capital, the assassination of Lincoln, and the intensive manhunt for his killer. The fast-paced narrative braids the disparate events into a compelling account that includes powerful armies; leaders civil and military, flawed and splendid; and ordinary people, black and white, struggling to survive in the war's wreckage.
Book Synopsis The Union Cavalry in the Civil War by : Stephen Z. Starr
Download or read book The Union Cavalry in the Civil War written by Stephen Z. Starr and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1981-10-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?
Book Synopsis The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces by :
Download or read book The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life and Public Services of Ulysses Simpson Grant by : James Grant Wilson
Download or read book The Life and Public Services of Ulysses Simpson Grant written by James Grant Wilson and published by New York : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1885 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Journal of the Armed Forces by :
Download or read book The Journal of the Armed Forces written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Biographical History of Nodaway and Atchison Counties, Missouri by :
Download or read book A Biographical History of Nodaway and Atchison Counties, Missouri written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Regimental Publications & Personal Narratives of the Civil War by : Charles Emil Dornbusch
Download or read book Regimental Publications & Personal Narratives of the Civil War written by Charles Emil Dornbusch and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis End of an Era by : John Sergeant Wise
Download or read book End of an Era written by John Sergeant Wise and published by Anza Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir constitutes one of the best first-person narratives of the Civil War experience. It is written with power, candour, objectivity and elegance. The story that John Sergeant Wise recounts is a colourful, almost novelistic account of a young Confederate soldier's life and views. END OF AN ERA is a valuable archive of sociological and anthropological information about a bygone era. Wise affectionately recounts the cultural and economic diversity of his social landscape. He describes many of the small towns, villages, and territories of early Virginia, recalling the demographic, economic, religious, and political aspects that made them notable. In the book's detailed prose, the various strands that made up the fabric of antebellum Southern culture are captured beautifully. He also describes the privations and horrors of war, and the failings of Southern leaders, with unflinching honesty. He does not glorify the Southern army or its government, nor does he try to justify his occasionally ungentlemanly conduct and speech. The full range of his emotions is exhibited in this memoir, reactions he had to the complex changes that occurred within his own circle, as well as in larger Southern society.
Book Synopsis The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography by :
Download or read book The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mohun; or, the Last days of Lee and his paladins. Final memoirs of a staff officer serving in Virginia. From the MSS. of Colonel Surry, of Eagle's Nest by : John Esten COOKE (Novelist.)
Download or read book Mohun; or, the Last days of Lee and his paladins. Final memoirs of a staff officer serving in Virginia. From the MSS. of Colonel Surry, of Eagle's Nest written by John Esten COOKE (Novelist.) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lincoln's Last Days by : Bill O'Reilly
Download or read book Lincoln's Last Days written by Bill O'Reilly and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the hunt to track down John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices.
Book Synopsis The Confederacy's Last Northern Offensive by : Steven Bernstein
Download or read book The Confederacy's Last Northern Offensive written by Steven Bernstein and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By spring 1864, the administration of Abraham Lincoln was in serious trouble, with mounting debt, low morale and eroding political support. As spring became summer, a force of Confederate troops led by Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early marched north through the Shenandoah Valley and crossed the Potomac as Washington, D.C., and Maryland lay nearly undefended. This Civil War history explores what could have been a decisive Confederate victory and the reasons Early's invasion of Maryland stalled.
Book Synopsis Civil and Mexican Wars, 1861, 1846 by : Military Historical Society of Massachusetts
Download or read book Civil and Mexican Wars, 1861, 1846 written by Military Historical Society of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
