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Pilot Knob The Thermopylae Of The West Primary Source Edition
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Book Synopsis The Confederate Military Forces in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1861-1865 by : William Royston Geise
Download or read book The Confederate Military Forces in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1861-1865 written by William Royston Geise and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Royston Geise was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1970s when he researched and wrote The Confederate Military Forces in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1861- 1865: A Study in Command in 1974. Although it remained unpublished, it was not wholly unknown. Deep-diving researchers were aware of Dr. Geise’s work and lamented the fact that it was not widely available to the general public. In many respects, studies of the Trans-Mississippi Theater are only now catching up with Geise. This intriguing book traces the evolution of Confederate command and how it affected the shifting strategic situation and general course of the war. Dr. Geise accomplishes his task by coming at the question in a unique fashion. Military field operations are discussed as needed, but his emphasis is on the functioning of headquarters and staff—the central nervous system of any military command. This was especially so for the Trans-Mississippi. After July 1863, the only viable Confederate agency west of the great river was the headquarters at Shreveport. That hub of activity became the sole location to which all isolated players, civilians and military alike, could look for immediate overall leadership and a sense of Confederate solidarity. By filling these needs, the Trans-Mississippi Department assumed a unique and vital role among Confederate military departments and provided a focus for continued Confederate resistance west of the Mississippi River. The author’s work mining primary archival sources and published firsthand accounts, coupled with a smooth and clear writing style, helps explain why this remote department (referred to as “Kirby Smithdom” after Gen. Kirby Smith) failed to function efficiently, and how and why the war unfolded there as it did. Trans-Mississippi Theater historian and Ph.D. candidate Michael J. Forsyth (Col., U.S. Army, Ret.) has resurrected Dr. Geise’s smoothly written and deeply researched manuscript from its undeserved obscurity. This edition, with its original annotations and Forsyth’s updated citations and observations, is bolstered with original maps, photographs, and images. Students of the war in general, and the Trans-Mississippi Theater in particular, will delight in its long overdue publication.
Book Synopsis The Great Missouri Raid by : Michael J. Forsyth
Download or read book The Great Missouri Raid written by Michael J. Forsyth and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1864, General Sterling Price with an army of 12,000 ragtag Confederates invaded Missouri in an effort to wrest it from the United States Army's Department of Missouri. Price hoped his campaign would sway the 1864 presidential election, convincing war-weary Northern voters to cast their ballots for a peace candidate rather than Abraham Lincoln. It was the South's last invasion of Northern territory. But it was simply too late in the war for the South to achieve such an outcome, and Price grossly mismanaged the campaign, guaranteeing the defeat of his force and of the Confederate States. This book chronicles the Confederacy's desperate, final, ill-fated attempt to win a decisive victory.
Book Synopsis Pilot Knob by : Cyrus Asbury Peterson
Download or read book Pilot Knob written by Cyrus Asbury Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descriptive of the battle of Pilot Knob, Missouri, September 27, 1864, and of the operations immediately preceding and following it.
Book Synopsis Journal of the West by : Lorrin L. Morrison
Download or read book Journal of the West written by Lorrin L. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Companion to the U.S. Civil War, 2 Volume Set by : Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Download or read book A Companion to the U.S. Civil War, 2 Volume Set written by Aaron Sheehan-Dean and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 1223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Represents the most comprehensive coverage available relating to all aspects of the U.S. Civil War Features contributions from dozens of experts in Civil War scholarship Covers major campaigns and battles, and military and political figures, as well as non-military aspects of the conflict such as gender, emancipation, literature, ethnicity, slavery, and memory
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Book Synopsis A Companion to the U.S. Civil War by : Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Download or read book A Companion to the U.S. Civil War written by Aaron Sheehan-Dean and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 1223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Represents the most comprehensive coverage available relating to all aspects of the U.S. Civil War Features contributions from dozens of experts in Civil War scholarship Covers major campaigns and battles, and military and political figures, as well as non-military aspects of the conflict such as gender, emancipation, literature, ethnicity, slavery, and memory
Book Synopsis Monthly Bulletin by : St. Louis Public Library
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin written by St. Louis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-
Book Synopsis The National Union Catalogs, 1963- by :
Download or read book The National Union Catalogs, 1963- written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times by :
Download or read book Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thunder in Arcadia Valley by : Bryce A. Suderow
Download or read book Thunder in Arcadia Valley written by Bryce A. Suderow and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1864, Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith appointed Major General Sterling Price to lead a raid behind Federal lines into Missouri and to capture St. Louis or Jefferson City. Price entered Missouri with an army of 12, 000 men but, instead of moving directly to St. Louis, decided to attack the weakly defended Federal post at Pilot Knob, Missouri, guarded by an insignificant earthwork known as Fort Davidson.
Book Synopsis Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand by : Kirby Ross
Download or read book Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand written by Kirby Ross and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Civil War historians now agree that the guerrilla conflict shaped the entire war in significant ways. Some of these “bushwhackers”—Nathan Bedford Forrest, William Clarke Quantrill, John Singleton Mosby—have become quite infamous. Illiterate Sam Hildebrand, one of Missouri’s most notorious guerrillas—often compared to “Rob Roy,” and the subject of dime novels—was one of the few to survive the war and have his story taken down and published. Shortly after this he was killed in a barroom brawl. “I make no apology to mankind for my acts of retaliation; I make no whining appeal to the world for sympathy. I sought revenge and I found it; the key of hell was not suffered to rust in the lock while I was on the war path.” —Sam Hildebrand Hildebrand’s reign of terror gave the Union army fits and kept much of the Trans-Mississippi, especially Missouri, roiling in the 1860s. Over seven years of fighting he and his men killed dozens of soldiers and civilians, whites and blacks; he claimed to have killed nearly one hundred himself. He was accused of many heinous acts. The historical significance of Hildebrand’s story is substantial, but his bloody tale is eminently readable and stands quite well on its own as a cold-blooded portrait of a violent time in American history. Like the nightmarish and depraved world of the Kid in Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian, Hildebrand’s world is truly ruthless and his story is brutally descriptive in its coolly detached rendering of one man’s personal war. Published in 1870, Hildebrand’s autobiography has long been out of print and has been a rare and highly prized acquisition among Civil War
Book Synopsis Monthly Bulletin. New Series by : St. Louis Public Library
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin. New Series written by St. Louis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The United States Catalog; Books in Print January 1, 1912 by : Marion E. Potter
Download or read book The United States Catalog; Books in Print January 1, 1912 written by Marion E. Potter and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Major General John S. Marmaduke, C.S.A. by : Jerry Ponder
Download or read book Major General John S. Marmaduke, C.S.A. written by Jerry Ponder and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Book Synopsis General Sterling Price's 1864 Invasion of Missouri by : Jerry Ponder
Download or read book General Sterling Price's 1864 Invasion of Missouri written by Jerry Ponder and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Missouri would hold elections in November, 1864. Governor Thomas Reynolds needed reflection if the state was to remain legally allied with the confederacy, but the union held the capitol! A gigantic cavalry army of Arkansas and Missouri troops was formed. Major General Sterling Price was given orders: "March to Missouri, capture St. Louis and Jefferson city. Conduct fair 'elections'." Price's army moved north like a giant worm with fight after fight." This is the blow by blow account of Price vs. the Union.
