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Author : John Newman Edwards
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shelby and His Men written by John Newman Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel O'Flaherty
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469624222
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book General Jo Shelby written by Daniel O'Flaherty and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid work, first published by UNC Press in 1954, reveals General Joseph Orville Shelby as one of the best Confederate cavalry leaders--and certainly the most colorful. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, but drawn by the promise of the growing West, Shelby became one of the richest men in Missouri. Siding with the Confederacy at the outbreak of the Civil War, he organized his Iron Brigade of cavalry--whose ranks included Frank and Jesse James--taught his men a slashing frontier style of fighting, and led them on incredible raids against Federal forces in Missouri. When the Confederacy fell, Shelby refused to surrender and instead took his command to Mexico, where they fought in support of the emperor Maximilian. Upon his return to Missouri, Shelby became an immensely popular figure in the state, eventually attaining the status of folk hero, a living symbol of the Civil War in the West. "O'Flaherty has written a first-rate book . . . combining careful scholarship with the ability to tell a story in an engaging manner.--Saturday Review "An interesting and readable life story of a long neglected Confederate general.--Military Affairs
Author : John Newman Edwards
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ISBN 13 : 9781425561529
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Shelby and His Men; Or, the War in the West. by John N. Edwards. written by John Newman Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Arthur
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679603956
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)
Download or read book General Jo Shelby's March written by Anthony Arthur and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed historian Anthony Arthur tells one of the most remarkable but surprisingly unknown stories of the post–Civil War era in full for the first time. Here is the unforgettable account of how a famous Confederate general forged a defiant new life out of crushing defeat, and how he finally achieved forgiveness and respect in his own reunited land. General Jo Shelby had been a daring and ruthless cavalry commander, renowned and notorious for his slashing forays behind Union lines. After Appomattox, Shelby, declaring that he would never surrender, headed for Mexico. With three hundred men, some from his fighting “Iron Brigade” regiment, others adventurers, fortune hunters, and deserters, the man Arthur refers to as “the last holdout of the Confederacy” made the treacherous twelve-hundred-mile trip. In thrilling and vivid detail, General Jo Shelby’s March describes the dusty and dangerous trek through a lawless Texas swarming with desperadoes, into a Mexico teeming with Juárez’s rebels and marauding Apaches. After near fratricide among his fraying band of brothers, Shelby arrived to present a quixotic proposal to Emperor Maximilian: He and his fellow Americans would take over the Mexican army and, after being reinforced by forty thousand more Confederate soldiers, the government itself. Though a dramatic, doomed, and brave endeavor, Shelby’s actions changed both himself and American history forever. Anthony Arthur then reveals the astonishing end of Shelby’s career: his return to America and his renouncing of slavery, his nomination by President Grover Cleveland to become U.S. marshal for western Missouri, his eventual fame as a model of nineteenth-century progressivism. General Jo Shelby’s March is a riveting book about a uniquely American man, both brave and brutal, a hero and a hothead, whose life’s startling last chapter is a microcosm of the aftermath of our most divisive war.
Author : Shelby Foote
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0679601120
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)
Download or read book Stars in Their Courses written by Shelby Foote and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 1994-06-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A matchless account of the Battle of Gettysburg, drawn from Shelby Foote’s landmark history of the Civil War Shelby Foote’s monumental three-part chronicle, The Civil War: A Narrative, was hailed by Walker Percy as “an unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist.” Here is the central chapter of the central volume, and therefore the capstone of the arch, in a single volume. Complete with detailed maps, Stars in Their Courses brilliantly recreates the three-day conflict: It is a masterly treatment of a key great battle and the events that preceded it—not as legend has it but as it really was, before it became distorted by controversy and overblown by remembered glory.
Author : Edwin Adams Davis
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890966846
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Fallen Guidon written by Edwin Adams Davis and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Robert E. Lee, surrendered at Appomattox Court House in April, 1865, some Confederates refused to abandon their cause. Fallen Guidon, originally published in 1962 by Jack Rittenhouse's Stagecoach Press, described the adventures of a Confederate brigade that, rather than surrender, decided to transplant its vision of Southern Empire in the troubled soils of Mexico. General Jo Shelby had led the Missouri Cavalry Division through numerous battles in the Trans-Mississippi theater. "We will stand together, we will keep our organization, our arms, our discipline, our hatred of oppression." He planned to march his brigade to Mexico and fight alongside the guerrillas against Emperor Maximilian's French army of occupation. They would come to Mexico's aid and, at the same time, save their honor and perhaps gain riches in a new land. Shelby and his men marched through Texas, burying their Confederated battle flag in the murky waters of the Rio Grande. But the men did not want to fight Maximilian's French soldiers. Identifying themselves as "imperialists," they instead fought the opposition Juaristas, spilling blood from Piedras Negras to Mexico City. This popularly written history, based on archival sources and the reminiscences of Shelby's adjunct, brings vividly to life a little-remembered episode of the Civil War period and of American incursions in Mexico -- Back cover.
Author : John Newman Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (244 download)
Download or read book Shelby and His Men, Or, The War in the West written by John Newman Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Newman Edwards
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230238876
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Shelby and His Men; Or, the War in the West written by John Newman Edwards and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. After the occupation of Camden, General Price took post at Munn's Mill, twenty miles distant, covering every road leading southward, waiting patiently until Banks should be disposed of Shelby, ordered to report to Fagan, made a circuit of Camden, drove in all the Federal pickets on the east, and halted at Miller's Bluff until General Fagan arrived. From this point Lieutenant Colonel McDaniel turned back upon Camden with one hundred men from Elliott's regiment, marched boldly up and attacked a large force holding an important bridge over a wide deep bayou east from the town, and alarmed the garrison greatly. Severe skirmishing lasted until McDaniel stirred up a perfect hornet's nest and drew down upon him a considerable force, when he quietly withdrew and galloped back to Shelby. While Shelby was awaiting Fagan at Miller's Bluff, General Steele had received another damaging blow from the west. The second battle of Poison Spring was brief and bloody, with Marmaduke as the hero.' After the capture of Camden, Steele quietly rested behind the fortifications so kindly erected for his use by the Confederates during the preceding fall and winter. There were two roads leading from Camden to Washington: the more southerly known as the wire road and the other passing more to the north, and by the way of Poison Spring. General Steele had entered Camden by the latter route. The Confederate cavalry was camped on the wire road, about three miles from Camden, with pickets of observation on the other road. It was known that General Steele was severely pressed for subsistence, and that he must replenish his commissariat from the surrounding country, or fall back to the line of the Arkansas river. On the 20th of April, pressed by hard...
Author : John Newman Edwards
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shelby and His Men written by John Newman Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John N. Edwards
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Shelby and His Men written by John N. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shelby Steele
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416560890
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book A Bound Man written by Shelby Steele and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating examination of the complex racial issues that President Barack Obama faced in his race for the White House, a quest that forced a national dialogue on the current state of race relations in America, by the author of the New York Times bestseller and NBCC winner The Content of Our Character. Poverty and inequality are typically the focus of dialogues that take place during presidential elections, but Obama’s bid for so high an office pushed the conversation to a more abstract level where race is a politics of guilt and innocence generated by our painful racial history—a kind of morality play between (and within) the races in which innocence is power and guilt is impotence. Steele writes of how Obama was caught between the two classic postures that Blacks have always used to make their way in the white American mainstream: bargaining and challenging. Bargainers strike a “bargain” with white America in which they say, I will not rub America’s ugly history of racism in your face if you will not hold my race against me. Challengers do the opposite of bargainers. They charge whites with inherent racism and then demand that they prove themselves innocent by supporting Black-friendly policies like affirmative action and diversity. Steele maintains that, during the race, Obama was too constrained by these elaborate politics to find his own true political voice. Obama has the temperament, intelligence, and background—an interracial family, a sterling education—to guide America beyond the exhausted racial politics that now prevail. And yet he is a Promethean figure, a bound man. Says Steele, Americans are constrained by a racial correctness so totalitarian that we are afraid even to privately ask ourselves what we think about racial matters. Like Obama, most of us find it easier to program ourselves for correctness rather than risk knowing and expressing what we truly feel. Obama emerges as a kind of Everyman in whom we can see our own struggle to accept and honor what we honestly feel about race. In A Bound Man, Steele makes clear the precise constellation of forces that bind Obama and proposes a way for him to break these bonds and find his own voice. The courage to trust in one’s own careful judgment is the new racial progress, the “way out” from the forces that now bind us all.
Author : John Newman Edwards
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Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Shelby and His Men, Or, The War in the West written by John Newman Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jo Shelby's Iron Brigade
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455606757
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Jo Shelby's Iron Brigade written by Jo Shelby's Iron Brigade and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth biography of the Confederate cavalry commander who fought in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the Civil War. When the Confederacy collapsed, Gen. Joseph Orville Shelby refused to surrender. In 1861 he had started a Missouri company that grew into the greatest Confederate cavalry brigade west of the Mississippi. This book follows the triumphs of the Brigade of the Confederate States Army all the way to the crossing of a contingent of the brigade into Mexico at the end of the war. A planter and rope manufacturer from Kentucky, Shelby operated entirely in the trans-Mississippi West. He served in the Missouri State Guard as a company commander at Carthage, Wilson’s Creek, and Pea Ridge. He then returned to Missouri to raise a regiment. A daring raid to the Missouri River in the fall of 1863 earned him a promotion to brigadier general. Shelby's Brigade fought valiantly at the Battle of Westport, the Gettysburg of the West, and repeatedly saved Gen. Sterling Price's army from capture on the retreat south. A descendant of a Shelby’s Brigade member, Deryl P. Sellmeyer offers an evenhanded view of this impressive military leader and his men. The author’s decades-long research of Shelby’s life and his principal officers is evident as he details the history of the famous brigade.
Author : John Newman Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shelby's Expedition to Mexico written by John Newman Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John N. Edwards
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ISBN 13 : 9780722206768
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Shelby and His Men written by John N. Edwards and published by . This book was released on with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Newman Edwards
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484844994
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (449 download)
Download or read book Shelby and His Men written by John Newman Edwards and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shelby and His Men: Or the War in the West Believing that the confederate war was a grand panorama of heroic endurance and devoted courage, I bring this picture as an offering and lay it upon the altar of Southern glory and renown. I have written of shelby and his Division because I served with them, and because I desire, if possible, to hang another gar land upon the brow of one who gathered his laurels from the close and serried ranks of his enemies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Shelby Lorman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143134310
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Awards for Good Boys written by Shelby Lorman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Shelby and her art are extremely my shit. You need this book.” —Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life “The rare Instagram-turned-book that actually works.” —Jezebel A wickedly funny illustrated look at living and dating in a patriarchal culture that celebrates men for displaying the bare minimum of human decency Surely you’re familiar with good boys. They’re the ones who put “feminist” in their Tinder bio but talk over you the entire date. They ghost you, but they feel momentarily guilty. They once read a book by a woman author. (It was required, but they thought it was “okay.”) And of course, they bravely condemn sexual harassment (except when the perpetrator is their buddy Chad). This book explores why so-called and self-proclaimed good boys are actually not so great, breaking down our obsession with celebrating male mediocrity and rewarding those who clear the very low bar of not being outwardly awful. Through clever illustrations and written vignettes, Awards for Good Boys makes literal the tendency to applaud men for doing the absolute least and offers hilarious and cathartic cultural commentary through which we may begin to unravel our own assumptions about gender roles and how we treat each other, both on and offline.
