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Author : Joseph Benjamin Polley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie written by Joseph Benjamin Polley and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Benjamin Polley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie written by Joseph Benjamin Polley and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. B. Polley
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ISBN 13 : 9780942211917
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (119 download)
Download or read book A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie written by J. B. Polley and published by . This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Benjamin Polley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (84 download)
Download or read book A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie written by Joseph Benjamin Polley and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : The Neale Publishing Company
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781010354666
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (546 download)
Download or read book A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie written by The Neale Publishing Company and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-16 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : J. B. Polley
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ISBN 13 : 9781330979754
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (797 download)
Download or read book A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie (Classic Reprint) written by J. B. Polley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie Such preface as the following pages require is furnished by the first letter. An introduction, however, will not be amiss. The body of troops known in the Army of Northern Virginia as Hood's Texas Brigade, as originally organized, was composed of the First, Fourth, and Fifth Texas regiments, the Eighteenth Georgia Regiment and Hampton's South Carolina Legion. In 1862 the Eighteenth Georgia and Hampton's Legion were transferred to other brigades, the Third Arkansas Regiment taking their place in the Texas Brigade, and continuing a part of it until the close of the war between the States. One and perhaps two companies of the First Texas got to Virginia in time to participate in the first battle of Manassas, or Bull Run, as it is called by the Federals. Its other companies arrived in Virginia after that battle, and the regiment was organized with Louis T. Wigfall as colonel, Hugh McLeod as lieutenant-colonel, and A. T. Rainey as major. 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.
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Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Confederate Veteran written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 460 pages
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Download or read book Confederate Veteran written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard B. McCaslin
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574416731
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Sutherland Springs, Texas written by Richard B. McCaslin and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sutherland Springs, Texas, Richard B. McCaslin explores the rise and fall of this rural community near San Antonio primarily through the lens of its aspirations to become a resort spa town, because of its mineral water springs, around the turn of the twentieth century. Texas real estate developers, initially more interested in oil, brought Sutherland Springs to its peak as a resort in the early twentieth century, but failed to transform the farming settlement into a resort town. The decline in water tables during the late twentieth century reduced the mineral water flows, and the town faded. Sutherland Springs’s history thus provides great insights into the importance of water in shaping settlement. Beyond the story of resort spa aspirations lies a history of the community and its people itself. McCaslin provides a complete history of Sutherland Springs from early settlement through Civil War and into the twentieth century, its agricultural and oil-drilling exploits alongside its mineral water appeal, as well as a complete community history of the various settlers and owners of the springs/hotel.
Author : J. Polley
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ISBN 13 : 9781983453908
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (539 download)
Download or read book A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie written by J. Polley and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this book, Joseph Benjamin Polley (1840-1918) was the son of original Texas pioneers. The Polley family came to Texas with Stephen F. Austin in 1821 as one of the Old Three Hundred colonists and settled near San Antonio. Polley joined the Fourth Texas Regiment as a private in 1861 and advanced in rank to Quarter Master Sergeant. The letters were written to "Charming Nelly," and tell the stories of a Confederate regiment during the War Between the States. Between 1862 and 1864, Polley wrote twenty-eight letters to "Charming Nelly," who Polley had only met three brief times. Although he joined the Confederate army in 1861, his letters to "Charming Nelly" did not begin until 1862. It remains unknown if these letters were really sent to Nelly or were just a pretext for Polley to write about his war-time experiences. Nonetheless, these stories give voice to a soldier and make known an exceeding amount of action that took place on the front lines, as well as humorous incidences in camp.
Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Gettysburg's Most Hellish Battleground written by Phillip Thomas Tucker and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the crucial three days of combat at Gettysburg, the most nightmarish place on the entire battlefield was appropriately named the Devil's Den. This jumble of huge boulders situated at the southern end of Houck's Ridge was truly a hell on earth during the decisive afternoon of July 2, 1863. The tenacious struggle that raged beyond control at the battle-line's southern end was all-important, because the Devil's Den and Houck's Ridge anchored the left flank of the over-extended Union battle-line, before Federal troops occupied Little Round Top to the east. The battle-hardened veterans of Lieutenant General James Longstreet's First Corps captured this vital sector— the first Union left flank—in one of the few Southern successes of the second day, after some of the war's most bitter fighting. Nevertheless, the dramatic story of the successful turning of the first Union left flank has been long overlooked and ignored largely because of the giant historical shadow cast by the more famous struggle at Little Round Top, which was only the second and last fight for the southern flank of both armies on July 2. Therefore, the important contest for possession of the first Union left flank at the Devil's Den and Houck's Ridge was crucial on the bloody afternoon that decided the fate of America. • Includes 22 colour and sepia-tinted photographs
Author : Joseph L Owen
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Texans at Gettysburg written by Joseph L Owen and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texans from Hood's Texas Brigade and other regiments who fought at Gettysburg on 1-3 July 1863 described their experiences of the battle in personal diaries, interviews, newspaper articles, letters and speeches. Their reminiscences provide a fascinating and harrowing account of the battle as they fought the Army of the Potomac. Speeches were given in the decades after the battle during the annual reunions of Hood's Brigade Association and the dedication of the Hood's Brigade Monument that took place on 26-27 October 1910 at the state capital in Austin, Texas. These accounts describe their actions at Devil's Den, Little Round Top and other areas during the battle. For the first time ever, their experiences are compiled in Texans at Gettysburg: Blood and Glory with Hood's Texas Brigade.
Author : Susannah J. Ural
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807167606
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Hood's Texas Brigade written by Susannah J. Ural and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia was one of the best units to fight on either side in the American Civil War. Three factors made that success possible: their strong self-identity as Confederates, the mutual respect shared between the brigade's junior officers and their men, and a constant desire to maintain their reputation not just as Texans, but also as the best soldiers in Robert E. Lee's army and all the Confederacy. Hood's Texas Brigade is a study of the soldiers and families of this elite unit that challenges key historical arguments about soldier motivation, volunteerism and desertion, home front morale, and veterans' postwar adjustment.
Author : Colonel Harry McCorry Henderson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786254816
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Texas In The Confederacy written by Colonel Harry McCorry Henderson and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An accurate and absorbing account of all the Civil War campaigns in which any Texas organizations participated - such famous units as Hood’s Texas Brigade, Walker’s Division, Terry’s Texas Rangers and Sibley’s Arizona Brigades, as well as many little-known ones. Texas troops fought in every theater of the Civil War outside the state, and at home had problems to contend with that most of the other states didn’t have; a long coastline and a long frontier had to be guarded, one from the federals and the other from the Indians. The most brilliant operation fought, says Colonel Henderson, was the battle of Sabine Pass, September 8, 1863. The young lieutenant Dick Dowling and a company of 44 Irish guards successfully defended against an invasion attempt at the mouth of the Sabine River by a force of 5000 union soldiers. A full account of this engagement in the terms of a professional soldier is given under the “1st Heavy Artillery Regiment” chapter. One of the most daring plans of the South, aimed at seizing the entire Southwest to the California coast, was the invasion of New Mexico by a brigade of Texans under Harry Hopkins Sibley. The little-known story of this brigade and the battles it fought in the arid territory along the Rio Grande in New Mexico are told in the intensely human chapter on “Sibley’s Arizona Brigade”. TEXAS IN THE CONFEDERACY is doubly valuable for bringing together all the organizations into one handy book, and for creating through this compilation a stirring story of patriotism, bravery, humor and action that will be a source of pride for every Texan and of exciting reading for all.”-Print ed.
Author : Alexander B. Rossino
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611215587
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Their Maryland written by Alexander B. Rossino and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Engagingly written and persuasively argued, this daringly revisionist book is an essential addition to the Antietam bibliography.” —Brian Matthew Jordan, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Marching Home What if the histories previously written about Robert E. Lee’s 1862 Maryland Campaign, the first major Confederate operation north of the Potomac River, missed key sources, proceeded from mistaken readings of the evidence, or were influenced by Lost Cause ideology? As Alexander B. Rossino, author of the acclaimed Six Days in September, demonstrates in Their Maryland: The Army of Northern Virginia from the Potomac Crossing to Sharpsburg in September 1862, these types of distortions indeed continue to shape modern understanding of the campaign. Rossino reassesses the history of the Confederate operation in seven comprehensive chapters, each tackling a specific major issue. He addresses many important questions: Did supply problems in Virginia force Lee north to press the advantage he’d won after the Battle of Second Manassas? What did Rebel troops believe about the strength of secessionist sentiment in Maryland, and why? Did the entire Army of Northern Virginia really camp at Best’s Farm near Frederick, Maryland? Did D.H. Hill lose Special Orders No. 191, or is there more to the story? How did Maryland civilians respond to the Rebel army in their midst, and what part did women play? Finally, why did Robert E. Lee choose to fight at Sharpsburg, and how personally was he involved in directing the fighting? Rossino makes extensive use of primary sources to explore these and other questions. In doing so, he reveals that many long-held assumptions about the Confederate experience in Maryland do not hold up under close scrutiny. The result is a well-documented reassessment that sheds new light on old subjects and reinvigorates the debate on several fronts. “The reader will come away with a greater understanding of this crucial campaign and battle.” —James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times–bestselling author of Battle Cry of Freedom
Author : Earl J. Hess
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700623833
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat written by Earl J. Hess and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War's single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we've been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully challenges that claim, offering a new, clear-eyed, and convincing assessment of the rifle musket's actual performance on the battlefield and its impact on the course of the Civil War. Many contemporaries were impressed with the new weapon's increased range of 500 yards, compared to the smoothbore musket's range of 100 yards, and assumed that the rifle was a major factor in prolonging the Civil War. Historians have also assumed that the weapon dramatically increased casualty rates, made decisive victories rare, and relegated cavalry and artillery to far lesser roles than they played in smoothbore battles. Hess presents a completely new assessment of the rifle musket, contending that its impact was much more limited than previously supposed and was confined primarily to marginal operations such as skirmishing and sniping. He argues further that its potential to alter battle line operations was virtually nullified by inadequate training, soldiers' preference for short-range firing, and the difficulty of seeing the enemy at a distance. He notes that bullets fired from the new musket followed a parabolic trajectory unlike those fired from smoothbores; at mid-range, those rifle balls flew well above the enemy, creating two killing zones between which troops could operate untouched. He also presents the most complete discussion to date of the development of skirmishing and sniping in the Civil War. Drawing upon the observations and reflections of the soldiers themselves, Hess offers the most compelling argument yet made regarding the actual use of the rifle musket and its influence on Civil War combat. Engagingly written and meticulously researched, his book will be of special interest to Civil War scholars, buffs, re-enactors, and gun enthusiasts alike.
Author : Chandra Manning
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307277321
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book What This Cruel War Was Over written by Chandra Manning and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise and narrative verve, Manning explores how the Union and Confederate soldiers came to identify slavery as the central issue of the war and what that meant for a tumultuous nation. This is a brilliant and eye-opening debut and an invaluable addition to our understanding of the Civil War as it has never been rendered before.
