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Book Synopsis Tennessee's Union Cavalrymen by : Myers E. Brown, II
Download or read book Tennessee's Union Cavalrymen written by Myers E. Brown, II and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite officially joining the Confederacy in 1861, Tennessee provided the Union with nearly 32,000 troops during the Civil War. Representing a Southern opposition to secession and loyalty to the Union, many of these Tennesseans served as cavalry or as mounted infantry. Among those serving on horseback were Samuel P. Carter, who temporarily left his post in the U.S. Navy to command a cavalry brigade; Pres. Andrew Johnson's son, Robert Johnson, who served as colonel of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry; and James Brownlow, son of Tennessee's Reconstruction governor, who led his command in a naked charge across the Chattahoochee River. Labeled traitors and renegades by Confederate Tennesseans, these men risked reprisals on their homes and families as they dutifully served the Union cause. This volume draws upon photographs from the collections of the Tennessee State Museum, the Library of Congress, the United States Army Military History Institute, and other public and private collections to tell the story of these loyal cavaliers.
Book Synopsis Tennessee's Union Cavalrymen by : Myers E. II Brown
Download or read book Tennessee's Union Cavalrymen written by Myers E. II Brown and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite officially joining the Confederacy in 1861, Tennessee provided the Union with nearly 32,000 troops during the Civil War. Representing a Southern opposition to secession and loyalty to the Union, many of these Tennesseans served as cavalry or as mounted infantry. Among those serving on horseback were Samuel P. Carter, who temporarily left his post in the U.S. Navy to command a cavalry brigade; Pres. Andrew Johnson's son, Robert Johnson, who served as colonel of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry; and James Brownlow, son of Tennessee's Reconstruction governor, who led his command in a naked charge across the Chattahoochee River. Labeled traitors and renegades by Confederate Tennesseans, these men risked reprisals on their homes and families as they dutifully served the Union cause. This volume draws upon photographs from the collections of the Tennessee State Museum, the Library of Congress, the United States Army Military History Institute, and other public and private collections to tell the story of these loyal cavaliers.
Book Synopsis Homegrown Yankees by : James Alex Baggett
Download or read book Homegrown Yankees written by James Alex Baggett and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the states in the Confederacy, Tennessee was the most sectionally divided. East Tennesseans opposed secession at the ballot box in 1861, petitioned unsuccessfully for separate statehood, resisted the Confederate government, enlisted in Union militias, elected U.S. congressmen, and fled as refugees into Kentucky. These refugees formed Tennessee's first Union cavalry regiments during early 1862, followed shortly thereafter by others organized in Union-occupied Middle and West Tennessee. In Homegrown Yankees, the first book-length study of Union cavalry from a Confederate state, James Alex Baggett tells the remarkable story of Tennessee's loyal mounted regiments. Fourteen mounted regiments that fought primarily within the boundaries of the state and eight local units made up Tennessee's Union cavalry. Young, nonslaveholding farmers who opposed secession, the Confederacy, and the war -- from isolated villages east of Knoxville, the Cumberland Mountains, or the Tennessee River counties in the west -- filled the ranks. Most Tennesseans denounced these local bluecoats as renegades, turncoats, and Tories; accused them of betraying their people, their section, and their race; and held them in greater contempt than soldiers from the North. Though these homegrown Yankees participated in many battles -- including those in the Stones River, Tullahoma, Chickamauga, East Tennessee, Nashville, and Atlanta campaigns -- their story provides rare insights into what occurred between the battles. For them, military action primarily meant almost endless skirmishing with partisans, guerrillas, and bushwackers, as well as with the Rebel raiders of John Hunt Morgan, Joseph Wheeler, and Nathan Bedford Forrest, who frequently recruited and supplied themselves from behind enemy lines. Tennessee's Union cavalry scouted and foraged the countryside, guarded outposts and railroads, acted as couriers, supported the flanks of infantry, and raided the enemy. On occasion, especially during the Nashville campaign, they provided rapid pursuit of Confederate forces. They also helped protect fellow unionists from an aggressive pro-Confederate insurgency after 1862. Baggett vividly describes the deprivation, sickness, and loneliness of cavalrymen living on the war's periphery and traces how circumstances beyond their control -- such as terrain, transport, equipage, weaponry, public sentiment, and military policy -- affected their lives. He also explores their well-earned reputation for plundering -- misdeeds motivated by revenge, resentment, a lack of discipline, and the hard-war policy of the Union army. In the never-before-told story of these cavalrymen, Homegrown Yankees offers new insights into an unexplored facet of southern Unionism and provides an exciting new perspective on the Civil War in Tennessee.
Book Synopsis The Dreaded Thirteenth Tennessee Union Cavalry by : Melanie Storie
Download or read book The Dreaded Thirteenth Tennessee Union Cavalry written by Melanie Storie and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennessee's Thirteenth Union Cavalry was a unit composed mostly of amateur soldiers that eventually turned undisciplined boys into seasoned fighters. At the outbreak of the Civil War, East Tennessee was torn between its Unionist tendencies and the surrounding Confederacy. The result was the persecution of the "home Yankees" by Confederate sympathizers. Rather than quelling Unionist fervor, this oppression helped East Tennessee contribute an estimated thirty thousand troops to the North. Some of those troops joined the "Loyal Thirteenth" in Stoneman's raid and in pursuit of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Join author Melanie Storie as she recounts the harrowing narrative of an often-overlooked piece of Civil War history.
Book Synopsis History of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, U. S. A. by : Samuel W. Scott
Download or read book History of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, U. S. A. written by Samuel W. Scott and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historical Sketch and Roster of the Tennessee 8th Cavalry Regiment (Union) by : John Rigdon
Download or read book Historical Sketch and Roster of the Tennessee 8th Cavalry Regiment (Union) written by John Rigdon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 8th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) was organized August, 1863, by consolidation of 5 Companies organized at Camp Nelson, Ky., June 30 to August 14, 1863, for 10th Tennessee Cavalry which failed to complete organization, and 7 Companies organized in Tennessee at large for the 5th East Tennessee Cavalry. There was another 10th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment formed under the command of Col. George W. Bridges. The regiment fought throughout the war in East Tennessee and western Virginia. They were responsible for the destruction of the Confederate Salt Works at Saltville, Virginia. At the end of the war they were sent in pursuit of the Confederate President Jefferson Davis. They may have been part of the Union troops involved in the disappearance of the Confederate Gold at Washington, GA, but there is no record that they were present at the capture of President Davis. Companies of the Tennessee 8th Cavalry Regiment - Company A - - Company B - Company C - Men from Greene, Hawkins and Jefferson Counties. - Company D - Men from Washington, Greene, Hawkins, Hamblen and Cocke Counties. - Company E - Men from Greene, Washington, Carter and Hawkins Counties. - Company F - Men from Greene, Washington, Hamilton, Union, Knox and Carter Counties. - Copmpany G - Some men from Grainger, Knox, Claiborne, Greene, Sullivan and Union Counties. - Company H - - Company I - - Company K - - Company L - - Company M -
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 2007-09-01 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this volume Stephen Z. Starr brings to a triumphant conclusion his prize-winning trilogy on the history of the Union cavalry.The War in the West provides accounts of the cavalry's role in the Vicksburg Campaign, the conquest of central Tennessee, Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, the March to the Sea, and the campaign of the Carolinas. Starr never neglects the numerous difficulties the cavalry faced: equipment shortages, inadequate weapons, unsuitable organization, and inept use of the cavalry by many members of the Union high command. And he never ignores the cavalry's own contributions to its failures. He convincingly demonstrates that in the end, in the battle of Nashville and in the Selma Campaign, the Union cavalry proved enormously effective. With this final volume Starr's objective remains "the portrayal of the life and campaigns of the Union cavalry as they were experienced and fought by its troopers and officers."
Book Synopsis Tennessee Union Soldiers by : Edna Wiefering
Download or read book Tennessee Union Soldiers written by Edna Wiefering and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry by : W. R. Carter
Download or read book History of the First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry written by W. R. Carter and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staunchly pro-Union young men escaped from Confederate-occupied East Tennessee in droves to muster up numerous regiments for the North. One of the most famous units was the First Regiment of the Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry. Led by Colonel James P. Brownlow, the regiment participated in more than 50 battles and skirmishes, including the East Tennessee campaign, the Atlanta campaign, the Battle of Franklin, the Battle of Nashville, and Brownlow’s infamous “naked charge.”
Book Synopsis Battle of Stones River by : Larry J. Daniel
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 393 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.
Book Synopsis Tennessee Union Soldiers by : Edna Wiefering
Download or read book Tennessee Union Soldiers written by Edna Wiefering and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis They Rode with Forrest and Wheeler by : John E. Fisher
Download or read book They Rode with Forrest and Wheeler written by John E. Fisher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Burr Fisher was one of five brothers who served, between them, in the Fourth and Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry Regiments, Confederate States Army, with remarkable devotion. Using Fishers two memoirs (one untitled, written in 1915, and "Life on the Common Level, " written in 1921), his correspondence, records, and other material, along with the wartime diary of his brother William Fisher and extensive original research, the history of the Western Cavalry is recounted here.
Book Synopsis Civil War Generals of Tennessee by : Bishop, Randy
Download or read book Civil War Generals of Tennessee written by Bishop, Randy and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native Tennessee generals, about forty Confederate and six Union, are profiled here with brief biographies. Forrest, Polk, Stewart, and many more are discussed with regard to their childhoods, prewar vocations, participation in battles around the country, and life after the war if they survived.
Book Synopsis Historical Sketch and Roster of the Tennessee 3rd Cavalry Regiment (Union) by : John Rigdon
Download or read book Historical Sketch and Roster of the Tennessee 3rd Cavalry Regiment (Union) written by John Rigdon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 3rd Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) was organized at Murfreesboro and Nashville, Tenn., January 27, 1863. It served primarily in east Tenneseee against Forrest. It was decimated by disease and most of the men were captured in the fall of 1864. The regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 8 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 532 Enlisted men by disease. Total 546. Companies of the Tennessee 3rd Cavalry Regiment Co. "A." Mustered in at Covington, Kentucky, November 1862. Men from Knox and Blount Counties. Co. "B.." Mustered in at Murfreesboro, January 27, 1863. Co. "C." Mustered in at Murfreesboro, January 27, 1863. Co. "D." Mustered in at Murfreesboro, January 27, 1863. Co. "E." Mustered in at Murfreesboro, January 27, 1863. Co. "F." Mustered in at Nashville, August 31, 1863. Men from 3rd Congressional District. Co. "G." Mustered in at Nashville, August 31, 1863. Men from 3rd Congressional District. Co. "H." Mustered in at Nashville, November 12, 1863. Men from 3rd Congressional District. Co. "I." Mustered in at Nashville, December 14, 1863. Co. "K." Mustered in at Nashville, March 25, 1864. Co. "L." Mustered in at Nashville, June 17, 1864.
Book Synopsis Hurst's Wurst: Colonel Fielding Hurst and the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry U.S.A. by : Kevin D. McCann
Download or read book Hurst's Wurst: Colonel Fielding Hurst and the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry U.S.A. written by Kevin D. McCann and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry U.S.A., a Southern Unionist regiment led by Colonel Fielding Hurst, during the American Civil War from 1862 to 1865.
Book Synopsis With Blood and Fire by : Michael Raymond Bradley
Download or read book With Blood and Fire written by Michael Raymond Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideological cleansing. Military and paramilitary units committing mass murder. Bodies left unburied. Ethnic and racial conflict. Prisoners executed without trial. Civilian dwellings destroyed for political purposes. Mass deportations. Civilian informers touching off military raids. Rape. Torture. Looting. These scenes were being enacted in all those parts of the South that were under Union military occupation during the years of the Civil War.
Book Synopsis History of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, U.S.A. by : Samuel W. Scott
Download or read book History of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, U.S.A. written by Samuel W. Scott and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
