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Book Synopsis The Life of Billy Yank by : Bell Irvin Wiley
Download or read book The Life of Billy Yank written by Bell Irvin Wiley and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion to The Life of Johnny Reb, Bell Irvin Wiley explores the daily lives of the men in blue who fought to save the Union. With the help of many soldiers' letters and diaries, Wiley explains who these men were and why they fought, how they reacted to combat and the strain of prolonged conflict, and what they thought about the land and the people of Dixie. This fascinating social history reveals that while the Yanks and the Rebs fought for very different causes, the men on both sides were very much the same. "This wonderfully interesting book is the finest memorial the Union soldier is ever likely to have.... [Wiley] has written about the Northern troops with an admirable objectivity, with sympathy and understanding and profound respect for their fighting abilities. He has also written about them with fabulous learning and considerable pace and humor.
Book Synopsis Johnny Reb and Billy Yank by : Alexander Hunter
Download or read book Johnny Reb and Billy Yank written by Alexander Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Billy Yank written by Michael J. McAfee and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2006-02-19 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the United States Army during the time it served as the vanguard of western expansion and a description of its uniforms and equipment in the late nineteenth century. Each volume in this ongoing series combines detailed and informative captions with over 100 rare and unusual images. These books are a must for anyone interested in American military uniforms.
Download or read book The Vacant Chair written by Reid Mitchell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an insightful, intimate look at the links between the Civil War soldier and his home and family, Mitchell draws on the letters, diaries, and memoirs of common soldiers to show how mid-19th-century ideas shaped the Union soldier's approach to everything from military discipline to battlefield bravery. Halftone illustrations.
Book Synopsis Book Review of Bell Irvin Wiley's The Life of Billy Yank: the Common Soldier of the Union by : Bruce Catton
Download or read book Book Review of Bell Irvin Wiley's The Life of Billy Yank: the Common Soldier of the Union written by Bruce Catton and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Billy Yank and Johnny Reb by : Susan Provost Beller
Download or read book Billy Yank and Johnny Reb written by Susan Provost Beller and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes what life was like for soldiers on both sides during the Civil War, discussing camp life, food, marching, and the treatment of the wounded and prisoners of war, in a book that contains many first-person accounts of the war.
Download or read book Sing Not War written by James Marten and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the nineteenth century's "Greatest Generation" attempted to blend back into society and how their experiences were treated by nonveterans. Many soldiers, Marten reveals, had a much harder time reintegrating into their communities and returning to their civilian lives than has been previously understood. Although Civil War veterans were generally well taken care of during the Gilded Age, Marten argues that veterans lost control of their legacies, becoming best remembered as others wanted to remember them--for their service in the war and their postwar political activities. Marten finds that while southern veterans were venerated for their service to the Confederacy, Union veterans often encountered resentment and even outright hostility as they aged and made greater demands on the public purse. Drawing on letters, diaries, journals, memoirs, newspapers, and other sources, Sing Not War illustrates that during the Gilded Age "veteran" conjured up several conflicting images and invoked contradicting reactions. Deeply researched and vividly narrated, Marten's book counters the romanticized vision of the lives of Civil War veterans, bringing forth new information about how white veterans were treated and how they lived out their lives.
Download or read book Yanks written by John Eisenhower and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-09-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fought far from home, World War I was nonetheless a stirring American adventure. The achievements of the United States during that war, often underrated by military historians, were in fact remarkable, and they turned the tide of the conflict. So says John S. D. Eisenhower, one of today's most acclaimed military historians, in his sweeping history of the Great War and the men who won it: the Yanks of the American Expeditionary Force. Their men dying in droves on the stalemated Western Front, British and French generals complained that America was giving too little, too late. John Eisenhower shows why they were wrong. The European Allies wished to plug the much-needed U.S. troops into their armies in order to fill the gaps in the line. But General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, the indomitable commander of the AEF, determined that its troops would fight together, as a whole, in a truly American army. Only this force, he argued -- not bolstered French or British units -- could convince Germany that it was hopeless to fight on. Pershing's often-criticized decision led to the beginning of the end of World War I -- and the beginning of the U.S. Army as it is known today. The United States started the war with 200,000 troops, including the National Guard as well as regulars. They were men principally trained to fight Indians and Mexicans. Just nineteen months later the Army had mobilized, trained, and equipped four million men and shipped two million of them to France. It was the greatest mobilization of military forces the New World had yet seen. For the men it was a baptism of fire. Throughout Yanks Eisenhower focuses on the small but expert cadre of officers who directed our effort: not only Pershing, but also the men who would win their lasting fame in a later war -- MacArthur, Patton, and Marshall. But the author has mined diaries, memoirs, and after-action reports to resurrect as well the doughboys in the trenches, the unknown soldiers who made every advance possible and suffered most for every defeat. He brings vividly to life those men who achieved prominence as the AEF and its allies drove the Germans back into their homeland -- the irreverent diarist Maury Maverick, Charles W. Whittlesey and his famous "lost battalion," the colorful Colonel Ulysses Grant McAlexander, and Sergeant Alvin C. York, who became an instant celebrity by singlehandedly taking 132 Germans as prisoners. From outposts in dusty, inglorious American backwaters to the final bloody drive across Europe, Yanks illuminates America's Great War as though for the first time. In the AEF, General John J. Pershing created the Army that would make ours the American age; in Yanks that Army has at last found a storyteller worthy of its deeds.
Book Synopsis Soldiers Blue and Gray by : James I. Robertson
Download or read book Soldiers Blue and Gray written by James I. Robertson and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poignant tale of Johnny Reb & Billy Yank.
Book Synopsis The Civil War Diary of a Common Soldier by : Terrence J. Winschel
Download or read book The Civil War Diary of a Common Soldier written by Terrence J. Winschel and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Wiley was typical of most soldiers who served in the armies of the North and South during the Civil War. A poorly educated farmer from Peoria, he enlisted in the summer of 1862 in the 77th Illinois Infantry, a unit that participated in most of the major campaigns waged in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Alabama. Recognizing that the great conflict would be a defining experience in his life, Wiley attempted to maintain a diary during his years of service. Frequent illnesses kept him from the ranks for extended periods of time, and he filled the many gaps in his diary after the war. When viewed as a postwar memoir rather than a period diary, Wiley's narrative assumes great importance as it weaves a fascinating account of the army life of Billy Yank. Rather than focus on the noble and heroic aspects of war, Wiley reveals how basic the lives of most soldiers actually were. He describes at length his experiences with sickness, both on land and at sea, and the monotony of daily military life. He seldom mentions army leaders, evidence of how little private soldiers knew of them or the larger drama in which they played a part. Instead, he writes fondly of his small circle of regimental friends, fills his pages with refreshing anecdotes, records troop movements, details contact with civilians, and describes the appearance of the countryside through which he passed. In the epilogue, Terrence J. Winschel recounts Wiley's complex and often frustrating struggle to obtain his military pension after the war. Wiley was an ingenious misspeller, and his words are transcribed just as he wrote them more than 130 years ago. Through his simple language, we come to know and care for this common man who made a common soldier. His story transcends the barriers of time and distance, and places the reader in the midst of men who experienced both the horror and the tedium of war. Winschel's rich annotation fleshes out Wiley's narrative and provides an enlightening historical perspective. Scholars and buffs alike, especially those fascinated by operations in the lower Mississippi Valley and along the Gulf Coast, will relish Wiley's honest portrait of the ordinary serviceman's Civil War.
Book Synopsis Embattled Courage by : Gerald Linderman
Download or read book Embattled Courage written by Gerald Linderman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linderman traces each soldier's path from the exhilaration of enlistment to the disillusionment of battle to postwar alienation. He provides a rare glimpse of the personal battle that raged within soldiers then and now.
Book Synopsis The 16th Mississippi Infantry by : Robert G. Evans
Download or read book The 16th Mississippi Infantry written by Robert G. Evans and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The words of these common soldiers fighting in one of the most notable units in the Army of Northern Virginia will fascinate both civil war buffs and historians.".
Book Synopsis Faces of Union Soldiers at South Mountain and Harpers Ferry by : Matthew Borders
Download or read book Faces of Union Soldiers at South Mountain and Harpers Ferry written by Matthew Borders and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Confederate invasion of the North in the fall of 1862 led to a series of engagements known as the Maryland Campaign. Though best remembered for its climax, there was desperate fighting at both South Mountain and Harpers Ferry prior to the bloodletting at Antietam Creek. These battles in particular were desperate affairs of bloody attacks and determined defense. In this work are the images of thirty Union soldiers, published here for the first time, that help give a face and a history to those men who struggled up the slopes of South Mountain or sheltered from Confederate cannons at Harpers Ferry. Join Matthew Borders and Joseph Stahl as they introduce you to these men, their battles and their stories.
Book Synopsis Life of Billy Yank, the Common Soldier ... by : Bell Irvin Wiley
Download or read book Life of Billy Yank, the Common Soldier ... written by Bell Irvin Wiley and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A People's History of American Empire by : Howard Zinn
Download or read book A People's History of American Empire written by Howard Zinn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted from the critically acclaimed chronicle of U.S. history, a study of American expansionism around the world is told from a grassroots perspective and provides an analysis of important events from Wounded Knee to Iraq.
Book Synopsis The Union Soldier in Battle by : Earl J. Hess
Download or read book The Union Soldier in Battle written by Earl J. Hess and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reminder that the buisness of war is killing, this study recounts the hellish realms of Civil War combat. Drawing upon letters, diaries and memoirs of Northern soldiers, it reveals not only their deepest fears and shocks, but also their sources of inner strengths.
Book Synopsis Life of Johnny Reb/Life of Billy Yank by : Bell I. Wiley
Download or read book Life of Johnny Reb/Life of Billy Yank written by Bell I. Wiley and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
