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Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book The Most Daring Raid of the Civil War written by Gordon L. Rottman and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Franklin Bair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Story of the Andrews Raid, Or, The Most Daring Enterprise of the Civil War written by John Franklin Bair and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448818702
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (488 download)
Download or read book The Most Daring Raid of the Civil War written by Gordon L. Rottman and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the Union military raid of a locomotive, riding it from Georgia to Tennessee and destroying the railways as they traveled, and details what happened to the raiders and the impact the raid had on the Civil War.
Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429996986
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Midnight Rising written by Tony Horwitz and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011 A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Bestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising portrays Brown's uprising in vivid color, revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict. Brown, the descendant of New England Puritans, saw slavery as a sin against America's founding principles. Unlike most abolitionists, he was willing to take up arms, and in 1859 he prepared for battle at a hideout in Maryland, joined by his teenage daughter, three of his sons, and a guerrilla band that included former slaves and a dashing spy. On October 17, the raiders seized Harpers Ferry, stunning the nation and prompting a counterattack led by Robert E. Lee. After Brown's capture, his defiant eloquence galvanized the North and appalled the South, which considered Brown a terrorist. The raid also helped elect Abraham Lincoln, who later began to fulfill Brown's dream with the Emancipation Proclamation, a measure he called "a John Brown raid, on a gigantic scale." Tony Horwitz's riveting book travels antebellum America to deliver both a taut historical drama and a telling portrait of a nation divided—a time that still resonates in ours.
Author : Jerome Preisler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621577619
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Civil War Commando written by Jerome Preisler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War Ironclads and Commandos Here at last is an action-packed portrait of one of America’s greatest but little-remembered Civil War heroes, Commander William Barker Cushing, who sank the Confederate ironclad Albemarle in a spectacular mission in 1864. Regarded as erratic and insubordinate, Midshipman Cushing was drummed out of the Naval Academy in March 1861. But with the outbreak of war, the Union needed every trained officer it could find— and whatever his flaws, Cushing was an extremely talented naval officer. Ferocious, uncompromising, courageous, and loyal, he became a U.S. Navy commando and at the age of twenty-one was sent to destroy the South’s ultimate naval weapon—the Albemarle, an unsinkable vessel with a devastating iron ram. This death-defying mission succeeded in sinking the Albemarle, helped reelect President Abraham Lincoln, and earned Cushing a hero’s grave in the Naval Academy’s cemetery. Here is that story, told with all the verve and drama it deserves, shining new light on one of the most important naval encounters of the war. Civil War Commando is a masterpiece of naval history that reads like a thriller and gives a neglected hero his due.
Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448818672
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (488 download)
Download or read book The Most Daring Raid of World War II written by Steven J. Zaloga and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the 1944 Allied raid to secure Pointe-du-Hoc during D-Day in World War II, including the army forces who executed the raid, the challenges of securing the area, and how the raid affected the outcome of the invasion at Normandy.
Author : Jefferson Waite 1846-1929 Duffey
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022464117
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (641 download)
Download or read book McNeill's Last Charge; an Account of a Daring Confederate in the Civil War written by Jefferson Waite 1846-1929 Duffey and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping account of one of the Civil War's most daring missions, Jefferson Waite Duffey tells the story of John Hanson McNeill, a Confederate soldier who led a daring raid deep into Union territory. Filled with action, drama, and keen insight into the mind of a soldier, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the Civil War. 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 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. 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 : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448818729
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (488 download)
Download or read book The Most Daring Raid of the Samurai written by Stephen Turnbull and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the 1609 raid from Satsuma against Ryåukyåu, detailing the events leading up to the raid, the strategic plans over both land and sea, and the aftermath of the successful raid.
Author : Jefferson Waite Duffey
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020514616
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (146 download)
Download or read book McNeill's Last Charge; an Account of a Daring Confederate in the Civil War written by Jefferson Waite Duffey and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping account of one of the Civil War's most daring missions, Jefferson Waite Duffey tells the story of John Hanson McNeill, a Confederate soldier who led a daring raid deep into Union territory. Filled with action, drama, and keen insight into the mind of a soldier, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the Civil War. 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 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. 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 : Timothy B. Smith
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1611214297
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The Real Horse Soldiers written by Timothy B. Smith and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This epic account is as thrilling and fast-paced as the raid itself and will quickly rival, if not surpass, Dee Brown’s Grierson’s Raid as the standard.” —Terrence J. Winschel, historian (ret.), Vicksburg National Military Park Winner, Operational/Battle History, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award Winner, Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, Civil War Round Table of New York There were other simultaneous operations to distract Confederate attention from the real threat posed by U. S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee. Benjamin Grierson’s operation, however, mainly conducted with two Illinois cavalry regiments, has become the most famous, and for good reason: For 16 days (April 17 to May 2) Grierson led Confederate pursuers on a high-stakes chase through the entire state of Mississippi, entering the northern border with Tennessee and exiting its southern border with Louisiana. Throughout, he displayed outstanding leadership and cunning, destroyed railroad tracks, burned trestles and bridges, freed slaves, and created as much damage and chaos as possible. Grierson’s Raid broke a vital Confederate rail line at Newton Station that supplied Vicksburg and, perhaps most importantly, consumed the attention of the Confederate high command. While Confederate Lt. Gen. John Pemberton at Vicksburg and other Southern leaders looked in the wrong directions, Grant moved his entire Army of the Tennessee across the Mississippi River below Vicksburg, spelling the doom of that city, the Confederate chances of holding the river, and perhaps the Confederacy itself. Based upon years of research and presented in gripping, fast-paced prose, Timothy B. Smith’s The Real Horse Soldiers captures the high drama and tension of the 1863 horse soldiers in a modern, comprehensive, academic study. Readers will find it fills a wide void in Civil War literature.
Author : Tom Lalicki
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374327874
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (743 download)
Download or read book Grierson's Raid written by Tom Lalicki and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Colonel Benjamin H. Grierson's sixteen-day raid through central Mississippi in the spring of 1863, which distracted Confederate attention while Union troops moved on Vicksburg.
Author : John Franklin Bair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781104667504
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (675 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Andrews Raid: Or the Most Daring Enterprise of the Civil War (1898) written by John Franklin Bair and published by . This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Jerome Preisler
Publisher : Regnery History
ISBN 13 : 1621576795
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Civil War Commando written by Jerome Preisler and published by Regnery History. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War Ironclads and Commandos Here at last is an action-packed portrait of one of America’s greatest but little-remembered Civil War heroes, Commander William Barker Cushing, who sank the Confederate ironclad Albemarle in a spectacular mission in 1864. Regarded as erratic and insubordinate, Midshipman Cushing was drummed out of the Naval Academy in March 1861. But with the outbreak of war, the Union needed every trained officer it could find— and whatever his flaws, Cushing was an extremely talented naval officer. Ferocious, uncompromising, courageous, and loyal, he became a U.S. Navy commando and at the age of twenty-one was sent to destroy the South’s ultimate naval weapon—the Albemarle, an unsinkable vessel with a devastating iron ram. This death-defying mission succeeded in sinking the Albemarle, helped reelect President Abraham Lincoln, and earned Cushing a hero’s grave in the Naval Academy’s cemetery. Here is that story, told with all the verve and drama it deserves, shining new light on one of the most important naval encounters of the war. Civil War Commando is a masterpiece of naval history that reads like a thriller and gives a neglected hero his due.
Author : David L. Phillips
Publisher : Friedman/Fairfax Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Daring Raiders written by David L. Phillips and published by Friedman/Fairfax Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the use of partisan tactics in the Civil War, including John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, and the exploits of such raiders as John Singleton Mosby and William W. Averell.
Author : Lester V. Horwitz
Publisher : Farmcourt Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Longest Raid of the Civil War written by Lester V. Horwitz and published by Farmcourt Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives a detailed account of Morgan's raid into the North, including battlefield maps, raid routes, and military studies.
Author : William Pittenger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Daring and suffering, a history of the great railroad adventure written by William Pittenger and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Boyko
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307361462
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Blood and Daring written by John Boyko and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood and Daring will change our views not just of Canada's relationship with the United States, but of the Civil War, Confederation and Canada itself. In Blood and Daring, lauded historian John Boyko makes a compelling argument that Confederation occurred when and as it did largely because of the pressures of the Civil War. Many readers will be shocked by Canada's deep connection to the war—Canadians fought in every major battle, supplied arms to the South, and many key Confederate meetings took place on Canadian soil. Filled with engaging stories and astonishing facts from previously unaccessed primary sources, Boyko's fascinating new interpretation of the war will appeal to all readers of history.
