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Author : Champ Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780809447589
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Gettysburg written by Champ Clark and published by . This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and illustrations describe the events before, during and after the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455613665
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Voices of Gettysburg written by and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates, through illustrations and short passages, events of the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg and its aftermath as seen through the eyes of soldiers, from generals to privates, as well as various civilians. Includes historical notes.
Author : Scott L. Mingus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983364009
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Civil War Voices from York County, PA. written by Scott L. Mingus and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pennsylvania border county of York and its people stood smack in the middle of things - where South met North - in the American Civil War. That war roiled York County from its tip near the capital of Harrisburg to its 40-mile base at the Mason-Dixon Line. Union soldiers moved to the South after seasoning and staging on county soil. Train cars dripping with blood carried many wounded and diseased soldiers back to a mammoth U.S. military hospital on York parkland. Thousands of York County residents donned blue uniforms, and untold scores died. The war marched onto county soil in those terrible days before the Battle of Gettysburg. The four-day Confederate visit drained money, food, supplies, and horseflesh. Soldiers in blue and gray died in fighting at Hanover and Wrightsville. Gettysburg came next, and county residents gathered food and supplies to treat the wounds of battle, a short 30 miles away. In "Civil War Voices from York County, Pa.," Scott L. Mingus Sr. and James McClure use oral histories, letters, diaries, and newspaper accounts to tell the stories of York countians in those bleak days, 150 years ago. They give a vibrant voice to those living, serving, and dying in a border county in this most tumultuous period in America's history.
Author : Charles W. Mitchell
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801886218
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Maryland Voices of the Civil War written by Charles W. Mitchell and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most contentious event in our nation's history, the Civil War deeply divided families, friends, and communities. Both sides fought to define the conflict on their own terms -- Lincoln and his supporters struggled to preserve the Union and end slavery, while the Confederacy waged a battle for the primacy of local liberty or "states' rights." But the war had its own peculiar effects on the four border slave states that remained loyal to the Union. Internal disputes and shifting allegiances injected uncertainty, apprehension, and violence into the everyday lives of their citizens. No state better exemplified the vital role of a border state than Maryland -- where the passage of time has not dampened debates over issues such as the alleged right of secession and executive power versus civil liberties in wartime. In Maryland Voices of the Civil War, Charles W. Mitchell draws upon hundreds of letters, diaries, and period newspapers to portray the passions of a wide variety of people -- merchants, slaves, soldiers, politicians, freedmen, women, clergy, civic leaders, and children -- caught in the emotional vise of war. Mitchell reinforces the provocative notion that Maryland's Southern sympathies -- while genuine -- never seriously threatened to bring about a Confederate Maryland. Maryland Voices of the Civil War illuminates the human complexities of the Civil War era and the political realignment that enabled Marylanders to abolish slavery in their state before the end of the war.
Author : Jim Slade
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 : 9780764306181
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Firestorm at Gettysburg written by Jim Slade and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eyewitness accounts of Gettysburg citizens, June-November, 1863.
Author : Richard Wheeler
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811741567
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Witness to Gettysburg written by Richard Wheeler and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006-01-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the events that led to the clash at Gettysburg in July 1863 to the retreat of Robert E. Lee's defeated Confederates, Richard Wheeler uses the words of participants--both Northern and Southern--to bring one of the Civil War's bloodiest, most pivotal battles to life.
Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 : 9780783547107
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Chickamauga written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material in the form of personal recollections from letters, diaries, photographs, sketches, and artifacts of both soldiers and civilians.
Author : Carleton Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996843010
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Voices from the Attic written by Carleton Young and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine clearing out your family attic and discovering hundreds of Civil War letters, filled with depth and insight about battles and army life, but not knowing why the letters were there. Using the resources of Ancestry.com and other sources, the author discovers how two Vermont soldiers fit into his family heritage and uses their letters to weave together their war-time story along with the stories of friends and relatives who fought by their side. Voices From the Attic tells the story of two brothers who witnessed and helped to make history by fighting in the Peninsula Campaign, then at South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Cedar Creek. They then helped to preserve that history through their many detailed letters that have now been re-discovered after being stored away for one and a half centuries.
Author : Vincent L. Burns
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1636240739
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Voices of the Army of the Potomac written by Vincent L. Burns and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2021 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards As historian David W. Bright noted in Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, "No other historical experience in America has given rise to such a massive collection of personal narrative 'literature' written by ordinary people." This "massive collection" of memoirs, recollections and regimental histories make up the history of the Civil War seen through the eyes of the participants. This work is an overview of what Civil War soldiers and veterans wrote about their experiences. It focusses on what veterans remembered, what they were prepared to record, and what they wrote down in the years after the end of the war. In an age of increased literacy many of these men had been educated, whether at West Point, Harvard or other establishments, but even those who had received only a few years of education chose to record their memories. The writings of these veterans convey their views on the cataclysmic events they had witnessed but also their memories of everyday events during the war. While many of them undertook detailed research of battles and campaigns before writing their accounts, it is clear that a number were less concerned with whether their words aligned with the historical record than whether they recorded what they believed to be true. This book explores these themes and also the connection between veterans writing their personal war history and the issue of veterans’ pensions. Understanding what these veterans chose to record and why is important to achieving a deeper understanding of the experience of these men who were caught up in this central moment in American life.
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 : Eric J. Wittenberg
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611210178
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Plenty of Blame to go Around written by Eric J. Wittenberg and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A welcome new account of Stuart’s fateful ride during the 1863 Pennsylvania campaign . . . well researched, vividly written, and shrewdly argued.” —Mark Grimsley, author of And Keep Moving On June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is in its opening hours. Harness jingles and hoofs pound as Confederate cavalryman James Ewell Brown (JEB) Stuart leads his three brigades of veteran troopers on a ride that triggers one of the Civil War’s most bitter and enduring controversies. Instead of finding glory and victory-two objectives with which he was intimately familiar, Stuart reaped stinging criticism and substantial blame for one of the Confederacy’s most stunning and unexpected battlefield defeats. In Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg, Eric J. Wittenberg and J. David Petruzzi objectively investigate the role Stuart’s horsemen played in the disastrous campaign. It is the first book ever written on this important and endlessly fascinating subject. Did the plumed cavalier disobey General Robert E. Lee’s orders by stripping the army of its “eyes and ears?” Was Stuart to blame for the unexpected combat that broke out at Gettysburg on July 1? Authors Wittenberg and Petruzzi, widely recognized for their study and expertise of Civil War cavalry operations, have drawn upon a massive array of primary sources, many heretofore untapped, to fully explore Stuart’s ride, its consequences, and the intense debate among participants shortly after the battle, through early post-war commentators, and among modern scholars. The result is a richly detailed study jammed with incisive tactical commentary, new perspectives on the strategic role of the Southern cavalry, and fresh insights on every horse engagement, large and small, fought during the campaign.
Author : Tillie Pierce Alleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book At Gettysburg written by Tillie Pierce Alleman and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-hand account of the Battle of Gettysburg from a 15-year old girl who was on a farm behind Union lines, later used as a field hospital.
Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439126453
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Lincoln at Gettysburg written by Garry Wills and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training, and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece. By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood. Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken.
Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Antietam written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is by and of the soldiers and civilians who experienced the Antietam campaign. Through their words and images you can relive the emotions, the terrifying rush of events, the horrors-even the human comedy-of one of the Civil War's major campaigns. You hold in your hands an album of personal recollections from letters, diaries, photographs, sketches, and artifacts.
Author : Milton Meltzer
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780064461245
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Voices from the Civil War written by Milton Meltzer and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters, diaries, memoirs, interviews, ballads, newspaper articles, and speeches depict life and events during the four years of the Civil War.
Author : William Henry Asbury Speer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Voices from Cemetery Hill written by William Henry Asbury Speer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel William Asbury Speer fought in sixteen major battles of the Civil War. He was wounded twice in combat, served time in Northern prison camps, participated in Pickett;’s charge, marched with Jackson around the Union Army at Chancellorsville, and only weeks before his death, was elected to the North Carolina Senate. His Civil War diary and letters provide vivid accounts of battles at Hanover Court House, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania, all of which will interest scholars, military historians, and Civil War buffs. The story appeals to a rather broad reading audience because of the poignant, often poetic, power of the narrative.
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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1618586335
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Historic Photos of Gettysburg written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War and considered by many historians to be the war’s turning point. During three days in July 1863, the armies of the South under General Robert E. Lee and the armies of the North commanded by General George G. Meade clashed in the hills and dales surrounding the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. When the battle ended on July 3, more than 46,000 soldiers had been killed, wounded, captured, or gone missing. Historic Photos of Gettysburg recounts the events of this momentous battle. From the carnage at Devil’s Den and Pickett’s Charge to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and the 50th and 75th reunions of the veterans from both sides, this look at the scene of the conflict, its aftermath, and its commemoration brings together in one volume a comprehensive visual record of this pivotal event. Included in these pages are hundreds of historic photographs, made by Civil War photographer Mathew Brady and many others, all published in striking black and white. As a collection, these images preserve the historic events at Gettysburg, which helped shape the future of a nation, and document a reunified nation mending its soul.
