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Book Synopsis Wilson's Cavalry Corps by : Jerry Keenan
Download or read book Wilson's Cavalry Corps written by Jerry Keenan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famed fighting force of Union General William T. Sherman was plagued by a lack of first-rate cavalry--mostly because of Sherman's belief, after some bad experiences, that the cavalry was largely a waste of good horses. The man Grant sent to change Sherman's mind was James Harrison Wilson, a bright, ambitious, and outspoken young officer with a penchant for organization. Wilson proved the perfect man for the job, transforming a collection of independent regiments and brigades into a fiercely effective mounted unit. Wilson's Cavalry, as it came to be known, played a major role in thwarting Confederate General Hood's 1864 invasion of Tennessee, then moved south for the celebrated capture of Selma, Montgomery, and Columbus. Despite such success, it is this book that is the first overall history of the Cavalry Corps. In addition to meticulous description of military actions, the book affords particular attention to Wilson's outstanding achievement in creating an infrastructure for his corps, even as he covered the Federal flanks in the withdrawal to Franklin and Nashville.
Book Synopsis History of the Campaign of Mobile by : Christopher Columbus Andrews
Download or read book History of the Campaign of Mobile written by Christopher Columbus Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Campaign of Mobile; including the co-operative operations of Gen. Wilson's Cavalry in Alabama ... With maps and illustrations by : Christopher Columbus ANDREWS
Download or read book History of the Campaign of Mobile; including the co-operative operations of Gen. Wilson's Cavalry in Alabama ... With maps and illustrations written by Christopher Columbus ANDREWS and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Campaign of Mobile: Including the Coöperative Operations of Gen. Wilson'S Cavalry in Alabama by Christopher Columbus Andrews, first published in 1867, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Book Synopsis U.S. Colored Troops Defeat Confederate Cavalry by : Edwin W. Besch
Download or read book U.S. Colored Troops Defeat Confederate Cavalry written by Edwin W. Besch and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson's Wharf was the first major clash between U.S. Colored Troops and the Army of Northern Virginia. The 1st and 10th USCT infantry regiments, supported by two cannon and two U.S. Navy gunboats, faced 11 detachments of veteran Confederate cavalry who were under orders to "kill every man." Union commander General Edward Wild, a one-armed abolitionist, refused General Fitzhugh Lee's demand for surrender, telling Lee to "go to Hell." The battle resulted in a victory for the mainly black Union force. This book describes the action in detail and in the larger context of the history of black U.S. servicemen, including the British recruitment of runaway slaves during the Revolutionary War, the black Colonial Marines who joined the British in torching Washington in the War of 1812, and the South's attempts to enlist slaves in the final months of the Civil War.
Book Synopsis Under the Old Flag by : James Harrison Wilson
Download or read book Under the Old Flag written by James Harrison Wilson and published by New York, London, D. Appleton. This book was released on 1912 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 1981-10-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?
Book Synopsis Yankee Blitzkrieg by : James Pickett Jones
Download or read book Yankee Blitzkrieg written by James Pickett Jones and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yankee Blitzkrieg is the first comprehensive survey of Wilson's Raid, the largest independent mounted expedition of the Civil War. The Confederacy was reeling when Wilson's raiders left their camps along the Tennessee River in March 1865 and rode south. But there was talk of prolonged rebel resistance in the deep South using the agricultural and industrial facilties of a sweep of territory that ran from Macon to Meridian. That area had hardly been touched by the war, and in Columbus, Georgia, and Selma, Alabama, the South had two of its most productive industrial communities. Twenty-seven year-old General Wilson was certain his large, well-officered, well-trained, and well-armed cavalry corps could deny the Confederates a redoubt in the heart of Alabama and Georgia. Wilson, like many cavalry leaders, north and South, believed the mounted arm had been grievously misused through four years of war. But in March 1865, armed with support from Grant, Sherman, and Thomas, Wilson at last could test the theory that massed heavily armed cavalry could strike swiftly in great strenghth and press to quick victory.... Wilson's strategy was to get there "first with the most men," and it would be tested against the man who had invented the very phrase, Nathan Bedford Forrest. —from the book
Book Synopsis Wilson’s Raid by : Russell W. Blount Jr.
Download or read book Wilson’s Raid written by Russell W. Blount Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive the final days of the Civil War with this compelling account of Wilson's Raid told by memoirs of those who witnessed it. In the closing months of the Civil War, General James Wilson led a Union cavalry raid through Alabama and parts of Georgia. Wilson, the young, brash "boy general" of the Union, matched wits against Nathan Bedford Forrest, the South's legendary "wizard of the saddle." Wilson's Raiders swept through cities like Selma, Tuscaloosa and Montgomery, destroying the last remaining industrial production centers of the Confederacy along with any hopes of its survival. Forrest and his desperately outnumbered cavalry had no option but to try to stop the Union's advance. Join Russell Blount as he examines the eyewitness accounts and diaries chronicling this defining moment in America's bloodiest war.
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Book Synopsis History of the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac by : Charles Dudley Rhodes
Download or read book History of the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac written by Charles Dudley Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wilson’s Creek Staff Ride And Battlefield Tour [Illustrated Edition] by : Major George E. Knapp
Download or read book Wilson’s Creek Staff Ride And Battlefield Tour [Illustrated Edition] written by Major George E. Knapp and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes more than 14 maps and Illustrations Armies of the North and South fought the Battle of Wilson’s Creek about ten miles southwest of Springfield, Missouri, on Saturday, 10 Aug. 1861...While the action at Wilson’s Creek was small compared to that at Gettysburg or Chickamauga, it remains significant and useful to students of military history. ...The Union defeat in battle and the death of General Nathaniel Lyon, so closely following the disaster at First Bull Run, caused the North to adopt a more serious attitude about the war and to realize that victory would come only with detailed planning and proper resourcing. Thus, the Union reinforced Missouri with soldiers and weapons during the fall and winter of 1861-62, while the Confederacy applied its scanty resources elsewhere. Although the exiled pro-Confederate state government voted to secede and sent delegates to Richmond, Virginia, Missouri effectively remained in the Union. Any questions about Missouri’s fate were settled at the Battle of Pea Ridge in March 1862, when Union forces turned back the last significant Confederate threat to Missouri. Wilson’s Creek was a “first battle” for most of the soldiers who fought there. First battles often provide armies with special insights into the application of military art and science, and Wilson’s Creek was no exception. The Mexican War model of organization and combined arms battle was generally confirmed, but some key observations relating to technology and command and control emerged as well...In addition, artillery proved decisive at several key moments during the fighting. Cavalry, on its part, proved to be much less valuable, and this fact hinted at lessons to be learned later in the Civil War. Ultimately, the infantry of both sides played out the drama, and many of the most useful insights came from that branch.
Book Synopsis Trevilian Station, June 11-12, 1864 by : Joseph W. McKinney
Download or read book Trevilian Station, June 11-12, 1864 written by Joseph W. McKinney and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1864, General Ulysses Grant ordered his cavalry commander, Philip Sheridan, to conduct a raid to destroy the Virginia Central Railroad between Charlottesville and Richmond. Sheridan fell short of his objective when he was defeated by General Wade Hampton's cavalry in a two-day battle at Trevilian Station. The first day's fighting saw dismounted Yankees and Rebels engaged at close range in dense forest. By day's end, Hampton had withdrawn to the west. Advancing the next morning, Sheridan found Hampton dug in behind hastily built fortifications and launched seven dismounted assaults, each repulsed with heavy casualties. As darkness fell, the Confederates counterattacked, driving the Union forces from the field. Sheridan began his withdrawal that night, an ordeal for his men, the Union wounded and Confederate prisoners brought off the field and the hundreds of starved and exhausted horses that marked his retreat, killed to prevent their falling into Confederate hands.
Book Synopsis The Fifth New York Cavalry in the Civil War by : Vincent L. Burns
Download or read book The Fifth New York Cavalry in the Civil War written by Vincent L. Burns and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth New York Cavalry was a volunteer regiment organized in response to the Union defeat at the Battle of Bull Run in July 1861. The citizen-cavalrymen who made up the regiment came from across New York State and from every walk of life. In the following four years the unit became, according to contemporary sources, one of the finest cavalry formations in the field. The regiment's history is told chronologically in the overall context of the Civil War and based upon primary sources, including official reports, diaries, letters and newspaper accounts. Wherever possible Fifth New York troopers speak to us directly, describing their experiences in the Shenandoah campaign of 1862, the epic encounter at Gettysburg, life in camp and on picket duty, the Wilderness in the spring of 1864 and again the Shenandoah in the fall of 1864.
Book Synopsis The War of the Rebellion by : United States. War Department
Download or read book The War of the Rebellion written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Grant's Cavalryman by : Edward G. Longacre
Download or read book Grant's Cavalryman written by Edward G. Longacre and published by . This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the Civil War, the cavalry of the Union army seemed to lag behind its Confederate opponents. Once Union authorities applied some system to their service, telling results rewarded their efforts. The man responsible for that success was General James H Wilson. This is the biography of the man who revolutionised the Union cavalry.
Book Synopsis Statistical Record of the Armies of the United States by : Frederick Phisterer
Download or read book Statistical Record of the Armies of the United States written by Frederick Phisterer and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Henry Wilson's Regiment by : John Lord Parker
Download or read book Henry Wilson's Regiment written by John Lord Parker and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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