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Book Synopsis Trailing Clouds of Glory by : Felice Flanery Lewis
Download or read book Trailing Clouds of Glory written by Felice Flanery Lewis and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a narrative of Zachary Taylor’s Mexican War campaign, from the formation of his army in 1844 to his last battle at Buena Vista in 1847, with emphasis on the 163 men in his “Army of Occupation” who became Confederate or Union generals in the Civil War. It clarifies what being a Mexican War veteran meant in their cases, how they interacted with one another, how they performed their various duties, and how they reacted under fire. Referring to developments in Washington, D.C., and other theaters of the war, this book provides a comprehensive picture of the early years of the conflict based on army records and the letters and diaries of the participants. Trailing Clouds of Glory is the first examination of the roles played in the Mexican War by the large number of men who served with Taylor and who would be prominent in the next war, both as volunteer and regular army officers, and it provides fresh information, even on such subjects as Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. Particularly interesting for the student of the Civil War are largely unknown aspects of the Mexican War service of Daniel Harvey Hill, Braxton Bragg, and Thomas W. Sherman.
Download or read book Zachary Taylor written by K. Jack Bauer and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor “was and remains an enigma.” He was a southerner who espoused many antisouthern causes, an aristocrat with a strong feeling for the common man, an energetic yet cautious and conservative soldier. Not an intellectual, Taylor showed little curiosity about the world around him. In this biography—the most comprehensive since Holman Hamilton’s two-volume work published forty years ago—Bauer offers a fresh appraisal of Taylor’s life and suggests that Taylor may have been neither so simple nor so nonpolitical as many historians have believed. Taylor’s sixteen months as president were marked by disputes over California statehood and the Texas–New Mexico boundary. Taylor vehemently opposed slavery extension and threatened to hang those southern hotheads who favored violence and secession as a means to protect their interests. He died just as he had begun a reorganization of his administration and a recasting of the Whig party. Balanced and judicious, forthright and unreverential, and based on thoroughgoing research, this book will be for many years the standard biography of Zachary Taylor.
Book Synopsis Zachary Taylor by : John S. D. Eisenhower
Download or read book Zachary Taylor written by John S. D. Eisenhower and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil War Zachary Taylor was a soldier's soldier, a man who lived up to his nickname, "Old Rough and Ready." Having risen through the ranks of the U.S. Army, he achieved his greatest success in the Mexican War, propelling him to the nation's highest office in the election of 1848. He was the first man to have been elected president without having held a lower political office. John S. D. Eisenhower, the son of another soldier-president, shows how Taylor rose to the presidency, where he confronted the most contentious political issue of his age: slavery. The political storm reached a crescendo in 1849, when California, newly populated after the Gold Rush, applied for statehood with an anti- slavery constitution, an event that upset the delicate balance of slave and free states and pushed both sides to the brink. As the acrimonious debate intensified, Taylor stood his ground in favor of California's admission—despite being a slaveholder himself—but in July 1850 he unexpectedly took ill, and within a week he was dead. His truncated presidency had exposed the fateful rift that would soon tear the country apart.
Book Synopsis Life of Major General Zachary Taylor by : John Frost
Download or read book Life of Major General Zachary Taylor written by John Frost and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mexican War by : Elizabeth R. Snoke
Download or read book The Mexican War written by Elizabeth R. Snoke and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Special Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Military History written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat by : Grady McWhiney
Download or read book Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat written by Grady McWhiney and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Civil War history classic, now back in print. Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat, Volume I, examines General Braxton Bragg's military prowess beginning with his enlistment in the Confederate Army in 1862 to the spring of 1863. First published in 1969, this is the first of two volumes covering the life of the Confederacy's most problematic general. It is now back in print and available in paperback for the first time. A West Point graduate, Mexican War hero, and retired army lieutenant colonel, Bragg was one of the most distinguished soldiers to join the Confederacy, and for a time one of the most impressive. Grady McWhiney's research shows that Bragg was neither as outstanding nor as incompetent as scholars and contemporaries suggest, but held positions of high responsibility throughout the war. Not an overwhelming success as commander of the Confederacy's principal western army, Bragg nevertheless directed the Army of Tennessee longer than any other general, and, after being relieved of army command, he served as President Davis's military adviser. Of all the Confederacy's generals, only Robert E. Lee exercised more authority over such an extended period as Bragg. Yet less than two years later Bragg was the South's most discredited commander. Much of this criticism was justified, for he had done as much as any Confederate general to lose the war. The army's failures were Bragg's failures, and after his defeat at Chattanooga in November 1863 Bragg was relieved of field command.
Book Synopsis My Life in the Old Army by : Abner Doubleday
Download or read book My Life in the Old Army written by Abner Doubleday and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often thought of as the inventor of baseball - the great American pastime - Abner Doubleday was first and foremost a soldier. My Life in the Old Army is comprised of a set of previously unpublished writings (the originals are housed at the New-York Historical Society) with an emphasis on Doubleday's tour of duty during the Mexican War. He was on hand for the first shots of the conflict, for the battles of Monterrey and Buena Vista, and later served in Saltillo after the campaign moved farther south toward Mexico City. Fluent in Spanish, he traveled far and wide in Mexico and describes his experiences in this volume.
Book Synopsis History of the United States of America by : Henry William Elson
Download or read book History of the United States of America written by Henry William Elson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Three Kentucky Presidents by : Holman Hamilton
Download or read book The Three Kentucky Presidents written by Holman Hamilton and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three Kentucky presidents—Abraham Lincoln, Zachary Taylor, and Jefferson Davis—were profoundly shaped by their experiences in Kentucky, poised as it was on the border between the North and the South, the East and the Western Frontier. Holman Hamilton asserts that these leaders were personally and politically influenced by their connections to the state. The contrasting traits of western frontiersman and southern aristocrat illuminate Kentucky's heritage and affected Taylor, Lincoln, and Davis, presidents during one of America's most troubled eras. Frontier values influenced Lincoln's and Taylor's views on the major issues of their time: extension of slavery, which they opposed, and preservation of the Union, which they supported. Davis's career reflects Southern values, leading him to favor slavery's extension and the Confederacy.
Book Synopsis American Military History by : Anonymous
Download or read book American Military History written by Anonymous and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 1281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Major General Zachary Taylor by : Henry Montgomery
Download or read book The Life of Major General Zachary Taylor written by Henry Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Military Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Directory of members, constitution and by-laws of the Society of American Military Engineers, 1935" inserted in v. 27.
Book Synopsis Zachary Taylor by : John S. D. Eisenhower
Download or read book Zachary Taylor written by John S. D. Eisenhower and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profile of the twelfth president traces his rise in the military and successes in the Mexican War to his election as the first president without a prior political office, in an account that also offers insight into Taylor's views on slavery and his sudden death.
Book Synopsis Letters of Zachary Taylor, from the battle-fields of the Mexican war by : Taylor, Zachary
Download or read book Letters of Zachary Taylor, from the battle-fields of the Mexican war written by Taylor, Zachary and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1908-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Papers of the Second Palo Alto Conference by : Harriett Denise Joseph
Download or read book Papers of the Second Palo Alto Conference written by Harriett Denise Joseph and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
