Download or read book Andrews Last Raider written by Jan W Brown and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a desperate gamble by the Confederacy, a plan is hatched to win the Civil War in its opening months. The mission fails during what is now known as the greatest locomotive chase in history. According to history, all of the raiders involved in the chase were captured. Some were executed as spies, some served time in prison and some escaped and were later awarded the first Medals of Honor issued by the United States. But History is sometimes wrong. There was one who was never discovered. He survived to live a long life but due to a war time injury his memories concerning his participation in the chase are lost. Until 1928 when he is forced by tragic events to remember his past. To remember the reason for the chase and the location of a fortune in gold that was never revealed and never discovered as having shipped on the train that was stolen. Hidden in those memories is also the identity of one person, a brutal killer, who knew of the gold and has pursued it for all these years. With the aid of a onetime mobster, who himself has a less than virtuous past they stumble through a maze of treachery, murder and greed concluding in a bloody battle of, the not so good against evil.
Download or read book Andrews Raiders written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Raiders Sons of Texas written by Elmer Kelton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kelton continues the story of the Lewis family and the formative years of the Lone Star state in this second installment of the saga of early Texas.
Download or read book Aftermath of Adventure written by Philip L. Secrist and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capture, escape, torture, acclaim and death all lay ahead for the men who tried and failed to capture the General.
Download or read book Sons of Texas and The Raiders Sons of Texas written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sons of Texas and The Raiders: Sons of Texas offers two classic novels of the Old West for one low price, by renowned Western writer Elmer Kelton. It’s 1816. Mordecai Lewis, a veteran of Andrew Jackson’s campaigns who’s thirsting for action, leads his two sons and a band of backwoodsmen to Spanish-held Texas on a campaign to hunt wild horses. Their plan is to sell the mustangs back in Tennessee, but tragedy strikes when a bloody skirmish leaves Mordecai dead, and brothers Michael and Andrew are forced to fend for themselves. Sons of Texas and The Raiders: Sons of Texas follow the lives and adventures of the Lewis family through the era of the Alamo and Texas Independence under Sam Houston. From stealing horses to falling in love to being dogged by the ruthless Spanish officer who killed their father, Michael and Andrew endure enough trials and tribulations to fill the whole of Texas. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Adventures of Alf Wilson A Member of the Mitchell Railroad Raiders written by John Alf Wilson and published by Digital Scanning Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April of 1862 a group of men to undertake one of the most daring raids of the American Civil War. The Adventures of Alf Wilson is the personal account of the raid by one of its members, reproduced here as it was originally published in 1897. Twenty-four Union soldiers, by order of Gen. Ormsby Mitchell, disguise themselves as southerners and make their way to Marietta Georgia. There, within earshot of a confederate encampment, the men steal the locomotive The General. Their orders are to sever the Western & Atlantic Railroad. If the men succeed, they will cripple enemy troop movement. If caught, they will surely be hanged as spies. Spotted by a canny stationmaster, a high-speed chase ensues and desperate men fight to carry out their mission and survive the outcome.
Download or read book Tom of the Raiders written by Austin Bishop and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Wild Train written by Charles O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less than eight hours of a wet April Saturday in 1862 along a stretch of Georgia railroad track have been widely acknowledged to contain the most melodramatic single sequence of events of the Civil War: the capture of a locomotive deep in the Confederacy by a party of twenty-two Union raiders and the ensuing eighty-six-mile chase led by a handful of determined and resourceful Georgia railroad men. -- Pg. xiii.
Download or read book Andrews Raiders written by Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reunion of Survivors of the Andrews Raiders written by Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a brief story of the Raid, registers of the names of the raiders, and portraits of members of the raiding and the pursuing units.
Download or read book Winter s Knight written by Richard Argent and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Andrew was touched by the otherworld when a dead murderer sought out his village, showing him his fate. And though his father is just a blacksmith, nothing will keep Andrew from riding to the Crusades to seek the honours he has been promised. He lives battles of the imagination, seeing harsh midday sun glint off sword and armour, where he rides his horse into war in a riot of colour and noise. But dead men keep secrets, and much of the future has been kept from him. Andrew may find the glory of the Crusades and skirmish with Saladin's most powerful warriors. Or he may become entangled in Templar politics and wander in the desert haunted by jinn and demons. What is certain is that Andrew will face tests of blade and spirit. And his dreams will be measured in blood before he sees home again.
Download or read book The Stolen Apocalypse A Raiders of the Arcana special edition prequel novella written by Jacquelyn Benson and published by Vaughan Woods Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a determined lady scholar, nothing perks up a wedding quite like exploding coffins and a priceless stolen manuscript. Professional archivist and fervent suffragette Ellie Mallory loathes marriage ceremonies, but she's willing to endure this one if it means she can get her hands on a uniquely fascinating 13th century apocalypse manuscript. The only problem? The manuscript she finds is a fake, and the real one will be swapped out by thieves before the wedding bells start to chime. Ellie has only one hour to figure out where the exchange is to take place within the vast Gothic maze of historic Christchurch Priory. With the help of her fashionable, knife-wielding bestie, Constance Tyrrell, she must navigate deadly belfries, a morose groom, and a crypt full of potentially explosive coffins—all while wearing a nightmarishly pink borrowed dress. But Ellie's quest to save the apocalypse leads her to stumble into another historical mystery—one that might uncover the fate of an even more precious treasure. Can she find the prize, stop the thieves, and save the wedding in time? Pick up The Stolen Apocalypse, the adventure-packed and delightful introduction to Jacquelyn Benson's swashbuckling Raiders of the Arcana series, and find out!
Download or read book American Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Strange Whim of the Sea written by Tim Loughman and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 16, 1944, the submarine rescue vessel USS Macaw ran aground at Midway Atoll while attempting to get a towing line to the stranded submarine USS Flier. The Flier was pulled free six days later, but another three weeks of salvage efforts plagued by rough seas and equipment failures failed to dislodge the Macaw. On February 12, amid huge waves, the ship began to slip aft into deeper water. As night fell and the Macaw slowly sank, the twenty-two sailors on board—ship's captain Paul W. Burton, his executive officer, and twenty enlisted men—sought refuge in the pilothouse, but by 2:30 a.m., that compartment had flooded almost entirely. Burton gave the order to open the portside door and make for the foremast. Three men climbed it but most of the others were swept overboard. Five of them died, including Burton. Three sailors from the base at Midway also lost their lives in two unauthorized rescue attempts. Drawing on survivors' contemporaneous written statements and interviews conducted over a span of thirty years, A Strange Whim of the Sea: The Wreck of the USS Macaw traces the ship's service from its launch on San Francisco Bay to its disastrous final days at Midway. Ultimately, for Burton and the Macaw the real enemy was the sea, and in a deadly denouement, the sea won. Highlighting the underreported role auxiliary vessels played in the war, A Strange Whim of the Sea engages naval historians and students alike with a previously untold story of struggle, sacrifice, death, and survival in the World War II Pacific.
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