Download or read book Bedford Goes to War written by James W. Morrison and published by Warwick House Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story about all the men from the County of Bedford, Virginia, who served in World War II.
Download or read book The Bedford Boys written by Alex Kershaw and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia -- population just 3,000 in 1944 -- died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day. They were part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, and the first wave of American soldiers to hit the beaches in Normandy. Later in the campaign, three more boys from this small Virginia town died of gunshot wounds. Twenty-two sons of Bedford lost--it is a story one cannot easily forget and one that the families of Bedford will never forget. The Bedford Boys is the true and intimate story of these men and the friends and families they left behind. Based on extensive interviews with survivors and relatives, as well as diaries and letters, Kershaw's book focuses on several remarkable individuals and families to tell one of the most poignant stories of World War II--the story of one small American town that went to war and died on Omaha Beach.
Download or read book The Bedford Boys written by Alex Kershaw and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia -- population just 3,000 in 1944 -- died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day. They were part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, and the first wave of American soldiers to hit the beaches in Normandy. Later in the campaign, three more boys from this small Virginia town died of gunshot wounds. Twenty-two sons of Bedford lost--it is a story one cannot easily forget and one that the families of Bedford will never forget. The Bedford Boys is the true and intimate story of these men and the friends and families they left behind. Based on extensive interviews with survivors and relatives, as well as diaries and letters, Kershaw's book focuses on several remarkable individuals and families to tell one of the most poignant stories of World War II--the story of one small American town that went to war and died on Omaha Beach.
Download or read book The Bedford Boys written by Alex Kershaw and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2003-04-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poignant story of twenty-one boys who died on the beaches of Normandy and the small town they called home
Download or read book The Myth of Nathan Bedford Forrest written by Paul Ashdown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful exploration of the relentless myth of the famous Civil War general, this volume scrutinizes the collective public memory of Nathan Bedford Forrest as it has evolved through the press, memoirs, biographies, and popular culture.
Download or read book Civil War Soldiers of Bedford County Pennsylvania written by Kevin Mearkle and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lists all identified Civil War soldiers who lived in Bedford County Pennsylvania during their lifetimes. Included are identified soldiers who lived in some of the immediate surrounding border communities of Bedford County. Also included are identified Civil War Soldiers who were born in Bedford County but moved to another state during the great western migration and Bedford County residents who joined Maryland regiments. The book includes photographs of Bedford County Civil War soldiers in uniform and pictures of Civil War veterans taken after the war. Some photographs include family members. The listed soldiers will include the Regiment and Company, Muster Dates, Age at Muster, Casualty and Cemetery information if known. A chapter in the book will cover the major battles in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War and list the names of the Bedford County casualties in each battle.
Download or read book The Bedford Boys written by Alex Kershaw and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The tide had crept up behind Nance, drowning Company A men who no longer had the strength to crawl. Nance had trained them. He had tried to be good to them. He had read their last love letters. As he now lay on the blood-stained pebbles below Vierville sur Mer, drifting in and out of consciousness, he still felt responsible for them, every last one. "I was their officer. It was my duty . . . They were the finest soldiers I ever saw. I loved those men."' The memorable opening scene of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, which portrayed the appalling scenario on Omaha Beach, where allied bombs had failed to knock out German gun emplacements or do any damage whatsoever to beach defences was loosely based on Bedford's story. The first wave of seasick young GIs were being tipped out into the tide to be picked off by waiting machine gun fire and shelling, acting more as target practice than a tangible threat. Bodies and dissected limbs of the fallen lined the watermark like flotsam. Incredible bravery and luck did in some instances prevail, and with the help of a more successful bombing campaign later in the day, Omaha was finally taken. Company A was in that first wave of landings - known, jokingly as 'the suicide wave' by soldiers before the attack. Many of Bedford's young recruits to the US Army found themselves training and fighting together in Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division - a company which was all but obliterated by the end of the Longest Day. From small town lives - wives, fiancees and childhoods - to training in the UK and those fateful D-Day landings and on to the aftermath, Alex Kershaw creates a vivid and haunting portrait of one town's loss.
Download or read book Our War written by and published by Warwick House Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Battle from the Start written by Brian Steel Wills and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A balanced perspective that contains previously unknown information. Includes unsavory aspects, such as the Fort Pillow Massacre of Black federal troops, & his post war founding of the KKK.
Download or read book New Bedford s Civil War written by Earl F. Mulderink and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the social, political, economic, and military history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century, with a focus on the Civil War homefront, 1861-1865, and on the city's black community, soldiers, and veterans.
Download or read book The First World War written by Susan R. Grayzel and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief but thorough collection, Susan Grayzel’s new revision of The First World War document reader allows students to experience this historical turning point through various sources from the period and the scholarship tied to them.
Download or read book Time Goes to War written by Kelly Knauer and published by Time. This book was released on 2002-10-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forgotten Allies written by Joseph T. Glatthaar and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining compelling narrative and grand historical sweep, Forgotten Allies offers a vivid account of the Oneida Indians, forgotten heroes of the American Revolution who risked their homeland, their culture, and their lives to join in a war that gave birth to a new nation at the expense of their own. Revealing for the first time the full sacrifice of the Oneidas in securing independence, Forgotten Allies offers poignant insights about Oneida culture and how it changed and adjusted in the wake of nearly two centuries of contact with European-American colonists. It depicts the resolve of an Indian nation that fought alongside the revolutionaries as their valuable allies, only to be erased from America's collective historical memory. Beautifully written, Forgotten Allies recaptures these lost memories and makes certain that the Oneidas' incredible story is finally told in its entirety, thereby deepening and enriching our understanding of the American experience.
Download or read book That Devil Forrest written by John A. Wyeth and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last two years of the Civil War I was a private soldier in a regiment of Alabama cavalry which had formerly served under Forrest. Four companies of this regiment had formed a portion of the famous battalion which had distinguished itself in the engagement at Fort Donelson, and, refusing to surrender, had marched out with him through the gap in General Grant’s lines. Although I was at no time directly under General Forrest, I was impressed by the enthusiastic devotion to him of these veterans, who had followed his banner for the first year of the war, and who seemed never to tire in speaking of his kind treatment of them, his sympathetic nature as a man, his great personal daring, and especially of his wonderful achievements as a commander. Of these achievements I was at that time not altogether ignorant. His escape from Fort Donelson; the desperate charge which saved Beauregard’s army from Sherman’s vigorous pursuit after Shiloh, in which he was severely wounded; the capture of Murfreesborough with its entire garrison of infantry and artillery, with his small brigade of cavalry without cannon; the charge on and capture of Coburn’s infantry at Thompson’s station; the capture of the garrison at Brentwood; and the relentless pursuit of Streight’s raiders, which ended in the surrender of these gallant Union soldiers to Forrest with less than one-half of their number, had already attracted wide attention and had made him famous. The knowledge of these facts, together with a personal association with the men who had felt the influence of his immediate leadership, naturally interested me in his career, which I closely followed to the end of the great struggle. When the general government, with wise forethought, began to collect and to place at the disposal of its citizens the official reports and correspondence, and all the reliable literature of the war, I undertook, in the light of these and other authentic papers, a closer analysis of his military record. The further my investigations proceeded, the more I became convinced that while Forrest was justly acknowledged to be one of the most famous fighters and leaders of mounted infantry or cavalry which the war produced on either side, he was more than this, and that a careful and unbiased statement of his achievements would place him in history not only as one of the most remarkable and romantic personalities of the Civil War, but as one of the ablest soldiers of the world. While I had hoped, as year after year slipped by since peace was declared, that some one abler than I would undertake the task of placing in readable shape the story of his life, I had determined if this were not done before I should pass into the “sere and yellow leaf” to pay this tribute to his memory myself. It has been a work of years to gather up from every available source the matter relating to this history—his early days, his civil and private life, and the accurate facts of his military record. In 1894, I wrote a condensed sketch, had it printed in single column upon the margin of wide sheets of paper, leaving a large blank space, and these I mailed to every surviving officer or soldier of his command whose address I could obtain, and to others personally acquainted with Forrest before or after the war. All were requested to return the sheet with corrections, and to add everything of interest, for the accuracy of which the sender could vouch. I also caused the publication of this sketch in various newspapers of wide circulation in the section of the South from which his troops were chiefly drawn, and asked as well for private letters of information. As a result of these efforts a great mass of material came into my possession, and an interest was aroused which encouraged me in the laborious task of sifting the reliable from the unreliable, and of making presentable to the reader the matter which was worthy of credence.
Download or read book Bust Hell Wide Open written by Samuel W. Mitcham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!
Download or read book Experiencing the Thirty Years War written by Hans Medick and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most momentous and destructive wars in European history, the Thirty Years War has long been studied for its diplomatic, political, and military consequences. Yet the actual participants in this religiously motivated, seemingly endless conflict have largely been ignored. Hans Medick and Benjamin Marschke reveal the Thirty Years War from the perspective of those who lived it. Their introduction provides important insights into the roiling religious and political landscape from which the war emerged, as well as a thoughtful examination of the war's stages and enduring significance. An unprecedented collection of personal accounts, many of them translated for the first time into English, combine with visual sources to convey directly to students the experience of early modern warfare. Incisive document headnotes, maps and illustrations, a chronology, questions to consider, and a bibliography enrich students' understanding of this fateful war.
Download or read book Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest written by John Allan Wyeth and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
