Download or read book Civil War Cavalry Artillery Sabers written by John H. Thillmann and published by Man At Arms Bookshelf. This book was released on 2001 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Swords written by Arthur Wyllie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most complete book on American swords ever written. It is the first book to cover the three major categories of American Swords, U.S. Military, Confederate and fraternal swords. The book lists every model of sword carried by the U.S. military and includes every known variation. It also lists and illustrates all of the known Confederate swords and for the first time in any book, every known fraternal group that carried swords. It is heavily illustrated with nearly 400 photographs to aid in identification.
Download or read book U S Swords written by Arthur Wyllie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive work on American swords. It covers all regulation military models from 1790-1917, it lists all fraternal groups that used swords and shows the various types of swords used by those groups and has a detailed makers and dealers section that gives exacting detail of every type of sword made by that dealer. A list of Civil War inspector's initials is included in the back of the book. Heavily illustrated. A MUST for all American sword collectors and historians.
Download or read book California Sabers written by Mclean and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-22 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "California Sabers is the story of the California Hundred and Battalion, the only organized group of Californians to fight in the East during the Civil War. The 500 select men volunteered their enlistment bounty to pay their passage across Panama and on to Massachusetts, where they became the cadre of the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry"-- Book jacket, front flap.
Download or read book The Last Cavalry Sword written by Anthony C. Burke and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the last sword ever designed by a major power for its army to use as a weapon, not as an article of a dress uniform. The sword was the U.S. Model 1913 Cavalry Saber; the designer was George S. Patton, then a lieutenant on the staff of the Army chief of staff. Patton participated in the modern pentathlon in Stockholm in 1912, which included fencing, coming fifth overall. No one in the U.S. Army could be better suited, therefore, to design its last major edged weapon. The Last Sword provides an illustrated overview of the history of cavalry swords and their employment on the battlefield from the end of the Renaissance, through the Napoleonic Era, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, culminating with the Patton cavalry saber, and includes descriptions of a number of the more famous cavalry charges. Patton’s unswerving belief in the value of horse-mounted cavalry, and in the value of those troopers and officers being equipped with the sword he designed, is described using his own words. He continued to advocate horse-mounted cavalry right up to the start of the Second World War. Though mechanized squadrons replaced the conventional cavalry, it was not quite the end of Patton’s sword as some Model 1913 Cavalry Sabers were converted to fighting knives carried by GIs during the war. The book is fully illustrated with images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Museum of American History, the Library of Congress, the General George S. Patton Museum, the National Museum of the U.S. Army, the Connecticut Historical Society, and from private collections, most of which have never been published before.
Download or read book Handbook of Confederate Swords written by William Albaugh Iii and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil War Army Swords written by John H. Thillmann and published by . This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terrible Swift Sword written by John P. Langellier and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2000-05-31 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Langellier''s study examines the uniforms and equipment of Abraham Lincoln''s soldiers as they appeared in the field during the Civil War. The study covers the artillery, cavalry and infantry.
Download or read book Weapons of the Civil War Cavalryman written by John Walter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the American Civil War, the mounted soldiers fighting on both sides of the conflict carried a wide array of weapons, from sabers and lances to carbines, revolvers, and other firearms. Though some sections of the cavalry placed their trust in the sabre, the advent of viable breechloading carbines -- especially repeaters such as the Spencer -- was to transform warfare within little more than a decade of General Lee's final surrender at Appomattox. However, output struggled to keep up with unprecedented demands on manufacturing technology and distribution in areas where communication was difficult and in states whose primary aim was to equip their own men rather than contribute to the arming of Federal or Confederate regiments. In addition, the almost unparalleled losses of men and equipment ensured that almost any firearm, effectual or not, was pressed into service. Consequently, the sheer variety of weaponry carried reflected the mounted soldiers' various roles in different theatres of operation, but also the availability -- or otherwise -- of weapons, notably on the Confederate side. Fully illustrated, this study assesses the effectiveness of the many different weapons arming the Civil War cavalryman and analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the decisions made after 1865 concerning the armament of the US cavalry.
Download or read book Sabres in the Shenandoah written by John C. Bonnell and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st New York was in the thick of the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley from January 1864 to the end of the war. The regiment fought against Confederate generals, guerrillas, and partisan rangers such as John Singleton Mosby. It fought in the Battle of New Market, accompanied David Hunter on his raid to Lynchburg, opposed Jubal Early in his 1864 Maryland offensive, and engaged in countless additional skirmishes in Virginia and West Virginia. In June 1865, the 21st was transferred to the Colorado territory for guard duty along the Overland Stage Route. It was mustered out there in August 1866. Sabres in the Shenandoah provides an almost day-by-day account of the men of the regiment and their battles, skirmishes, activities, and hardships.
Download or read book Out Flew the Sabres written by Eric J. Wittenberg and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day. Fourteen hours. Twelve thousand Union cavalrymen against 9,000 of their Confederate counterparts—with three thousand Union infantry thrown in for good measure. Amidst the thunder of hooves and the clashing of sabers, they slugged it out across the hills and dales of Culpepper County, Virginia. And it escalated into the largest cavalry battle ever fought on the North American continent. Fleetwood Hill at Brandy Station was the site of four major cavalry battles during the course of the Civil War, but none was more important than the one fought on June 9, 1863. That clash turned out to be the opening engagement of the Gettysburg Campaign—and the one-day delay it engendered may very well have impacted the outcome of the entire campaign. The tale includes a veritable who’s-who of cavalry all-stars in the East: Jeb Stuart, Wade Hampton, John Buford, and George Armstrong Custer. Robert E. Lee, the great Confederate commander, saw his son, William H. F. Lee, being carried off the battlefield, severely wounded. Both sides suffered heavy losses. But for the Federal cavalry, the battle was also a watershed event. After Brandy Station, never again would they hear the mocking cry, “Whoever saw a dead cavalryman?” In Out Flew the Sabers: The Battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863—The Opening Engagement of the Gettysburg Campaign, Civil War historians Eric J. Wittenberg and Daniel T. Davis have written the latest entry in Savas Beatie’s critically acclaimed Emerging Civil War Series.
Download or read book The 1864 Field Artillery Tactics written by William Henry French and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated with 122 highly detailed engravings of all types of artillery equipment and maneuvers Civil War historians, and especially reenactors, will enjoy this addition to the Civil War Reference & Reenactors Guide series This guide provides the most thorough explanation of how Civil War artillery operated in the field; definitions of all the equipment belonging to an artillery battery; explanations on the use of each piece of equipment; details for handling the horses; movement of artillery; and formations for battle. The illustrations show the gun, ancillary equipment, caissons and wagons, harnesses, ammunition types and how they are used, and emplacement positions. Includes all 39 artillery bugle calls. The book was written by a board of officers (the Artillery Board of the Army). This version is authorized for use in the training and employment of Union artillery. This book was also used by Confederate forces, as the Confederate artillerist was trained on and used the identical equipment as the Union forces. In fact, they relied extensively on captured Union artillery.
Download or read book History of Vermont Civil War Regiments Artillery Cavalry and Infantry written by Christopher Cox and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has information of all Vermont Civil War Regiment was organized in the state. This is a research base book to find the information about one or more of the Vermont Regiments all in one place. The information is: who the commanding officers were are the organization (mustering in) of the regiment; what battles the regiment was involved in; the armies the regiment belonged to; total enrolled and break down of causalities; and when and where the regiment was organized and mustered out.
Download or read book Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery written by George Michael Neese and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boots and Saddles written by James H. Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sabres and Spurs the First Regiment Rhode Island Cavalry in the Civil War 1861 1865 written by Frederic Denison and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Photographic History of the Civil War The cavalry written by Francis Trevelyan Miller and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities.
