Download or read book Famous Figures of the Civil War Era written by Virginia Brackett and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Famous Figures of the Civil War Era written by Chelsea House Publishers and published by Chelsea House Pub. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Clear and concise biographies of the best-known Civil War personalities -- Includes interesting and informative sidebars -- Presented in an easy-to-read format -- Complements school curriculum
Download or read book Famous Figures of the Civil War Era Set written by Chelsea House Publishers and published by . This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by John F. Grabowski and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leaders of the Civil War Era Set 10 Volumes written by Chelsea House Publishers and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ex-slaves and abolitionists to heroic military leaders and presidents that changed the world, the new ""Leaders of the Civil War Era"" set presents a full picture of some of the important figures who lived during this tumultuous time in U.S. history. This update of Chelsea House's ""Famous Figures of the Civil War Era"" set includes engaging sidebars, colorful photographs, and a new chronology, time line, bibliography, and index, making this attractive set a key resource for students and general readers who want to know more about the people who shaped our country into what it is today.
Download or read book George McClellan written by Brent P. Kelley and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relates events in the personal and professional life of George Brinton McClellan, who served as the commander of the Army of the Potomac and the general in chief of the Union armies.
Download or read book What Caused the Civil War Reflections on the South and Southern History written by Edward L. Ayers and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extremely good writer, [Ayers] is well worth reading . . . on the South and Southern history.”—Stephen Sears, Boston Globe The Southern past has proven to be fertile ground for great works of history. Peculiarities of tragic proportions—a system of slavery flourishing in a land of freedom, secession and Civil War tearing at a federal Union, deep poverty persisting in a nation of fast-paced development—have fed the imaginations of some of our most accomplished historians. Foremost in their ranks today is Edward L. Ayers, author of the award-winning and ongoing study of the Civil War in the heart of America, the Valley of the Shadow Project. In wide-ranging essays on the Civil War, the New South, and the twentieth-century South, Ayers turns over the rich soil of Southern life to explore the sources of the nation's and his own history. The title essay, original here, distills his vast research and offers a fresh perspective on the nation's central historical event.
Download or read book Jefferson Davis written by Joey Frazier and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title tells the story of Jefferson Davis's life, the only president of the Southern States during their secession from the Union.
Download or read book George Gordon Meade written by Bruce Adelson and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Gordon Meade led Union troops to victory at the Battle of Gettysburg, one of the most important battles of the Civil War.
Download or read book William Sherman written by Henna Remstein and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the life and military career of William Tecumseh Sherman.
Download or read book Robert E Lee written by Patricia A. Grabowski and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert E. Lee was proud to serve the United States as a soldier, but when the Civil War broke out he felt it was his duty to follow his southern roots. Lee was a gifted general whose men were loyal to him, and he led the Confederacy to victory after victo
Download or read book Faces of Discord written by National Portrait Gallery and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-07-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Webster, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jefferson Davis, John Brown. We know their names and recall the place of each in our nation's history. But do we recognize their faces and those of the dozens of their contemporaries who forged a new and forward-looking America during the Civil War era? Faces of Discord is a look into the real faces of the leading historical figures of this turbulent and transformative time. Compiled from the collections of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, these depictions include those of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, John S. Mosby, George Armstrong Custer, and many others who were painted, sculpted, and photographed by the foremost artists of the day. More than just arresting pictures in a book, these “faces of discord” represent historical portraits of the period, some of which were once owned by the famous sitters themselves and passed down to the Smithsonian by their descendants. The National Portrait Gallery is a fitting repository for these images, in part because the gallery occupies the building that was used as a barracks and hospital for Federal troops during the war and was the site of Lincoln's second inaugural ball. Faces of Discord also tells the stories of the extraordinary lives behind the faces that changed the course of American history. Selected exclusively from Smithsonian collections and illustrated within Faces of Discord are rarely seen personal possessions and memorabilia associated with many of these historical figures who still command our attention and so vividly animate these pages.
Download or read book Stonewall Jackson written by Martha S. Hewson and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the South's military leaders, Jackson's accidental death at the hands of his own troops has led some to wonder if the South would have won with his continued leadership.
Download or read book David Farragut written by Bruce Adelson and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and military career of naval hero David Farragut, discussing his early life and influences in the American South, his decision to fight for the Union during the Civil War, and the achievements that led the U.S. Navy to create the rank of full admiral in his honor.
Download or read book Frederick Douglass written by Norma Jean Lutz and published by Chelsea House Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the abolitionist movement in the nineteenth century.
Download or read book John Brown written by Virginia Brackett and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After witnessing the cruel treatment of a slave as a youngster, John Brown dedicated his life to the abolition of slavery. In the years before the Civil War, Brown fought to keep Kansas in the Union and was eventually hanged for trying to initiate a slave
Download or read book The Civil War 100 written by Robert Wooster and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War's legendary figures are among the most famous in American history. "The Civil War 100" offers a provocative discussion of the most significant persons in America's bloodiest war, from William T. Sherman and Robert E. Lee to John Brown. Photos, maps & charts.
