Download or read book General George Henry Thomas Letters written by George Henry Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This letters mainly written by General George Henry Thomas. In the first letter, dated, August 26, 1861, Thomas writes to a fellow general, expressing his pleasure in being appointed Brigade General of Volunteers. Thomas is also grateful that he will be associated with General William Tecumseh Sherman and General Ambrose Everett Burnside. The second letter, dated December 13, 1879, was written by Thomas' wife, Frances Lucretia Thomas, to Captain Edward Ruger. Frances requests that Ruger send her any of the military papers belonging to her late husband that were used in the making of the maps for the book "History of the Army of the Cumberland" by Thomas Budd Van Horne. Frances wants to put all of Thomas' military papers in a location that she deems safe. The next letter, written by Thomas to Ruger on March 21, 1869, discusses planning and communications between Ruger and General Andrew Atkinson Humphreys. Thomas discusses Ruger's placement and the opportunity for him to either remain in Louisville, Kentucky or travel to Washington, D. C. Thomas also mentions Ruger's appointment to Surveyor General of the Territory of Wyoming. The final letter, written by Thomas to Brevet Major General Manning Ferguson Force on April 12, 1866, further discusses the maps being created to cover the territory involved in the Army of the Cumberland. Thomas adds Force's name to the list of distributions for this work, which Force will receive as soon as it is published by the Engineer Bureau.
Download or read book Letters to General George H Thomas 1865 written by J. T. Headley and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letter, 1865 Jun. 21, Cedar Lawn, New York, asking Thomas to comment on the criticism offered by the Secretary of War (Edwin M. Stanton) concerning his "delay" in attacking General John B. Hood in the Battle of Nashville in the U.S. Civil War. Gen. Thomas responded in a letter dated 1865 Jun. 29. -- Letter, [1865] Jul. 13, New York. Headley thanks Thomas for his reply concerning the Secretary of War's criticism of Thomas.
Download or read book Master of War written by Benson Bobrick and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • A first-rate historian: Benson Bobrick is the author of several celebrated books, including The Fated Sky and Testament . His work has been hailed as “Lucid and vivid” by The New Yorker , “elegant” by The Washington Post Book World , and “engrossing…detailed and gripping” by the Chicago Tribune . And The New York Times Book Review says, “Bobrick is perhaps the most interesting historian writing in America today.”. • A fascinating biography of an underappreciated American hero: George H. Thomas was, Bobrick argues, the greatest general of the Civil War. Known as the Rock of Chickamauga, Thomas was regarded by his contemporaries as the equal of Grant and Sherman. In the entire Civil War, he never lost a battle or a movement, and he was the only Union commander to destroy two Confederate armies in the field. But Thomas never wrote a memoir and history neglected him. Until now. . • Powerfully told and grippingly rendered: With his characteristic flair for drama and fast-paced writing, Bobrick takes readers onto the battlefields, into the smoke of gunpowder and the stench of bodies. From the parade grounds of West Point to the bloody Battle of Chattanooga, Bobrick masterfully renders every detail, right down to the buckles on Thomas’s boots and the courage in his heart. Backed by scholarly research, this informed and vivid biography at last brings Thomas’s tale to readers everywhere..
Download or read book Major General George H Thomas written by John Watts De Peyster and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letter 1861 August 31 New Haven Ct to Charles Pomeroy Stone written by George Henry Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Union General. Personal letter, with some speculation on Civil War matters.
Download or read book General George H Thomas written by Robert P. Broadwater and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Civil War's most successful generals is heralded by military historians but never achieved the lasting fame of Grant, Lee, Jackson or Sherman. George Thomas's Southern birth, the ambition of fellow officers, and his action in the less-publicized Western Theater combined to keep him from attaining recognition. This comprehensive biography focuses on the military career that covered such battlegrounds as Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and Nashville, as well as the political maneuvers that kept Thomas out of the spotlight.
Download or read book George Henry Thomas written by Brian Steel Wills and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2019-06-09 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although often counted among the Union's top five generals, George Henry Thomas has still not received his due. A Virginian who sided with the North in the Civil War, he was a more complicated commander than traditional views have allowed. Brian Wills now provides a new and more complete look at the life of a man known to history as "The Rock of Chickamauga," to his troops as "Old Pap," and to General William T. Sherman as a soldier who was "as true as steel." While biographers have long been hampered by Thomas's lack of personal papers, Wills has drawn on previously untapped sources—notably the correspondence of Thomas's contemporaries—to offer new insights into what made him tick. Focusing on Thomas's personality and motivations, Wills contributes revealing discussions of his style and approach to command and successfully captures his troubled interactions with other Union commanders, providing a particularly more evenhanded evaluation of his relationship with Grant. He also gives a more substantial account of battlefield action than can be found in other biographies, capturing the ebb and flow of key encounters—Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga and Atlanta, Stones River and Mill Springs, Peachtree Creek and Nashville—to help readers better understand Thomas's contributions to their outcomes. Throughout Wills presents a well-rounded individual whose complex views embraced the worlds of professional military service and scientific inquisitiveness, a man known for attention to detail and compassion to subordinates. We also meet a sharp-tempered person whose disdain for politics hurt his prospects for advancement as much as it reflected positively on his character, and Wills offers new insight into why Thomas might not have progressed as quickly up the ladder of command as he might have liked. More deeply researched than other biographies, Wills's work situates Thomas squarely in his own time to provide readers with a more thorough and balanced life story of this enigmatic Union general. It is a definitive military history that gives us a new and needed picture of the Rock of Chickamauga—a man whose devotion to duty and ideals made him as true as steel.
Download or read book Rock of Chickamauga written by Freeman Cleaves and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General George H. Thomas, the “Rock of Chickamauga” of the history books, was a Virginian who chose the northern side in the Civil War. While Thomas was considered a traitor by his family, his military superiors regarded him with a certain mistrust because of his southern background. Nonetheless, Thomas was prominent in the battles of Mill Springs, Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, and Nashville, and was immortalized at Chickamauga, where he tenaciously held the field until ordered to withdraw.
Download or read book Oration on the Life and Character of Gen George H Thomas written by James Abram Garfield and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Major General George H Thomas written by Thomas Budd Van Horne and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collection of 6 Letters from Union Commander Ulysses Grant to George H THomas and Edwin H Stanton written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 letters from Union Commander Ulysses S. Grant to Major General George Thomas regarding his campaign against Confederate gneral John Bell Hood at Nashville and 1 letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton on Thomas' promotion to Major General.
Download or read book General George H Thomas written by Donn Piatt and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Major General George H Thomas written by Thomas Budd Van Horne and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Autograph Letters and Documents Embracing the Military Correspondence of Major General George H Thomas of the Union Army Brig Gen James Chestnut of the Confederate Army and Aide to Jefferson Davis Hon John L Manning War Governor of South Carolina written by Stan. V. Henkels (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Major General George H Thomas Classic Reprint written by Thomas B. Van Horne and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Major-General George H. Thomas General Thomas once said to the author: "Time and history will do me justice." He however desired that a narrative history of the Army of the Cumberland should precede all biographical representations of himself. It is probable that he overestimated the direct and suggestive force of such a narrative to effect his own vindication, and it is certain that he did not anticipate the disparaging tenor of histories published since his death. Justice has not been done him, in the opinion of multitudes who believe him to have been a very great man and general; and there is, therefore, need of a book which has been written to give the well-defined reasons for this belief. Private and family letters have been excluded from this volume, in deference to General Thomas' expressed opinion, that no strictly personal communications should be published except with the consent of those writing them. For the details of operations which have been analyzed and discussed, the reader is referred to my History of the Army of the Cumberland, and Captain Ruger's accompanying Atlas, from which have been taken reduced battle maps for this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Letter Jan 19 1870 Headquarters Department of the Lakes Detroit to Gen George H Thomas U S Army San Francisco written by John Pope and published by . This book was released on 1870* with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
