Download or read book Montana s Last Civil War Veterans written by Jay S. Hoar and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Montana s Last Civil War Old soldiery written by Jay S. Hoar and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confederates in Montana Territory written by Ken Robison and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confederate veterans flocked to the Montana Territory at the end of the Civil War. Seeking new opportunities after enduring the hardships of war, these men and their families made a lasting impact on the region. Their presence was marked across the territory in places like Confederate Gulch and Virginia City. Now meet the fascinating characters who came to Big Sky country after the war, including guerrillas who fought with William Quantrill and Bloody Bill Anderson, as well as cavalrymen who rode with Confederate legends General Nathan Bedford Forrest and Colonel John S. Mosby. Author and historian Ken Robison recounts where these soldiers came from, why they fought for the South, what drew them to the Montana Territory and how they helped shape the region.
Download or read book Lincoln County Montana Civil War Veterans written by Jim Calvi and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Antietam Veteran s Montana Journey written by Katharine Seaton Squires and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this recently unearthed memoir, Civil War veteran James Howard Lowell offers a firsthand account of his brutal journey west on a wagon train attacked by Indian Dog Soldiers. The Boston Yank staggers snow blind through a Laramie Plains blizzard to reach Salt Lake City, where he meets Brigham Young. In Montana, he joins an old forty-niner to work a mining claim, practices "tomahawk jurisprudence" in Fort Benton and builds a mackinaw to head downriver through Deadman Rapids to trade with the Crow and Gros Ventre tribes. Lowell's great-great-granddaughter edits this tale populated with colorful characters, narrow escapes and important historical events, such as the Baker Massacre. It features Lowell's letters to his sweetheart and Civil War correspondence.
Download or read book Montana Territory and the Civil War written by Ken Robison and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling portrait of how the passions of the Civil War played out among gold miners in the remote mountains of the West. In 1862, gold discoveries brought thousands of miners to camps along Grasshopper Creek—and by 1864, the Federal government had carved the Montana Territory out of the existing Idaho and Dakota Territories. Gold from Montana Territory fueled the Union war effort, yet loyalties were mixed among the miners. In this compelling collection of stories, historian Ken Robison illustrates how Southern sympathizers and Union loyalists, deserters and veterans, freed slaves and former slaveholders living side by side made a volatile and vibrant mix that molded Montana. Discover how fiery personalities like Union Colonel Sidney Edgerton and General Thomas Francis Meagher fought to keep order in the newly formed frontier, while brave Confederate and Union veterans and their hardy families created an enduring legacy that helped shape modern Montana.
Download or read book The Last Civil War Veterans written by Frank L. Grzyb and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It really matters very little who died last," wrote Civil War historian William Marvel, "but for some reason we seem fascinated with knowing." Drawing on a wide range of sources including correspondence with descendants, this book covers the last living Civil War veterans in each state, providing details of their wartime service as soldiers and sailors and their postwar lives as family men, entrepreneurs, politicians, frontier pioneers and honored veterans.
Download or read book Colonel William H Norton written by William C. Hagen and published by . This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the colorful and adventurous life of Colonel William H. Norton is told. His character was forged on the battlefields of the Civil War, etched on the perilous Bozeman Trail and honed on the Montana frontier as it transitioned from its rough and tumble gold rushing days to mature statehood. Taciturn by nature, Norton's impact on Montana's history is derived from his deeds and not from his words. How a seventeen-year-old Civil War veteran survived the ordeal of being left afoot on the banks of the Bighorn River when the wagon train's mules were run off by marauding Indians, tried his hands at mining and freighting and finally as a trader and city builder is recounted against a backdrop of Montana state history. Credited with playing a critical role in the in the publication of the first account of General Custer's defeat to reach east coast readers, Norton's rise from Illinois farm boy, to merchant, to legislator and philanthropist is a story of perseverance, courage and intelligence.
Download or read book History and Future of Montana Veterans Home Columbia Falls Montana written by Montana Veterans' Home and published by . This book was released on 1970* with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New England s Last Civil War Veterans written by Jay S. Hoar and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Captain Charles Rawn and the Frontier Infantry in Montana written by Robert M. Brown PhD and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stationed in Montana during the height of the Indian Wars, Captain Charles Rawn proved an unlikely hero and an indispensable leader in numerous battles. He took command from a drunken Major Baker at the Battle of Pryor's Creek, saving the 400 soldiers from possible annihilation at the hands of 1,000 Sioux. As commander of Fort Missoula, he led 35 soldiers and 200 volunteers in an attempt to halt 850 Nez Perce warriors. When Colonel Gibbon suffered an injury at the Battle of the Big Hole, Rawn's experience and leadership of the 7th Infantry helped prevent another Custer debacle. Author Robert M. Brown catalogues the career of this outstanding officer and the transformation of the frontier army from a Civil War legacy into an elite fighting force.
Download or read book The Gettysburg Address written by Abraham Lincoln and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Download or read book Last of the Blue and Gray written by Richard A. Serrano and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, pens a story of two veterans. In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota, hospital, his memories as a Yankee drummer boy slowly dimming. Walter Williams, at 117 blind and deaf and bedridden in his daughter's home in Houston, Texas, no longer could tell of his time as a Confederate forage master. The last of the Blue and the Gray were drifting away; an era was ending. Unknown to the public, centennial officials, and the White House too, one of these men was indeed a veteran of that horrible conflict and one according to the best evidence nothing but a fraud. One was a soldier. The other had been living a great, big lie.
Download or read book Civil War Days in Montana written by Robert G. Athearn and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CAPTAIN CHARLES RAWN THE FRO written by Robert M. Brown Phd and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stationed in Montana during the height of the Indian Wars, Captain Charles Rawn proved an unlikely hero and an indispensable leader in numerous battles. He took command from a drunken Major Baker at the Battle of Pryor s Creek, saving the 400 soldiers from possible annihilation at the hands of 1,000 Sioux. As commander of Fort Missoula, he led 35 soldiers and 200 volunteers in an attempt to halt 850 Nez Perce warriors. When Colonel Gibbon suffered an injury at the Battle of the Big Hole, Rawn s experience and leadership of the 7th Infantry helped prevent another Custer debacle. Author Robert M. Brown catalogues the career of this outstanding officer and the transformation of the frontier army from a Civil War legacy into an elite fighting force."
Download or read book Last Civil War Veteran in Each State written by Clarence Stewart Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 1874 Invasion of Montana written by Don L. Weibert and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 1874 invasion of Montana was organized in Western Montana around the present-day city of Bozeman. On the surface, it appeared to be a prospecting expedition in search of gold in Eastern Montana, but its hidden objective was to cause serious trouble with the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. It was a small expedition composed of only 150 innocent-looking civilian frontiersmen and prospectors. When closely examined, however, it is realized this was not the case. The elite group who headed into Eastern Montana were anything but innocent. For the most part, they were hardened Civil War veterans, Texas Rangers, and Indian fighters. The expedition left Bozeman, Montana and headed East down the Yellowstone. April 4 found them in battle on the Rosebud. From then on, for the next three weeks, they fought almost continually until reaching the ruins of old Fort C.F. Smith. After each battle, scores of Indian dead were counted. Throughout the expedition they were led by a man with unbelievable leadership abilities. As proof of his leadership, the expedition fought three major battles, at one time facing up to 1,500 well armed Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. Despite these overwhelming odds, they lost only one man of their own. Until now, the government's involvement in the expedition's activities has not been fully understood. The expedition was supported and supplied by the United States Government for only one purpose: to cause an uprising among the hostile Sioux and Cheyenne tribes of Eastern Montana. This expedition was a direct cause of death of General Custer and his famous Seventh Cavalry. For years, that expedition has been but a footnote in history. Now, with the uncanny knack for research that Don Weibert has, it becomes a part of understanding the history of the West.
