Download or read book Civil War and Miscellaneous Papers written by Military Historical Society of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Civil War and Miscellaneous Papers written by Military Historical Society of Massachusetts Staff and published by . This book was released on with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book McClellan s War written by Ethan S. Rafuse and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An important book that rescues George B. McClellan’s military reputation.” —Chronicles Bold, brash, and full of ambition, George Brinton McClellan seemed destined for greatness when he assumed command of all the Union armies before he was 35. It was not to be. Ultimately deemed a failure on the battlefield by Abraham Lincoln, he was finally dismissed from command following the bloody battle of Antietam. To better understand this fascinating, however flawed, character, Ethan S. Rafuse considers the broad and complicated political climate of the earlier 19th Century. Rather than blaming McClellan for the Union’s military losses, Rafuse attempts to understand his political thinking as it affected his wartime strategy. As a result, Rafuse sheds light not only on McClellan’s conduct on the battlefields of 1861-62 but also on United States politics and culture in the years leading up to the Civil War. “Any historian seriously interested in the period will come away from the book with useful material and a better understanding of George B. McClellan.” —Journal of Southern History “Exhaustively researched and lucidly written, Rafuse has done an excellent job in giving us a different perspective on ‘Little Mac.’” —Civil War History “Rafuse’s thoughtful study of Little Mac shows just how enthralling this complex and flawed individual continues to be.” —Blue & Gray magazine

Download or read book With Ballot and Bayonet written by Joseph Allan Frank and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on letters and diaries of more than a thousand soldiers, political scientist Joseph Allan Frank describes how political considerations were central to the development of the armies of the North and South--motivating soldiers, shaping officers, and assuring military cohesion. Illustrations.

Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Legacy of Valor written by Henry Newton Comey and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An educated young man, his observations and political commentary reflect his evolution from eager young private to hardened veteran."--Jacket.

Download or read book Return to Bull Run written by John J. Hennessy and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This comprehensively researched, well-written book represents the definitive account of Robert E. Lee’s triumph over Union leader John Pope in the summer of 1862. . . . Lee’s strategic skills, and the capabilities of his principal subordinates James Longstreet and Stonewall Jackson, brought the Confederates onto the field of Second Manassas at the right places and times against a Union army that knew how to fight, but not yet how to win.”—Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Historical Report on the Troop Movements for the Second Battle of Manassas August 28 Through August 30 1862 written by John Hennessy and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The 117th New York Infantry in the Civil War written by James S. Pula and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Not known to the historic pen, or platform orator," wrote a soldier in the 117th New York Volunteer Infantry, "but the private led in the horror of the fight." Drawing on firsthand accounts, this history of the regiment narrates the monotony and privation of camp life, the exhaustion of long marches and the terror of combat from the perspective of the regular soldier. The operations of the 117th are fully detailed, including actions in the 1863 Suffolk Campaign, the siege of Charleston, the sieges of Petersburg and Richmond, and the conquest of Fort Fisher, North Carolina.

Download or read book Subject Catalog of the Military Art and Science Collection in the Library of the United States Military Academy written by United States Military Academy. Library and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trench Warfare Under Grant Lee written by Earl J. Hess and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The heavy reliance on entrenchments by both armies in the Overland campaign represents a historic shift in the use of fieldworks in Western military history. This shift was driven by Grant's relentless attacks against Lee, not the widespread use of rifle muskets, as historians have previously argued. Entrenchments kept the contending armies within striking distance of each other and compelled the soldiers to dig in for self-protection. As Grant pressed forward despite suffering massive casualties, he seized control of the strategic initiative and retained it for the rest of the war in the eastern theater." "Bolstered by rare, historic photographs and new detailed maps of the trench remnants, this book constitutes the second installment of a three-volume study of field fortifications in the eastern campaigns."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Bulletin of the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lincoln and the War s End written by John C. Waugh and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of his reelection on November 8, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln called on the nation to “re-unite in a common effort, to save our common country.” By April 9 of the following year, the Union had achieved this goal with the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. In this lively volume, John C. Waugh chronicles in detail Lincoln’s role in the final five months of the war, revealing how Lincoln and Grant worked together to bring the war to an end. Beginning with Lincoln’s reelection, Waugh highlights the key military and political events of those tumultuous months. He recounts the dramatic final military campaigns and battles of the war, including William T. Sherman’s march through Georgia to the sea; the Confederate army’s attempt to take Nashville and its loss at the battle of Franklin; and the Union victory at Fort Fisher that closed off the Confederacy’s last open port. Other events also receive attention, including Sherman’s march through the Carolinas and the burning of Columbia; Grant’s defeat of the Army of Northern Virginia at the Battle of Five Forks, and Lincoln’s presence at the seat of war during that campaign; the Confederate retreat from Petersburg and Richmond; and Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. Weaving the stories together chronologically, Waugh also presents the key political events of the time, particularly Lincoln’s final annual message to Congress, passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, the Second Inaugural, Lincoln’s visit to Richmond the day after it fell, and Lincoln’s final days and speeches in Washington after the Confederate surrender. An epilogue recounts the farewell march of all the Union armies through Washington, D.C., in May 1865. Throughout, Waugh enlivens his narrative with illuminating quotes from a wide variety of Civil War participants and personalities, including New Yorker George Templeton Strong, southerner Mary Boykin Chesnut, Lincoln’s secretary John Hay, writer Noah Brooks, and many others.

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Freedom for Themselves written by Richard M. Reid and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 5,000 North Carolina slaves escaped from their white owners to serve in the Union army during the Civil War. In Freedom for Themselves Richard Reid explores the stories of black soldiers from four regiments raised in North Carolina. Constructing a multidimensional portrait of the soldiers and their families, he provides a new understanding of the spectrum of black experience during and aftger the war.