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Book Recollections of Field Service with the Twentieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers

Download or read book Recollections of Field Service with the Twentieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers written by Chester Barney and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Book Recollections Of Field Service With The Twentieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers

Download or read book Recollections Of Field Service With The Twentieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers written by Chester Barney and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping memoir, Chester Barney provides readers with a first-hand account of his experiences serving with the Twentieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers during the Civil War. Filled with vivid descriptions of battles and camp life, this book offers a unique and fascinating perspective on one of the most tumultuous periods in US history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Recollections of Field Service

Download or read book Recollections of Field Service written by Chester Barney and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book could be subtitled "What I saw in the Army." It includes the author's recollections of marches, battles, sieges and skirmishes in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Texas and along the northern border of Mexico.

Book Recollections of Field Service With the Twentieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers  Or  What I Saw In the Army  Embracing Accounts of Marches  Battles  Sieges and Skirmishes  In Missouri  Arkansas  Mississi

Download or read book Recollections of Field Service With the Twentieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers Or What I Saw In the Army Embracing Accounts of Marches Battles Sieges and Skirmishes In Missouri Arkansas Mississi written by Capt. C. Barney and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theater of a Separate War

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  • Author : Thomas W. Cutrer
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2023-04-04
  • ISBN : 1469666286
  • Pages : 609 pages

Download or read book Theater of a Separate War written by Thomas W. Cutrer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent. From cotton-rich Texas and the fields of Kansas through Indian Territory and into the high desert of New Mexico, the Trans-Mississippi Theater was site of major clashes from the war's earliest days through the surrenders of Confederate generals Edmund Kirby Smith and Stand Waite in June 1865. In this comprehensive military history of the war west of the Mississippi River, Thomas W. Cutrer shows that the theater's distance from events in the East does not diminish its importance to the unfolding of the larger struggle.

Book Reminiscences of the Twenty Second Iowa Volunteer Infantry

Download or read book Reminiscences of the Twenty Second Iowa Volunteer Infantry written by Samuel Calvin Jones and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston

Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Engineering Victory

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  • Author : Justin S. Solonick
  • Publisher : SIU Press
  • Release : 2015-04-07
  • ISBN : 0809333929
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Engineering Victory written by Justin S. Solonick and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 25, 1863, after driving the Confederate army into defensive lines surrounding Vicksburg, Mississippi, Union major general Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee laid siege to the fortress city. With no reinforcements and dwindling supplies, the Army of Vicksburg finally surrendered on July 4, yielding command of the Mississippi River to Union forces and effectively severing the Confederacy. In this illuminating volume, Justin S. Solonick offers the first detailed study of how Grant’s midwesterners serving in the Army of the Tennessee engineered the siege of Vicksburg, placing the event within the broader context of U.S. and European military history and nineteenth-century applied science in trench warfare and field fortifications. In doing so, he shatters the Lost Cause myth that Vicksburg’s Confederate garrison surrendered due to lack of provisions. Instead of being starved out, Solonick explains, the Confederates were dug out. After opening with a sophisticated examination of nineteenth-century military engineering and the history of siege craft, Solonick discusses the stages of the Vicksburg siege and the implements and tactics Grant’s soldiers used to achieve victory. As Solonick shows, though Grant lacked sufficient professional engineers to organize a traditional siege—an offensive tactic characterized by cutting the enemy’s communication lines and digging forward-moving approach trenches—the few engineers available, when possible, gave Union troops a crash course in military engineering. Ingenious midwestern soldiers, in turn, creatively applied engineering maxims to the situation at Vicksburg, demonstrating a remarkable ability to adapt in the face of adversity. When instruction and oversight were not possible, the common soldiers improvised. Solonick concludes with a description of the surrender of Vicksburg, an analysis of the siege’s effect on the outcome of the Civil War, and a discussion of its significance in western military history. Solonick’s study of the Vicksburg siege focuses on how the American Civil War was a transitional one with its own distinct nature, not the last Napoleonic war or the herald of modern warfare. At Vicksburg, he reveals, a melding of traditional siege craft with the soldiers’ own inventiveness resulted in Union victory during the largest, most successful siege in American history.

Book Fields of Blood

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  • Author : William L. Shea
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0807833150
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Fields of Blood written by William L. Shea and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the events of the Battle of Prairie Grove of 1862, which took place in Arkansas and ended the efforts of the Confederate Army to extend the Civil War conflict into the territory west of the MIssissippi River, discussing the generals, battle tactics, casualties, and aftermath.

Book The Yankee Invasion of Texas

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  • Author : Stephen A. Townsend
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2006-01-27
  • ISBN : 1585444871
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book The Yankee Invasion of Texas written by Stephen A. Townsend and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-27 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1863 the Union capture of Texas was viewed as crucial to the strategy to deny the Confederacy the territory west of the Mississippi and thus to break the back of Southern military force. Overland, Texas supplied Louisiana and points east with needed goods; by way of Mexico, Texas offered a detour around the blockade of Southern ports and thus an economic link to England and France. But Union forces had no good base from which to interdict either part of the Texas trade. Their efforts were characterized by short, unsuccessful forays, primarily in East and South Texas. One of these, which left New Orleans on October 26, 1863, and was known as the Rio Grande Expedition, forms the centerpiece of this book. Stephen A. Townsend carefully traces the actions—and inaction—of the Union forces from the capture of Brownsville by troops under Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, through the advance up the coast with the help of Union Loyalists, until General Ulysses S. Grant ordered the abandonment of all of Texas except Brownsville in March 1864. Townsend analyzes the effects of the campaign on the local populace, the morale and good order of the two armies involved, U.S. diplomatic relations with France, the Texas cotton trade, and postwar politics in the state. He thoughtfully assesses the benefits and losses to the Northern war effort of this only sustained occupation of Texas. No understanding of the Civil War west of the Mississippi—or its place in the Union strategy for the Deep South—will be complete without this informative study.

Book The Era of the Civil War  1820 1876

Download or read book The Era of the Civil War 1820 1876 written by Louise A. Arnold-Friend and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ozarks in Missouri History

Download or read book The Ozarks in Missouri History written by Lynn Morrow and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2013-12-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in scholarly study of the Ozarks has grown steadily in recent years, and The Ozarks in Missouri History: Discoveries in an American Region will be welcomed by historians and Ozark enthusiasts alike. This lively collection gathers fifteen essays, many of them pioneering efforts in the field, that originally appeared in the Missouri Historical Review, the journal of the State Historical Society. In his introduction, editor Lynn Morrow gives the reader background on the interest in and the study of the Ozarks. The scope of the collection reflects the diversity of the region. Micro-studies by such well-known contributors as John Bradbury, Roger Grant, Gary Kremer, Stephen Limbaugh Sr., and Milton Rafferty explore the history, culture, and geography of this unique region. They trace the evolution of the Ozarks, examine the sometimes-conflicting influences exerted by St. Louis and Kansas City, and consider the sometimes highly charged struggle by federal, state, and local governments to define conservation and the future of Current River.