Download or read book The Army in the Civil War Phisterer Frederick Statistical record of the armies of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Second United States Sharpshooters in the Civil War written by Gerald L. Earley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second United States Sharpshooters was a hodgepodge regiment, composed of companies raised in several New England states. The regiment was trained for a specific mission and armed with specially ordered breech-loading target rifles. This book covers the origin, recruitment, training, and battle record of the regiment and features 32 photographs, four battlefield maps, and a regimental roster.
Download or read book Quartermaster Support of the Army a History of the Corps 1775 1939 written by United States. Quartermaster General of Army and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Northern Character written by Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The elite young men who inhabited northern antebellum states—the New Brahmins—developed their leadership class identity based on the term “character”: an idealized internal standard of behavior consisting most importantly of educated, independent thought and selfless action. With its unique focus on Union honor, nationalism, and masculinity, Northern Character addresses the motivating factors of these young college-educated Yankees who rushed into the armed forces to take their place at the forefront of the Union’s war. This social and intellectual history tells the New Brahmins’ story from the campus to the battlefield and, for the fortunate ones, home again. Northern Character examines how these good and moral “men of character” interacted with common soldiers and faced battle, reacted to seeing the South and real southerners, and approached race, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation.
Download or read book The Writing of American Military History written by United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Curiosities of the Civil War written by Webb Garrison and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2011-02-27 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War buffs, be warned: Webb Garrison’s Curiosities of the Civil War may catch you off guard. Packed with obscurities and bizarre anecdotes, it spills over with specifics you’ve likely never heard. Debated, reenacted, and analyzed, the Civil War has been the subject of countless books, films, and scholarly research—many of them quite repetitious. This nuanced perspective on the war provides a glimpse beyond the bloody battles, casualties, and political conflict. You'll discover: The first sitting president to be exposed to enemy fire What badgers, pigeons, and bear cubs had in common during the war Which of Stonewall Jackson’s limbs received its own proper burial The turtle-shaped ship designed to douse its opponents with boiling water Which Confederate general was responsible for introducing camels to the Southwest This cache of peculiar characters and stories will deepen your understanding of the war and the people who engaged in it.
Download or read book Hood s Texas Brigade in the Civil War written by Edward B. Williams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the many infantry brigades in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, John Bell Hood's Texas Brigade earned the reputation as perhaps the premier unit. From 1862 until Lee's surrender at Appomattox, the brigade fought in most of the major campaigns in the Eastern Theater and several more in the Western, including the Seven Days, Second Manassas (Second Bull Run), Sharpsburg (Antietam), Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Knoxville, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, the siege of Richmond and Petersburg, and Appomattox. Distinguished for its fierce tenacity and fighting ability, the brigade suffered some of the war's highest casualties. This volume chronicles Hood's Texas Brigade from its formation through postwar commemorations, providing a soldier's-eye view of the daring and bravery of this remarkable unit.
Download or read book The 6th United States Cavalry in the Civil War written by Donald C. Caughey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first scholarly history of the only regular army cavalry regiment raised during the Civil War. Unlike volunteer regiments raised by individual states, the regular regiments drew soldiers from across the country. By war's end 2,130 men and at least one woman from 29 states and 14 countries served in the 6th U.S. Cavalry. The regiment's initial cast of officers included two grandsons of a former president, a cousin of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, two cousins of the governor of Pennsylvania, the son of a Radical Republican senator who opposed President Lincoln, and a number of enlisted soldiers promoted from the ranks. The book relies heavily upon primary sources to tell the regiment's story in the words of the participants. These include diaries and letters of officers and enlisted soldiers alike, several of which are previously unpublished. Official reports are excerpted when appropriate to provide the commander's view of the regiment's performance.
Download or read book Classified Catalogue written by East St. Louis. Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Union General Daniel Butterfield written by James S. Pula and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2024-06-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan Butterfield played a pivotal role during the Civil War. He led troops in the field at the brigade, division, and corps level, wrote an 1862 Army field manual, was awarded a Medal of Honor, composed “Taps,” and served as the chief-of-staff for Joe Hooker in the Army of the Potomac. He introduced a custom that remains in the U.S. Army today: the use of a distinctive hat or shoulder patch to denote the soldier’s unit. Butterfield was also controversial, not well-liked by some, and tainted by politics. Award-winning author James S. Pula unspools fact from fiction to offer the first detailed and long overdue treatment of the man and the officer in Union General Daniel Butterfield: A Civil War Biography. Butterfield was born into a wealthy New York family whose father co-founded American Express. He was one of the war’s early volunteers and made an important contribution with his manual Camp and Outpost Duty for Infantry (1862). He gained praise leading a brigade on the Virginia Peninsula and was wounded at Gaines’ Mill, where his heroism would earn him the Medal of Honor in 1892. It was in the solemnity of camp following the Seven Days’ Battles that he gained lasting fame for composing “Taps.” When its commander went missing, Butterfield took command of a division at Second Bull Run and did so with steadiness and intelligence. His abilities bumped him up to lead the Fifth Corps during the bloodbath at Fredericksburg, where he was charged with managing the dangerous withdrawal across the Rappahannock River. Shocked and hurt when he was supplanted as the head of the Fifth Corps, he received another chance to shine when General Hooker named him chief-of-staff of the Army of the Potomac. In this capacity Butterfield was largely responsible for several innovations. He used insignia he designed himself to identify each corps, streamlined the supply system, and improved communications between commands. He played a pivotal role during the Chancellorsville and Gettysburg campaigns in managing logistics, communications, and movements, only to be discarded while home recuperating from a Gettysburg wound. Politics and his testimony before the Committee on the Conduct of the War tainted his rising star. When Hooker was sent west, Butterfield went along as chief-of-staff and earned positive comments from Hooker and Gens. George Thomas, William T. Sherman, and U. S. Grant. Butterfield led a division in the XX Corps during the Atlanta Campaign with conspicuous ability at Resaca before a recurring illness forced him from the field. Pula’s absorbing prose, meticulous research into primary source material, and evenhanded treatment of this important Civil War figure will be welcomed by historians and casual readers alike. Union General Daniel Butterfield: A Civil War Biography is a study long overdue.
Download or read book Finding List written by Philadelphia. Apprentices' Library Company and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Morale In The Army Of The Cumberland During The Tullahoma And Chickamauga Campaigns written by Major Robert J. Dalessandro and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines insights into the state of morale of the Army of the Cumberland during the period of the Tullahoma and Chickamauga campaigns. The thesis covers the period from June through September 1863. The thesis focused on the organization and leadership of the Army of the Cumberland. It then examined morale as the whole of diverse factors, including national and individual factors. National factors were generally out of control of the army leadership. They included a soldiers’ motivation for joining the army, his views toward southern sympathizers at home, the impact of John Morgan’s Ohio Raid, soldier views on conscription, and effects of the progress of the war on morale. Individual factors comprised concerns for home, family, business, and religion. These areas were also largely beyond the influence of the army leadership. The study then examined morale factors the army could control. It explored army life, attitudes toward leadership, level of discipline, how the army leadership cared for solders, and the impact of mail on soldier morale. The thesis concludes that the Army of the Cumberland was a well lead organization. Consequently, the state of morale of the army was high throughout the Tullahoma campaign and was not significantly diminished as a result of the defeat at Chickamauga. The thesis further concluded that soldier confidence in Major General William S. Rosecrans remained high throughout the period of the study. Confidence in many corps and some division level commanders did, however, suffer as a result of the Chickamauga defeat. Additionally, the thesis concluded that Major General Rosecrans had been undermined from within his own headquarters—ultimately leading to his relief.
Download or read book Unlikely Allies written by Dale Fetzer and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving narrative of the harrowing ordeal of Civil War prisoners. Based on newly discovered primary sources.
Download or read book Grant Rises in the West written by Kenneth Powers Williams and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ulysses S. Grant was a store clerk in Galena, Illinois, in April 1861 when he answered President Lincoln’s call to fight for the Union. In The First Year, 1861–1862, Grant begins as a colonel of Illinois volunteers and moves into prominence after strategically important battles at Belmont, Forts Henry and Donelson, and Shiloh.
Download or read book The Army under Fire written by Cecily N. Zander and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-02-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cecily N. Zander’s The Army under Fire is a pathbreaking study focusing on the fierce political debates over the size and use of military forces in the United States during the Civil War era. It examines how prominent political figures interacted with the professional army and how those same leaders misunderstood the value of regular soldiers fighting to reunify the fractured nation.
Download or read book New Jerseyans in the Civil War written by William J. Jackson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War aficionados and historians will welcome Jackson's analysis of the participation of New Jersey African Americans on the home front and in the military - an important, and much-needed, part of the book."--BOOK JACKET.
