Download or read book Civil War Schemes and Plots written by Webb Garrison and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil War Schemes and Plots written by Webb Garrison and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 2001-02-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, leaders on both sides were open to almost any daring strategy that might bring victory. This book details some of the most intriguing, mysterious, bizarre, and ingenious of those plans.
Download or read book Creative Minds in Desperate Times written by Webb Garrison and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1997-09-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Civil War broke out, leaders on both sides had to develop strategies for fighting the conflict and considered almost any suggestion. This book chronicles some of the most intriguing and unusual plans devised by these leaders.
Download or read book The Great Conspiracy Complete written by John Alexander Logan and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Great Conspiracy, Complete' by John Alexander Logan, is a comprehensive and meticulously researched historical account of the origins, evolution, and devastating consequences of the Confederacy's rebellion against the United States. Logan presents authentic facts with impartiality and fairness, and traces the history of the Great Conspiracy from its inception to the evil days of nullification and armed rebellion. He delves into the causes and controversies surrounding the growth of slavery, the protective tariffs, and the rising tensions between the North and the South.
Download or read book The Land of the Divided American Civil War Collection written by Jules Verne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 10766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Land of the Divided: American Civil War Collection stands as a monumental compendium of American literature, offering a panoramic view of the American Civil War through a carefully curated selection of narratives, each reflecting diverse literary styles and perspectives. Encompassing a range of genres from historical fiction to memoirs, and even journalistic accounts, this anthology presents an unmatched exploration of the era's complexities and contradictions. The collection is remarkable not only for its breadth but also for including seminal works that have shaped the American literary canon, allowing readers to witness the wars impact on both the national psyche and individual lives within different societal spheres. The chosen pieces serve as a testament to the period's rich literary fabric, woven from the threads of tragedy, valor, despair, and hope. The collaborative effort of esteemed authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and Ambrose Bierce, among others, brings a diverse array of voices into a harmonious dialogue about a pivotal moment in American history. These authors, coming from varied backgrounds and holding different stakes in the civil conflict, provide a multifaceted view that enriches the collection. Their contributions reflect the zeitgeist of their times and the enduring human conditions influenced by war, capturing the nuanced essence of a divided nation. The anthology aligns with significant literary and historical movements, embedding personal narratives within the broader context of national identity and conflict. It is a critical resource for understanding the diverse literary landscapes and cultural narratives that emerged from the Civil War era. The Land of the Divided: American Civil War Collection is an indispensable anthology for scholars, students, and enthusiasts alike, offering a comprehensive and immersive journey into the heart of American civil conflict through the lens of literature. It promises not only a profound educational experience but also a deep, empathetic insight into the tumultuous period it covers. Readers are invited to traverse this literary mosaic, engaging with the voices that collectively portray the strife, resilience, and evolution of the American spirit during one of the nation's most defining trials. This collection epitomizes the power of literature to connect the past with the present, urging a reflective exploration of the themes that continue to shape the fabric of American society.
Download or read book Land Campaigns of the Civil War written by Paul Calore and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This campaign-by-campaign analysis of the War Between the States presents the action from the opening shots at Fort Sumter to the furled flags at Appomattox. Battles both obscure and famous are examined in detail, covering each army's move and countermove. Commentary is provided on the individual battles with attention to the role each conflict played in the greater scheme of the campaign and the war. The chronological arrangement of the campaigns allows for ready reference regarding a single event or an entire series of campaigns. The text is both clear and thorough, focusing on strategy and military successes and failures. An introduction to the events leading up to the war lays the groundwork for the military analysis. Maps and an index are also included.
Download or read book Plots Designs and Schemes written by Michael Butter and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plots, Designs, and Schemes is the first study that investigates the long history of American conspiracy theories from the perspective of literary and cultural studies. Since research in these fields has so far almost exclusively focused on the contemporary period, the book concentrates on the time before 1960. Four detailed case studies offer close readings of the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692, fears of Catholic invasion during the 1830s to 1850s, antebellum conspiracy theories about slavery, and anxieties about Communist subversion during the 1950s. The study primarily engages with factual texts, such as sermons, pamphlets, political speeches, and confessional narratives, but it also analyzes how fears of conspiracy were dramatized and negotiated in fictional texts, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown (1835) or Hermann Melville's Benito Cereno (1855). The book offers three central insights: 1. The American predilection for conspiracy theorizing can be traced back to the co-presence and persistence of a specific epistemological paradigm that relates all effects to intentional human action, the ideology of republicanism, and the Puritan heritage. 2. Until far into the twentieth century, conspiracy theories were considered a perfectly legitimate form of knowledge. As such, they shaped how many Americans, elites as well as “common” people, understood and reacted to historical events. The Revolutionary War and the Civil War would not have occurred without widespread conspiracy theories. 3. Although most extant research claims the opposite, conspiracy theories have never been as marginal and unimportant as in the past decades. Their disqualification as stigmatized knowledge only occurred around 1960, and coincided with a shift from theories that detect conspiracies directed against the government to conspiracies by the government.
Download or read book Treasure and Empire in the Civil War written by Neil P. Chatelain and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across North America's periphery, unknown and overlooked Civil War campaigns were waged over whether the United States or Confederacy would dominate lands, mines, and seaborne transportation networks of North America's mineral wealth. The U.S. needed this wealth to stabilize their wartime economy while the Confederacy sought to expand their own treasury. Confederate armies advanced to seize the West and its gold and silver reserves, while warships steamed to intercept Panama route ships transporting bullion from California to Panama to New York. United States forces responded by expelling Confederate incursions and solidified territorial control by combating Indigenous populations and enacting laws encouraging frontier settlement. The U.S. Navy patrolled key ports, convoyed treasure ships, and integrated continent-wide intelligence networks in the ultimate game of cat and mouse. This book examines the campaigns to control North America's mineral wealth, linking the Civil War's military, naval, political, diplomatic and economic elements. Included are the hemispheric land and sea adventures involving tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, admiral and explorer Charles Wilkes, renowned sea captain Raphael Semmes, General Henry Sibley, cowboy and mountain man Kit Carson, Indigenous leaders Mangas Coloradas and Geronimo, writer and miner Mark Twain, and Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Download or read book The Hour of Peril written by Daniel Stashower and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller." —Harlan Coben Daniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award–winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War in THE HOUR OF PERIL. In February of 1861, just days before he assumed the presidency, Abraham Lincoln faced a "clear and fully-matured" threat of assassination as he traveled by train from Springfield to Washington for his inauguration. Over a period of thirteen days the legendary detective Allan Pinkerton worked feverishly to detect and thwart the plot, assisted by a captivating young widow named Kate Warne, America's first female private eye. As Lincoln's train rolled inexorably toward "the seat of danger," Pinkerton struggled to unravel the ever-changing details of the murder plot, even as he contended with the intractability of Lincoln and his advisors, who refused to believe that the danger was real. With time running out Pinkerton took a desperate gamble, staking Lincoln's life—and the future of the nation—on a "perilous feint" that seemed to offer the only chance that Lincoln would survive to become president. Shrouded in secrecy—and, later, mired in controversy—the story of the "Baltimore Plot" is one of the great untold tales of the Civil War era, and Stashower has crafted this spellbinding historical narrative with the pace and urgency of a race-against-the-clock thriller. A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2013 Winner of the 2014 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Winner of the 2013 Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction Winner of the 2014 Anthony Award for Best Critical or Non-fiction Work Winner of the 2014 Macavity Award for Best Nonfiction
Download or read book Civil War Maryland written by Richard P Cox and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling stories from a state on the border of the Mason-Dixon line that illustrate its unique role in the American Civil War. By the time the American Civil War began, the agrarian, slave-owning South and the rapidly industrializing North had become almost two separate nations. As a border state with ties to both sides, Maryland and its people played a unique role in the war. This series of essays on Maryland’s involvement in the conflict and its aftermath highlights some of the personalities and events that make Maryland’s Civil War stories unusual and compelling. Author Richard P. Cox draws on original sources and contributions from historians to relate the many ironies, curiosities, and legends that abound.
Download or read book The 1862 Plot to Kidnap Jefferson Davis written by Victor Vifquain and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Vifquain?s memoir is an engaging, firsthand account of a bold attempt to kidnap the president of the Confederate States of America. Archived for nearly a century, the chronicle of this previously unknown and daring plot has been brought to light by historians Jeffrey H. Smith, Vifquain?s great-great grandson, and Phillip Thomas Tucker in a meticulously edited and annotated volume. ø The plot to ride into Richmond and capture Jefferson Davis was concocted by three brash adventurers, who, using pseudonyms from The Three Musketeers, were soon involved in escapades worthy of Dumas's trio. This stunning story provides a fresh perspective on Richmond during the Civil War and a personal account of a scheme devised to bring an early end to the war.
Download or read book Journal of Special Operations Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sotterley Plantation written by Ira E. Fowler and published by Pen & Ivy. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil War Special Forces written by Robert P. Broadwater and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely addition to Civil War history shares the stories of 25 unique military organizations, showing how past and future collided in the first modern war. The Civil War, of course, pitted North against South. It also pitted ancient ways of war against new, technology-inspired weaponry and tactics. In surveying the war's elite fighting units, this work covers both. The book showcases novel weapons and unorthodox strategies, including machine gunners, rocket battalions, chemical corps, the Union balloon corps, and the Confederate submarine service, all of which harnessed new technologies and were forerunners of the modern military. Chapters also cover archaic special forces, such as lancers and pikers, that had their last hurrah during this transformational conflict. Readers will also meet the fighting youth of the North Carolina Junior Reserves, the "Graybeards" of North Carolina, and the female combatants of the Nancy Harts Militia of Georgia. Going where few other studies have gone, the book fills a gap in existing Civil War literature and brings to life the stories of many of the most extraordinary units that ever served in an American army. The tales it tells will prove fascinating to Civil War and weapons buffs and to general readers alike.
Download or read book Civil War written by Marc Guggenheim and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Stamford tragedy, Logan sets out on a personal vendetta to bring the man responsible to justice. He soon discovers, however, that a mysterious trio is stalking the same prey and even more surprising than that is who they answer to.
Download or read book Land Promotion Schemes in the New Jersey Pine Area written by United States. Farm Security Administration and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Plots Against Hitler written by Danny Orbach and published by Eamon Dolan Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and its numerous efforts to assassinate Adolf Hitler In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. A year later, all parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory, and Hitler's dominance seemed complete. Yet over the next few years, an unlikely clutch of conspirators emerged - soldiers, schoolteachers, politicians, diplomats, theologians, even a carpenter - who would try repeatedly to end the Fuhrer's genocidal reign. This dramatic and deeply researched book tells the full story of those noble, ingenious, and doomed efforts. This is history at its most suspenseful, as we witness secret midnight meetings, crises of conscience, fierce debates among old friends about whether and how to dismantle Nazism, and the various plots themselves being devised and executed. Orbach's fresh research takes advantage of his singular skills as linguist and historian to offer profound insight into the conspirators' methods, motivations, fears, and hopes. Though we know how this story ends, we've had no idea until now how close it came - several times - to ending very differently. The Plots Against Hitler fundamentally alters our view of World War II and sheds bright - even redemptive - light on its darkest days.
