Download or read book President Encyclopedia 1861 1877 written by Hicks and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An In-Depth Look At The American Presidents, Lincoln, Johnson, And Grant.
Download or read book President Encyclopedia 1877 1889 written by Hicks and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An In-Depth Look At The American Presidents, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland.
Download or read book Berry Benson s Civil War Book written by Berry Benson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confederate scout and sharpshooter Berry Greenwood Benson witnessed the first shot fired on Fort Sumter, retreated with Lee's Army to its surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, and missed little of the action in between. This memoir of his service is a remarkable narrative, filled with the minutiae of the soldier's life and paced by a continual succession of battlefield anecdotes. Three main stories emerge from Benson's account: his reconnaissance exploits, his experiences in battle, and his escape from prison. Though not yet eighteen years old when he left his home in Augusta, Georgia, to join the army, Benson was soon singled out for the abilities that would serve him well as a scout. Not only was he a crack shot, a natural leader, and a fierce Southern partisan, but he had a kind of restless energy and curiosity, loved to take risks, and was an instant and infallible judge of human nature. His recollections of scouting take readers within arm's reach of Union trenches and encampments. Benson recalls that while eavesdropping he never failed to be shocked by the Yankees' foul language; he had never heard that kind of talk in a Confederate camp! Benson's descriptions of the many battles in which he fought--including Cold Harbor, The Seven Days, Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg--convey the desperation of a full frontal charge and the blind panic of a disorganized retreat. Yet in these accounts, Benson's own demeanor under fire is manifest in the coolly measured tone he employs. A natural writer, Benson captures the dark absurdities of war in such descriptions as those of hardened veterans delighting in the new shoes and other equipment they found on corpse-littered battlefields. His clothing often torn by bullets, Benson was also badly bruised a number of times by spent rounds. At one point, in May 1863, he was wounded seriously enough in the leg to be hospitalized, but he returned to the field before full recuperation. Benson was captured behind enemy lines in May 1864 while on a scouting mission for General Lee. Confined to Point Lookout Prison in Maryland, he escaped after only two days and swam the Potomac to get back into Virginia. Recaptured near Washington, D.C., he was briefly held in Old Capitol Prison, then sent to Elmira Prison in New York. There he joined a group of ten men who made the only successful tunnel escape in Elmira's history. After nearly six months in captivity or on the run, he rejoined his unit in Virginia. Even at Appomattox, Benson refused to surrender but stole off with his brother to North Carolina, where they planned to join General Johnston. Finding the roads choked with Union forces and surrendered Confederates, the brothers ultimately bore their unsurrendered rifles home to Augusta. Berry Benson first wrote his memoirs for his family and friends. Completed in 1878, they drew on his--and partially on his brother's--wartime diaries, as well as on letters that both brothers had written to family members during the war. The memoirs were first published in book form in 1962 but have long been unavailable. This edition, with a new foreword by the noted Civil War historian Herman Hattaway, will introduce this compelling story to a new generation of readers.
Download or read book President Encyclopedia 1829 1849 written by Hicks and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An In-Depth Look At The American Presidents, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, And Polk.
Download or read book President Encyclopedia 1889 1909 written by Hicks and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An In-Depth Look At The American Presidents, Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, And Roosevelt.
Download or read book Theodore Roosevelt written by Zachary Kent and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1988-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and career of Teddy Roosevelt.
Download or read book Reconstruction of Georgia written by Alan Conway and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the reconstruction period in Georgia following the Civil War, a British historian provides a dispassionate account of a highly controversial subject. A revisionist reappraisal, Dr. Conway?s study is the first substantial history of the p.
Download or read book Personal Memoirs of U S Grant written by Ulysses Simpson Grant and published by New York, C. L. Webster & Company. This book was released on 1885 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with failing health and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future - and won himself a unique place in American letters. Devoted almost entirely to his life as a soldier, Grant's Memoirs traces the trajectory of his extraordinary career - from West Point cadet to general-in-chief of all Union armies. For their directness and clarity, his writings on war are without rival in American literature, and his autobiography deserves a place among the very best in the genre.
Download or read book Presidents Encyclopedia Yearbook written by Mckenzie and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Update To The Presidents Encyclopedia Set. Features Detailed Sections On The Economy, The White House, And The 2012 Race To The White House.
Download or read book President Encyclopedia 1909 1929 written by Hicks and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An In-Depth Look At The American Presidents, Taft, Wilson, And Harding
Download or read book President Encyclopedia 1809 1829 written by Hicks and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An In-Depth Look At The American Presidents, Madison, Monroe And Adams.
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Download or read book Sam Richards s Civil War Diary written by Samuel P. Richards and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This previously unpublished diary is the best-surviving firsthand account of life in Civil War-era Atlanta. Bookseller Samuel Pearce Richards (1824-1910) kept a diary for sixty-seven years. This volume excerpts the diary from October 1860, just before the presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, through August 1865, when the Richards family returned to Atlanta after being forced out by Sherman's troops and spending a period of exile in New York City. The Richardses were among the last Confederate loyalists to leave Atlanta. Sam's recollections of the Union bombardment, the evacuation of the city, the looting of his store, and the influx of Yankee forces are riveting. Sam was a Unionist until 1860, when his sentiments shifted in favor of the Confederacy. However, as he wrote in early 1862, he had "no ambition to acquire military renown and glory." Likewise, Sam chafed at financial setbacks caused by the war and at Confederate policies that seemed to limit his freedom. Such conflicted attitudes come through even as Sam writes about civic celebrations, benefit concerts, and the chaotic optimism of life in a strategically critical rebel stronghold. He also reflects with soberness on hospitals filled with wounded soldiers, the threat of epidemics, inflation, and food shortages. A man of deep faith who liked to attend churches all over town, Sam often commments on Atlanta's religious life and grounds his defense of slavery and secession in the Bible. Sam owned and rented slaves, and his diary is a window into race relations at a time when the end of slavery was no longer unthinkable. Perhaps most important, the diary conveys the tenor of Sam's family life. Both Sam and his wife, Sallie, came from families divided politically and geographically by war. They feared for their children's health and mourned for relatives wounded and killed in battle. The figures in Sam Richards's Civil War Diary emerge as real people; the intimate experience of the Civil War home front is conveyed with great power.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Constitution written by Leonard Williams Levy and published by New York : Macmillan Publishing Company ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles by 178 contributors on such topics as abortion, capital punishment, interest groups, the Iran-Contra Affair, line item veto, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and more. Bibliog.
Download or read book Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops written by Susie King Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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