Time-life the Civil War - Generals in the Field
Author | : Time-Life |
Publisher | : Time-Life |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2018-07-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781547820283 |
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Author | : Time-Life |
Publisher | : Time-Life |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2018-07-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781547820283 |
Author | : LIFE Magazine |
Publisher | : Time Home Entertainment |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2020-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 154785300X |
It was a four-year struggle for the survival of a nation and for its soul, in which 620,000 Americans died largely over the question of whether human beings could be owned as property, and a state's right to secede from the union. From the early days of the conflict through the collapse of the Confederacy, this LIFE Explores special edition highlights the Civil War's legendary battles and brings a particular focus to many of the generals, including Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, &“Stonewall&” Jackson, William Tecumseh Sherman and other generals, celebrated and obscure, who led North and South to victory and defeat.
Author | : Robert I. Girardi |
Publisher | : Zenith Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0760345163 |
"A compilation of quotations on 400 Civil War generals by fellow generals, subordinates, and famous figures. Includes an essay on leadership and the military during the Civil War, brief profiles on the featured individuals, and 100 archival images"--
Author | : William L. Shea |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807833150 |
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.
Author | : Robert M. Utley |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-02-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0806160918 |
Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post–Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven military leaders who served as major generals for the Union in the Civil War, then as brigadier generals in command of the U.S. Army’s western departments. By examining both periods in their careers, Utley makes a unique contribution in delineating these commanders’ strengths and weaknesses. While some of the book’s subjects—notably Generals George Crook and Nelson A. Miles—are well known, most are no longer widely remembered. Yet their actions were critical in the expansion of federal control in the West. The commanders effected the final subjugation of American Indian tribal groups, exercising direct oversight of troops in the field as they fought the wars that would bring Indians under military and government control. After introducing readers to postwar army doctrine, organization, and administration, Utley takes each general in turn, describing his background, personality, eccentricities, and command style and presenting the rudiments of the campaigns he prosecuted. Crook embodied the ideal field general, personally leading his troops in their operations, though with varying success. Christopher C. Augur and John Pope, in contrast, preferred to command from their desks in department headquarters, an approach that led both of them to victory on the battlefield. And Miles, while perhaps the frontier army’s most detestable officer, was also its most successful in the field. Rounding out the book with an objective comparison of all eight generals’ performance records, Utley offers keen insights into their influence on the U.S. military as an institution and on the development of the American West.
Author | : Freeman Cleaves |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780806119786 |
General George H. Thomas, the “Rock of Chickamauga” of the history books, was a Virginian who chose the northern side in the Civil War. While Thomas was considered a traitor by his family, his military superiors regarded him with a certain mistrust because of his southern background. Nonetheless, Thomas was prominent in the battles of Mill Springs, Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, and Nashville, and was immortalized at Chickamauga, where he tenaciously held the field until ordered to withdraw.
Author | : J. Timothy Cole |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2014-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786483245 |
This is the story of Collett Leventhorpe (1815-1889), an Englishman and former captain in the 14th Regiment of Foot. Leventhorpe came to North Carolina about 1843, settled there, and later served the Confederacy as a colonel in the 34th and 11th N.C. and brigadier general commanding the Home Guard in eastern North Carolina. Though he trained as a physician at the College of Charleston in the late 1840s, he never practiced and was a restless man, endlessly in search of fortune--before the war in the gold fields of North Carolina and Georgia, and after it in the pursuit of lost estates, art treasures and inventions. But he excelled first and foremost as a Confederate soldier. As a field commander he was never defeated in battle, and his record was marred only by his own rejection of a much deserved but very late promotion to CSA brigadier. He lies buried in the beautiful Happy Valley section of Caldwell County.
Author | : English Combatant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9780809443925 |
Author | : Bonnie Tsui |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2006-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1461748496 |
This exciting new volume profiles several substantiated cases of female soldiers during the American Civil War, including Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (aka Private Lyons Wakeman, Union); Sarah Emma Edmonds (aka Private Frank Thompson, Union); Loreta Janeta Velazquez (aka Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate); and Jennie Hodgers (aka Private Albert D. J. Cashier, Union). Also featured are those women who may not have posed as male soldiers but who nonetheless pushed gender boundaries to act boldly in related military capacities, as spies, nurses, and vivandieres ("daughters of the regiment") who bore the flag in battle, rallied troops, and cared for the wounded. Examining the Civil War through the lens of these women soldiers who fought in the conflict offers valuable insight on existing historical work. This volume will acquaint readers with these women, offering in-depth biographies and behind-the-scenes information. While drawing from recent academic work, Women Soldiers of the Civl War is a lively text geared toward the general-audience reader.
Author | : Time-Life Books |
Publisher | : Time Life Medical |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This book is by and of the soldiers and civilians who experienced the Antietam campaign. Through their words and images you can relive the emotions, the terrifying rush of events, the horrors-even the human comedy-of one of the Civil War's major campaigns. You hold in your hands an album of personal recollections from letters, diaries, photographs, sketches, and artifacts.