When the Tide Turned in the Civil War
Author | : Martha Nicholson McKay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Fort Wagner |
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Author | : Martha Nicholson McKay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Fort Wagner |
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Author | : Wilson Vance |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2020-03-11 |
Genre | : |
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Confederate enterprise, energy, and expectation were at the zenith in 1862. No other year saw the South with so promising prospects, with plans of campaign so bold, with such resources, both latent and developed. Her armies were at their fullest strength, for the flower of her youth had not yet been destroyed in battle. Want and hunger had not yet begun to chill the hearts of her people. Her political machinery, under the direction of able leaders, had been skillfully adjusted to the needs of the new nation and was now working smoothly and effectually. There had, indeed, come a change of sentiment in the Southland. That boastful and flatulent spirit, -the spirit that contemptuously slurred the strength and courage of the foe and counted upon an easy victory, -was gone. In its place was a temper far more formidable. The South realized now that before it was a task of greatest magnitude, but her people rose to it in a spirit of splendid sacrifice and with high, stern resolutio
Author | : Richard H. Triebe |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2008-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1434360806 |
Blockade runner Captain Wade McKay and the crew of the Atlantis battle the death choke of the Union naval blockade of Wilmington, North Carolina. Massive Fort Fisher stands as the lone guardian of the ships daring to run the blockade. Their mission is of the utmost importance because each precious cargo brought in means new life for the Confederacy. Knowing that the fall of Fort Fisher could hasten the end of the war, the Union army and navy launches a deadly assault to capture the fort and stop blockade running forever.
Author | : Abraham Lincoln |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 9 |
Release | : 2022-11-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1504080246 |
The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Author | : Stephen W. Sears |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2015-02-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0547526636 |
“The best account of the Battle of Antietam” from the award-winning, national bestselling author of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville (The New York Times Book Review). The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation’s history: in this single day, the war claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. In Landscape Turned Red, the renowned historian Stephen Sears draws on a remarkable cache of diaries, dispatches, and letters to recreate the vivid drama of Antietam as experienced not only by its leaders but also by its soldiers, both Union and Confederate. Combining brilliant military analysis with narrative history of enormous power, Landscape Turned Red is the definitive work on this climactic and bitter struggle. “A modern classic.”—The Chicago Tribune “No other book so vividly depicts that battle, the campaign that preceded it, and the dramatic political events that followed.”—The Washington Post Book World “Authoritative and graceful . . . a first-rate work of history.”—Newsweek
Author | : Joseph Alexander Altsheler |
Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Author | : Glenn Tucker |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 838 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786251108 |
““Gettysburg had everything,” Henry S. Commager recently wrote. “It was the greatest battle ever fought on our continent; it boasts more heroic chapters than any other one battle. It was the high tide of the Confederacy.” This is the way Glenn Tucker has always seen it and this is the way he reports it in High Tide at Gettysburg. The story of Gettysburg has never been told better, perhaps never so well as in this volume. Glenn Tucker has the immediacy of a war correspondent on the spot along with the insights that come from painstaking research. The armies live again in his pages. In his big, generous book Glenn Tucker has room to follow Lee’s army up from Chancellorsville across Maryland into Pennsylvania. With Jackson recently killed, Lee had revamped his top command. When Meade’s men caught up with the Confederates and the two armies were probing to locate each other’s concentrations, Mr. Tucker’s account becomes sharper, more dramatic. His rapidly moving, vivid narrative of the three-day battle is filled with fascinating episodes and fresh, stimulating appraisals. Glenn Tucker is akin to Ernie Pyle in his interest in people. With him you meet Harry King Burgwyn, “boy colonel” of the 26th North Carolina, just turned twenty-one, who slugged it out with Col. Henry A. Morrow of the 24th Michigan until few survived on either side. You feel the patriotic surge of white-haired William Barksdale, who led his Mississippians on the “grandest charge of the war” and died as he broke the Federal line. You sense the magnetism of Hancock the Superb, and feel the driving power of rugged Uncle John Sedgwick as he hurried his big VI Corps to the battlefield. With Old Man Greene you struggle in the darkness to save the Culp’s Hill trenches. And much more. Mr. Tucker weaves in many sharp thumbnail biographical sketches without slowing the action. Many North Carolinians, previously slighted, here receive their due. Full, dramatic, immediate, here is Gettysburg.”
Author | : Samuel W. Mitcham |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2018-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1621577651 |
It was one of the bloodiest sieges of the war—a siege that drove men, women, and children to seek shelter in caves underground; where shortages of food drove people to eat mules, rats, even pets; where the fighting between armies was almost as nothing to the privations suffered by civilians who were under constant artillery bombardment—every pane of glass in Vicksburg was broken. But the drama did not end there. Vicksburg was a vital strategic point for the Confederacy. When the city fell on July 4, 1863, the Confederacy was severed from its western states of Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Its fall was simultaneous with General Robert E. Lee’s shattering defeat at Gettysburg far to the north. For generations, July 4 was no day to celebrate for Southerners. It was a day or mourning—especially for the people of Mississippi. Yet this epic siege has long been given secondary treatment by popular histories focused on the Army of Northern Virginia and the Gettysburg campaign. The siege of Vicksburg was every bit as significant to the outcome of the war. The victorious Union commander, Major General Ulysses S. Grant, learned hard lessons assaulting Vicksburg, “the Confederate Gibraltar,” which he attempted to take or bypass no less than nine times, only to be foiled by the outnumbered, Northern-born Confederate commander, Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton. At the end, despite nearly beating the odds, Pemberton’s army was left for dead, without reinforcements, and the Confederacy’s fate was ultimately sealed. This is the incredible story of a siege that lasted more than forty days, that brought out extraordinary heroism and extraordinary suffering, and that saw the surrender of not just a fortress and a city but the Mississippi River to the conquering Federal forces.
Author | : Jeff Shaara |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1999-04-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0345425480 |
In the Pulitzer prize–winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time. The Last Full Measure tells the epic story of the events following the Battle of Gettysburg and brings to life the final two years of the Civil War. Jeff Shaara dramatizes the escalating confrontation between Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant—complicated, heroic, and deeply troubled men. For Lee and his Confederate forces, Gettysburg has been an unspeakable disaster, but he is determined to fight to the bitter end; he faces Grant, the decisive, hard-nosed leader the Union army so desperately needs in order to turn the tide of the war. From the costly Battle of the Wilderness to the agonizing seize of Petersburg to Lee’s epoch-making surrender at Appomattox, Shaara portrays the riveting conclusion of the Civil War through the minds and hearts of the individuals who gave their last full measure.
Author | : Russell Roberts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 |
ISBN | : 9781644932438 |
"Describes the Siege of Vicksburg and the Battle of Gettysburg, including Pickett's Charge, that turned the tide of the American Civil War. Includes critical "Think About It" questions and "Voices from the Past" sections"--