Author: Harold Stanley Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Author: Lonnie R. Speer
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803293427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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The holding of prisoners of war has always been both a political and a military enterprise, yet the military prisons of the Civil War, which held more than four hundred thousand soldiers and caused the deaths of fifty-six thousand men, have been nearly forgotten. Now Lonnie R. Speer has brought to life the least-known men in the great struggle between the Union and the Confederacy, using their own words and observations as they endured a true ?hell on earth.? Drawing on scores of previously unpublished firsthand accounts, Portals to Hell presents the prisoners? experiences in great detail and from an impartial perspective. The first comprehensive study of all major prisons of both the North and the South, this chronicle analyzes the many complexities of the relationships among prisoners, guards, commandants, and government leaders.

Author: Donald A. Clark
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809330113
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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"Major General William "Bull" Nelson played a formative role in the Union's success in Kentucky and the Western theater in the CIvil War... David C. Clark presents a long-overdue examination of an irascible officer, his numerous accomplishments, and his grim fate ... During September of 1862, in a crime that was never prosecuted, fellow Union general Jefferson C. Davis shot and killed Nelson after an argument. Clark explores this remarkable exception in military law, arguing that while the fact of the murder was indisputable, prosecution of the murder went by the wayside because a public angered by the arrogant behavior of Federal officers generally approved of Davis having dispatched an abusive tyrant ... This comprehensive study -- the first biography of Nelson -- eliminates previous misconceptions about a well-known yet misunderstood Civil War general"--Dust jacket.

Author: Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Michigan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Author: Gregory J. W. Urwin
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806132174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Gregory J.W. Urwin narrates the history of American infantrymen from their colonial origins through the War of 1812, the Mexican War, Civil War, the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, and finally to their painful coming of age in 1918, as a world-class combat force on the fields of France in World War I.

Author: Paul Fleury Mottelay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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Author: Bruce V. Jones
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524604178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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This book is to honor the sacrifices and courage shown by the Forty-Second Indiana Infantry in their military campaigns during the Civil War from their organization in 1861 until final victory in April 1865.

Author: Bill Yenne
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510730354
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Not one, not two, but three Custer brothers died at the Little Bighorn—and so did their only sister's husband. Most do not realize that not one, not two, but three Custer brothers died with the 7th Cavalry at the hands of the Sioux and Cheyenne at Little Bighorn in 1876. So too did their nephew and the husband of their only sister. Less than half the immediate Custer family would survive the massacre. This is their story. This book is a must for all those interested in the enduring Custer legend. Where other Custer literature focuses solely on George Armstrong, The Other Custers is the only volume to explore the lives of the Custer siblings in depth. War hero Tom Custer earned two Medals of Honor during the Civil War before riding into the West with his brother. There was the bashful and enigmatic Nevin Custer, and the young Boston Custer, whose one desire in life was to share the adventures of his idolized older brothers. Margaret Custer married into the 7th Cavalry and was widowed at twenty-four when her husband, James Calhoun, was among the dead at the Little Bighorn. The Other Custers traces the upbringing of the family and follows Nevin and Margaret as they carried the Custer name beyond Little Bighorn. The book also uncovers much more detail about the ancestors and descendants of the Custer siblings than is to be found in other Custer biographies.

Author: Grand Army of the Republic. Dept. of Michigan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 960

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Author: Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Michigan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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