Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Subject Catalog; of the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Writings on American History
Author: Sherman
Author: John F. MarszalekPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 080938762X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order is the premier biography of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War commander known for his “destructive war” policy against Confederates and as a consummate soldier. This updated edition of John F. Marszalek’s award-winning book presents the general as a complicated man who, fearing anarchy, searched for the order that he hoped would make his life a success. Sherman was profoundly influenced by the death of his father and his subsequent relationship with the powerful Whig politician Thomas Ewing and his family. Although the Ewings treated Sherman as one of their own, the young Sherman was determined to make it on his own. He graduated from West Point and moved on to service at military posts throughout the South. This volume traces Sherman’s involvement in the Mexican War in the late 1840s, his years battling prospectors and deserting soldiers in gold-rush California, and his 1850 marriage to his foster sister, Ellen. Later he moved to Louisiana, and, after the state seceded, Sherman returned to the North to fight for the Union. Sherman covers the general’s early Civil War assignments in Kentucky and Missouri and his battles against former Southern friends there, the battle at Shiloh, and his rise to become second only to Grant among the Union leadership. Sherman’s famed use of destructive war, controversial then and now, is examined in detail. The destruction of property, he believed, would convince the Confederates that surrender was their best option, and Sherman’s successful strategy became the stuff of legend. This definitive biography, which includes forty-six illustrations, effectively refutes misconceptions surrounding the controversial Union general and presents Sherman the man, not the myth.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author: Publisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Legal Compilation; Statutes and Legislative History, Executive Orders, Regulations, Guidelines and Reports
Author: First[-Fifth] Biennial Report of the Historical Department of Iowa Made to the Trustees of the State Library
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Author: Iowa. Historical, Memorial, and Art DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin
Author: St. Louis Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
"Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-
Publications of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society
Author: General Catalogue of the Public Library of Detroit, Mich
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
Marching with Sherman
Author: Mark H. DunkelmanPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807143790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Marching with Sherman: Through Georgia and the Carolinas with the 154th New York presents an innovative and provocative study of the most notorious campaigns of the Civil War -- Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating 1864 "March to the Sea" and the 1865 Carolinas Campaign. The book follows the 154th New York regiment through three states and chronicles 150 years, from the start of the campaigns to their impact today. Mark H. Dunkelman expands on the brief accounts of Sherman's marches found in regimental histories with an in-depth look at how one northern unit participated in the campaigns and how they remembered them decades later. Dunkelman also includes the often-overlooked perspective of southerners -- most of them women -- who encountered the soldiers of the 154th New York. In examining the postwar reminiscences of those staunch Confederate daughters, Dunkelman identifies the myths and legends that have flourished in the South for more than a century. Marching with Sherman concludes with Dunkelman's own trip along the 154th New York's route through Dixie -- echoing the accounts of previous travelers -- and examining the memories of the marches that linger today.