Author: Osmond Rhodes Howard Thomson
Publisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Author: Patrick Andrew Schroeder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: William P. Robertson
Publisher: Infinity Publishing
ISBN: 0741433486
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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Joe Keener was a carefree private until he fought four grueling battles in six days on the terrible Peninsula. Helping a young soldier survive this hell, teaches Joe about responsibility.

Author: Joseph Gibbs
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271021669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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A Look Inside The trials & tribulations of one of the Civil War's most battle-tested units.

Author: James J. Dougherty
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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As part of the I Corps at Gettysburg, Stone's (Bucktail) Brigade fought one of the most desperate actions of the battle. The defense of the McPherson farm bought valuable time for more Union units to arrive in the area and deploy for the ultimate victory.The Bucktail Brigade consisted of the 143rd, 149th, and 150th Pennsylvania Volunteers. The 149th were the original "Bucktails" and became as well-known for the deer tails stuck in their hatbands as for their distinguished work as a light infantry unit in the Virginia campaign of 1862. As with many other governments, the Pennsylvania authorities sought to increase their number of elite units by expanding a renowned regiment to brigade strength. Giving two new regiments bucktails to wear, it was hoped, would create an entire elite brigade who all fought as well as the original unit.The men of the 149th took the extension of the bucktail distinction with bad grace, and the two junior regiments initially were given all the least desirable assignments. At Gettysburg on July 1st, 1863, the two new units proved themselves by their gallant stand at McPherson's Farm and the entire brigade remained highly regarded throughout the Army of the Potomac for the rest of the war.James Dougherty describes this action in unprecedented detail, with extensive reference to the surviving diaries and eyewitness accounts. The author's extensive background in emergency medical services also gives him considerable expertise in describing the fearsome wounds sustained in this action and their subsequent treatment.

Author: Richard E. Matthews
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078643256X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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The 149th Pennsylvania saw its one day of glory on July 1, 1863, when this young and untried regiment staged a magnificent defense at McPherson's farm. Although this bright promise quickly faded into more typical regimental experience, the story of the regiment's service under the indomitable Joshua Chamberlain remains worth telling. Drawing on the service records of more than 800 soldiers as well as diaries, letters, and other primary souces, this book details the 149th's battles from brigade to company level, from the charges at Gettsyburg to the assault at Petersburg. Focus is on the development, mood and character of a regiment as it undergoes changes in leadership, loss of reliable veterans and the increased individual desire for survival as brutal battles take their toll on mind and body. More than 100 photographs enhance the text.

Author: Mike Valla
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0811765326
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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The classic bucktails--Mickey Finn, Black Nose Dace--are some of the very first flies that anglers learn to tie, and they are the most well-traveled of all streamer types, from Maine to Washington, trout to salmon. With over 500 patterns, this is the only book to date written on bucktails as well as other hairwing streamers.

Author: Joseph D. Bates
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
ISBN: 9780394415888
Category : Flies, Artificial
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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A fly-fishing expert supplies beginners and veteran fishermen with information and advice on fishing with streamers and bucktails, flies that imitate the smaller baitfish on which big fish feed

Author: Gordon C. Rhea
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807130216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderness marked the initial engagement in the climactic months of the Civil War in Virginia, and the first encounter between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. In an exciting narrative, Gordon C. Rhea provides the consummate recounting of that conflict of May 5 and 6, 1864, which ended with high casualties on both sides but no clear victor. With its balanced analysis of events and people, command structures and strategies, The Battle of the Wilderness is operational history as it should be written.

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Category : Elk County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1046

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