Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public WelfarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medal of Honor
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description
Medal of Honor Recipients, 1863-1963
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public WelfarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medal of Honor
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description
Medal of Honor Recipients, 1863-1973
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medal of Honor
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
Medal of Honor, 1863-1968
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Veterans' AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medal of Honor
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
A summary of all the Medal of Honor awards from 1863-1968, and the deeds that inspired the awards.
Reference Books
Author: United States. Air Force. Pacific Air ForcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference books
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Black Defenders of America, 1775-1973
Author: Robert Ewell GreenePublisher: Johnson Publishing Company (IL)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This book describes the careers of black Americans in the armed forces from the Revolution through the Vietnam War.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public WelfarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor policy
Languages : en
Pages : 1708
Book Description
Committee Prints
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public WelfarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1772
Book Description
Medal of Honor Recipients, 1863-1978
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
A Shower of Stars
Author: John J. PullenPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811766357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Since 1941 the Medal of Honor has been more often awarded to dead than to living men. Of all the medals issues by the United States Government, this singular medal has had a particularly solemn glory attached to its meaning. But a look at its history reveals that, from its inception, it was steeped in controversy, with threats to its integrity swirling in from all sides. Author John. J. Pullen, during the course of research on the 20th Maine, came across an obscure note indicating that the 27th Maine, a group of nine-month volunteers from York Country, had been issued 864 Medals of Honor—one for every member of the regiment—while the 20th main, having distinguished itself at Little Round Top, garnered only four such medals. Was this discovery the beginning of an untold story of extraordinary bravery, or was it an outrageous blunder? Civil War literature yielded nothing about this wholesale “shower of stars” that had rained down upon the little-known regiment. And, as Pullen tracked down its descendants, he found very little information on the whereabouts of those medals. Thus, a mystery was born. After sifting through piles of War Department documents, as well as letters and diaries found in Maine’s “unofficial archives,” Pullen begins to pieces together a puzzle that had already ensnared many, from Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to such notable figures as Theodore Roosevelt. The hero of this story, however, is Colonel Mark F. Wentworth, the commander of the 27th Maine and later of the 32nd Maine, who thwarted the forces that threatened ignominy on the Medal of Honor, and revealed the true character of valor. “The author has written a fascinating, leisurely book, often disarming in its personal approach to unraveling his mystery” – E. B. Long, Chicago Tribune
United States Naval History
Author: United States. Navy DeptPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description