Author: Elisha Franklin PaxtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Memoir and Memorials: Elisha Franklin Paxton, Brigadier-general, C. S. A.
Author: Elisha Franklin PaxtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South
Author: Jaime Amanda MartinezPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469610744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South
The Civil War in Books
Author: David J. EicherPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252022739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
With the assistance of several scholars, including James M. McPherson and Gary Gallagher, and a long-time specialist in Civil War books, Ralph Newman, David Eicher has selected for inclusion in The Civil War in Books the 1,100 most important books on the war. These are organized into categories as wide-ranging as "Battles and Campaigns," "Biographies, Memoirs, and Letters," "Unit Histories," and "General Works." The last of these includes volumes on black Americans and the war, battlefields, fiction, pictorial works, politics, prisons, railroads, and a host of other topics. Annotations are included for all entries in the work, which is presented in an oversized 8 1/2 x 11 inch volume in two-column format. Appendixes list "prolific" Civil War publishers and other Civil War bibliographies, and the works included in Eicher's mammoth undertaking are indexed by author or editor and by title. Gary Gallagher's foreword traces the development of Civil War bibliographies and declares that Eicher's annotation exceeds that of any previous comprehensive volume. The Civil War in Books, Gallagher believes, is "precisely the type of guide" that has been needed. The first full-scale, fully-annotated bibliography on the Civil War to appear in more than thirty years, Eicher's The Civil War in Books is a remarkable compendium of the best reading available about the worst conflict ever to strike the United States. The bibliography, the most valuable reference book on the subject since The Civil War Day by Day, will be essential for college and university libraries, dealers in rare and secondhand books, and Civil War buffs.
Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
The Gallant Dead
Author: Derek SmithPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811701327
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Profiles over 120 Union and Confederate generals, listed in chronological order, who were killed in battle including Thomas J. Jackson, A.P. Hill, and John Reynolds.
A List of Some Books on Debating in the Virginia State Library
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Lee's Lieutenants: Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville
Author: Douglas Southall FreemanPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684837846
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Volume one of a three volume set which describes the military personalities and tactics during the American Civil War, presenting the stories and military campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia under the direction of Robert E. Lee.
The Early Morning of War
Author: Edward G. LongacrePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806147601
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 885
Book Description
When Union and Confederate forces squared off along Bull Run on July 21, 1861, the Federals expected this first major military campaign would bring an early end to the Civil War. But when Confederate troops launched a strong counterattack, both sides realized the war would be longer and costlier than anticipated. First Bull Run, or First Manassas, set the stage for four years of bloody conflict that forever changed the political, social, and economic fabric of the nation. It also introduced the commanders, tactics, and weaponry that would define the American way of war through the turn of the twentieth century. This crucial campaign receives its most complete and comprehensive treatment in Edward G. Longacre’s The Early Morning of War. A magisterial work by a veteran historian, The Early Morning of War blends narrative and analysis to convey the full scope of the campaign of First Bull Run—its drama and suspense as well as its practical and tactical underpinnings and ramifications. Also woven throughout are biographical sketches detailing the backgrounds and personalities of the leading commanders and other actors in the unfolding conflict. Longacre has combed previously unpublished primary sources, including correspondence, diaries, and memoirs of more than four hundred participants and observers, from ranking commanders to common soldiers and civilians affected by the fighting. In weighing all the evidence, Longacre finds correctives to long-held theories about campaign strategy and battle tactics and questions sacrosanct beliefs—such as whether the Manassas Gap Railroad was essential to the Confederate victory. Longacre shears away the myths and persuasively examines the long-term repercussions of the Union’s defeat at Bull Run, while analyzing whether the Confederates really had a chance of ending the war in July 1861 by seizing Washington, D.C. Brilliant moves, avoidable blunders, accidents, historical forces, personal foibles: all are within Longacre’s compass in this deftly written work that is sure to become the standard history of the first, critical campaign of the Civil War.
Who's who in America
Author: John W. LeonardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2504
Book Description
Vols. 28-30 accompanied by separately published parts with title: Indices and necrology.
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