Author: James Riley BowenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Regimental History of the First New York Dragoons
Author: James Riley BowenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
All for the Union
Author: John A. SimpsonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0811770885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
When the South bombarded Fort Sumter in April 1861, the Ellithorpe family in rural New York answered President Lincoln’s call to defend the Union. For the next four years, the two Ellithorpe brothers and two of their brothers-in-law fought in some of the Civil War’s most storied regiments, on nearly every major battlefield in the East. In this utterly unique Civil War history/biography, John A. Simpson reconstructs the intertwined lives and wars of four Union soldiers, from Bull Run to Gettysburg and beyond. When the Civil War broke out, Phillip Ellithorpe, Philander Ellithorpe, Asa Burleson, and Oliver Moore did not hesitate to volunteer to fight for the Union. Their service would encompass virtually every branch of the Northern army: infantry (including sharpshooters), cavalry (mounted and dismounted), and artillery as well as commissary, engineering, and ambulance duty. They would serve in six different regiments: the 13th Pennsylvania Reserves (the legendary Bucktails); the 27th New York Infantry (the Union Regiment); the 2nd New York Mounted Rifles; the 5th Vermont Infantry; the 1st New York Dragoons; and the 1st Minnesota, which gained immortality at Gettysburg. They would participate in the major battles of the war’s Eastern theater: First Bull Run, the Peninsula, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Grant’s Overland campaign through Petersburg. Phillip would die at Gettysburg, and the other three would return home and live under the shadow of the Civil War for the rest of their lives. All for the Union tells the dramatic story of these four soldiers, weaving their lives and wars into a tapestry of how one family navigated home front and battle front during the Civil War. Based on 180 family letters, voluminous primary and second sources, and visits to homes and battlefields from Allegany County, New York, to Richmond, Virginia, All for the Union is a remarkable contribution to Civil War history.
Armor-cavalry: Army National Guard
Author: Mary Lee StubbsThe Hard Hand of War
Author: Mark GrimsleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521599412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This volume explores the Union army's treatment of Southerners during the Civil War, emphasising the survival of political logic and control.
The Story of a Trooper
Author: Francis Colburn AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1865
Author: Frederick PhistererPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017090154
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Bulletin
Author: Trevilian Station, June 11-12, 1864
Author: Joseph W. McKinneyPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476623201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
In June 1864, General Ulysses Grant ordered his cavalry commander, Philip Sheridan, to conduct a raid to destroy the Virginia Central Railroad between Charlottesville and Richmond. Sheridan fell short of his objective when he was defeated by General Wade Hampton's cavalry in a two-day battle at Trevilian Station. The first day's fighting saw dismounted Yankees and Rebels engaged at close range in dense forest. By day's end, Hampton had withdrawn to the west. Advancing the next morning, Sheridan found Hampton dug in behind hastily built fortifications and launched seven dismounted assaults, each repulsed with heavy casualties. As darkness fell, the Confederates counterattacked, driving the Union forces from the field. Sheridan began his withdrawal that night, an ordeal for his men, the Union wounded and Confederate prisoners brought off the field and the hundreds of starved and exhausted horses that marked his retreat, killed to prevent their falling into Confederate hands.
In Pursuit of a Phantom
Author: Arnold M. PavlovskyPublisher: Arnold Pavlovsky
ISBN: 0984423400
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7--12, 1864
Author: Gordon C. RheaPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807158143
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The second volume in Gordon C. Rhea's peerless five-book series on the Civil War's 1864 Overland Campaign abounds with Rhea's signature detail, innovative analysis, and riveting prose. Here Rhea examines the maneuvers and battles from May 7, 1864, when Grant left the Wilderness, through May 12, when his attempt to break Lee's line by frontal assault reached a chilling climax at what is now called the Bloody Angle. Drawing exhaustively upon previously untapped materials, Rhea challenges conventional wisdom about this violent clash of titans to construct the ultimate account of Grant and Lee at Spotsylvania.