Author: Rogers W. YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Pulaski (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Robert E. Lee and Fort Pulaski
Author: Rogers W. YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Pulaski (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Robert E. Lee and Fort Pulaski
Author: Rogers W. YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Pulaski (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Robert E. Lee and Fort Pulaski
Author: Rogers W. YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Pulaski (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Sumter is Avenged
Author: Herbert M. SchillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The assault on and capture of Fort Pulaski is the story of the elimination of Savannah, Georgia as a Confederate seaport. Of equal importance was the North's successful use of rifled artillery against that masonry fort, a technological turning point equal in significance to the much better known development of ironclad ships. The rifled cannon were developed in the mid-1800s and were first used in siege warfare during the attack against Fort Pulaski. In April 1862, three of those formidable new weapons breached Fort Pulaski's walls within thirty-six hours, forcing the garrison to surrender and closing Savannah's port. This is the first modern account of great Federal labors, under terrible conditions in difficult terrain, to erect the batteries which sealed the Savannah River, isolated Fort Pulaski, and finally forced its surrender amidst the Union army's infighting over who should receive credit for the operation.
Civil War Savannah
Author: Derek SmithPublisher: Frederic C. Beil Publisher
ISBN: 9781929490004
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fort Pulaski National Monument
Author: J. Faith MeaderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Pulaski National Monument (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Immortal 600
Author: Karen StokesPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625840578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
In 1864, six hundred Confederate prisoners of war, all officers, were taken out of a prison camp in Delaware and transported to South Carolina, where most were confined in a Union stockade prison on Morris Island. They were placed in front of two Union forts as "human shields" during the siege of Charleston and exposed to a fearful barrage of artillery fire from Confederate forts. Many of these men would suffer an even worse ordeal at Union-held Fort Pulaski near Savannah, Georgia, where they were subjected to severe food rationing as retaliatory policy. Author and historian Karen Stokes uses the prisoners' writings to relive the courage, fraternity and struggle of the "Immortal 600."
The Civil War in Georgia
Author: John C. InscoePublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082034138X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"A project of the New Georgia Encyclopedia"
Robert E. Lee
Author: Emory M. ThomasPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393047783
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Thomas, Regents professor at the U. of Georgia and author of a recent biography of Lee, has assembled a wealth of images and extended captions which provide a picture of Robert E. Lee and his times. He shows how people, places, objects, and events intersected and influenced Lee's life, each phase of which is introduced by overviews setting the pictures in context. The bandw and color portraits and illustrations will intrigue readers interested in the history of that era. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Robert E. Lee: A Biography
Author: Emory M. ThomasPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393316319
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
"The best and most balanced of the Lee biographies."—New York Review of Books The life of Robert E. Lee is a story not of defeat but of triumph—triumph in clearing his family name, triumph in marrying properly, triumph over the mighty Mississippi in his work as an engineer, and triumph over all other military men to become the towering figure who commanded the Confederate army in the American Civil War. But late in life Lee confessed that he "was always wanting something." In this probing and personal biography, Emory Thomas reveals more than the man himself did. Robert E. Lee has been, and continues to be, a symbol and hero in the American story. But in life, Thomas writes, Lee was both more and less than his legend. Here is the man behind the legend.