Author: John B. FROTHINGHAMPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. B. F. Kelley
Author: John B. FROTHINGHAMPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War in the United States of America
Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1956
Book Description
Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America
Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Pictorial History of the Civil War V1
Author: Benson LossingPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429015829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed that historian Benson J. Lossing did more than any other man to make history interesting and popular. Lossing wrote his comprehensive three-volume history of the Civil War at a time when the facts were still fresh. Originally published in 1866, Volume One covers the period from the political conventions held in the spring of 1860 to midsummer 1861 and the Battle of Bull Run. Lossing accompanies his narratives of marches, battles, and sieges with maps and plans, includes biographical sketches of the prominent people from both sides of the conflict, and illustrates his history with hundreds of drawings and engravings by the author and others.
Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America, Etc
Author: Benson John LossingNineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Series II, Phase I, 1816-1870
Author: Frederick W. Lander
Author: Gary L. EcelbargerPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807125809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Tall and handsome, vigorous and hot-tempered, fearless to a fault, Frederick W. Lander (1821–1862) became one of the most name-recognized Americans in the years 1854 to 1862. A top-notch railroad and wagon-road engineer in the western territories, a popular lyceum speaker, a published fic-tion writer and poet, an adept negotiator with Native Americans, and an agent for the Lincoln administration and the Union army, the Massachusetts native attracted newspaper coverage from coast to coast for his renown and versatility. His name evoked emotion and passion among his friends and associates, including artists, poets, explorers, engineers, soldiers, and politicians, but at his untimely death early in the Civil War, he quickly and tragically descended into anonymity. With an energy that befits his subject, Gary L. Ecelbarger brings to life this intriguing, romantic personality of the nineteenth century, tempting the imagination to consider what Lander might have accomplished had he lived longer. Using more than five hundred unpublished letters and documents written by Lander and his colleagues, superiors, and subordinates, Ecelbarger delves into all of the major aspects of Lander’s life but focuses upon its final chapter in the Civil War. Promoted directly from unpaid aide-de-camp to brigadier general, Lander was quickly dubbed “the great natural American soldier” by Lieutenant General Winfield Scott for his brilliant promise as a military leader. The author offers a richly detailed narrative of Lander’s courageous participation in three campaigns during the first year of the conflict: Rich Mountain, May–July, 1861; Ball’s Bluff, September–October, 1861; and the previously undocumented campaign against Stonewall Jackson, January–March, 1862. Ecelbarger studies Lander’s flaws, attributes, and achievements to provide a judicious, comprehensive analysis of his actions and character. In Frederick W. Lander, he produces the spellbinding story of a once-forgotten hero who now appears life size.
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Origins of rebellion to the Battle of Bull's Run
Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description