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Category : Schools
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Subject Index to Battle's History of the University of North Carolina (volumes 1 & 2)
Author: A Field Guide to Antietam
Author: Carol ReardonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469630214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
The Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, and still stands as the bloodiest single day in American military history. Additionally, in its aftermath, President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous Emancipation Proclamation. In this engaging, easy-to-use guide, Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler allow visitors to understand this crucial Civil War battle in fine detail. Abundantly illustrated with maps and historical and modern photographs, A Field Guide to Antietam explores twenty-one sites on and near the battlefield where significant action occurred. Combining crisp narrative and rich historical context, each stop in the book is structured around the following questions: *What happened here? *Who fought here? *Who commanded here? *Who fell here? *Who lived here? *How did participants remember the events? With accessible presentation and fresh interpretations of primary and secondary evidence, this is an absolutely essential guide to Antietam and its lasting legacy.
River of Death--The Chickamauga Campaign
Author: William Glenn RobertsonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469643138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 697
Book Description
The Battle of Chickamauga was the third bloodiest of the American Civil War and the only major Confederate victory in the conflict's western theater. It pitted Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee against William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland and resulted in more than 34,500 casualties. In this first volume of an authoritative two-volume history of the Chickamauga Campaign, William Glenn Robertson provides a richly detailed narrative of military operations in southeastern and eastern Tennessee as two armies prepared to meet along the "River of Death." Robertson tracks the two opposing armies from July 1863 through Bragg's strategic decision to abandon Chattanooga on September 9. Drawing on all relevant primary and secondary sources, Robertson devotes special attention to the personalities and thinking of the opposing generals and their staffs. He also sheds new light on the role of railroads on operations in these landlocked battlegrounds, as well as the intelligence gathered and used by both sides. Delving deep into the strategic machinations, maneuvers, and smaller clashes that led to the bloody events of September 19@–20, 1863, Robertson reveals that the road to Chickamauga was as consequential as the unfolding of the battle itself.
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
From its beginning to the death of President Swain, 1789-1868
Author: Kemp Plummer BattleDictionary of North Carolina Biography
Author: William S. PowellPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807866997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.
Constitution and By-laws; Vol. 1, 1901
Author: New York State Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Lee's Miserables
Author: J. Tracy PowerPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469620413
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Never did so large a proportion of the American population leave home for an extended period and produce such a detailed record of its experiences in the form of correspondence, diaries, and other papers as during the Civil War. Based on research in more than 1,200 wartime letters and diaries by more than 400 Confederate officers and enlisted men, this book offers a compelling social history of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during its final year, from May 1864 to April 1865. Organized in a chronological framework, the book uses the words of the soldiers themselves to provide a view of the army's experiences in camp, on the march, in combat, and under siege--from the battles in the Wilderness to the final retreat to Appomattox. It sheds new light on such questions as the state of morale in the army, the causes of desertion, ties between the army and the home front, the debate over arming black men in the Confederacy, and the causes of Confederate defeat. Remarkably rich and detailed, Lee's Miserables offers a fresh look at one of the most-studied Civil War armies.
Subject Index to Periodicals
Author: Humanities
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Category : Education, Humanistic
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description