Purgatory's Shore

Purgatory's Shore

Author: Taylor Anderson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-09-21

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0593200713

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On their way to fight in the Mexican-American War, a group of American soldiers are swept away to a strange and deadly alternate Earth in this thrilling new adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series. The United States, 1847. A disparate group of young American soldiers are bound to join General Winfield Scott's campaign against Santa Anna at Veracruz during the Mexican-American War. They never arrive. Or rather . . . they arrive somewhere else. The untried, idealistic soldiers are mostly replacements, really; a handful of infantry, artillery, dragoons, and a few mounted riflemen with no unified command. And they've been shipwrecked on a terrible, different Earth full of monsters and unimaginable enemies. Major Lewis Cayce, late of the 3rd US "Flying" Artillery, must unite these men to face their fears and myriad threats, armed with little more than flintlock muskets, a few pieces of artillery, and a worldview that spiritually and culturally rebels against virtually everything they encounter. It will take extraordinary leadership and a cadre of equally extraordinary men and women to mold frightened troops into an effective force, make friends with other peoples the evil Holy Dominion would eradicate, and reshape their "manifest destiny" into a cause they can all believe in and fight for. For only together will they have any hope of survival.


Hell's March

Hell's March

Author: Taylor Anderson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2022-09-27

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0593200764

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Major Lewis Cayce will need to use every weapon in his arsenal to keep his stranded men alive on a deadly alternate Earth in this gripping new adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series. It is 1847, and almost a full year after being shipwrecked on another, far stranger and more dangerous Earth on their way to fight Santa Anna in the Mexican-American War, Lewis Cayce and his small group of artillerymen, infantrymen, and dragoons have made friends in the Yucatán, helped build an army, and repulsed the first efforts of the blood-drenched Holy Dominion to wipe their new friends out. As an even more radical cult of Blood Priests arises and begins to pursue its own path to power, the Dominion can’t let its defeat stand. It must crush the heretics and expel them from the land it has claimed. Fortunately, Lewis Cayce is a professional. He understands defense can only result in a stalemate at best, and a stalemate with the more populous Dominion will only lead to defeat in the end. The lucky few will be enslaved. The rest will be sacrificed in the most horrific way imaginable. The only hope his new allies have is to win—and to do that, his little army must attack the most powerful and diabolical enemy on the planet in its own territory. Achieving victory will take all Lewis’s imagination, the courage and trust of his soldiers—and all the round shot and canister his tiny band of artillerymen can slam out.


An Artilleryman's Diary

An Artilleryman's Diary

Author: Jenkin Lloyd Jenkins

Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 563

ISBN-13: 384961994X

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Jenkins' diary represents a Journal of daily events during his campaign in the war to crush the rebellion in 1861. Contents: Author's Preface First Impressions Up And Down The Mississippi And Yazoo Encircling Vicksburg The Siege Of Vicksburg A Well-Earned Rest At Work Again En Route To Chattanooga With Grant At Chattanooga In Winter Quarters On To Atlanta Watching Hood Wintering At Nashville Garrisoning Chattanooga Awaiting Discharge Homeward Bound Home At Last


An Artilleryman's Civil War Diary (Abridged, Annotated)

An Artilleryman's Civil War Diary (Abridged, Annotated)

Author: Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS

Published:

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13:

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"Great anxiety is expressed by all to reach home by the Fourth of July, which at present looks very probable. But, dear Journal, I cannot write, I feel too good." Jenk Jones would make it home on the 3rd of July, 1865. After three long years away from home with the 6th Wisconsin Artillery Battery, his reunion with family was, to him, indescribably joyful. Much had changed but the bonds remained the same. Along the way he'd seen horror and bloodshed, heartbreak, lost friends, and final victory. He was at Vicksburg and other major battles and kept "Mr. Journal" throughout, with the exception of his time in quarantine for smallpox. He recorded the ecstasy of news that Richmond had fallen, followed by Lee's surrender soon after. He writes of the sorrow he and his comrades felt at the news of Lincoln's assassination and how they all felt they'd lost a family member. Frontline diaries of the Civil War bring an immediacy to a long-ago event and connect us to these everyday men and women who lived it. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.


Henry Knox

Henry Knox

Author: Richard M. Strum

Publisher: Ottn Publishing

Published: 2006-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781595560131

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Looks at the life of Boston bookseller Henry Knox, focusing on his vital role in the American Revolution as commander of the Continental Army's artillery and the man responsible for having cannons in place for the key battle at Dorchester Heights.