The Civil War in Georgia
Author: John C. Inscoe
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 082034138X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A project of the New Georgia Encyclopedia"
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Civil War 150
Author: Civil War Trust
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2011-05-17
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0762769025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe year 2011 marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, and so the time is right for this indispensable collection of 150 key places to see and things to do to remember and to honor the sacrifices made during America’s epic struggle. Covering dozens of states and the District of Columbia, this easy-to-use guide provides a concise text description and one or more images for each entry, as well as directions to all sites.
Civil War Ghosts of North Georgia
Author: Jim Miles
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2013-07-16
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 1625846428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of Haunted North Georgia stalks the Civil War ghosts that populate the top of the Peach State. Though Georgia was spared the hard hand of war for two years, combat arrived with a vengeance in September 1863 with the Battle of Chickamauga in north Georgia. It was the second largest battle of the Civil War and has become one of America’s most haunted battlefields, producing a long history of bizarre paranormal events that continue today. From Sherman’s notorious march to Confederate general James Longstreet’s continued inhabitance of his postwar home, Georgia is haunted by many of those who fought in America’s deadliest war. Join author Jim Miles as he details the ghosts that still roam Georgia’s Civil War battlefields, hospitals, and antebellum homes. Includes photos! “He’s a connoisseur of Georgia’s paranormal related activity, having both visited nearly every site discussed in his series of Civil War Ghost titles . . . Miles has covered a lot of ground so far from the bustling cities to the small towns seemingly in the middle of nowhere. This daunting task takes an inside look to the culture and stories that those born in Georgia grow up hearing about and connect with.” —The Red & Black
From Manassas to Appomattox
Author: James Longstreet
Publisher:
Published: 1896
Total Pages: 804
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHell's Broke Loose in Georgia
Author: Scott Walker
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2007-07-01
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780820329338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDarling, I never wanted to gow home as bad in my life as I doo now and if they don’t give mee a furlow I am going any how. Written in December 1862 by Private Wright Vinson in Tennessee to his wife, Christiana, in Georgia, these lines go to the heart of why Scott Walker wrote this history of the Fifty-seventh Georgia Infantry, a unit of the famed Mercer’s Brigade. All but a few members of the Fifty-seventh lived within a close radius of eighty miles from each other. More than just an account of their military engagements, this is a collective biography of a close-knit group. Relatives and neighbors served and died side by side in the Fifty-seventh, and Walker excels at showing how family ties, friendships, and other intimate dynamics played out in wartime settings. Humane but not sentimental, the history abounds in episodes of real feeling: a starving soldier’s theft of a pie; another’s open confession, in a letter to his wife, that he may desert; a slave’s travails as a camp orderly. Drawing on memoirs and a trove of unpublished letters and diaries, Walker follows the soldiers of the Fifty-seventh as they push far into Unionist Kentucky, starve at the siege of Vicksburg, guard Union prisoners at the Andersonville stockade, defend Atlanta from Sherman, and more. Hardened fighters who would wish hell on an incompetent superior but break down at the sight of a dying Yankee, these are real people, as rarely seen in other Civil War histories.
25 Best Civil War Sites
Author: Clint Johnson
Publisher: ASDavis Media Group
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780975902240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis guide brings history to life with richly detailed, engaging descriptions of the most important battle sites, museums, and reenactuments.
Requiem for a Lost City
Author: Sarah Conley Clayton
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780865546226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRequiem for a Lost City shows us the reality of Civil War Atlanta from the eve of secession to the memorials for the fallen, through the memories of a participant. Sallie Clayton would have been the same age as the fictional Scarlett O'Hara during the Civil War. Sallie Clayton's memoirs, however, are not a work of fiction but bittersweet reminiscences of growing up in a doomed city in the midst of losing a war. Although her memoirs provide invaluable detail on Civil War Atlanta, they also tell of her personal experiences on a plantation in Montgomery, Alabama, and in postwar Augusta and Athens. Sallie Clayton belonged to one of Georgia's wealthiest and most prominent families. Her memoirs are colored by the losses suffered by her family. Robert Davis's introduction to this work illustrates the background of the Claytons, Sallie's writings, and Civil War Atlanta, providing a balanced account of life at "the crossroads of the Confederacy." The introduction also provides a corrective to the popular, Gone With the Wind view of Civil War Atlanta.
The Crime at Pickett’s Mill
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages:
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe First Georgia Cavalry in the Civil War
Author: Michael Bowers Cavender
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1476621128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1861 Captain James J. Morrison resigned his commission in the United States Cavalry, returned to his home in Cedartown, Georgia, and was soon authorized by the Confederate War Department to raise a regiment of cavalry. This book is the first complete history of the First Georgia Cavalry, who saw action in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and North Carolina. A regimental roster includes more than 1,600 names with details of service provided, along with pre-war service, death and burial information in some cases.
Joe Brown's Army
Author: William Harris Bragg
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780865542624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoseph E. Brown was governor of Georgia from 1861-1865.
