The Smoked Yank
Author: Melvin Grigsby
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 280
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Author: Melvin Grigsby
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 280
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 292
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Published: 1911*
Total Pages: 251
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Margaret Mayhew
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-06-30
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1446487415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerfect for fans of Donna Douglas, Rosie Clarke and Katie Flynn, a heart-warming saga set during World War II from bestselling author Margaret Mayhew. READERS ARE LOVING OUR YANKS! "Omg this book was everything and more than i expected. My ideal book as i love family saga books. Loved that it showed how the Yanks got involved with the girls during wartime . Highs and lows of everyday life. Loved, loved ,loved it" - 5 STARS "The type of book where one found it hard to put down until the end." - 5 STARS "Excellent book, village life with the Yanks very warming story." - 5 STARS "Loved this saga ,drew me right in. I could not put this book down. The small town the characters the Yanks. I loved leaving my world and entering their lives. An author whose books I will be devouring." - 5 STARS "As always with Margaret Mayhew books, this one hasn't failed to please..."- 5 STARS "Brilliant story, held me in its grasp..."- 5 STARS ********************************* "I STILL REMEMBER THE YANKS, ALMOST MORE THAN I DO THE WAR..." -- A Suffolk Woman. August 1943. A fighter group of US airmen descends upon the quiet and sleepy village of King's Thorpe in Northamptonshire. The village has never seen the like of them before: they are glamorous, rich, exciting and full of bravado. While some of the older residents are dismayed, many of the younger ones cannot help but be won over by their charms. And for many - including young Sally Barnet from the bakery, Agnes Dawe - the Rector's daughter, and newly-widowed Lady Beauchamp, they will have a long-lasting impact. It will be a summer many will never forget...
Author: Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780807822814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides the details of a fierce battle during Sherman's march north in the last days of the Civil War
Author: Bell Irvin Wiley
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2008-09-01
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780807133750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this companion to The Life of Johnny Reb, Bell Irvin Wiley explores the daily lives of the men in blue who fought to save the Union. With the help of many soldiers' letters and diaries, Wiley explains who these men were and why they fought, how they reacted to combat and the strain of prolonged conflict, and what they thought about the land and the people of Dixie. This fascinating social history reveals that while the Yanks and the Rebs fought for very different causes, the men on both sides were very much the same. "This wonderfully interesting book is the finest memorial the Union soldier is ever likely to have.... [Wiley] has written about the Northern troops with an admirable objectivity, with sympathy and understanding and profound respect for their fighting abilities. He has also written about them with fabulous learning and considerable pace and humor.
Author: Grigsby Melvin
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Published: 1901
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ISBN-13: 9780243781799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Marvel
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2006-08-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780807857816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this carefully researched and compelling revisionist account, William Marvel provides a comprehensive history of Andersonville Prison and conditions within it.
Author: Melvin Grigsby
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2016-11-04
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781519042613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlmost more remarkable than having survived the horrors of the Confederate prison at Andersonville is the fact that Melvin Grigsby could 33 years later pen this often hilarious recounting of his experiences in the American Civil War. He does not shy away from descriptions of life as it was in Andersonville. In fact, this is one of the best accounts of life in Rebel confinement. Over 13,000 of the 45,000 Union POWs died in the squalor of the camp. But Grigsby's education and intelligence made him one of the keenest observers at a very young age. Only 16 when he entered the Union army, he was only 20 upon his final escape to freedom and the end of the war. His curiosity often led him to read plantation overseer logs when his regiment came across them: "If anyone believes that the cruelties practised on the slaves were exaggerated in 'Uncle Tom's Cabin, ' let him hunt up and read one of those plantation records." In Andersonville, they were all "smoked yanks: " ..".picture one of these half-naked, bony, filthy, gaunt and ghastly skeletons, his eyes sunken, his cheek bones protruding, his gums all swollen, his elbows and knees swollen, and black and blue, and his feet two great shapeless masses of bloated flesh, and picture him sitting on the ground, as he usually was, with his chin between his knees, and his hands clasped around them, and you have a specimen of "Smoked Yank," thousands of whom could always be seen at a glance." Helped over and over during his escapes by African-Americans who risked their own lives, he wrote 33 years later: "Should they ever become thoroughly aroused and united in a movement to throw off the white man's yoke, that still oppresses and galls them, I believe that the fortitude, endurance and heroism they will display will surprise the world."