The Battle of Petersburg
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
Publisher: Kraus Reprint. Company
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
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General Lee's Army
Author: Joseph Glatthaar
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-03-24
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 1416596976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the Confederate troops under Robert E. Lee presents portraits of soldiers from all walks of life, offers insight into how the Confederacy conducted key operations, and reveals how closely the South came to winning the war.
The Confederate Alamo
Author: John J. Fox
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780971195004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Confederate Alamo is the first book-length study ever written about the chaotic and bloody Battle of Fort Gregg. By April 2, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant's men had tightened their noose around the vital town of Petersburg, Virginia. Trapped on three sides with a river at their back, the soldiers from General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had never faced such dire circumstances. To give Lee time to craft an escape, a small motley group of threadbare Southerners made a suicidal last stand at a place called Fort Gregg. Famous Civil War historian Douglas Southall Freeman described this fight as "one of the most dramatic incidents of an overwhelming day." The venerable Union commander, Major General John Gibbon, observed, "[t]he struggle was one of the most desperate ever witnessed"--Publisher's website.
Cold Harbor
Author: Gordon C. Rhea
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2007-04
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780807135754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign-which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War-vividly re-creates the battles and maneuvers from the stalemate on the North Anna River through the Cold Harbor offensive. Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864 showcases Rhea's tenacious research which elicits stunning new facts from the records of a phase oddly ignored or mythologized by historians. In clear and profuse tactical detail, Rhea tracks the remarkable events of those nine days, giving a surprising new interpretation of.
Why Confederates Fought
Author: Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009-11-05
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 080788765X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. Utilizing new statistical evidence and first-person narratives, Sheehan-Dean explores how Virginia soldiers--even those who were nonslaveholders--adapted their vision of the war's purpose to remain committed Confederates. Sheehan-Dean challenges earlier arguments that middle- and lower-class southerners gradually withdrew their support for the Confederacy because their class interests were not being met. Instead he argues that Virginia soldiers continued to be motivated by the profound emotional connection between military service and the protection of home and family, even as the war dragged on. The experience of fighting, explains Sheehan-Dean, redefined southern manhood and family relations, established the basis for postwar race and class relations, and transformed the shape of Virginia itself. He concludes that Virginians' experience of the Civil War offers important lessons about the reasons we fight wars and the ways that those reasons can change over time.
My Recollections of the War of the Rebellion
Author: William Berry Lapham
Publisher:
Published: 1892
Total Pages: 250
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Author: William Stokes
Publisher: Sandlapper Publishing
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780878441150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe night after the commander of the 4th South Carolina Regiment sent his men home, he burned the wagon with the regiment's records rather than have it fall into enemy hands. Lloyd Halliburton has reconstructed the story from General Stokes' personal correspondence and memorabilia.
The Battle against Anarchist Terrorism
Author: Richard Bach Jensen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-12-05
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 1107656699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first global history of the secret diplomatic and police campaign that was waged against anarchist terrorism from 1878 to the 1920s. Anarchist terrorism was at that time the dominant form of terrorism and for many continued to be synonymous with terrorism as late as the 1930s. Ranging from Europe and the Americas to the Middle East and Asia, Richard Bach Jensen explores how anarchist terrorism emerged as a global phenomenon during the first great era of economic and social globalization at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries and reveals why some nations were so much more successful in combating this new threat than others. He shows how the challenge of dealing with this new form of terrorism led to the fundamental modernization of policing in many countries and also discusses its impact on criminology and international law.
The 48th in the War
Author: Oliver Christian Bosbyshell
Publisher:
Published: 1895
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 25th North Carolina Troops in the Civil War
Author: Carroll Jones
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historical account covers the 25th Regiment North Carolina Infantry Troops during the Civil War. Farmers and farmers' sons left their mountain homesteads to enlist with the regiment at Asheville in July and August 1861 and to defend their homeland from a Yankee invasion. The book chronicles the unit's defensive activities in the Carolina coastal regions and the battlefield actions at Seven Days, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Plymouth, Richmond and Petersburg. In addition, casualty and desertion statistics are included, along with a complete regimental roster and 118 photos, illustrations, and maps.
