Author: Robert Underwood JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780890095713
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The tide shifts. The Perryville Campaign; Burnside at Fredericksburg; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; The Vicksburg year; Port Hudson; Murfreesboro; Chickamauga; Chattanooga
Author: Robert Underwood JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780890095713
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The tide shifts
Author: Robert Underwood JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War V3 - The Tide Shifts
Author: Robert Underwood JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Begins with a view of Washington on the eve of the war, gives an account of the fall of Fort Sumter, the preparations for war in the North and South, and the formation of the Confederacy. Detailed are the battles of the first year in the war.
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The tide shifts
Author: Robert Underwood JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
The Mobile & Ohio Railroad in the Civil War
Author: Dan LeePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476647119
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The Mobile & Ohio Railroad was the longest line in the nation when it was completed in spring of 1861--the final spike driven a few weeks after Confederate artillery shelled Fort Sumter. Within days, the M&O was swept up in the Civil War as a prime conveyor of troops and supplies, a strategic and tactical asset to both Confederate and Union armies, who fought to control it. Its northern terminus at Columbus, Kentucky saw some of the earliest fighting in the war. The southern terminus in Mobile, Alabama was the scene of some of the last. U. S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Newton Knight of the "Free State of Jones" and others battled over the M&O, the Federals taking it mile-by-mile. This book chronicles the campaigns and battles for the railroad and the calamity endured by the civilians who lived along it.
The Meanest and 'Damnest' Job
Author: Michael P. RuckerPublisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1588383830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Most Civil War histories focus on the performance of top-level generals. However, it was the individual officers below them who actually led the troops to enact the orders. Some of these were remarkably effective. One such officer was Edmund Winchester Rucker. He was a force to be reckoned with, both during the Civil War and in his post-war business ventures. He was courageous, tough and resourceful, and achieved significant results in every assignment. During the campaign by the United States Army to capture the upper Mississippi River, Rucker and his faithful Confederate artillerists, with only three operable cannons, held off the entire Federal fleet which possessed 105 heavy guns. Later, in East Tennessee, Rucker’s duties included punishing saboteurs and conscripting unwilling local citizens into the Confederate Army. He described these assignments as: “The meanest and damnest [sic] duty a soldier had to perform.” Following the battles for Chattanooga, he served with General Nathan Bedford Forrest as a cavalry brigade commander, earning high merits for his performance. Rucker’s leadership was a major factor in the Confederate victory in the Battle of Brices Cross Roads, which has been called “History’s Greatest Cavalry Battle.” Subsequent to the Battle of Nashville, Rucker was wounded and captured; although his left arm was amputated, this did not impede his future achievements. After the war, Colonel Rucker and General Forrest became business partners in a railroad-building project. Rucker did well from this venture and became one of the wealthiest early entrepreneurs in Birmingham. In recognition of his many accomplishments, Fort Rucker Alabama was named in his honor. This first biography on his life examines, at a fast-moving pace, the military and business accomplishments of this outstanding leader who left his mark on both the Civil War and Southern industry of the time.
Thomas J. Wood
Author: Dan LeePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786492902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Thomas J. Wood, Kentuckian, graduated fifth in his West Point class in 1846 and joined the staff of General Zachary Taylor. The Mexican War was just beginning and Wood fought in several battles after which he served under General Winfield Scott in Mexico City. In 1861, Wood became a brigadier general of volunteers and began his Civil War service with the Army of the Cumberland, with whom he fought in every campaign and most of its major battles. Wood has never before been the subject of a full length biography but is well known for a notorious lapse of judgment resulting in a Confederate breakthrough at Chickamauga that shattered the Union right flank and threatened the survival of the Army of the Cumberland. It is a moment in the war still argued about. Wood learned from his mistake, became a better general from that time on (notably at Missionary Ridge and Nashville), and redeemed himself in the eyes of his fellow officers and his civilian superiors.
Yankee Commandos
Author: Stuart BrandesPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1621907465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
"In June of 1863, Col. William P. Sanders led a cavalry raid of 1,300 men from the Union Army of the Ohio through Confederate-held East Tennessee. The raid's purpose was to sever the Confederate rail supply line from Virginia to the Western Theater, and Sanders and his raiders were largely successful. Brandes presents readers with the most complete account of the Sanders raid to date using Sanders's official reports, East Tennessee diaries and memoirs of the Civil War, and pertinent secondary sources. In doing so, Brandes fills an important gap in Civil War scholarship and showcases Unionism in a mostly Confederate-sympathizing state"--
Cracker Cavaliers
Author: John Randolph PoolePublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865546974
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Cracker Cavaliers: The 2nd Georgia Cavalry under Wheeler and Forrest documents the regiment's participation in major campaigns of the western theater, including the Atlanta Campaign and Sherman's March to the Sea from an ordinary soldier's perspective on the Civil War."--BOOK JACKET.
Ending the Civil War
Author: Benton Rain PattersonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786491027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Dramatically and authentically, using eyewitness accounts where possible, this book recounts the final 13 months of the Civil War, a year in which a new U.S. Army general in chief was appointed, a new course for the war was charted, a massive new campaign was begun, the abolition of slavery was confirmed by the re-election of Abraham Lincoln, and the course of history was altered by the assassination of America’s most revered president. It was the year that the United States won the final battle and the year that the sundered nation was reunited. The book describes those events and the key figures in them.