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: The tide shifts
Author: Robert Underwood JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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.
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.
Longstreet at Gettysburg
Author: Cory M. PfarrPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476634998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This is the first book-length, critical analysis of Lieutenant General James Longstreet's actions at the Battle of Gettysburg. The author argues that Longstreet's record has been discredited unfairly, beginning with character assassination by his contemporaries after the war and, persistently, by historians in the decades since. By closely studying the three-day battle, and conducting an incisive historiographical inquiry into Longstreet's treatment by scholars, this book presents an alternative view of Longstreet as an effective military leader, and refutes over a century of negative evaluations of his performance.
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.
The Union Sixth Army Corps in the Chancellorsville Campaign
Author: Philip W. ParsonsPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476610223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
The winter of 1862-1863 found the Union Army of the Potomac in sad shape, after bloody battles, multiple defeats, lack of adequate provisions and high desertion rates. When Major General Joseph Hooker took command, he set about revamping conditions. Instructed by President Lincoln to make the destruction of General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia the Union’s top priority, Hooker mounted the Chancellorsville Campaign. Lee’s aggressive battlefield manner coupled with Hooker’s failure to initiate an assault led to a sound defeat by Confederate forces and left Hooker—who ultimately had only himself and his lack of initiative to blame—looking for a scapegoat. Among those Hooker attempted to hold responsible was the courageous Sixth Army Corps, Major General John Sedgwick commanding, the unit responsible for the sole Union victory of the entire campaign. This history of the battlefield engagements of the Sixth Army Corps on May 3 and 4, 1863, is compiled from contemporary accounts and a variety of postwar histories.
Engineer Operations During The Vicksburg Campaign
Author: Major Robert M. PuckettPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786253380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
This study investigates the role that Engineer Operations played in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. A background study and description is made of the structure, composition, capability, and employment of engineer officers and units during the American Civil War. The Vicksburg Campaign is analyzed in detail to determine the contributions that Engineer Operations made to the Campaign’s success. The Campaign is broken down into four phases: (1) the Confederate Fortification of Vicksburg. (2) Operations in the Bayous, (3) the Campaign of Maneuver, and (4) the Siege of Vicksburg. Each phase is examined in an engineer context to determine what type of Engineer Operations were conducted and whether they were critical to that phase and the Campaign overall. The final conclusions derived from this study are that Engineer Operations were critical to the success of the Campaign and without the engineering capability the Union Army, possessed. It would not have been able to overcome the natural and manmade obstacles faced in the effort to seize Vicksburg.
We Fought at Gettysburg
Author: Carolyn IvanoffPublisher: Gettysburg Publishing
ISBN: 1734627662
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
We Fought At Gettysburg follows the 17th Connecticut Regiment through the Gettysburg Campaign and beyond in June and July of 1863. William H. Warren dedicated his life to compiling the accounts of his comrades in the 17th Connecticut. Many are published here for the first time. These are the words of those who lived through the trauma of combat and survived to write about it. Many of these men were wounded, taken prisoner, lost friends, and suffered themselves on this great battlefield of the war. These men tell what they experienced at Gettysburg in their own words. They describe what they saw, thought, and felt on the battlefield. Their story is told here through fascinating firsthand accounts, numerous photographs, including a photographic index of the regiment, and maps by Phil Laino.