Author: Edward C. DownsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Four Years a Scout and Spy
Author: Edward C. DownsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Four Years a Scout and Spy "General Bunker"
Author: E. C. DownsPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
"Four Years a Scout and Spy "General Bunker"" by E. C. Downs. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Four Years A Scout and Spy
Author: E C DownsPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781010318422
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
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Four Years a Scout and Spy
Author: Edward C DownsPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022869929
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a memoir of the Civil War by a Union soldier who served as a spy and scout for General Ulysses S. Grant. It provides a first-hand account of the military campaigns in the West, including the battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga. The author also offers personal reflections on the challenges and perils of war, and shows how his experiences shaped his view of the world and his place in it. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Four Years a Scout and Spy
Author: Edward C. DownsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Four Years a Scout and a Spy
Author: Edward DownsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781981996872
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Lorain Ruggles was a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War. His story is the subject a book, "Four Years a Scout & Spy" published in 1866. Lorain Ruggles was a member of the 20th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving in the Mississippi-Tennessee theater as a scout, spy & detective. He claimed to be the brother of a Confederate General, in whose command he sometimes operated. One of Ruggles' superiors, Brigadier General Wiles, stated that "I never knew him to give false information," and Ruggles' book contains several official comments on his success. Ruggles' book is titled, Four Years a Scout and Spy. It was ghost written for him by one of his officers, Major Edward C Downs, who enlisted Ruggles in 1861. Lorain Ruggles was enlisted in December, 1861, at Columbus, Ohio. The name of "General Bunker" was given to him by the men in his company, and it was by that name that he was most generally known in the army, and very many knew him by no other name. Mr. Ruggles is a man possessed of great presence of mind, a strong memory, and not a little of native wit, and great power of physical endurance. These, with his knowledge of the Southern people and country, admirably fitted him for the duties of a scout. The narratives here related are of facts that actually occurred in his experience, and very many of them are as well authenticated as any facts in history can be. There has been no aim at making this a work of general history, but simply a narrative of personal experience, coupled with only so much of the general history of the war as is necessary to explain the cause of the events that transpired in his experience. Many of these are incidents of daring that are without parallel in the scout service. Whenever a mission of great danger was to be accomplished, Mr. Ruggles was the man that was usually chosen to perform it. His quick comprehension and heroic daring enabled him to address himself to the work, which he rarely ever failed to accomplish. Often the boldness of his designs proved to be the reason of his success. Very few have equaled, while none have excelled, him in that line of duty. Many of the incidents in his experience are so wonderful that in them the "truth seems stranger than fiction."
Four Years a Scout and Spy
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780371362761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Four Years a Scout and Spy
Author: Edward C. DownsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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The Great America Scout and Spy, "General Bunker' ...
Author: Edward C. DownsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy
Author: Christopher GrassoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197547346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
The epic life story of a schoolteacher and preacher in Missouri, guerrilla fighter in the Civil War, Congressman, freethinking lecturer and author, and anarchist. A former Methodist preacher and Missouri schoolteacher, John R. Kelso served as a Union Army foot soldier, cavalry officer, guerrilla fighter, and spy. Kelso became driven by revenge after pro-Southern neighbors stole his property, burned down his house, and drove his family and friends from their homes. He vowed to kill twenty-five Confederates with his own hands and, often disguised as a rebel, proceeded to track and kill unsuspecting victims with "wild delight." The newspapers of the day reported on his feats of derring-do, as the Union hailed him as a hero and Confederate sympathizers called him a monster. Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy: The Civil Wars of John R. Kelso is an account of an extraordinary nineteenth-century American life. During Reconstruction, Kelso served in the House of Representatives and was one of the first to call for the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. Personal tragedy then drove him west, where he became a freethinking lecturer and author, an atheist, a spiritualist, and, before his death in 1891, an anarchist. Kelso was also a strong-willed son, a passionate husband, and a loving and grieving father. The Civil War remained central to his life, challenging his notions of manhood and honor, his ideals of liberty and equality, and his beliefs about politics, religion, morality, and human nature. Throughout his life, too, he fought private wars--not only against former friends and alienated family members, rebellious students and disaffected church congregations, political opponents and religious critics, but also against the warring impulses in his own character. In Christopher Grasso's hands, Kelso's life story offers a unique vantage on dimensions of nineteenth-century American culture that are usually treated separately: religious revivalism and political anarchism; sex, divorce, and Civil War battles; freethinking and the Wild West. A complex figure and passionate, contradictory, and prolific writer, John R. Kelso here receives a full telling of his life for the first time.