With Grant at Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg
Author : Wilbur Fisk Crummer
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Fort Donelson, Battle of, Tenn., 1862
ISBN :
Author : Wilbur Fisk Crummer
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Fort Donelson, Battle of, Tenn., 1862
ISBN :
Author : Kendall D. Gott
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,56 MB
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 081173160X
With the collapse of the Confederate defenses at Forts Henry and Donelson, the entire Tennessee Valley was open to Union invasion and control.
Author : Timothy B. Smith
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 2016
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780700623136
Though the battles of Forts Henry and Donelson are often neglected in Civil War historiography, their importance cannot be overstated. It was there that Ulysses S. Grant became a national hero, that a Southern field army ceased to exist, and most importantly, where the Confederacy's vital western defense line was broken and shattered. The South was hard pressed to ever recover.
Author : Ulysses Simpson Grant
Publisher : New York, C. L. Webster & Company
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Generals
ISBN :
Faced with failing health and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future - and won himself a unique place in American letters. Devoted almost entirely to his life as a soldier, Grant's Memoirs traces the trajectory of his extraordinary career - from West Point cadet to general-in-chief of all Union armies. For their directness and clarity, his writings on war are without rival in American literature, and his autobiography deserves a place among the very best in the genre.
Author : Alfred H Groves
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Fort Donelson, Battle of, Tenn., 1862
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Author : James M. McPherson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0807837326
Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval campaigns and their military leaders. McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast, leaky as a sieve in the war's early months, became increasingly effective as it choked off vital imports and exports. Meanwhile, the Confederate navy, dwarfed by its giant adversary, demonstrated daring and military innovation. Commerce raiders sank Union ships and drove the American merchant marine from the high seas. Southern ironclads sent several Union warships to the bottom, naval mines sank many more, and the Confederates deployed the world's first submarine to sink an enemy vessel. But in the end, it was the Union navy that won some of the war's most important strategic victories--as an essential partner to the army on the ground at Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Mobile Bay, and Fort Fisher, and all by itself at Port Royal, Fort Henry, New Orleans, and Memphis.
Author : Line of Battle
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 16,24 MB
Release : 2019-03-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781090331748
Donelson: Grant's First Victory outlines the battle of Fort Donelson and explains how it came about. In less than an hour, you will meet the main participants, understand Union and Confederate troop movements, and learn how the victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson launched Ulysses S. Grant on his march to Richmond. For readers who want to know more, and understand how contemporary readers learned about the battle, we included contemporary newspaper accounts of the conflict.It's not the complete story, but enough to bring you up to speed, understand the issues of the day, and maybe encourage you to explore more on your own.Each book includes a timeline to help you see the bigger picture so you can watch events unfold
Author : Timothy B. Smith
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0700633162
When General Ulysses S. Grant targeted Forts Henry and Donelson, he penetrated the Confederacy at one of its most vulnerable points, setting in motion events that would elevate his own status, demoralize the Confederate leadership and citizenry, and, significantly, tear the western Confederacy asunder. More to the point, the two battles of early 1862 opened the Tennessee River campaign that would prove critical to the ultimate Union victory in the Mississippi Valley. In Grant Invades Tennessee, award-winning Civil War historian Timothy B. Smith gives readers a battlefield view of the fight for Forts Henry and Donelson, as well as a critical wide-angle perspective on their broader meaning in the conduct and outcome of the war. The first comprehensive tactical treatment of these decisive battles, this book completes the trilogy of the Tennessee River campaign that Smith began in Shiloh and Corinth 1862, marking a milestone in Civil War history. Whether detailing command-level decisions or using eye-witness anecdotes to describe events on the ground, walking readers through maps or pulling back for an assessment of strategy, this finely written work is equally sure on matters of combat and context. Beginning with Grant's decision to bypass the Confederates' better-defended sites on the Mississippi, Smith takes readers step-by-step through the battles: the employment of a flotilla of riverine war ships along with infantry and land-based artillery in subduing Fort Henry; the lesser effectiveness of this strategy against Donelson's much stronger defense, weaponry, and fighting forces; the surprise counteroffensive by the Confederates and the role of their commanders' incompetence and cowardice in foiling its success. Though casualties at the two forts fell far short of bloodier Civil War battles to come, the importance of these Union victories transcend battlefield statistics. Grant Invades Tennessee allows us, for the first time, to clearly see how and why.
Author : Vianney C. Sipulski
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Fort Donelson, Battle of, Tenn., 1862
ISBN :
Author : Wilbur Fisk Crummer
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781331063476
Excerpt from With Grant at Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg, and an Appreciation of General U. S Grant In this year of 1915, when the sounds of battle and strife come wafted to us across the sea from Europe, the younger generation are asking questions of the Veterans of the Civil War about their experiences in battle. Formerly I lived in Galena, Ill., and having been personally acquainted with, and a neighbor of General U. S. Grant, and one of the "Boys in Blue" who followed him in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg, I deem it my privilege to add my mite to the history that clusters round the greatest military genius of modern times. To please many friends who have heard my lectures on the Civil War, and at the request of my children, the following pages have been written, from data made at the time and since, and from a vivid memory of the stirring days of 1862 and 1863. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.