Regiment and County Index to the Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865
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Page : 15 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Georgia
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Page : 15 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Georgia
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Author : Joseph H. Crute
Publisher : Olde Soldier Books Incorporated
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
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Provides a brief history and "certain information such as organization, campaigns, losses, commanders, etc." for each unit listed in "Marcus J. Wright's List of Field Officers, Regiments, and Battalions in the Confederate States Army, 1861-1865."--Intro., p.xi.
Author : John C. Rigdon
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1300831553
This book contains the compiled service records of Confederate soldiers who served in the following Georgia units: 57th Infantry Regiment 59th Infantry Regiment 60th Infantry Regiment 61st Infantry Regiment 62nd Infantry Regimen
Author : Georgia. State Division of Confederate Pensions and Records
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Page : 1082 pages
File Size : 40,55 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Georgia
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Author : Stephen Crane
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Page : 220 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 1896
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Author : New Jersey. Adjutant-General's Office
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 1996
Category : New Jersey
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Author : John M. Curran
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Clothing and dress
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Author : National Archives (U.S.)
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Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,28 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Archives
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Page : 666 pages
File Size : 32,31 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Genealogy
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Author : Earl J. Hess
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1643364367
The battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864, was the defining event in the 292-day campaign around Petersburg, Virginia, in the Civil War and one of the most famous engagements in American military history. Although the bloody combat of that "horrid pit" has been recently revisited as the centerpiece of the novel and film versions of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, the battle has yet to receive a definitive historical study. Distinguished Civil War historian Earl J. Hess fills that gap in the literature of the Civil War with Into the Crater. The Crater was central in Ulysses S. Grant's third offensive at Petersburg and required digging of a five-hundred-foot mine shaft under enemy lines and detonating of four tons of gunpowder to destroy a Confederate battery emplacement. The resulting infantry attack through the breach in Robert E. Lee's line failed terribly, costing Grant nearly four thousand troops, among them many black soldiers fighting in their first battle. The outnumbered defenders of the breach saved Confederate Petersburg and inspired their comrades with renewed hope in the lengthening campaign to possess this important rail center. In this narrative account of the Crater and its aftermath, Hess identifies the most reliable evidence to be found in hundreds of published and unpublished eyewitness accounts, official reports, and historic photographs. Archaeological studies and field research on the ground itself, now preserved within the Petersburg National Battlefield, complement the archival and published sources. Hess re-creates the battle in lively prose saturated with the sights and sounds of combat at the Crater in moment-by-moment descriptions that bring modern readers into the chaos of close range combat. Hess discusses field fortifications as well as the leadership of Union generals Grant, George Meade, and Ambrose Burnside, and of Confederate generals Lee, P. G. T. Beauregard, and A. P. Hill. He also chronicles the atrocities committed against captured black soldiers, both in the heat of battle and afterward, and the efforts of some Confederate officers to halt this vicious conduct