Reminiscences of the Civil War from Diaries of Members of the 103d Illinois Volunteer Infantry
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Page : 322 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Illinois
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Page : 322 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Illinois
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Author : Anne J. Bailey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780842028509
The "March to the Sea." It shocked Georgians from Atlanta to Savannah. In the late autumn of 1864, as General William Tecumseh Sherman's troops cut a four-week-long path of terror through Georgia, he accomplished his objective: to destroy civilian morale and with it their support for the Confederate cause. His actions elicited a passionate reaction. Sherman became the ruthless personification of evil, an arch-villain who made war on innocent women, children, and old men. But does the Savannah Campaign deserve the reputation it has been given? And was Sherman truly this brutal? In War and Ruin: William T. Sherman and the Savannah Campaign, Anne J. Bailey examines this event and investigates just how much truth is behind the popular historical notions. Bailey contends that the psychological horror rather than the actual physical damage-which was not as devastating as believed-led to the wilting of Southern morale. This dissolution of resolve helped lead to ultimate Confederate defeat as well as to the development of Sherman's infamous reputation. War and Ruin looks at the "March to the Sea" from its inception in Atlanta to its culmination in Savannah. This is a chronicle of not just the campaign itself, but also a revealing description of how the people of Georgia were affected. War and Ruin brilliantly combines military history and human interest to achieve a convincing portrayal of what really happened in Sherman's epic effort to smash Confederate spirit in Georgia.
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Page : 322 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Illinois
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Author : Bruce Catton
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781853266966
This history of the American Civil War chronicles the entire war to preserve the Union - from the Northern point of view, but in terms of the men from both sides who lived and died in glory on the fields.
Author : Louise A. Arnold-Friend
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Page : 724 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 1982
Category : United States
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Author : Charles Wright Wills
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780809320462
First published in 1981, the new edition provides an overview of cognitive approaches to learning disabilities, the theoretical and methodological underpinnings that support them, and assessment and educational approaches. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Joseph T. Glatthaar
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807120286
In November, 1864, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman led an army of veteran Union troops through the heart of the Confederacy, leaving behind a path of destruction in an area that had known little of the hardships of war, devastating the morale of soldiers and civilians alike, and hastening the end of the war. In this intensively researched and carefully detailed study, chosen by Civil War Magazine as one of the best one hundred books ever written about the Civil War, Joseph T. Glatthaar examines the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns from the perspective of the common soldiers in Sherman's army, seeking, above all, to understand why they did what they did. Glatthaar graphically describes the duties and deprivations of the march, the boredom and frustration of camp life, and the utter confusion and pure chance of battle. Quoting heavily from the letters and diaries of Sherman's men, he reveals the fears, motivations, and aspirations of the Union soldiers and explores their attitudes toward their comrades, toward blacks and southern whites, and toward the war, its destruction, and the forthcoming reconstruction.
Author : Christopher Waldrep
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742548688
During the hottest days of the summer of 1863, while the nation's attention was focused on a small town in Pennsylvania known as Gettysburg, another momentous battle was being fought along the banks of the Mississippi. In the longest single campaign of the war, the siege of Vicksburg left 19,000 dead and wounded on both sides, gave the Union Army control of the Mississippi, and left the Confederacy cut in half. In this highly-anticipated new work, Christopher Waldrep takes a fresh look at how the Vicksburg campaign was fought and remembered. He begins with a gripping account of the battle, deftly recounting the experiences of African-American troops fighting for the Union. Waldrep shows how as the scars of battle faded, the memory of the war was shaped both by the Northerners who controlled the battlefield and by the legacies of race and slavery that played out over the decades that followed.
Author : Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 965 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307427064
Composed almost entirely of Midwesterners and molded into a lean, skilled fighting machine by Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, the Army of the Tennessee marched directly into the heart of the Confederacy and won major victories at Shiloh and at the rebel strongholds of Vicksburg and Atlanta.Acclaimed historian Steven Woodworth has produced the first full consideration of this remarkable unit that has received less prestige than the famed Army of the Potomac but was responsible for the decisive victories that turned the tide of war toward the Union. The Army of the Tennessee also shaped the fortunes and futures of both Grant and Sherman, liberating them from civilian life and catapulting them onto the national stage as their triumphs grew. A thrilling account of how a cohesive fighting force is forged by the heat of battle and how a confidence born of repeated success could lead soldiers to expect “nothing but victory.”
Author : David L. Keller
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1626199116
If you were a Confederate prisoner during the Civil War, you might have ended up in this infamous military prison in Chicago. More Confederate soldiers died in Chicago's Camp Douglas than on any Civil War battlefield. Originally constructed in 1861 to train forty thousand Union soldiers from the northern third of Illinois, it was converted to a prison camp in 1862. Nearly thirty thousand Confederate prisoners were housed there until it was shut down in 1865. Today, the history of the camp ranges from unknown to deeply misunderstood. David Keller offers a modern perspective of Camp Douglas and a key piece of scholarship in reckoning with the legacy of other military prisons.