Those Damn Horse Soldiers
Author : George Walsh
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 2006
Category : United States
ISBN : 0765312700
Author : George Walsh
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 2006
Category : United States
ISBN : 0765312700
Author : Clarence Hamilton Poe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486284514
Treasury of reminiscences includes battlefield correspondence, diary entries, journals kept on the homefront, stories told to children and grandchildren, more. Intimate, compelling record.
Author : Wayne Erbsen
Publisher : Native Ground Books & Music
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 2011-09
Category : Folk music
ISBN : 9781883206338
Here are the songs and stories that made history. Includes lyrics, music, song histories, trivia, humor plus 100 Civil War photographs and illustrations. All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight, Battle Cry of Freedom, Battle Hymn of the Republic, The Bonnie Blue Flag, Dixie's Land, The Faded Coat of Blue, Goober Peas, Hard Crackers Come Again No More, Home! Sweet Home!, Here's Your Mule, Just Before the Battle, Mother, Lorena, Maryland, My Maryland, Marching Through Georgia, O I'm a Good Old Rebel, Tenting on the Old Camp Ground, Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!, The Vacant Chair, Weeping, Sad and Lonely, When Johnny Comes Marching Home.
Author : Ann Blackman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 2005-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 158836481X
For sheer bravado and style, no woman in the North or South rivaled the Civil War heroine Rose O’Neale Greenhow. Fearless spy for the Confederacy, glittering Washington hostess, legendary beauty and lover, Rose Greenhow risked everything for the cause she valued more than life itself. In this superb portrait, biographer Ann Blackman tells the surprising true story of a unique woman in history. “I am a Southern woman, born with revolutionary blood in my veins,” Rose once declared–and that fiery spirit would plunge her into the center of power and the thick of adventure. Born into a slave-holding family, Rose moved to Washington, D.C., as a young woman and soon established herself as one of the capital’s most charming and influential socialites, an intimate of John C. Calhoun, James Buchanan, and Dolley Madison. She married well, bore eight children and buried five, and, at the height of the Gold Rush, accompanied her husband Robert Greenhow to San Francisco. Widowed after Robert died in a tragic accident, Rose became notorious in Washington for her daring–and numerous–love affairs. But with the outbreak of the Civil War, everything changed. Overnight, Rose Greenhow, fashionable hostess, become Rose Greenhow, intrepid spy. As Blackman reveals, deadly accurate intelligence that Rose supplied to General Pierre G. T. Beauregard written in a fascinating code (the code duplicated in the background on the jacket of this book). Her message to Beauregard turned the tide in the first Battle of Bull Run, and was a brilliant piece of spycraft that eventually led to her arrest by Allan Pinkerton and imprisonment with her young daughter. Indomitable, Rose regained her freedom and, as the war reached a crisis, journeyed to Europe to plead the Confederate cause at the royal courts of England and France. Drawing on newly discovered diaries and a rich trove of contemporary accounts, Blackman has fashioned a thrilling, intimate narrative that reads like a novel. Wild Rose is an unforgettable rendering of an astonishing woman, a book that will stand with the finest Civil War biographies.
Author : C. Brian Kelly
Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781888952803
A collection of more than one hundred true stories from the Civil War era that recount the exploits of key figures and chronicle important events that shaped the war.
Author : Tim Rowland
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1616083956
Presents a series of historical anecdotes about little-known, miscellaneous events and personal experiences of the American Civil War.
Author : Willow Clark
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 144889932X
The Civil War was a pivotal event in American history. Readers gain insight about both the war itself and how those telling its story shape our understanding. Topics covered include the complicated, troubling history of slavery in the United States and the daily life of soldiers on both sides of the conflict.
Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 39,93 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486111563
Sixteen dark and vivid tales by great satirist: "A Horseman in the Sky," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chicakamauga," "A Son of the Gods," "What I Saw of Shiloh," more. Note.
Author : Alan Axelrod
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 2012
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781402763908
The Civil War is shrouded in myth--but this entry in "The Real History" series provides a clear, fresh view of the events for curious readers who want an intellectual, but not dryly academic, presentation of this inexhaustibly fascinating subject. Covering everything from the roots of the conflict to Reconstruction, Axelrod addresses a range of less-discussed subjects, explores the war's turning points, and rounds out this absorbing study with diary excerpts, letters, sidebars, and contemporary photography, art, and maps."
Author : Webb Garrison
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 1999-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1418530549
The Civil War is most often described as one in which brother fought against brother. But the most devastating war fought on American soil was also one in which women demonstrated heroic deeds, selfless acts, and courage beyond measure. Women mobilized soup kitchens and relief societies. Women cared for wounded soldiers. Women were effective spies. And it is estimated that 300 women fought on the battlefields, usually disguised as men. The most fascinating Civil War women include: Harriet Tubman, a former slave, who led hundreds of fellow slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad Four hundred women who were seized in Roswell, Georgia, deported to Indiana, and vanished without a trace Belle Boyd, the "Siren of the Shenandoah," who at the age of seventeen killed a Union soldier "Crazy" Elizabeth Van Lew, who deliberately fostered the impression that she was eccentric so that she could be an effective spy for the North "The poor fellow sprang from my hands and fell back quivering in the agonies of death. A bullet had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through my sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder." ?Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross "We were all amused and disgusted at the sight of a thing that nothing but the debased and depraved Yankee nation could produce. [A woman] was dressed in the full uniform of a Federal surgeon. She was not good looking, and of course had tongue enough for a regiment of men." ?Captain Benedict J. Semmes, describing Mary Walker, M.D.