Author : Lesley J. Gordon
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807854273
A critical biography of the best known and least accurately understood Civil War general, including the legends perpetrated by his widow, LaSalle Corbell Pickett.
Author : Lesley Jill Gordon
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Profiles the Confederate general who led the suicidal charge at Gettysburg
Author : Anne E. Marshall
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807899364
In Creating a Confederate Kentucky, Anne E. Marshall traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between 1865 and 1925, belying the fact that Kentucky never left the Union. After the Civil War, the people of Kentucky appeared to forget their Union loyalties and embraced the Democratic politics, racial violence, and Jim Crow laws associated with former Confederate states. Marshall looks beyond postwar political and economic factors to the longer-term commemorations of the Civil War by which Kentuckians fixed the state's remembrance of the conflict for the following sixty years.
Author : Carol Reardon
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807873543
If, as many have argued, the Civil War is the most crucial moment in our national life and Gettysburg its turning point, then the climax of the climax, the central moment of our history, must be Pickett's Charge. But as Carol Reardon notes, the Civil War saw many other daring assaults and stout defenses. Why, then, is it Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg--and not, for example, Richardson's Charge at Antietam or Humphreys's Assault at Fredericksburg--that looms so large in the popular imagination? As this innovative study reveals, by examining the events of 3 July 1863 through the selective and evocative lens of 'memory' we can learn much about why Pickett's Charge endures so strongly in the American imagination. Over the years, soldiers, journalists, veterans, politicians, orators, artists, poets, and educators, Northerners and Southerners alike, shaped, revised, and even sacrificed the 'history' of the charge to create 'memories' that met ever-shifting needs and deeply felt values. Reardon shows that the story told today of Pickett's Charge is really an amalgam of history and memory. The evolution of that mix, she concludes, tells us much about how we come to understand our nation's past.
Author : Mike Vouri
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738558400
Historian Mike Vouri has selected nearly 200 historical images to illustrate the history of the Pig War on San Juan Island in Washington state. Each image has a descriptive caption.
Author : Michael Korda
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0062116312
New York Times Bestseller "Lively, approachable, and captivating. Like Lee himself, everything about Clouds of Glory is on a grand scale." —Boston Globe Michael Korda, the acclaimed biographer of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers Ike and Hero, offers a brilliant, balanced, single-volume biography of Robert E. Lee, the first major study in a generation Korda paints a vivid and admiring portrait of Lee as a general and a devoted family man who, though he disliked slavery and was not in favor of secession, turned down command of the Union army in 1861 because he could not "draw his sword" against his own children, his neighbors, and his beloved Virginia. He was surely America's preeminent military leader, as calm, dignified, and commanding a presence in defeat as he was in victory. Lee's reputation has only grown in the 150 years since the Civil War, and Korda covers in groundbreaking detail all of Lee's battles and traces the making of a great man's undeniable reputation on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line, positioning him finally as the symbolic martyr-hero of the Southern Cause. Clouds of Glory features dozens of stunning illustrations, some never before seen, including eight pages of color images, sixteen pages of black-and-white images, and nearly fifty battle maps.
Author : Patrick McGilligan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 16,44 MB
Release : 2002-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312290320
A biography of a Hollywood legend peels back the mystery surrounding Clint Eastwood to reveal a rebel with a clear vision of human existence.
Author : Barbara A. Gannon
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0807834521
In the years after the Civil War, black and white Union soldiers who survived the horrific struggle joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)--the Union army's largest veterans' organization. In this thoroughly researched and groundbreaking study, Barba
Author : Earl J. Hess
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1469634201
On July 20, 1864, the Civil War struggle for Atlanta reached a pivotal moment. As William T. Sherman's Union forces came ever nearer the city, the defending Confederate Army of Tennessee replaced its commanding general, removing Joseph E. Johnston and elevating John Bell Hood. This decision stunned and demoralized Confederate troops just when Hood was compelled to take the offensive against the approaching Federals. Attacking northward from Atlanta's defenses, Hood's men struck George H. Thomas's Army of the Cumberland just after it crossed Peach Tree Creek on July 20. Initially taken by surprise, the Federals fought back with spirit and nullified all the advantages the Confederates first enjoyed. As a result, the Federals achieved a remarkable defensive victory. Offering new and definitive interpretations of the battle's place within the Atlanta campaign, Earl J. Hess describes how several Confederate regiments and brigades made a pretense of advancing but then stopped partway to the objective and took cover for the rest of the afternoon on July 20. Hess shows that morale played an unusually important role in determining the outcome at Peach Tree Creek--a soured mood among the Confederates and overwhelming confidence among the Federals spelled disaster for one side and victory for the other.
Author : George Edward Pickett
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Generals
ISBN :
