Life and Letters of Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce
Author : Albert Gleaves
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : Albert Gleaves
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : Albert Gleaves
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Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : Albert Gleaves
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 2013-10
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ISBN : 9781258885564
This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.
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Page : 381 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : United States. Department of the Navy. Library
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Naval biography
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Author : United States. Department of the Navy. Library
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Page : 114 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 1972
Category : United States
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Author : United States. Navy Department. Library
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 1972
Category : United States
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Author : United States. Navy Dept
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 1962
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Author : United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Naval History Division
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Naval history
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Author : Ralph Kirshner
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080932850X
Ralph Kirshner has provided a richly illustrated forum to enable the West Point class of 1861 to write its own autobiography. Through letters, journals, and published accounts, George Armstrong Custer, Adelbert Ames, and their classmates tell in their own words of their Civil War battles and of their varied careers after the war. Two classes graduated from West Point in 1861 because of Lincoln's need of lieutenants: forty-five cadets in Ames's class in May and thirty-four in Custer's class in June. The cadets range from Henry Algernon du Pont, first in the class of May, whose ancestral home is now Winterthur Garden, to Custer, last in the class of June. “Only thirty-four graduated,” remarked Custer, “and of these thirty-three graduated above me.” West Point's mathematics professor and librarian Oliver Otis Howard, after whom Howard University is named, is also portrayed. Other famous names from the class of 1861 are John Pelham, Emory Upton, Thomas L. Rosser, John Herbert Kelly (the youngest general in the Confederacy when appointed), Patrick O'Rorke (head of the class of June), Alonzo Cushing, Peter Hains, Edmund Kirby, John Adair (the only deserter in the class), and Judson Kilpatrick (great-grandfather of Gloria Vanderbilt). They describe West Point before the Civil War, the war years, including the Vicksburg campaign and the battle of Gettysburg, the courage and character of classmates, and the ending of the war. Kirshner also highlights postwar lives, including Custer at Little Bighorn; Custer's rebel friend Rosser; John Whitney Barlow, who explored Yellowstone; du Pont, senator and author; Kilpatrick, playwright and diplomat; Orville E. Babcock, Grant's secretary until his indictment in the "Whiskey Ring"; Pierce M. B. Young, a Confederate general who became a diplomat; Hains, the only member of the class to serve on active duty in World War I; and Upton, "the class genius." The Class of 1861, which features eighty-three photographs, includes a foreword by George Plimpton, editor of theParis Review and great-grandson of General Adelbert Ames.