John lewis fought for virginia in the Confederate army at Malvern Hill, Antietam, and elsewhere. But it's not all blood and glory. Every memoir of the american Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. Lewis had a wry sense of humor and used it to twit both the Blue and the Gray in this wonderful small memoir of a Johnnie from Virginia.
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Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac
After lying about his age Frank Wilkeson was just sixteen when he joined the Union Army in 1864. His memoir recollections of a private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac was first published in 1887 and he passed away in 1913. Wilkeson’s words have a robustness that remind us that colorful writing was in the American air, and contemporaries like Mark Twain didn’t come out of the blue or the gray.
Robert cowley, historynet “deeply portrays the experience of the ordinary soldier on campaign and in battle. Civil war talk “the memoir is unlike most others by Civil War Veterans who tended to romanticize and sometimes glorify the experiences they went through. As he states in his preface, “the epauleted history has been largely inspired by vanity or jealousy, saving and excepting forever the immortal record”.
His emphasis on the seamy, unheroic, horrific side of war is a healthy corrective to romanticism. James mcpherson frank Wilkeson was an American journalist, soldier, farmer and explorer. Recollections of a private soldier in the army of the Potomac is a wonderfully refreshing account of the American Civil War that takes the reader to the heart of what it would have been like to have served in the front ranks.
The Battle of Gettysburg Expanded, Annotated
Haskell was not only singled out by General Hancock for praise of his actions in the battle, he was quoted in Ken Burns' epic Civil War documentary. Haskell's details are to be found nowhere else and make for a superb first-person account of one of America's most important battles. The dartmouth-educated haskell provided a compelling and exciting narrative in a long letter to his brother, written just days after the battle.
Frank haskell's eyewitness account of the Battle of Gettysburg has been considered a classic for nearly 140 years. Included in this edition is their 1910 reply to a narrative that was never intended for publication. First published privately by his brother in 1878 Haskell was killed at Cold Harbor, it was later reprinted for the public.
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Gettysburg's Peach Orchard: Longstreet, Sickles, and the Bloody Fight for the "Commanding Ground" Along the Emmitsburg Road
Lee ordered skeptical subordinate Lt. The offensive was intended to seize the Peach Orchard and surrounding ground along the Emmitsburg Road for use as an artillery position to support the ongoing attack. The historiography of the battle’s second day is usually dominated by the Union’s successful defense of Little Round Top, but the day’s most influential action occurred nearly one mile west along the Emmitsburg Road in farmer Joseph Sherfy’s peach orchard.
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Gen. James longstreet to launch a massive assault against the Union left flank. The occupation of the high ground at the Peach Orchard helped General Lee rationalize ordering the tragic July 3 assault known as “Pickett’s Charge.
Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863
Here is the central chapter of the central volume, and therefore the capstone of the arch, in a single volume. Complete with detailed maps, stars in their courses brilliantly recreates the three-day conflict: It is a masterly treatment of a key great battle and the events that preceded it—not as legend has it but as it really was, before it became distorted by controversy and overblown by remembered glory.
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Gettysburg's Most Hellish Battleground: The Devil's Den, July 2, 1863
. Nevertheless, the dramatic story of the successful turning of the first Union left flank has been long overlooked and ignored largely because of the giant historical shadow cast by the more famous struggle at Little Round Top, which was only the second and last fight for the southern flank of both armies on July 2.
Used book in Good Condition. The battle-hardened veterans of lieutenant general james Longstreet's First Corps captured this vital sector-- the first Union left flank--in one of the few Southern successes of the second day, after some of the war's most bitter fighting. Therefore, the important contest for possession of the first Union left flank at the Devil's Den and Houck's Ridge was crucial on the bloody afternoon that decided the fate of America.
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An Officer in the Iron Brigade Abridged, Annotated
By then, he was a full colonel. One of the most exciting, well-written, and important memoirs of the American Civil War from one of its most accomplished warriors: Colonel Rufus R. After gettysburg, where he led the charge on the railroad cut on July 1, he wrote: "My horse was shot under me early in the fight, which perhaps saved my life.
Every memoir of the american Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. His description of the fighting from the Wilderness to Spotslyvania is some of the most harrowing you'll ever read. At antietam, fredericksburg, and grant's Overland Campaign, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Iron Brigade suffered the highest percentage of casualties of any in the war.
Used book in Good Condition. Dawes of the sixth Wisconsin—The Iron Brigade. But after seeing friends die and horribly maimed, Dawes stayed with the brigade until it mustered out.
Jack Hinson's One-Man War, A Civil War Sniper
This remarkable biography presents the story of Jack Hinson, at the age of 57, a lone Confederate sniper who, waged a personal war on Grant's army and navy. Opposed to secession and a friend to Union and Confederate commanders alike, he did not want a war. The true story of one man's reluctant but relentless war against the invaders of his country.
A quiet, wealthy plantation owner, Jack Hinson watched the start of the Civil War with disinterest. He commissioned a special rifle for long-range accuracy, he took to the woods, and he set out for revenge. Used book in Good Condition.
Our Fathers at Gettysburg: A Step by Step Description of the Greatest Battle of the American Civil War
Clearly written and illustrated with maps, photographs and illustrations, this is the book to have if you really want to understand step by step what happened during those three terrible days at Gettysburg. Here, is a convenient guide for serious student and casual visitor alike which covers the sweep of events and the geography of the battlefield, finally, step by step.
Over 100 large battlefield maps * loaded with photos, devil’s den, the wheatfield, the railroad cut, The Peach Orchard, Illustrations and Discussion * Integrated with online Google Maps Little Round Top, Pickett’s Charge — these were the turning points within the most important battle of the bloodiest war in American history.
But even careful students of Gettysburg can find themselves confused when reading about, or visiting, the battlefield.
At Gettysburg and Elsewhere Expanded, Annotated: The Civil War Memoir of John Gibbon
Gibbon wrote plainly about the great men with whom he served, some of whom he greatly admired and some who were difficult. Pelican Publishing Company. Gibbon was a central figure at Gettysburg, with Pickett's Charge aimed right at the forces he commanded. Used book in Good Condition. Wounded on the third day of the battle, he supplemented his memoir with portions of the outstanding narrative of that day by his aide, Lieutenant Frank Haskell.
John gibbon's recollections of his service at Gettysburg and other great battles is frank and personal. This is not an overview of great battles but a soldier's account of the trials and triumphs of four years of horrific conflict.
Storming the Wheatfield: John Caldwell's Union Division in the Gettysburg Campaign
Ready for harvest, becoming a trampled, bloody, the infamous Wheatfield would change hands nearly six times in the span of two hours of fighting on July 2, no-man's land for thousands of wounded soldiers. Smith examines the lives of the union soldiers in the ranks—as well as leaders Cross, Brooke, Zook, Kelly, and Caldwell himself.
Pelican Publishing Company. Caldwell’s division made a desperate stand against a tough and determined Confederate force in farmer George Rose's nearly 20-acre Wheatfield. This gripping narrative is an in-depth study of the valiant men of General John Caldwell’s Union Division during the Gettysburg Campaign.
From colonel edward cross’s black bandana, james smith’s storming the Wheatfield goes deep into the lives the soldiers, to the famed Irish Brigade's charge on Stoney Hill, to a lone young man from Washington County whose grave is marked in stone nearby, evoking a personal connection with the troops.
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