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Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : Ball's Bluff, Battle of, Va., 1861 |
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Author | : UNITED STATES. CONGRESS |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
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ISBN | : 9780282576929 |
Author | : William C. Davis |
Publisher | : Doubleday |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2012-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307817512 |
Two great, untested armies were readying for the first—and what many believed would be the last—major conflict between North and South. On the eve of July 21, 1861, one Northerner wrote: “The sky is perfectly clear, the moon is full and bright, and the air was still as if it were not within a few hours to be disturbed by the roar of cannon and the shouts of contending men.” So optimistic were the people in Washington that a crowd of civilians came from the city with picnic hampers to witness the crushing defeat of the upstart “rebels.” It was, says William C. Davis, “the twilight of America’s innocence,” and the following day the mood would shatter in a battle that confounded the expectations of both sides—the first Battle at Bull Run. William C. Davis has written a compelling and complete account of this landmark conflict. The Battle at Bull Run (or Manassas) is notable for many reasons. It was a surprise victory for the Confederacy, a humiliating defeat for the Union, and the first ominous indication that a long and bloody war was inevitable. It marked the first strategic use of railroads in history, and the first time the horrors of the battle were photographed for the folks back home. It was also a training ground for some of America’s most colorful military figures: P.G.T. Beauregard, Joe Johnston, Irvin McDowell and “Stonewall” Jackson. Drawing from a wealth of material—old letters, journals, memoirs and military records—Davis brings to life a vivid and vital chapter in American history.
Author | : John J. Hennessy |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1999-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806131870 |
"This comprehensively researched, well-written book represents the definitive account of Robert E. Lee's triumph over Union leader John Pope in the summer of 1862. . . . Lee's strategic skills, and the capabilities of his principal subordinates James Longstreet and Stonewall Jackson, brought the Confederates onto the field of Second Manassas at the right places and times against a Union army that knew how to fight, but not yet how to win."?Publishers Weekly "The deepest, most comprehensive, and most definitive work on this Civil War campaign, by the unchallenged authority."?James I. Robertson Jr., author of Stonewall Jackson
Author | : John J. Hennessy |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0811715914 |
On July 21, 1861, near a Virginia railroad junction twenty-five miles from Washington, DC, the Union and Confederate armies clashed in the first major battle of the Civil War. This revised edition of Hennessy's classic is the premier tactical account of First Manassas/Bull Run. • Combines narrative, analysis, and interpretation into a clear, easy-to-follow account of the battle's unfolding • Features commanders who would later become legendary, such as William T. Sherman and Thomas J. Jackson, who earned his "Stonewall" nickname at First Manassas
Author | : Wendy Vierow |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2004-01-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780823962211 |
Describes the events of the first Battle of Bull Run at Manassas, Virginia, where residents of Washington, D.C. went out to watch the war and the North had their first major loss of the Civil War.
Author | : James Longstreet |
Publisher | : Philadelphia : Lippincott |
Total Pages | : 852 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Erasmus Corwin Gilbreath |
Publisher | : Pritzker Military Museum and Library |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2015-06-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0989792854 |
Published 117 years after his death, the journals of the American soldier Erasmus Corwin Gilbreath provide a compelling vantage point by which to view contemporary American history. They tell, first and foremost, a tale of war in which there is no gloryonly carnage and death. Through Gilbreaths firsthand accounts we get a sense of what life was like during the Civil War, the Indian Wars, and the War with Spain from an accomplished field officer, rather than from high command. Gilbreath illuminates the true horrors of war in the 19th Century for soldiersboredom, fatigue, death, and crude medical care for the woundedand their families, as Gilbreaths wife and children followed him wherever his orders would lead, enduring the primitive conditions they found along the way. From his instrumental role in raising a company that would become part of the 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, to his death while serving with the 11th U.S. Infantry in Puerto Rico at the tail end of the SpanishAmerican War, Gilbreaths life exemplifies the dignity of his service and the importance he placed on duty to his nation. In his journals, Gilbreath paints a vivid picture of the turmoil and change that was 19th Century America. Passages such as the lyric firsthand account of the Battle of the Ironclads or his reconnecting with a fellow Gettysburg veteran in Chicago 21 years after the battle are beautifully written, and carry a personal and emotional gravity that are found in the best literary works. Gilbreath is one of Americas sons, a proud citizen soldier who helped to forge the United States, and we are truly fortunate that his legacy lives on in these pages.
Author | : Christopher Kempf |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2021-01-27 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0807175110 |
Based on two years living and researching in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, What Though the Field Be Lost uses the battlefield there as a way to engage ongoing issues involving race, regional identity, and the ethics of memory. With empathy and humility, Kempf reveals the overlapping planes of historical past and public present, integrating archival material—language from monuments, soldiers' letters, eyewitness accounts of the battle—with reflection on present-day social and political unrest. Here monument protests, police shootings, and heated battle reenactments expose the ambivalences and evasions involved in the consolidation of national (and nationalist) identity. In What Though the Field Be Lost, Kempf shows that, though the Civil War may be over, the field at Gettysburg and all that it stands for remain sharply contested. Shuttling between past and present, the personal and the public, What Though the Field Be Lost examines the many pasts that inhere, now and forever, in the places we occupy.
Author | : Ethan Sepp Rafuse |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0842028765 |
This series offers to students of the Civil War, either those continuing or those just beginning their exciting journey into the past, concise overviews of important persons, events, and themes in that remarkable period of America's history."--BOOK JACKET.