epub |eng | | Author:Burke Davis

The ordnance reserve train of the army stood between the Richmond-Petersburg Pike and the Woodpecker Road, not far from Swift Creek—forty-four wagons under the command of Lieutenant Joseph Packard. A ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:Frederick Douglass

II. THE CIVIL WAR How to End the War TO OUR mind, there is but one easy, short and effectual way to suppress and put down the desolating war which ...

epub |eng | | Author:Stephen W. Sears

Fredericksburg splintered the political as well as the military landscape. Even as the Committee on the Conduct of the War was taking the generals’ testimony at Falmouth, Senate Republicans of ...

epub |eng | | Author:John R. Kelso

7. A Defeat and a Victory May to July 1862 After our return from Linn Creek, we again remained in camp training. We were then ordered to Neosho, a large ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:Frederick Douglass

“THE TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS OF SELF-MADE MEN” (1860) Douglass’s self-made men speeches were immensely popular from 1860 until his death in 1895. Over time he altered the speech as he ...

epub |eng | | Author:Davis, Burke;

14 SEVEN BLOODY DAYS AT AN END Jackson was once more out early, on July first, moving with such alacrity as to suggest that yesterday had been only a nightmare. ...

epub |eng | 2007-01-11 | Author:Elizabeth Brown Pryor

General Robert E. Lee in 1863, photographed at the studio of Minnis and Cowell in Richmond. VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lee’s imposing appearance before the flaming Chancellor tavern was a classic ...

epub |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:William J. Cooper [Cooper, William J.]

Eastern Theater, July-December 1862. From W. J. Cooper and T. E. Terrill, The American South: A History (2d ed.), with permission of the McGraw-Hill Companies Bragg had worked on organization ...

epub |eng | 2015-05-30 | Author:Michael Korda

CHAPTER 8 Triumph and Tragedy—Second Manassas and Sharpsburg “You must consider that no wars may be made without danger.” —Sir Roger Williams* to the Earl of Leicester, Siege of Sluys, ...

mobi |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:McPherson, James M. [McPherson, James M.]

5. WE SHOULD TAKE THE INITIATIVE As commander in chief, Davis spent most of his time and energy on questions of strategy and command. But armies must be armed, fed, ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:McPherson, James M. [McPherson, James M.]

5. WE SHOULD TAKE THE INITIATIVE As commander in chief, Davis spent most of his time and energy on questions of strategy and command. But armies must be armed, fed, ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:James M. McPherson

5. WE SHOULD TAKE THE INITIATIVE As commander in chief, Davis spent most of his time and energy on questions of strategy and command. But armies must be armed, fed, ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:Adam Goodheart [Goodheart, Adam]

Afterward, in a letter to a close friend (a black New Yorker named Randolph Ryer), King exulted like a warrior returning from the field of victory. “I pitched into Secession, ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Adam Goodheart

THE CONVENTION TO DETERMINE Missouri’s course in the national crisis assembled in St. Louis on March 4. Although this was also, by chance, the day of Lincoln’s inauguration, it dawned ...