epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Charles Bracelen Flood [Flood, Charles Bracelen]

During the time that Sherman was conducting what became known as the Meridian Campaign, Grant wrote a brief letter to Julia. In it he said, “It now looks as if ...

epub |eng | 2008-06-15 | Author:Martin Dugard [DUGARD, MARTIN]

FARTHER TO THE right, Colonel Garland and an injured Major Mansfield were leading a frantic retreat from the outskirts of Monterrey. Those city streets had initially been a sanctuary after ...

epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

CIVIL WAR AMERICA Voices from the Home Front JAMES MARTEN Santa Barbara, California Denver, Colorado Oxford, England Copyright © 2003 by James Alan Marten All rights reserved. No part of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:Ulysses S. Grant

CHAPTER FORTY FOUR BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGA — A GALLANT CHARGE — COMPLETE ROUT OF THE ENEMY — PURSUIT OF THE CONFEDERATES — GENERAL BRAGG — REMARKS ON CHATTANOOGA AT TWELVE ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1986-02-15 | Author:Shelby Foote

Tactically speaking, Lee no doubt regretted Burnside’s departure. He would miss him, much as he missed McClellan, now in retirement, and John Pope and Joe Hooker, who had been shunted ...

mobi |eng | 1986-12-15 | Author:Shelby Foote

Neither was their presence in the orchard covered by any instructions from their own commander. In fact, at the time Hood’s men first spotted them, Meade did not even know ...

mobi |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Sally Jenkins; John Stauffer

From representations made to us we had expect[ed] to find [irregular] organizations among the disloyal for the purpose of resisting our authority. During the first five days operations we obtained ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

Booth tosses a dollar onto the bar and walks downstairs to the Grover’s manager’s office. It’s empty. Sitting at the desk, Booth removes paper and an envelope from the pigeonholes. ...

mobi |eng | 1986-02-15 | Author:Shelby Foote

The wire did not have to go all the way to Washington; the Secretary was at Fort Monroe. He had arrived two days ago with Lincoln and Chase, primarily for ...

mobi | | 2009-12-26 | Author:Joseph A. Altsheler

"I'm going to do so right away. Don't bother yourself about me, George. My nerves have been strained pretty hard, and I had to wait until they were quiet until ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Tracy Borman

CHAPTER 9 Cousins From the moment she took the crown, Elizabeth had been faced with the threat of rival claimants. Given her mother’s history and the subsequent confirmations of her ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:William T. Sherman

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, April 24, 1864. Lieutenant-General GRANT, commanding Armies of the United States, Culpepper, Virginia. GENERAL: I now have, at the hands of Colonel ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Eric Foner

7 “Forever Free”: The Coming of Emancipation EVEN AS THE ARMY of General George B. McClellan embarked on the Peninsular campaign, a military commander with a very different political outlook ...

mobi, azw3, azw |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:John Koster & Louise Barnett

(i)A huge number of such cases have been collected by B.J. Burkett and Glenna Whitley in Stolen Valor: How The Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History, ...

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 ...