epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Clarence Poe [Poe, Clarence]

January 10, 1863–There is the story of a Negro girl, in the exercise of her Yankee-given right, who went in search of a mistress in Illinois. Said the Yankee woman ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Major Julian D. Alford [Alford, Major Julian D.]

The Beginning of the End The true strategic importance of the Tullahoma position, and for that matter, Middle Tennessee as a whole, never seemed to register with Bragg’s superiors in ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-29 | Author:Gene M. Thorp, Alexander Rossino [Gene M. Thorp, Alexander Rossino]

epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Major David A. Rubenstein [Rubenstein, Major David A.]

CONFEDERATE MEDICAL SUPPORT AT CHICKAMAUGA Samuel Stout’s loss of communications with Flewellen shortly before the Battle is symbolic of the problems inherent with studying medical support of the Southern forces ...

epub |eng | 2016-11-02 | Author:Catherine Clinton [Clinton, Catherine]

THREE Mammy by Any Other Name . . . that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet —ROMEO AND JULIET and when we ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:Lt Col Cheryl A. Heimerman USAF [USAF, Lt Col Cheryl A. Heimerman]

Chapter 4 — Angels of Mercy “I have been rewarded a thousand times for all I have sacrificed or endured for the soldiers. Sacred tears of gratitude, blessings from pale ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:David Herbert Donald [Donald, David Herbert]

Died of Democracy — by David Donald HISTORIANS HAVE EXPLAINED Confederate defeat in a variety of ways, but even as they blame the South’s weaker economic resources, declining morale, defective ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Lieutenant-Colonel George E. Teague [Teague, Lieutenant-Colonel George E.]

FIGURE 3. THE BATTLE AT GETTYSBURG{43} Reproduced by permission of Abbeville Press, Inc. ©Guinness Publishing Ltd., 1992. CAMPAIGN COMPARISON THE STRATEGIC SETTING Although France and the Confederacy had gone to ...

epub |eng | 2016-09-01 | Author:Michael Brem Bonner, Fritz Hamer [Michael Brem Bonner, Fritz Hamer]

1. McKitrick’s general conclusion has been sustained by a number of later studies, notably Michael Les Benedict’s A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863–1869 (New York: W. W. ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-29 | Author:Ann L. Tucker [Tucker, Ann L.]

For conservative southerners, an international perspective confirmed their broader belief that southern conservatism was superior to the liberalism found among European nationalists and northern abolitionists. While the South was more ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:Thomas Weber [Weber, Thomas]

CHAPTER XI—THE UNITED STATES MILITARY RAILROADS: THE EASTERN THEATER, 1864-1865 “[The railroads’] undulations were so striking that a train moving along it looked in the distance like a fly crawling ...

epub |eng | 1999-04-23 | Author:Heros von Borcke [Borcke, Heros von]

* * * 1. I marched from Chambersburg to Leesburg, 90 miles, with only one hour's halt, in thirty-six hours, including a forced passage of the Potomac—a march without a ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:Major William Watson, Prof. Paul Fatout [Major William Watson, Prof. Paul Fatout]

3 — 1864 EARLY IN FEBRUARY, 1864, the 105th Regiment, and doubtless other units, were sent to Pennsylvania. Possibly the trip was one of those morale-raising displays, like bond rallies ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Roger Pickenpaugh [Pickenpaugh, Roger]

8 “Almost a Fixed Impossibility” Escapes and Attempts In July 1862 all Union prison camps began forwarding monthly returns to Colonel Hoffman. According to the reports sent from Johnson’s Island, ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:General Alpheus S. Williams, Milo M. Quaife [General Alpheus S. Williams, Milo M. Quaife]

FOREBODINGS OF DEFEAT Frederick, Md., June 29, 1863. My Dear Daughters: I have a moment in the office of Dr. Steiner of the Sanitary Commission to tell you where I ...