epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:Col. John Cheves Haskell, Gilbert E. Govan [Col. John Cheves Haskell, Gilbert E. Govan]

Chapter 8 — Surrender TO meet Grant, General Lee wore a full new uniform with a very handsome sword, which he had not worn on duty, and was accompanied by ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-27 | Author:Dee Brown [Brown, Dee]

4 Early on the morning of July 7, Sam Taylor and Clay Merriwether led their companies into Brandenburg. Being so far north, the town was not garrisoned. The people appeared ...

epub |eng | | Author:Scott L. Mingus

epub |eng | 2016-07-19 | Author:Stephen Davis

A “shoupade” today, part of Johnston’s River Line. Brig. Gen. Francis A. Shoup included 36 of his earth-and-log forts in the line he had built within two miles of the ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-19 | Author:Stephen M. Hood

Chapter 8 Army of Tennessee Troop Strength Calculations Even before the end of the war Joseph Johnston and John Bell Hood engaged in a public debate. Each blamed the other ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Donald B Jenkins

VII The Lost Diary and Nisewanger/Hillyard Families The discovery of John R. King’s Civil War diary raised several important questions. First, what did the Confederate cavalrymen who captured both John ...

epub |eng | 2020-08-11 | Author:David Alan Johnson

WITH A BULLDOG GRIP The management of the Express, a newspaper in Buffalo, New York, displayed a large sign outside of its building: “GOD – GRANT – VICTORY.”26 This was ...

epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Tom McKenney

Chapter 6 Twilight at Bubbling Springs: The Last Summer and Autumn “The dreamy, sun-washed days of that blessed summer and autumn would soon be followed by the darkest winter of ...

epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Bell Irvin Wiley

Courtesy Confederate Museum, Richmond, Virginia THE MISSOURI ARMY ARGUS Camp newspaper issued for and by soldiers of General Sterling Price’s Command. Courtesy Military Records Division, Alabama Department of Archives and ...

epub |eng | 2021-09-06 | Author:A. J. Schenkman

The doctor wrote that “the claimant is very nervous and shaky.” He weighed a mere ninety-four pounds. There is no evidence that the doctor thoroughly examined Cashier, because he is ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Christopher Mackowski, Kristopher White

Because of their inglorious flight, the German immigrants of the XI Corps earned the ignoble nickname “The Flying Dutchmen.” (FSNMP) As you head back east on Route 3, you’ll follow ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Fr. Joseph T. Durkin [Durkin, Fr. Joseph T.]

CHAPTER 10—The Chicago Music Hall Address PERHAPS HIS GREATEST address during this first period of his public achievement was that given in the vast Central Music Hall at Chicago on ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Lt Col. Kent B. Dalton [Dalton, Lt Col. Kent B.]

CONCLUSION General Robert E. Lee was a superb practitioner of operational art and leadership. Even though he fought many of the greatest battles of his distinguished career over 140 years ...

epub |eng | 1999-04-01 | Author:Charles L. Dufour [Dufour, Charles L.]

CHAPTER XIII MAJOR WHEAT’S BATTALION We understand that our friend, Gen. C. R. Wheat, is about raising a company of Volunteers, to serve in the Army of Louisiana,” commented the ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-19 | Author:J. B. Jones, James I. Robertson Jr. [J. B. Jones, James I. Robertson Jr.]

NOVEMBER 29TH.—Clear, and warm as summer almost. Another dispatch from Bragg:77 “AUGUSTA, November 28th, 1864—On the 26th instant, the enemy started a heavy cavalry force in this direction, from his ...