In 1866 Harris wrote mournfully of “ the noble sons of Mississippi , who upon that deadly field , made the final and greatest offering upon the altar of duty - life itself . ” 22 General Harris led his brigade with steady competence ...
year - old Francis Milton Little , who had most of the flesh torn from a shoulder 34 Even harder hit was Gibson G. Mahone of Company G. His fate put the cap on the sort of morality play that Americans of Victorian vintage took so much ...
Civil War Weather in Virginia fills a tremendous gap in our available knowledge in a fundamental area of Civil War studies, that of basic quotidian information on the weather in the theater of operations in the vicinity of Washington, DC, ...
Brigadier General Robert D. Johnston, Colonel John S. Hoffman (who replaced Pegram), and Lieutenant Colonel William S. Davis of the 12th North Carolina (who took over Godwin's unit) were Pegram's brigade command- ers.
235 ; Nisbet , Firing Line , p . 132 . 45. G. Campbell Brown Memoir , Brown - Ewell Papers , TSLA ; Nisbet , Firing Line , pp . 132-33 ; Myers , Comanches , pp . 89-90 . 46. 1860 Culpeper County Census , Southern District , pp .
Table of Contents "Opening the Gates of Hell:" A Unionist Family on the Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield Chatham and Brompton for sale at bargain prices in impoverished postwar Fredericksburg Politics and Infrastructure: The ...
In Taller Cotton: 200 More Important Confederate Books for the Reader, Researcher, and Collector
This book explores the political, historical and cultural significance of the American Civil War.
Exploring the political,historical, and cultural significance of the war, this book exmines its impact on the civilians and military personnel caught up in it.
Discusses conditions in the United States during the Civil War, battles centered on the East Coast, the lives of civilians and soldiers from 1863-1865, and the effects of Reconstruction.
For in-depth analysis, contextualization, and perspective, we invite readers to consider the original publications from which these works are drawn.
Presents maps for seventeen major Civil War battles, including pictorial maps and high altitude photographs
In ten chapters based on exhaustive research, esteemed Civil War scholar Robert K. Krick gives eloquent examination to aspects of the army ranging from biographical sketches and the best and worst books on the subject, to Confederate troop ...
The information in this book will be a huge resource for historians, genealogists, family researchers and students of the American Civil War.
This work was originally published as "The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy" in Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath, edited by Gary Gallagher, which places the Chancellorsville campaign in a broad context and ...
“Dowdey brings to an encyclopedic knowledge of the facts a freshness that makes the story seem new.”—American Heritage In the early spring of 1862, the Army of the Potomac invaded Virginia in the hopes of capturing the Confederate ...