A Time For Soldiers A Civil War Journey
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A Time For Soldiers
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Author : James Edwards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-12-04
A Time For Soldiers written by James Edwards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-04 with categories.
A Time For Soldiers A Civil War Journey
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Author : James Edwards Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2013-05-07
A Time For Soldiers A Civil War Journey written by James Edwards Jr. and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-07 with History categories.
Today is May 1, 1917. Word has just come to me that several local boys have been drafted to fight the war in Europe. This one is called "The Great War." It's been raging since August 1914. President Wilson asked the Congress for a declaration of war last month. He got it. Hundreds of thousands have died already. Now, many of our own good boys will die. War is a chronic condition, and stupid. I was that young when I first went off to war, fifty-seven years ago. I was twenty-one, about the same age as these kids. I had no idea that I was entering my own personal season in hell when I joined up with a New York volunteer regiment. These young men are about to march off to another war, another cause. Many will die uselessly on torn-up battlefields that nobody will remember except the men who fight there. I still see those faces in the distance, on a hillside at a place called Gettysburg. I see myself, young, but no longer a boy. My innocence was a façade. War is butchery, and I experienced it close-up. I was part of a monster, trained to overwhelm and destroy my enemy, my brother. By the end of the war, I was good at it. It fit me well. I was a seasoned veteran. Killing had become second nature. Experience being the best teacher, I learned well. In April 1865, I knew what I was. The question had become, what was I going to be? The thought once occurred to me that maybe I should not have survived the war, that war should devour its own and leave the remnant in peace.
Ambrose
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Author : Richard P. Cobb
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2013-03-21
Ambrose written by Richard P. Cobb and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Richard P. Cobb tells the story of his great-grandfather, Ambrose Lambert Cobb, in this true account of the Civil War. Ambrose Lambert Cobb witnessed wonders and horrors that were sweeping in scope, including four long years as a Union soldier during the Civil War, which resulted in the deaths of 620,000 Americans. For both moral and religious reasons, the Cobb family held no quarter with the idea of enslaving a fellow being, and when President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for men, Cobb and his best friend, Aden King, joined the 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Living twelve miles from the border of Missouri, a slave state, it was a courageous decision for the best friends. More than once they would nearly die of wounds, but they would somehow survive and stay in touch through yearly reunions with the old regiment. Take a step back in time to relive the greatest, most painful war in our history, and learn how it continues to reverberate through the nation with Ambrose.
Freedom Journey
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Author : Edythe Ann Quinn
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2015-02-01
Freedom Journey written by Edythe Ann Quinn and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-01 with History categories.
The story of thirty-six African American men who drew upon their shared community of The Hills for support as they fought in the Civil War. Through wonderfully detailed letters, recruit rosters, and pension records, Edythe Ann Quinn shares the story of thirty-five African American Civil War soldiers and the United States Colored Troop (USCT) regiments with which they served. Associated with The Hills community in Westchester County, New York, the soldiers served in three regiments: the 29th Connecticut Infantry, 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (11th USCT), and the 20th USCT. The thirty-sixth Hills man served in the Navy. Their ties to family, land, church, school, and occupational experiences at home buffered the brutal indifference of boredom and battle, the ravages of illness, the deprivations of unequal pay, and the hostility of some commissioned officers and white troops. At the same time, their service among kith and kin bolstered their determination and pride. They marched together, first as raw recruits, and finally as seasoned veterans, welcomed home by generals, politicians, and above all, their families and friends. Quinns meticulous research and refined historical interpretation has allowed her to recover a uniquely enlightening chapter of nineteenth-century African American history in the North. By tracing the lives of Union soldiers from a free, black community in Westchester County, New York, we discover the commitment of these men and their families from The Hills to the eradication of slavery in the South. With notable sensitivity, the author produces a tale of black men who risked their lives and the security of their families for the sake of freedom. It is a story about convictionpoignant, inspiring, and persuasive. Myra Young Armstead, editor of Mighty Change, Tall Within: Black Identity in the Hudson Valley As an in-depth case study of the African American volunteers from The Hills community who served in the Civil War, Edythe Ann Quinns Freedom Journey is a well-researched book that explores a much needed ethnic aspect of that war. For those interested in genealogy and local history, Freedom Journey offers unique insights into the social and cultural history of The Hills community, first settled in the 1790s. Additionally, the work contains a roster of the volunteers and thirteen historical sidebars that relate to the African American wartime experience. Anthony F. Gero, author of Black Soldiers of New York State: A Proud Legacy Edythe Ann Quinn has taken a little-known community, The Hills in Westchester County, and using a comprehensively well-resourced and researched methodology, has written not only an enjoyable and engagingly attractive family history (individual and collective) of black New Yorkers from slavery to freedom, but as well the sacrifices that the communitys young men gave. It is the voices of those sable warriors that are heard through the personal letters, woven into the overall engaging literary style of the author. A. J. Williams-Myers, author of Long Hammering: Essays on the Forging of an African American Presence in the Hudson River Valley to the Early Twentieth Century
Reminiscences Of Confederate Service 1861 1865
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Author : Francis Warrington Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-19
Reminiscences Of Confederate Service 1861 1865 written by Francis Warrington Dawson and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-19 with History categories.
"Reminiscences of Confederate Service" is a personable memoir of a young Londoner who ran the blockade to fight for the Confederacy. First published seventeen years after the end of the Civil War, this book by Francis W. Dawson is the only memoir by a British citizen who saw active service in the Confederate navy and army.
Three Years In The Federal Cavalry
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Author : Willard W. Glazier
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-04
Three Years In The Federal Cavalry written by Willard W. Glazier and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-04 with History categories.
'Three Years in the Federal Cavalry' by Willard W. Glazier is a memoir that transports the reader to the American frontier of the 19th century. Glazier's first-hand account of serving in the 2nd New York Cavalry is based on his wartime journal and covers the period from the enlistment of the author in the summer of 1861 until his capture during the fall of 1863. This memoir provides an insight into the rise of the Federal cavalry from bumblers to a powerful and well-trained striking force, including details of cavalry training, daily and camp life, and cavalry battles.
A Time For Soldiers A Civil War Journey Volume 1
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Author : James Edwards Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2013-05
A Time For Soldiers A Civil War Journey Volume 1 written by James Edwards Jr. and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05 with History categories.
Today is May 1, 1917. Word has just come to me that several local boys have been drafted to fight the war in Europe. This one is called "The Great War." It's been raging since August 1914. President Wilson asked the Congress for a declaration of war last month. He got it. Hundreds of thousands have died already. Now, many of our own good boys will die. War is a chronic condition, and stupid. I was that young when I first went off to war, fifty-seven years ago. I was twenty-one, about the same age as these kids. I had no idea that I was entering my own personal season in hell when I joined up with a New York volunteer regiment. These young men are about to march off to another war, another cause. Many will die uselessly on torn-up battlefields that nobody will remember except the men who fight there. I still see those faces in the distance, on a hillside at a place called Gettysburg. I see myself, young, but no longer a boy. My innocence was a façade. War is butchery, and I experienced it close-up. I was part of a monster, trained to overwhelm and destroy my enemy, my brother. By the end of the war, I was good at it. It fit me well. I was a seasoned veteran. Killing had become second nature. Experience being the best teacher, I learned well. In April 1865, I knew what I was. The question had become, what was I going to be? The thought once occurred to me that maybe I should not have survived the war, that war should devour its own and leave the remnant in peace.
Letters To Virtue
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Author : Charles W. Sherman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-09-02
Letters To Virtue written by Charles W. Sherman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-02 with United States categories.
Preserve It Reader In Remembrance Of Me
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Author : Ron Bardnell
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2012-02-28
Preserve It Reader In Remembrance Of Me written by Ron Bardnell and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-28 with categories.
Merriam Press Military Monograph 48. Second Edition (February 2012). A Collaboration of Brothers in Arms Soldiers: Cpl. George W. Belles - Civil War, 1862-65 and Sgt. Ron Bardnell - Viet Nam, 1967-68. "Remember me in your prayers and I will remember you. I will not try to describe the senses of war for they are past (beyond) description." --George W. Belles, to his sister. The foundation of this enthralling, insightful saga is a three year collection of letters, diaries and memoirs written by American Civil War soldier George W. Belles. The foresighted soldier, cognizant the course of U.S. history was being radically altered before his eyes and realizing the historical significance of the events he partook in, recorded all phases of his Civil War experience with great passion and colorful detail. Upon reading Corporal Belles' writings, the author, Ron Bardnell, an infantryman in Vietnam, intuitively formed a "brothers-in-arms" bond with his brethren of years long passed. Honoring the Civil War soldier's fervent plea his writings be preserved, a fateful, unique collaboration occurred, and Preserve It Reader in Remembrance of Me came to be. Arranged in chronological order and grouped into chapters by a prevailing theme, Corporal Belles' writings take the reader along with this exceptional man on his extraordinary thirty-three month American Civil War soldier's journey, from Antietam to Appomattox. With minimal editing, arranged in chronological order and grouped into chapters by a prevailing theme, George's writings take the reader along with this exceptional man on his extraordinary thirty-three month American Civil War journey. The last sentence in Belles' 1864 diary entry became the title of this book: Preserve it Reader in Remembrance of Me. Contents: Acknowledgments; Roster, Co. E, 139th Pennsylvania Volunteers; Prologue; Part I: 1862; Transition; Fredericksburg - The Union's Rush to Defeat; Part II: 1863; Time-out at the River - Human Nature Prevails; Early Spring 1863 - The Lull Before the Storm; Into the Frying Pan at Marye's Heights and Salem Church; Gettysburg - Victory Was the Only Option; Sparring Sessions in Northern Virginia; What Keeps a Soldier Going; Part III: 1864; Coats Without Owners; Change of Pace at Harpers Ferry; You Had a Brother Who Was a Soldier; Petersburg and the Unappreciative Washingtonians; Autumn in the Shenandoah Valley; Part IV: 1865; Tall "Squeezens"; The Journey Home; Glossary; Bibliography; The Author; 11 photos/illustrations; 4 maps. About the Author: Mustered out of the U.S. Army in 1968, Ron Bardnell received his secondary education at the University of Akron and enjoyed a lengthy, successful career as a Sr. Computer Programmer/Analyst. An avid short stories writer, after retirement Ron devoted himself to writing full-time. Upon reading a three year collection of American Civil War soldier letters, intrigued by the aspects of war shared by the letters' author and himself in Vietnam, and honoring the past era fellow combat soldier's request, Preserve It Reader in Remembrance of Me was written. Ron lives in Florida with his wife Kathi.
John Dooley S Civil War
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Author : Robert Emmett Curran
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2011-01-20
John Dooley S Civil War written by Robert Emmett Curran and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-20 with History categories.
Among the finer soldier-diarists of the Civil War, John Edward Dooley first came to the attention of readers when an edition of his wartime journal, edited by Joseph Durkin, was published in 1945. That book, John Dooley, Confederate Soldier, became a widely used resource for historians, who frequently tapped Dooley’s vivid accounts of Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg, where he was wounded during Pickett’s Charge and subsequently captured. As it happens, the 1945 edition is actually a much-truncated version of Dooley’s original journal that fails to capture the full scope of his wartime experience—the oscillating rhythm of life on the campaign trail, in camp, in Union prisons, and on parole. Nor does it recognize how Dooley, the son of a successful Irish-born Richmond businessman, used his reminiscences as a testament to the Lost Cause. John Dooley’s Civil War gives us, for the first time, a comprehensive version of Dooley’s “war notes,” which editor Robert Emmett Curran has reassembled from seven different manuscripts and meticulously annotated. The notes were created as diaries that recorded Dooley’s service as an officer in the famed First Virginia Regiment along with his twenty months as a prisoner of war. After the war, they were expanded and recast years later as Dooley, then studying for the Catholic priesthood, reflected on the war and its aftermath. As Curran points out, Dooley’s reworking of his writings was shaped in large part by his ethnic heritage and the connections he drew between the aspirations of the Irish and those of the white South. In addition to the war notes, the book includes a prewar essay that Dooley wrote in defense of secession and an extended poem he penned in 1870 on what he perceived as the evils of Reconstruction. The result is a remarkable picture not only of how one articulate southerner endured the hardships of war and imprisonment, but also of how he positioned his own experience within the tragic myth of valor, sacrifice, and crushed dreams of independence that former Confederates fashioned in the postwar era.