All The Soldiers Marching Or A Recollection Of An Underage Soldier S Service To The Confederacy During The Civil War
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All The Soldiers Marching Or A Recollection Of An Underage Soldier S Service To The Confederacy During The Civil War
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language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2007
All The Soldiers Marching Or A Recollection Of An Underage Soldier S Service To The Confederacy During The Civil War written by and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
A Soldier S Recollections
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Author : Randolph Harrison McKim
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-09-12
A Soldier S Recollections written by Randolph Harrison McKim and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-12 with categories.
This is a memoir written by a Confederate veteran of the Civil War. From the foreword: " I HAVE set down in the pages that follow some of my experiences and observations during my service with the Army of Northern Virginia, first as a private soldier, then as a staff officer, and finally as a chaplain in the field. I served in the ranks under Gen. Jos. E. Johnston and Gen. Thos. J. Jackson; as a staff officer under Brigadier-Gen. Geo. H. Steuart in the army of Gen. R. E. Lee; and as a chaplain in the Second Virginia Cavalry under Col. Thos. T. Munford, in the brigade of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. It has not been my purpose to write a history of the campaigns in which I took so humble a part, but simply to present a few pen and ink sketches of the life and experience of a Confederate soldier, in the hope that I may thereby contribute in some small degree to a better understanding of the spirit of the epoch--both of the soldiers who fought the battles, and of the people on whose behalf they dared and suffered what they did. In telling this plain and unvarnished story I have been aided by the diary, or rather the diaries, which I kept during the war, and from which I have freely quoted, just as they were written, without recasting the sentences, or improving the style, or toning down the sentiments they contain. The thoughts and the opinions expressed, and the often crude form in which they are cast, are just those of a young soldier, jotted down on the march, or by the camp-fire, or in the quiescent intervals of battle, without any thought that they would ever be put into print. This I have done believing that I would thus best attain my object, --to show the mind and the life of the Confederate soldier as they were while the struggle was going on. But there was a hiatus in my material. My diary for the larger part of one of the four years of the war was lost, and therefore I have omitted those months from my narrative. I have also tried to give the point of view of the young men of the South in espousing the cause of the Confederacy, and to remove some misapprehensions still entertained in regard to the motives which animated the men who followed the banner of the Southern Cross. In connection with the Gettysburg campaign, I have undertaken to discuss the much mooted question of the action of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, with the cavalry under his command. This I have felt constrained to do because of the view (erroneous, as I believe) presented by Col. John S. Mosby in his recent book on the subject."
The Regular Army Before The Civil War 1845 1860
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Author : Clayton R. Newell
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-08-29
The Regular Army Before The Civil War 1845 1860 written by Clayton R. Newell and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-29 with History categories.
Most civil wars do not spring up overnight, and the American Civil War was no exception. The seeds of the conflict were sown in the earliest days of the republic's founding, primarily over theexistence of slavery and the slave trade. Although no conflict can begin without the conscious decisions of those engaged in the debates at that moment, in the end, there was simply no way topaper over the division of the country into two camps: one that was dominated by slavery and the other that sought first to limit its spread and then to abolish it. Our nation was indeed “half slave and half free,” and that could not stand.Regardless of the factors tearing the nation asunder, the soldiers on each side of the struggle went to war for personal reasons: looking for adventure, being caught up in the passionsand emotions of their peers, believing in the Union, favoring states' rights, or even justifying the simple schoolyard dynamic of being convinced that they were “worth” three of the soldierson the other side. Nor can we overlook the factor that some went to war to prove their manhood. This has been, and continues to be, a key dynamic in understanding combat and the professionof arms. Soldiers join for many reasons but often stay in the fight because of their comrades and because they do not want to seem like cowards. Sometimes issues of national impact shrinkto nothing in the intensely personal world of cannon shell and minié ball.
Enduring Battle
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Author : Christopher H. Hamner
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2011-04-07
Enduring Battle written by Christopher H. Hamner and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-07 with History categories.
Throughout history, battlefields have placed a soldier's instinct for self-preservation in direct opposition to the army's insistence that he do his duty and put himself in harm's way. Enduring Battle looks beyond advances in weaponry to examine changes in warfare at the very personal level. Drawing on the combat experiences of American soldiers in three widely separated wars-the Revolution, the Civil War, and World War II-Christopher Hamner explores why soldiers fight in the face of terrifying lethal threats and how they manage to suppress their fears, stifle their instincts, and marshal the will to kill other humans. Hamner contrasts the experience of infantry combat on the ground in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when soldiers marched shoulder-to-shoulder in linear formations, with the experiences of dispersed infantrymen of the mid-twentieth century. Earlier battlefields prized soldiers who could behave as stoic automatons; the modern dispersed battlefield required soldiers who could act autonomously. As the range and power of weapons removed enemies from view, combat became increasingly depersonalized, and soldiers became more isolated from their comrades and even imagined that the enemy was targeting them personally. What's more, battles lengthened so that exchanges of fire that lasted an hour during the Revolutionary War became round-the-clock by World War II. The book's coverage of training and leadership explores the ways in which military systems have attempted to deal with the problem of soldiers' fear in battle and contrasts leadership in the linear and dispersed tactical systems. Chapters on weapons and comradeship then discuss soldiers' experiences in battle and the relationships that informed and shaped those experiences. Hamner highlights the ways in which the "band of brothers" phenomenon functioned differently in the three wars and shows that training, conditioning, leadership, and other factors affect behavior much more than political ideology. He also shows how techniques to motivate soldiers evolved, from the linear system's penalties for not fighting to modern efforts to convince soldiers that participation in combat would actually maximize their own chances for survival. Examining why soldiers continue to fight when their strong instinct is to flee, Enduring Battle challenges long-standing notions that high ideals and small unit bonds provide sufficient explanation for their behavior. Offering an innovative way to analyze the factors that enable soldiers to face the prospect of death or debilitating wounds, it expands our understanding of the evolving nature of warfare and its warriors.
Rebels Against The Confederacy
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Author : Barton A. Myers
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-13
Rebels Against The Confederacy written by Barton A. Myers and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-13 with History categories.
In this groundbreaking study, Barton A. Myers analyzes the secret world of hundreds of white and black Southern Unionists as they struggled for survival in a new Confederate world, resisted the imposition of Confederate military and civil authority, began a diffuse underground movement to destroy the Confederacy, joined the United States Army as soldiers, and waged a series of violent guerrilla battles at the local level against other Southerners. Myers also details the work of Confederates as they struggled to build a new nation at the local level and maintain control over manpower, labor, agricultural, and financial resources, which Southern Unionists possessed. The story is not solely one of triumph over adversity but also one of persecution and, ultimately, erasure of these dissidents by the postwar South's Lost Cause mythologizers.
Stoddart S Encyclopaedia Americana
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
Stoddart S Encyclopaedia Americana written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
United Daughters Of The Confederacy Patriot Ancestor Album
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Author : United Daughters of the Confederacy
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date : 1999
United Daughters Of The Confederacy Patriot Ancestor Album written by United Daughters of the Confederacy and has been published by Turner Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Confederate States of America categories.
American Supplement To Encyclop Dia Britannica
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Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
American Supplement To Encyclop Dia Britannica written by Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with categories.
Supplement To Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Supplement To Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
Robert E Lee
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Author : Allen C. Guelzo
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2021-09-28
Robert E Lee written by Allen C. Guelzo and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity—his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward calm, his disloyalty and his honor. "An important contribution to reconciling the myths with the facts." —New York Times Book Review Robert E. Lee is one of the most confounding figures in American history. Lee betrayed his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose. He was a traitor to the country he swore to serve as an Army officer, and yet he was admired even by his enemies for his composure and leadership. He considered slavery immoral, but benefited from inherited slaves and fought to defend the institution. And behind his genteel demeanor and perfectionism lurked the insecurities of a man haunted by the legacy of a father who stained the family name by declaring bankruptcy and who disappeared when Robert was just six years old. In Robert E. Lee, the award-winning historian Allen Guelzo has written the definitive biography of the general, following him from his refined upbringing in Virginia high society, to his long career in the U.S. Army, his agonized decision to side with Virginia when it seceded from the Union, and his leadership during the Civil War. Above all, Guelzo captures Robert E. Lee in all his complexity--his hypocrisy and courage, his outward calm and inner turmoil, his honor and his disloyalty.