Fallen Guidon
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Fallen Guidon
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Author : Edwin Adams Davis
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 1995
Fallen Guidon written by Edwin Adams Davis and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Although Robert E. Lee, surrendered at Appomattox Court House in April, 1865, some Confederates refused to abandon their cause. Fallen Guidon, originally published in 1962 by Jack Rittenhouse's Stagecoach Press, described the adventures of a Confederate brigade that, rather than surrender, decided to transplant its vision of Southern Empire in the troubled soils of Mexico. General Jo Shelby had led the Missouri Cavalry Division through numerous battles in the Trans-Mississippi theater. "We will stand together, we will keep our organization, our arms, our discipline, our hatred of oppression." He planned to march his brigade to Mexico and fight alongside the guerrillas against Emperor Maximilian's French army of occupation. They would come to Mexico's aid and, at the same time, save their honor and perhaps gain riches in a new land. Shelby and his men marched through Texas, burying their Confederated battle flag in the murky waters of the Rio Grande. But the men did not want to fight Maximilian's French soldiers. Identifying themselves as "imperialists," they instead fought the opposition Juaristas, spilling blood from Piedras Negras to Mexico City. This popularly written history, based on archival sources and the reminiscences of Shelby's adjunct, brings vividly to life a little-remembered episode of the Civil War period and of American incursions in Mexico -- Back cover.
Fallen Guidon The Forgotten Saga Of General Jo Shelby S Confederate Command
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Author : Edwin Adams Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Fallen Guidon The Forgotten Saga Of General Jo Shelby S Confederate Command written by Edwin Adams Davis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Americans categories.
Shelby S Expedition To Mexico
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Author : John R. Edwards
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2007-07-01
Shelby S Expedition To Mexico written by John R. Edwards and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-01 with History categories.
Confederate general Joseph O. Shelby and his legendary Iron Brigade refused to acknowledge the end of the Civil War. Instead, they fought their way to Mexico in search of a place where they could continue to defy the U.S. government. These veteran Missouri cavalrymen clawed their way for fifteen hundred miles, fighting Juaristas, Indians, desperados, and disgruntled gringos. They disbanded only after they had offered their services to Emperor Maximilian and were turned down. Shelby’s adjutant, journalist John N. Edwards, first published his story of the exploits of this superb mounted brigade and its quixotic final march in 1872. Conger Beasley provides a lively introduction that includes the first biographical sketch of the author. The 1969 movie The Undefeated starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson was based upon Shelby’s expedition.
Catalog Of Copyright Entries Third Series
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
language : en
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Release Date : 1964
Catalog Of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and has been published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Copyright categories.
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
Custer And The Little Bighorn
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Author : Jim Donovan
language : en
Publisher: Crestline
Release Date : 2011-02
Custer And The Little Bighorn written by Jim Donovan and has been published by Crestline this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the first major illustrated book to examine the life and death of General Custer.
Custer Victorious
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Author : Gregory J. W. Urwin
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1983-01-01
Custer Victorious written by Gregory J. W. Urwin and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-01-01 with History categories.
"Custer found himself in the one dilemma all soldiers most dread—he was outnumbered and completely surrounded. With disaster looming in every quarter and no chance of escape. . . ." So Gregory J. W Urwin pulls the reader into a scene describing not the Battle of the Little Big Horn but a Civil War engagement that George Armstrong Custer and his troop survived, thanks to strategy as much as naked courage. Many books have focused on Custer's Last Stand in 1876, making legend of total defeat. Custer Victorious is the first to examine at length, with attention to primary sources, his brilliant Civil War career. Urwin writes: "None of Custer's exploits against the Plains Indians could compare with those he performed while with the Army of the Potomac." The leader of a brigade called "the Wolverines," Custer was promoted to major general and the helm of the Third Cavalry Division when he was only twenty-four. Urwin describes the Boy General's vital contributions to Union victories from Gettysburg to Appomattox.
Jesse James Was His Name
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Author : William A. Settle
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 1966
Jesse James Was His Name written by William A. Settle and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Critically examines the accounts of the activities of the James Brothers and presents a history of their careers.
The Welcome
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Author : David Friedman
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2010-10-01
The Welcome written by David Friedman and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with Poetry categories.
Fables for the modern age
Civil War In Texas And New Mexico Territory
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Author : Steve Cottrell
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Release Date : 1995-06-30
Civil War In Texas And New Mexico Territory written by Steve Cottrell and has been published by Pelican Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-06-30 with History categories.
The Civil War in the Indian Territory proved to be a test of valor and endurance for both sides. Author Steve Cottrell outlines the events that led up to the involvement of this region in the war, the role of the Native Americans who took part in the war, and the effect their participation had on the war's outcome, particularly in this region. For Indians, as in the rest of the country, neighbor was pitted against neighbor, with members of the same tribe often fighting against each other. Cottrell describes in vivid detail the guerilla warfare, surprise attacks, and all-out battles that stained the grassy plains of Oklahoma with blood. In addition, he introduces the reader to the interesting and often colorful leaders of the military-North and South-including the only Indian to attain the rank of general in the war, Confederate general Stand Watie. With outstanding illustrations by Andy Thomas, this story is a tribute to and a revealing portrait of those who fought and the important role they played in this era of our country's history.
General Jo Shelby S March
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Author : Anthony Arthur
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-08-17
General Jo Shelby S March written by Anthony Arthur and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-17 with History categories.
Acclaimed historian Anthony Arthur tells one of the most remarkable but surprisingly unknown stories of the post–Civil War era in full for the first time. Here is the unforgettable account of how a famous Confederate general forged a defiant new life out of crushing defeat, and how he finally achieved forgiveness and respect in his own reunited land. General Jo Shelby had been a daring and ruthless cavalry commander, renowned and notorious for his slashing forays behind Union lines. After Appomattox, Shelby, declaring that he would never surrender, headed for Mexico. With three hundred men, some from his fighting “Iron Brigade” regiment, others adventurers, fortune hunters, and deserters, the man Arthur refers to as “the last holdout of the Confederacy” made the treacherous twelve-hundred-mile trip. In thrilling and vivid detail, General Jo Shelby’s March describes the dusty and dangerous trek through a lawless Texas swarming with desperadoes, into a Mexico teeming with Juárez’s rebels and marauding Apaches. After near fratricide among his fraying band of brothers, Shelby arrived to present a quixotic proposal to Emperor Maximilian: He and his fellow Americans would take over the Mexican army and, after being reinforced by forty thousand more Confederate soldiers, the government itself. Though a dramatic, doomed, and brave endeavor, Shelby’s actions changed both himself and American history forever. Anthony Arthur then reveals the astonishing end of Shelby’s career: his return to America and his renouncing of slavery, his nomination by President Grover Cleveland to become U.S. marshal for western Missouri, his eventual fame as a model of nineteenth-century progressivism. General Jo Shelby’s March is a riveting book about a uniquely American man, both brave and brutal, a hero and a hothead, whose life’s startling last chapter is a microcosm of the aftermath of our most divisive war.