Sketches Of General Jo O Shelby
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Sketches Of General Jo O Shelby
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
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General Jo Shelby
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Author : Daniel O'Flaherty
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2000-06-01
General Jo Shelby written by Daniel O'Flaherty and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-01 with History categories.
This vivid work, first published by UNC Press in 1954, reveals General Joseph Orville Shelby as one of the best Confederate cavalry leaders_and certainly the most colorful. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, but drawn by the promise of the growing West, Shel
Sketches From The Five States Of Texas
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Author : A. C. Greene
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 1998
Sketches From The Five States Of Texas written by A. C. Greene 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 1998 with History categories.
When veteran columnist A. C. Greene turns his eyes on Texas, he sees a variety of experiences and a scope of history that fascinate the rest of us. Under its annexation terms, Texas is allowed to divide itself into as many as six states. While that is not ever likely to happen, Greene masterfully shows that several cultural states do exist within the one political entity of Texas--and have throughout the state's history. Greene has a wide-ranging curiosity about the "facts" of Texas history: what lies behind them, what quirks of human nature they reveal, how the people who lived them might have experienced them, roads not taken, and why things have come to be as they are. His historical writing has helped make Texas' past accessible and even interesting to the public for over forty years. Spotlighting individuals, places, and events that make for distinctiveness, Sketches from the Five States of Texas features oddities and little-known facts that present a kind of "history-within-history." Several sketches look at inventions or innovations, such as plows and Other pieces focus on historic moments: the first long distance telephone service; the last messenger from the Alamo. Transportation is a theme that runs through this book: trains, planes (including a box-kite contraption), early automobiles and roads, and steamboats, ice boats, and war boats. Place names get attention, too: peculiar names, unexpected sources, and long-lost places. Naturally, the wars of Texas are also covered: the Revolution, the Indian wars, the Civil War, and the Texas Navies. The pieces in this collection originated, for the most part, in Greene's popular Dallas Morning News columns; several sketches and all the regional introductions are completely new. Aficionados of Texas history will already know some of what they read here, but they will not know all of it. Greene's nuggets of history will inform and entertain a wide reading public. They represent A. C. Greene at his best and most engaging--and the states of Texas at their best, too.
General Jo Shelby Undefeated Rebel
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Author : Daniel O'Flaherty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
General Jo Shelby Undefeated Rebel written by Daniel O'Flaherty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Generals categories.
Shelby S Expedition To Mexico
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Author : John N. Edwards
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2007-02-01
Shelby S Expedition To Mexico written by John N. 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 2007-02-01 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.
The Man Who Wouldn T Surrender Even In Death
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Author : Carolyn M. Bartels
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 19??
The Man Who Wouldn T Surrender Even In Death written by Carolyn M. Bartels and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 19?? with Missouri categories.
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.
The Great Missouri Raid
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Author : Michael J. Forsyth
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-03-27
The Great Missouri Raid written by Michael J. Forsyth and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-27 with History categories.
In 1864, General Sterling Price with an army of 12,000 ragtag Confederates invaded Missouri in an effort to wrest it from the United States Army's Department of Missouri. Price hoped his campaign would sway the 1864 presidential election, convincing war-weary Northern voters to cast their ballots for a peace candidate rather than Abraham Lincoln. It was the South's last invasion of Northern territory. But it was simply too late in the war for the South to achieve such an outcome, and Price grossly mismanaged the campaign, guaranteeing the defeat of his force and of the Confederate States. This book chronicles the Confederacy's desperate, final, ill-fated attempt to win a decisive victory.
Jo Shelby S Iron Brigade
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Author : Jo Shelby's Iron Brigade
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Release Date : 2007-07-15
Jo Shelby S Iron Brigade written by Jo Shelby's Iron Brigade and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An in-depth biography of the Confederate cavalry commander who fought in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the Civil War. When the Confederacy collapsed, Gen. Joseph Orville Shelby refused to surrender. In 1861 he had started a Missouri company that grew into the greatest Confederate cavalry brigade west of the Mississippi. This book follows the triumphs of the Brigade of the Confederate States Army all the way to the crossing of a contingent of the brigade into Mexico at the end of the war. A planter and rope manufacturer from Kentucky, Shelby operated entirely in the trans-Mississippi West. He served in the Missouri State Guard as a company commander at Carthage, Wilson’s Creek, and Pea Ridge. He then returned to Missouri to raise a regiment. A daring raid to the Missouri River in the fall of 1863 earned him a promotion to brigadier general. Shelby's Brigade fought valiantly at the Battle of Westport, the Gettysburg of the West, and repeatedly saved Gen. Sterling Price's army from capture on the retreat south. A descendant of a Shelby’s Brigade member, Deryl P. Sellmeyer offers an evenhanded view of this impressive military leader and his men. The author’s decades-long research of Shelby’s life and his principal officers is evident as he details the history of the famous brigade.
The Fifth Season
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Author : Mark E. Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Fifth Season written by Mark E. Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Arkansas categories.