The Confederate Alamo
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The Confederate Alamo
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Author : John J. Fox
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2014-04-25
The Confederate Alamo written by John J. Fox and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-25 with History categories.
The first book-length study about the bloody, chaotic Battle of Fort Gregg: “Sweeping . . . insightful . . . military history at its best.” —Civil War News By April 2, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant’s men had tightened their noose around the vital town of Petersburg, Virginia. Trapped on three sides with a river at their back, the soldiers from General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had never faced such dire circumstances. To give Lee time to craft an escape, a small motley group of threadbare Southerners made a suicidal last stand at a place called Fort Gregg. The venerable Union commander Major General John Gibbon called the struggle “one of the most desperate ever witnessed.” At 1:00 p.m., hearts pounded in the chests of thousands of Union soldiers in Gibbon’s 24th Corps. These courageous men fixed bayonets and charged across 800 yards of open ground into withering small arms and artillery fire. A handful of Confederates rammed cartridges into their guns and fired over Fort Gregg’s muddy parapets at this tidal wave of fresh Federal troops. Short on ammunition and men but not on bravery, these Southerners wondered if their last stand would make a difference. Many of the veterans who fought at this place considered it the nastiest fight of their war experience. Most could not shake the gruesome memories, yet when they passed on, the battle faded with them. On these pages, award-winning historian John Fox resurrects these forgotten stories, using numerous unpublished letters and diaries to take the reader from the Union battle lines all the way into Fort Gregg’s smoking cauldron of hell. Fourteen Federal soldiers would later receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for their valor during this hand-to-hand melee, yet the few bloody Confederate survivors would experience an ignominious end to their war. This richly detailed account is filled with maps, photos, and new perspectives on the strategic effect this little-known battle really had on the war in Virginia.
Lee At The Alamo
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Author : Harry Turtledove
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-09-07
Lee At The Alamo written by Harry Turtledove and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-07 with Fiction categories.
Harry Turtledove, author of perhaps the most famous alternate-history novel about Robert E. Lee (The Guns of the South, 1992), here returns with Lee at the Alamo, a look at what the great military leader might have done under only slightly different circumstances. In the history we know, General Robert E. Lee felt compelled to fight on the Confederate side, because honor (as he saw it) forbade him to take up arms against Virginia, his native state. But what if the demands of honor had led him in the other direction altogether? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Whittled Away
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Author : Philip McBride
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-06-19
Whittled Away written by Philip McBride and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-19 with categories.
The novel Whittled Away is the tale of Corporal Bain Gill and Private Jesús McDonald. In 1862, Bain and Jesús enlist in the Confederate army in San Antonio, Texas, joining fifty-six other Texans as soldiers in the Alamo Rifles-Company K of the Sixth Texas Infantry regiment. The two young friends, not yet twenty when they put on their first uniforms, grew up on ranches on the western edge of civilization, herding stubborn longhorns and always wary of Comanche raiders and rattlesnakes. Naïve, as are new soldiers everywhere, they come of age during the next three years, far from home, experiencing the hardships and horrors of men in combat.This is a story of soldiering, friendship and loss during America's nightmare, the Civil War. For Bain and Jesús it begins with marching to central Arkansas. There, at a river fort called Arkansas Post they endure their first frightful artillery barrage, but also learn first-hand a lesson that in the years ahead will confound the generals of both armies: Soldiers in trenches and behind breastworks usually survive and prevail. But facing a Union force of over 30,000 infantry and several armored gunboats, there is a mass surrender of the 4,000 Rebel defenders of Arkansas Post. Capture leads to a freezing boat ride upriver to prison camp where deprivation, brutality, and disease take a heavy toll. So concludes Part I of Whittled Away, setting the stage for two more years of war.After a short time in prison camp, the Confederates captured at Arkansas Post are part of a prisoner exchange. The Texans are moved by Union trains to Richmond, Virginia, ready to again take up arms for the Confederacy. General Lee is beating the Union army in Virginia, but the men of the Alamo Rifles find that no general wants to accept men who surrendered in their first battle. The survivors of Arkansas Post and prison camp are put on Confederate trains and sent to Tennessee, assigned to an army that has not been victorious. Even there, only one general, Patrick Cleburne, an Irish immigrant from Arkansas, is willing to accept the Arkansas Post veterans. During the next seven months, the Alamo Rifles redeem their stained reputations fighting in three major battles without faltering, even when the rest of the army is in retreat.Part 3 finds Bain and Jesús in Georgia in late spring of 1864 about to begin three months of ongoing fighting during the Atlanta Campaign. All summer the days are marked by brutal weather, ceaseless hardships, and death. The surviving men from San Antonio are being whittled away and there are no replacements. The Confederate well is running dry of men and supplies. Atlanta falls after three intense battles in which the new Confederate commander, General John B. Hood, tries to regain the initiative. He orders his troops out of their defensive breastworks and takes the fight to the huge Union army in aggressive, but futile, attacks. Even more of the men from San Antonio are lost.In Part 4, in the closing months of 1864, General Hood leads his shrunken army back into Tennessee. The handful of men remaining in the Alamo Rifles are among the 20,000 Confederates -more Rebels than were in Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg - who are ordered forward to take the Union breastworks at Franklin. Here, Bain and Jesús are in the middle of the attack that wrecks their army. Two weeks later, the survivors of Franklin fight in bitter cold at Nashville in a last vain attempt to win in Tennessee. Whittled Away is grass-roots American military fiction, a thin slice of a vast war, seen through the eyes of a handful of young men who are not very reflective, not particularly brave, nor intentionally heroic. Mostly they carry on and make do, trying to do their duty and one day make it home.
Remember The Alamo
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Author : Alison Rattle
language : en
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Release Date : 2011-11-10
Remember The Alamo written by Alison Rattle and has been published by Michael O'Mara Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-10 with History categories.
Concise and informative, yet entertaining and engagingly written, Remember the Alamo? contains everything you will ever need to know about the United States.
The Lost Cause And The Alamo
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Author : Jacob Paul Dunn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Lost Cause And The Alamo written by Jacob Paul Dunn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Confederacy categories.
Inez A Tale Of The Alamo
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Author : Augusta J. Evans
language : en
Publisher: Book Jungle
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Inez A Tale Of The Alamo written by Augusta J. Evans and has been published by Book Jungle this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with History categories.
Augusta J Evans was a Southern author who opened a hospital for Confederate soldiers during the Civil War in Mobile, Alabama. Of Evans' nine books St Elmo is her most well known. She is best known for her beautiful writing style. Inez - A Tale of the Alamo was Evans first novel written when she was just 20 years old. It is a late 19th century novel about two young Protestant women named Mary and Florence. As in later novels Evans gives her female heroines a strength in character, which was an excellent role model in the 19th century as well as today.
Three Roads To The Alamo
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Author : William C. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-03-17
Three Roads To The Alamo written by William C. Davis and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-17 with History categories.
"William C. Davis's Three Roads to the Alamo is far and away the best account of the Alamo I have ever read. The portraits of Crockett, Bowie, and Travis are brilliantly sketched in a fast-moving story that keeps the reader riveted to the very last word." — Stephen B. Oates Three Roads to the Alamois the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis—the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history—and about what really happened in that battle.
Look Away
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Author : William C. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2002-04-12
Look Away written by William C. Davis and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-12 with History categories.
William C. Davis, one of America's best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, Look Away! tells the story of the Confederate States of America not simply as a military saga (although it is that), but rather as a full portrait of a society and incipient nation. The first history of the Confederacy in decades, the culmination of a great scholar's career, Look Away! combines politics, economics, and social history to set a new standard for its subject. Previous histories have focused on familiar commanders such as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, but Davis's canvas is much broader. From firebrand politicians like Robert Barnwell Rhett and William L. Yancey, who pushed for secession long before the public supported it; to Dr. Samuel Cartwright, who persuaded many Southerners of the natural inferiority of their slaves; to the women of Richmond, who rioted over bread shortages in 1863, Davis presents a rich new face of the Confederate nation. He recounts familiar stories of battles won and lost, but also little-known economic stories of a desperate government that socialized the salt industry, home-front stories of the rangers and marauders who preyed on their fellow Confederates, and an account of the steady breakdown of law, culminating in near anarchy in some states. Never has the Confederacy been so vividly brought to life as a full society, riven with political and economic conflicts beneath its more loudly publicized military battles. Davis's astonishingly thorough primary research has ranged across the 800-odd newspapers that were in operation during the war, but also across the personal papers of over a hundred Southern leaders and ordinary citizens. He quotes from letters and diaries throughout the narrative, revealing the Confederacy through the words of the Confederates themselves. Like any society, especially in the early stages of nation-building and the devastating stages of warfare, the Confederacy was not one thing but many things to many people. One thing, however, was shared by all: the belief that the South offered a necessary evolution of American democracy. Look Away! offers a dramatic and definitive account of one of America's most searing episodes.
Stable Boy At The Alamo Monitor Vs Merrimack Clash Of The Ironclads
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Author : Angelo Parra
language : en
Publisher: Benchmark Education Company
Release Date : 2011
Stable Boy At The Alamo Monitor Vs Merrimack Clash Of The Ironclads written by Angelo Parra and has been published by Benchmark Education Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Alamo categories.
Harold Evans, a stable boy at the Alamo, is fighting alongside other "Texians" for independence from Mexico. As the enemy attacks the fort, Harold comes face to face with General Santa Anna. What will the Mexican leader do? Union sailor Will Randall and Confederate seaman Eli Reynolds are engaged in battle. Whose ironclad, the North's or the South's, will be the victor? Read these stories to find out.
America S Forgotten First War For Slavery And Genesis Of The Alamo
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Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-09-08
America S Forgotten First War For Slavery And Genesis Of The Alamo written by Phillip Thomas Tucker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with History categories.
In this ground-breaking book, Phillip Thomas Tucker, Ph.D., has presented an entirely ""new look"" at the Texas Revolution of 1835-1836 without the traditional romance and myths. Mexico made the mistake of allowing American immigrants to settle in Texas. Mostly from the South, they created an unprecedented economic prosperity based on slavery and cotton cultivation. However, these developments set the stage for open warfare between the largely pro-slavery settlers and the Republic of Mexico, which had abolished slavery in 1829. Because of the massive support from the U.S. to the Texas rebels who fought to preserve the Southern way of life and slavery, the Texas Revolution was actually America's first war for slavery. With this revealing new perspective, Tucker's outstanding historical analysis has given us an insightful understanding of a war that altered the destinies of two neighboring republics. For the first time, Tucker has revealed the hidden secrets and forgotten truths about the Texas Revolution.