The Last Battle Of The Civil War
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The Last Battle Of The Civil War
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Author : Charles Jewett Swift
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
The Last Battle Of The Civil War written by Charles Jewett Swift and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1915 with Columbus (Ga.) categories.
Redemption
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Author : Nicholas Lemann
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2007-08-21
Redemption written by Nicholas Lemann and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-21 with History categories.
A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away. Nicholas Lemann opens his extraordinary new book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the black community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree. This was the start of an insurgency that changed the course of American history: for the next few years white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and challenge President Grant'ssupport for the emergent structures of black political power. The remorseless strategy of well-financed "White Line" organizations was to create chaos and keep blacks from voting out of fear for their lives and livelihoods. Redemption is the first book to describe in uncompromising detail this organized racial violence, which reached its apogee in Mississippi in 1875. Lemann bases his devastating account on a wealth of military records, congressional investigations, memoirs, press reports, and the invaluable papers of Adelbert Ames, the war hero from Maine who was Mississippi's governor at the time. When Ames pleaded with Grant for federal troops who could thwart the white terrorists violently disrupting Republican political activities, Grant wavered, and the result was a bloody, corrupt election in which Mississippi was "redeemed"—that is, returned to white control. Redemption makes clear that this is what led to the death of Reconstruction—and of the rights encoded in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. We are still living with the consequences.
Running The Salt
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Author : Ted Sierke
language : en
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Release Date : 2015-03-16
Running The Salt written by Ted Sierke and has been published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-16 with Fiction categories.
Set against the backdrop of the last year of the Civil War and the first two years of Reconstruction along the Gulf Coast, Running the Salt relates the exploits of two teenage boys who leave home to fight in the Battle of Blakeley, the war’s last major battle, located in Alabama along the eastern shore of the Mobile River Delta. Billy McCool, thirteen, and Seth Rowan, seventeen, are desperate for a chance to jump headfirst into manhood. As Union troops close in on the last Confederate defenders of Mobile, the boys are itching to join the war before it ends. With a pistol that Billy inherited from his grandfather, and using Seth’s canoe, the boys manage to show up on the battlefield, but are captured and imprisoned on an island in the Mississippi Sound. Escaping to New Orleans, Seth and Billy befriend a genteel widow who hires them for several dangerous missions, the last of which involves running the Union blockade in and out of the Port of Mobile, Alabama.
The Last Battle Of The Civil War The War Between The States
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Author : Ward K. Schori
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
The Last Battle Of The Civil War The War Between The States written by Ward K. Schori and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Miniature books categories.
The Final Fury
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Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Final Fury 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 2001 with Palmetto Ranch, Battle of, 1865 categories.
Examination of one of the least-known battles of the Civil War, fought on May 13, 1865 -- six weeks after the Army of Northern Virginia's surrender at Appomattox Court House.
Grant S Last Battle
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Author : Chris Mackowski
language : en
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Release Date : 2015-07-19
Grant S Last Battle written by Chris Mackowski and has been published by Savas Beatie this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-19 with History categories.
The remarkable story of how one of America’s greatest military heroes became a literary legend. The former general in chief of the Union armies during the Civil War . . . the two-term president of the United States . . . the beloved ambassador of American goodwill around the globe . . . the respected New York financier—Ulysses S. Grant—was dying. The hardscrabble man who regularly smoked twenty cigars a day had developed terminal throat cancer. Thus began Grant’s final battle—a race against his own failing health to complete his personal memoirs in an attempt to secure his family’s financial security. But the project evolved into something far more: an effort to secure the very meaning of the Civil War itself and how it would be remembered. In this maelstrom of woe, Grant refused to surrender. Putting pen to paper, the hero of Appomattox embarked on his final campaign: an effort to write his memoirs before he died. The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant would cement his place as not only one of America’s greatest heroes but also as one of its most sublime literary voices. Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White have recounted Grant’s battlefield exploits as historians at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, and Mackowski, as an academic, has studied Grant’s literary career. Their familiarity with the former president as a general and as a writer bring Grant’s Last Battle to life with new insight, told with the engaging prose that has become the hallmark of the Emerging Civil War Series.
The Battle Of Palmito Ranch
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Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-03-12
The Battle Of Palmito Ranch written by Charles River Charles River Editors and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-12 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting from soldiers on both sides *Covers the events of April 1865, Jefferson Davis' capture, and the aftermath of the battle *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents By the close of 1864, Abraham Lincoln had been reelected, the Union army had taken Nashville from General Hood, and Sherman had concluded his total war, "slash-and-burn" march of destruction to Savannah, Georgia, offering it as a Christmas present to Lincoln. Nevertheless, with everything seemingly falling to pieces, the South still held out hope of some sort of miracle, and Davis even attempted to send a peace delegation to meet with Lincoln in the early months of 1865. On January 28, 1865 as Union General Ulysses S. Grant was continuing to lay siege to Lee's army at Petersburg, Virginia, Davis sent three commissioners headed by Vice-President Stephens to initiate informal peace talks with Lincoln. By February 3, however, the talks, known as the Hampton Roads Conference, came to a stalemate as Lincoln would accept nothing less than total union, while Davis would only accept Southern independence. Even at that point, the South was clearly on its last legs. General George H. Thomas destroyed John Bell Hood's Confederate army at the battles of Nashville and Franklin, leaving only two large Confederate armies still in the field. Lee's army was weakened by desertion, lack of supplies and casualties, and Joseph E. Johnston's army could barely resist against Sherman's army as it was advancing north toward Virginia. To most observers, the South was clearly reaching its end, but Davis had no intention of quitting the war. Even while he was fleeing, he attempted to order Confederate generals in the field to keep fighting. On April 9, 1865, Lee formally surrendered his weary army to Grant at Appomattox. Appomattox is frequently cited as the end of the Civil War, but there still remained several Confederate armies across the country, mostly under the command of Johnston, the same commander who arrived with reinforcements by rail during the First Battle of Bull Run and gave the South hope with victory in the first major battle. But on April 26, 1865, Johnston defied Davis's orders and surrendered all of his forces to General Sherman. Over the next month, the remaining Confederate forces would surrender or quit. Thus, by May, millions of Americans were breathing a collective sigh of relief that the Civil War was finally over. General Lee had surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia in April, followed quickly by all other commanders of major armies. Besides a few diehards in places like Missouri and the Indian Territory, there was no armed resistance to Federal control. The long, hard road to Reconstruction had begun, or so everyone had thought. West of the Mississippi, in places like Western Louisiana and Texas, the rebels still dreamed of holding out. It was here that the final chapter of the Civil War was written, a chapter that is strange and completely unnecessary. It was here, more than a month after the South lost the Civil War, that the South won the last battle of that war. The last skirmish between the two sides technically took place May 12-13, ending ironically with a Confederate victory at the Battle of Palmito Ranch in Texas. As fate would have it, the last fighting of the Civil War took place two days after President Davis had been captured in Georgia. The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The History of the Last Battle of the Civil War looks at the last battle of the Civil War between organized armies on both sides. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Battle of Palmito Ranch like never before.
The Last Battle Of The Civil War
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Author : Jeffrey William Hunt
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2002-08-15
The Last Battle Of The Civil War written by Jeffrey William Hunt and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-15 with History categories.
Draws on letters and court martial records to recount the events surrounding the Civil War battle at Palmetto Ranch.
Bentonville
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Author : Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr.
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2000-11-09
Bentonville written by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. 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 2000-11-09 with History categories.
The battle of Bentonville, the only major Civil War battle fought in North Carolina, was the Confederacy's last attempt to stop the devastating march of William Tecumseh Sherman's army north through the Carolinas. Despite their numerical disadvantage, General Joseph E. Johnston's Confederate forces successfully ambushed one wing of Sherman's army on March 19, 1865 but were soon repulsed. For the Confederates, it was a heroic but futile effort to delay the inevitable: within a month, both Richmond and Raleigh had fallen, and Lee had surrendered.
The Final Battles The End Of The Us Civil War History Grade 7 Children S United States History Books
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Author : Baby Professor
language : en
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2022-12-01
The Final Battles The End Of The Us Civil War History Grade 7 Children S United States History Books written by Baby Professor and has been published by Speedy Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Before knowing who won in the US Civil War, you first need to understand why and how it ended. The first chapter of this book will highlight the contributions of Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and Stonewall Jackson. Chapter two will discuss the importance of the Battle of Gettysburg. The last chapter will summarize the battles of Sailor's Creek, and of Appomattox Courthouse, and the last battle at Palmito Ranch.