The Louisiana Tigers
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The Louisiana Tigers In The Gettysburg Campaign June July 1863
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Author : Scott L. Mingus, Sr.
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2014-08-18
The Louisiana Tigers In The Gettysburg Campaign June July 1863 written by Scott L. Mingus, Sr. and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-18 with History categories.
Previous works on Confederate brigadier general Harry T. Hays's First Louisiana Brigade -- better known as the "Louisiana Tigers" -- have tended to focus on just one day of the Tigers' service -- their role in attacking East Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863 -- and have touched only lightly on the brigade's role at the Second Battle of Winchester, an important prelude to Gettysburg. In this commanding study, Scott L. Mingus, Sr., offers the first significant detailed exploration of the Louisiana Tigers during the entirety of the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign. Mingus begins by providing a sweeping history of the Louisiana Tigers; their predecessors, Wheat's Tigers; the organizational structure and leadership of the brigade in 1863; and the personnel that made up its ranks. Covering the Tigers' movements and battle actions in depth, he then turns to the brigade's march into the Shenandoah Valley and the Tigers' key role in defeating the Federal army at the Second Battle of Winchester. Combining soldiers' reminiscences with contemporary civilian accounts, Mingus breaks new ground by detailing the Tigers' march into Pennsylvania, their first trip to Gettysburg in the week before the battle, their two-day occupation of York, Pennsylvania -- the largest northern town to fall to the Confederate army -- and their march back to Gettysburg. He offers the first full-scale discussion of the Tigers' interaction with the local population during their invasion of Pennsylvania and includes detailed accounts of the citizens' reactions to the Tigers -- many not published since appearing in local newspapers over a century ago. Mingus explores the Tigers' actions on the first two days of the Battle of Gettysburg and meticulously recounts their famed assault on East Cemetery Hill, one of the pivotal moments of the battle. He closes with the Tigers' withdrawal from Gettysburg and their retreat into Virginia. Appendices include an order of battle for East Cemetery Hill, a recap of the weather during the entire Gettysburg Campaign, a day-by-day chronology of the Tigers' movements and campsites, and the text of the official reports from General Hays for Second Winchester and Gettysburg. Comprehensive and engaging, Mingus's exhaustive work constitutes the definitive account of General Hays's remarkable brigade during the critical summer of 1863.
Lee S Tigers
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Author : Terry L. Jones
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2002-02-01
Lee S Tigers written by Terry L. Jones and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02-01 with History categories.
Sometimes called the "wharf rats from New Orleans" and the "lowest scrapings of the Mississippi," Lee's Tigers were the approximately twelve thousand Louisiana infantrymen who served in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia from the time of the campaign at First Manassas to the final days of the war at Appomattox. Terry L. Jones offers a colorful, highly readable account of this notorious group of soldiers renowned not only for their drunkenness and disorderly behavior in camp but for their bravery in battle. It was this infantry that held back the initial Federal onslaught at First Manassas, made possible General Stonewall Jackson's famed Valley Campaign, contained the Union breakthrough at Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle, and led Lee's last offensive actions at Fort Stedman and Appomattox.Despite all their vices, Lee's Tigers emerged from the Civil War with one of the most respected military records of any group of southern soldiers. According to Jones, the unsavory reputation of the Tigers was well earned, for Louisiana probably had a higher percentage of criminals, drunkards, and deserters in its commands than any other Confederate state. The author spices his narrative with well-chosen anecdotes-among them an account of one of the stormiest train rides in military history. While on their way to Virginia, the enlisted men of Coppens' Battalion uncoupled their officers' car from the rest of the train and proceeded to partake of their favorite beverages. Upon arriving in Montgomery, the battalion embarked upon a drunken spree of harassment, vandalism, and robbery. Meanwhile, having commandeered another locomotive, the officers arrived and sprang from their train with drawn revolvers to put a stop to the disorder. "The charge of the Light Brigade," one witness recalled, "was surpassed by these irate Creoles." Lee's Tigers is the first study to utilize letters, diaries, and muster rolls to provide a detailed account of the origins, enrollments, casualties, and desertion rates of these soldiers. Jones supplies the first major work to focus solely on Louisiana's infantry in Lee's army throughout the course of the war. Civil War buffs and scholars alike will find Lee's Tigers a valuable addition to their libraries.
Lee S Tigers Revisited
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Author : Terry L. Jones
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2017-10-18
Lee S Tigers Revisited written by Terry L. Jones and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-18 with History categories.
In Lee’s Tigers Revisited, noted Civil War scholar Terry L. Jones dramatically expands and revises his acclaimed history of the approximately 12,000 Louisiana infantrymen who fought in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Sometimes derided as the “wharf rats from New Orleans” and the “lowest scrappings of the Mississippi,” the Louisiana Tigers earned a reputation for being drunken and riotous in camp, but courageous and dependable on the battlefield. By utilizing first-person accounts and official records, Jones provides the definitive study of the Louisiana Tigers and their harrowing experiences in the Civil War.
The First Louisiana Special Battalion
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Author : Gary Schreckengost
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-03-10
The First Louisiana Special Battalion written by Gary Schreckengost and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with History categories.
From the little-known Filibuster Wars to the Civil War battlefield of Gaines' Mill, this volume details the fascinating story of one of the South's most colorful military units, the 1st Louisiana Special Battalion, aka Wheat's Tigers. Beginning with a brief look at the Filibuster Wars (a set of military attempts to annex Latin American countries into the United States as slave states), the work takes a close look at the men who comprised Wheat's Tigers: Irish immigrant ship hands, New Orleans dock workers and Filibuster veterans. Commanded by one of the greatest antebellum filibusterers, Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, the Tigers quickly distinguished themselves in battle through their almost reckless bravery, proving instrumental in Southern victories at the battles of Front Royal, Winchester and Port Republic. An in-depth look at Battle of Gaines' Mill, in which Wheat's Tigers suffered heavy casualties, including their commander, completes the story. Appendices provide a compiled roster of the Wheat's Tigers, a look at the 1st Louisiana's uniforms and a copy of Wheat's report about the Battle of Manassas. Never-before-published photographs are also included.
The Louisiana Tigers
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Author : Dan Hardesty
language : en
Publisher: Strode Pub
Release Date : 1975
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Lee S Tigers
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Author : Terry L. Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
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The Louisiana Tigers
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Author : Alison Moore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
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Lincoln S Life Or A Tiger S Death
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Author : Gary Schreckengost
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2015-12-25
Lincoln S Life Or A Tiger S Death written by Gary Schreckengost 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 2015-12-25 with categories.
Of all the units that took to the field in defense of Southern rights during the American Civil War, none exceeded the audacity, flair, and combative spirit of the 1st Louisiana Special Battalion, "Wheat's Tigers." Raised from the docks of New Orleans, the Tigers, who were principally Irish immigrant ship hands, dock workers, or veterans of the now-forgotten Filibuster Wars, were as tough, fiery, and resolute as their gallant and genteel commander, Chatham Roberdeau Wheat. This is the historically accurate but fictional story of one of Wheat's famed Louisiana Tigers: Zouave Sergeant Charles Lewis, from his boyhood escape of the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s, to his life in an Irish gang on the docks of New Orleans, to his participation in a filibuster expedition to Nicaragua during the 1850s, and to the bloody fields of Manassas, the Valley, and the Seven Days' Battles during the American Civil War.
Chatham Roberdeau Wheat And The Louisiana Tigers
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Author : Jerry Lee Walker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 197?
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Lee S Tigers
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Author : Terry Lyle Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
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