Year Of Desperate Struggle
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Year Of Desperate Struggle
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Author : Monte Akers
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2015-02-19
Year Of Desperate Struggle written by Monte Akers and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-19 with History categories.
By the summer of 1863, following Chancellorsville, it was clear to everyone on both sides of the Civil War that the Army of Northern Virginia was the most formidable force Americans had ever put in the field. It could only be ÒtiedÓ in battle, if against great odds, but would more usually vanquish its opponents. A huge measure of that armyÕs success was attributable to its cavalry arm, under Major General J.E.B. Stuart, which had literally Òrun ringsÓ around its enemies. But Northern arithmetic and expertise were gradually catching up. In this work, the sequel to his acclaimed Year of Glory, author Monte Akers tracks Stuart and his cavalry through the following year of the war, from Gettysburg to the Overland Campaign, concluding only when Jeb himself succumbs to a gunshot while fending off a force three times his size at the very gates of Richmond. Gettysburg put paid to the aura of unstoppable victory surrounding the Army of Northern Virginia. But when Grant and Sheridan came east they found that Lee, Stuart, Longstreet, and the rest still refused to be defeated. It was a year of grim casualties and ferocious fightingÑin short, a year of Òdesperate struggleÓ with the gloves off on both sides. This work picks up where Year of Glory left off, with a minute examination of StuartÕs cavalry during the controversial Gettysburg campaign, followed by the nine months of sparring during which the Army of Potomac declined to undertake further major thrusts against Virginia. But then the UnionÕs western chieftains arrived and the war became one huge Òfuneral procession,Ó as Grant and Sheridan found that their prior victories had by no means prepared them for meeting the Army of Northern Virginia. In this work Akers provides a fascinating, close-in view of the ConfederacyÕs cavalry arm during this crucial period of the war. After StuartÕs death the Army of Northern Virginia would eventually be cornered, but while he was alive it was often the Northerners who most needed to look to their security.
Year Of Glory
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Author : Monte Akers
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2018-01-11
Year Of Glory written by Monte Akers and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-11 with categories.
No commander during the Civil War is more closely identified with the "cavalier mystique" as Major General J.E.B. (Jeb) Stuart. And none played a more prominent role during the brief period when the hopes of the nascent Confederacy were at their apex, when it appeared as though the Army of Northern Virginia could not be restrained from establishing Southern nationhood. Jeb Stuart was not only successful in leading Robert E. Lee's cavalry in dozens of campaigns and raids, but for riding magnificent horses, dressing outlandishly, and participating in balls and parties that epitomized the "moonlight and magnolia" image of the Old South. Longstreet reported that at the height of the Battle of Second Manasses, Stuart rode off singing, "If you want to have good time, jine the cavalry . . ." Porter Alexander remembered him singing, in the midst of the miraculous victory at Chancellorsville, "Old Joe Hooker, won't you come out of the Wilderness?" Stuart was blessed with an unusually positive personality--always upbeat, charming, boisterous, and humorous, remembered as the only man who could make Stonewall Jackson laugh, reciting poetry when not engaged in battle, and yet never using alcohol or other stimulants. Year of Glory focuses on the twelve months in which Stuart's reputation was made, following his career on an almost day-to-day basis from June 1862, when Lee took command of the army, to June 1863, when Stuart turned north to regain a glory slightly tarnished at Brandy Station, but found Gettysburg instead. It is told through the eyes of the men who rode with him, as well as Jeb's letters, reports, and anecdotes handed down over 150 years. It was a year like no other, filled with exhilaration at the imminent creation of a new country. This was a period when it could hardly be imagined that the cause, and Stuart himself, could dissolve into grief, Jeb ultimately separated from the people he cherished most.
The Beast I Loved
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Author : Robert Davidson
language : en
Publisher: WildBlue Press
Release Date : 2018-03-13
The Beast I Loved written by Robert Davidson and has been published by WildBlue Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-13 with True Crime categories.
The disturbing true crime story about what drove an abused New Hampshire wife to kill her violent husband, and the chaos that followed. Before domestic violence hot lines and safe houses were widespread, June Briand shot four bullets into her husband’s head in 1987 and was sentenced to fifteen years to life. This is the shocking true story of survival—and the intense bond June shared with her pathologically violent husband, a monster who physically and sexually tortured, degraded, and dominated her so relentlessly that she refused to believe he was dead even after she killed him. What kind of woman would slay her own husband? What kind of man would drive her to do it? Why didn’t she just leave him? Based on hundreds of hours interviewing June Briand, speaking with her lawyers, and poring over countless pages of court transcripts, police and hospital records, and interviews with virtually every key person involved with this case, the author explores those difficult questions while exposing the twisted dynamics of a relationship that enslaves a woman—and drives her to kill the beast she loved when she was finally out of hope, out of time, and out of her mind. “As gripping as The Burning Bed.”—John Saul, New York Times–bestselling author of Creature “A superbly written, riveting—often horrifying—story urgently needed for our time….A powerhouse page-turned about the limits of what a human being can endure.”—Susan Page, bestselling author
The Gentleman S Magazine And Historical Chronicle For The Year
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
The Gentleman S Magazine And Historical Chronicle For The Year written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with English essays categories.
Narrative Of A Year S Journey Through Central And Eastern Arabia 1862 1863
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Author : William Gifford Palgrave
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
Narrative Of A Year S Journey Through Central And Eastern Arabia 1862 1863 written by William Gifford Palgrave and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with Arabian Peninsula categories.
The Queen Of Sheba Her Life And Times
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Author : Phinneas A. Crutch
language : en
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Release Date : 2021-01-01
The Queen Of Sheba Her Life And Times written by Phinneas A. Crutch and has been published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-01 with Fiction categories.
The Queen of Sheba is a figure first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. In the original story, she brings a caravan of valuable gifts for the Israelite King Solomon.
Two Bites At A Cherry
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Author : Thomas Bailey Aldrich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Two Bites At A Cherry written by Thomas Bailey Aldrich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Fiction categories.
The Queen Of Sheba My Cousin The Colonel
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Author : Thomas Bailey Aldrich
language : en
Publisher: The Floating Press
Release Date : 2012-06-01
The Queen Of Sheba My Cousin The Colonel written by Thomas Bailey Aldrich and has been published by The Floating Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with Fiction categories.
Though best remembered as a poet and as an influential editor at several august publications, including New York Illustrated News and Atlantic Monthly, author Thomas Bailey Aldrich also wrote a number of elegant, understated and witty novels, and later turned to subjects that hewed more closely to the conventions of the action-adventure genre. Fans of intelligent, finely wrought fiction will appreciate this volume that brings together some of Aldrich's most popular tales.
Forget Me Not A Christmas And New Year S Present Ed By F Shoberl
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1834
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Years Of Peril And Ambition
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Author : George C. Herring
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-20
Years Of Peril And Ambition written by George C. Herring and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-20 with History categories.
Praised in the New York Times Book Review for its "Herculean power of synthesis," George C. Herring's 2008 From Colony to Superpower has won wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921 is the first volume of a new split paperback edition of that masterwork, making this award-winning title accessible to those with a particular interest in the first half of the United States' history. This first volume of Herring's international narrative charts the rise of the United States from a loose grouping of British colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast of North America into an emerging world power at the end of World War I. It tells an epic story of restless settlers pushing against weak restraints; of explorers, sea captains, adventurers, merchants, and missionaries carrying American ways to new lands. It analyzes countless crises, some resulting in war and others resolved peacefully. Above all, it is the tale of United States' expansion, commercial and political, across the North American continent, into the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean regions, and, economically, worldwide. Herring brings this first segment of America's dramatic emergence as a superpower to a close with the United States' post-World War I rise to the status of the world's most powerful nation, poised -- however unsteadily --for global engagement in what would be called the American Century. Years of Peril and Ambition highlights the ongoing impact of the nation's international affairs on the household names of U.S. history but also on ordinary citizens. Featuring a grand cast of characters, encompassing statesmen and presidents, diplomats and foreigners, and rogues and rascals alike, this fast-paced account illuminates the central importance of foreign relations to the existence and survival of the nation.
