Barksdale S Charge

Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612001807

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Barksdale's Charge by Phillip Thomas Tucker Pdf

There is “never a dull moment” in this “excellent account” of an overlooked Confederate triumph during the Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg (San Francisco Book Review). While many Civil War buffs celebrate Picket’s Charge as the climactic moment of the Battle of Gettysburg, the Confederate Army’s true high point had come the afternoon before. When Longstreet’s corps triumphantly entered the battle, the Federals just barely held on. The foremost Rebel spearhead on that second day of the battle was Brig. Gen. William Barksdale’s Mississippi brigade, which launched what one Union observer called the “grandest charge that was ever seen by mortal man.” On the second day of Gettysburg, the Federal left was not as vulnerable as Lee had envisioned, but had cooperated with Rebel wishes by extending its Third Corps into a salient. When Longstreet finally gave Barksdale the go-ahead, the Mississippians utterly crushed the peach orchard salient and continued marauding up to Cemetery Ridge. Hancock, Meade, and other Union generals had to gather men from four different corps to try to stem the onslaught. Barksdale himself was killed at the apex of his advance. Darkness, as well as Confederate exhaustion, finally ended the day’s fight as the shaken, depleted Federal units took stock. They had barely held on against the full ferocity of the Rebels on a day that would decide the fate of the nation.

Author : John Douglas Ashton
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476641720

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William Barksdale, CSA by John Douglas Ashton Pdf

An aggressive and colorful personality, William Barksdale was no stranger to controversy. Orphaned at 13, he succeeded as lawyer, newspaper editor, Mexican War veteran, politician and Confederate commander. During eight years in the U.S. Congress, he was among the South's most ardent defenders of slavery and advocates for states' rights. His emotional speeches and altercations--including a brawl on the House floor--made headlines in the years preceding secession. His fiery temper prompted three near-duels, gaining him a reputation as a brawler and knife-fighter. Arrested for intoxication, Colonel Barksdale survived a military Court of Inquiry to become one of the most beloved commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia. His reputation soared with his defense against the Union river crossing and street-fighting at Fredericksburg, and his legendary charge at Gettysburg. This first full-length biography places his life and career in historical context.

Author : Don Troiani,Brian C. Pohanka
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780811727150

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Don Troiani's Civil War by Don Troiani,Brian C. Pohanka Pdf

Featuring renowned artist-historian Don Troiani's careful research, painstaking attention to detail, and dramatic style.

Author : Don Troiani
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Battles
ISBN : 9780811733274

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Don Troiani's American Battles by Don Troiani Pdf

A collection of drawings by Don Troiani that offers a tour of America's military past, recreating key military battles that took place in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Author : James A. Hessler
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611210453

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Sickles at Gettysburg by James A. Hessler Pdf

“Sickles is as dividing a figure in Civil War history as there is. In his masterful work . . . Hessler . . . puts him out there with all his wrinkles” (Confederate Book Review). Winner of the Robert E. Lee Civil War Roundtable of Central New Jersey’s Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award Winner of the Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable’s Distinguished Book Award By licensed battlefield guide James Hessler, this is the most deeply-researched, full-length biography to appear on this remarkable American icon. No individual who fought at Gettysburg was more controversial, both personally and professionally, than Major General Daniel E. Sickles. By 1863, Sickles was notorious as a disgraced former Congressman who murdered his wife’s lover on the streets of Washington and used America’s first temporary insanity defense to escape justice. With his political career in ruins, Sickles used his connections with President Lincoln to obtain a prominent command in the Army of the Potomac’s 3rd Corps—despite having no military experience. At Gettysburg, he openly disobeyed orders in one of the most controversial decisions in military history. Hessler’s critically acclaimed biography is a balanced and entertaining account of Sickles colorful life. Civil War enthusiasts who want to understand General Sickles’ scandalous life, Gettysburg’s battlefield strategies, the in-fighting within the Army of the Potomac, and the development of today’s National Park will find Sickles at Gettysburg a must-read. “The few other Sickles biographies available will now take a back seat to Hessler’s powerful and evocative study of the man, the general, and the legacy of the Gettysburg battlefield that old Dan left America. I highly recommend this book.”—J. David Petruzzi, coauthor of Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg

Author : Scott Bowden,Bill Ward
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786730407

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Last Chance For Victory by Scott Bowden,Bill Ward Pdf

Gettysburg is the most written about battle in American military history. Generations after nearly 50,000 soldiers shed their blood there, serious and fundamental misunderstandings persist about Robert E. Lee's generalship during the campaign and battle. Most are the basis of popular myths about the epic fight. Last Chance for Victory: Robert E. Lee and the Gettysburg Campaign addresses these issues by studying Lee's choices before, during, and after the battle, the information he possessed at the time and each decision that was made, and why he acted as he did. Even options open to Lee that he did not act upon are carefully explored from the perspective of what Lee and his generals knew at the time. Some of the issues addressed include:Whether Lee's orders to Jeb Stuart were discretionary and allowed him to conduct his raid around the Federal army. The authors conclusively answer this important question with the most original and unique analysis ever applied to this controversial issue;Why Richard Ewell did not attack Cemetery Hill as ordered by General Lee, and why every historian who has written that Lee's orders to Ewell were discretionary are dead wrong;Why Little Round Top was irrelevant to the July 2 fighting, a fact Lee clearly recognized;Why Cemetery Hill was the weakest point along the entire Federal line, and how close the Southerners came to capturing it;Why Lee decided to launch en echelon attack on July 2, and why most historians have never understood what it was or how close it came to success; Last Chance for Victory will be labeled heresy by some, blasphemy by others, all because its authors dare to call into question the dogmas of Gettysburg. But they do so carefully, using facts, logic, and reason to weave one of the most compelling and riveting military history books of our age.Readers will never look at Robert E. Lee and Gettysburg the same way again.

Author : David Schultz,Scott L. Mingus
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611210750

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The Second Day at Gettysburg by David Schultz,Scott L. Mingus Pdf

“Emphasize[s] the role of Winfield Scott Hancock . . . [and] the Second Corps in plugging the gap and saving the day for the Union.” —Gettysburg Magazine On the afternoon of July 2, 1863, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet struck the Union left flank with a massive blow that collapsed Dan Sickles’ advanced position in the Peach Orchard and rolled northward, tearing open a large gap in the center of the Federal line on Cemetery Ridge. Fresh Confederates from A. P. Hill’s Corps advanced toward the mile-wide breach, where Southern success would split the Army of the Potomac in two. The fate of the Battle of Gettysburg hung in the balance. Despite the importance of the position, surprisingly few Union troops were available to defend Cemetery Ridge. Major General Winfield S. Hancock’s veteran Second Corps had been whittled from three divisions to less than one after Gibbon’s division was sucked into earlier fighting and Caldwell’s command was shattered in the Wheatfield. With little time and few men, Hancock determined to plug the yawning gap. Reprising Horatio at the Bridge, the gallant commander cobbled together various commands and refused to yield the precious acres in Plum Run ravine. The swirling seesaw fighting lasted for hours and included hand-to-hand combat and personal heroics of which legends are made. The Second Day at Gettysburg expands on David Shultz and David Wieck’s critically acclaimed earlier work The Battle Between the Farm Lanes. This completely revised and expanded study, which includes new photographs, original maps, and a self-guided tour of the fighting, is grounded in extensive research and unmatched personal knowledge of the terrain.

Author : Samuel Toombs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Gettysburg Campaign, 1863
ISBN : UCAL:$B61621

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New Jersey Troops in the Gettysburg Campaign from June 5 to July 31, 1863 by Samuel Toombs Pdf

Author : B. J. Jordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1432733877

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One Final Charge! by B. J. Jordan Pdf

On July, 2, 1863, late in the afternoon, during the pivotal second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Mississippi's Confederate General William Barksdale was extremely annoyed and frustrated. The July day was smoldering, not only from a broiling sun in a cloudless sky, but from the incessant shelling raining down on his brigade from a Union artillery battery not too far in the distance. The lateness of the hour was of a concern, and the delay of an aggressive response by his superior officers was maddening.

Author : John Douglas Ashton
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476683744

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William Barksdale, CSA by John Douglas Ashton Pdf

An aggressive and colorful personality, William Barksdale was no stranger to controversy. Orphaned at 13, he succeeded as lawyer, newspaper editor, Mexican War veteran, politician and Confederate commander. During eight years in the U.S. Congress, he was among the South's most ardent defenders of slavery and advocates for states' rights. His emotional speeches and altercations--including a brawl on the House floor--made headlines in the years preceding secession. His fiery temper prompted three near-duels, gaining him a reputation as a brawler and knife-fighter. Arrested for intoxication, Colonel Barksdale survived a military Court of Inquiry to become one of the most beloved commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia. His reputation soared with his defense against the Union river crossing and street-fighting at Fredericksburg, and his legendary charge at Gettysburg. This first full-length biography places his life and career in historical context.

Author : Thomas D. Marbaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : United States
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU01504592

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History of the Eleventh New Jersey Volunteers by Thomas D. Marbaker Pdf

Author : Mississippi Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Mississippi
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026549738

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Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society by Mississippi Historical Society Pdf

Author : John Seymore McNeily
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
ISBN : 0942211162

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Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade at Gettysburg by John Seymore McNeily Pdf

Author : United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:HX4U2Q

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History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, from Their First Engagement at Antietam to Appomattox by United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865) Pdf

Author : Martin Alonzo Haynes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : New Hampshire
ISBN : NYPL:33433081799474

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A History of the Second Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, in the War of the Rebellion by Martin Alonzo Haynes Pdf

The Second New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry was mustered into service in the Union army in April, 1861. This book recounts their activities during the First Bull Run Campaign, the Peninsula campaign, the Battle of Malvern Hill, the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of Cold Harbor, and the fall of Richmond. They were mustered out on December 19, 1865. Biographical sketches of key personalities in the history of the regiment are included as well as a description of the regiment's Gettysburg monument and its dedication ceremony.