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From Wheat Fields to Battlefields by Robert Shelato Pdf
This book is an account of my life growing up in the mid-west, and my experiences in WWII, having the distinction and honor to serve with the men of the 249th Engineer Combat Battalion, Third Army. We pass this way but once in a lifetime. With that thought in mind, I chose events from my life that I felt were noteworthy, being generous with descriptive detail as the events were reconstructed. I did this so that future generations will have the opportunity to become acquainted not only with the events, but more importantly to flavor the environment surrounding the happenings.
From Battlefields to Wheat Fields by Robert F. Shelato Pdf
If you enjoyed reading the author's first book, “From Wheat Fields to Battlefields,” you will find, “From Battlefields to Wheat Fields,” also stimulating, and full of fun reading. The author's story begins where the first book ends.After fighting through the Battle of the Bulge, receiving the Silver Star and France's highest military honor; the author shares with the reader his winning philosophy that spans many years of roller coaster happenings.Building on the foundation of a first business venture he turns failure into success and is hired by a fortune 500 company; eventually breaking several sales records.Eighteen years later the author establishes a new mail order business, later selling it to a larger company and retires.Interesting experiences continue to pile up as the author enjoys many years of retirement travel.
American Battlefields of World War 1, Château-Thierry--then and Now: Enter the Yanks as told in the actual words of the soldiers by David C. Homsher Pdf
"American Battlefields of World War I:Chateau-Thierry--Then and Now is a 304-page book filled with photos from the actual battlefields, photos of the soldiers, photos taken after the liberation of the area. These are juxtaposed with photos as the sites look now. The book text is comprised of the actual words of the soldiers who were there telling their side of the battle."--Publisher description.
Ghost Hunters Reference Guide: Gettysburg Battlefield by Joseph Ciferno Jr Pdf
This book is taking a different approach as compared to other ghost hunting books on Gettysburg. Granted, there are some really great books already on the subject. But, adding more historic information for those who read this book will have a solid starting point on researching the battlefield for other locations. Of course, you can just keep going back to the same locations over and over and competing with others.
Rossiter Johnson,John Clark Ridpath,Selden Connor,John Brown Gordon,John Tyler Morgan,Henry W. B. Howard,O. O. Howard
Author : Rossiter Johnson,John Clark Ridpath,Selden Connor,John Brown Gordon,John Tyler Morgan,Henry W. B. Howard,O. O. Howard Publisher : DigiCat Page : 1234 pages File Size : 47,6 Mb Release : 2022-05-28 Category : History ISBN : EAN:8596547013822
Campfire and Battlefield by Rossiter Johnson,John Clark Ridpath,Selden Connor,John Brown Gordon,John Tyler Morgan,Henry W. B. Howard,O. O. Howard Pdf
Campfire & Battlefield is a work by Selden Connor. It provides an illustrated account of the tensions and widespread battles throughout the US Civil War.
The history of medicine in the United States military. Author, journalist, and USS Midway Museum spokesman Scott McGaugh reveals the riveting stories of the men and women who save lives on the front lines in Battlefield Angels, the first book about battlefield medicine in the US military. Told from the point of view of the unsung heroes who slide into bomb craters and climb into blazing ships, this unique look at medicine in the trenches traces the history of the military medical corps and the contributions it has made to America's health, for example, how the military medical corps pioneered the ambulance concept, emergency medevac helicopters, hospital designs, and contagious disease prevention. McGough also details how the military medical corps has adopted medical science discoveries, field tested them in battle, adapted them, and proved their value.
The moment had finally come for Douglas Parker; the sweet relief from a life full of the senseless pain that only cancer can cause and only death can sooth. However, he had no way of knowing that falling into the grips of disease was not the intended end for his soul but rather the beginning of his path to fulfilling a much higher calling. In Agony on the Battlefield, author Jason Layk creates a story of epic proportions in which the reader will be teleported through time and dimensions to an alternate reality along with his unwitting hero, Doug. Doug is capable of Herculean feats, but each heroic act causes Doug an insurmountable amount of pain. But this is Doug’s secret: his pain is his power. The greater the pain he endures, the stronger he becomes. This “medieval meets fantasy” realm spares no time enveloping Doug into the world of the beautiful Sovereign’s Heart, Jian Leyn, her culture, and the warring that plagues her father’s kingdom. Doug is plunged into a collision course with their greatest enemy, the dark and evil Cognoli. Although Doug’s strengths are of great value to the Sovereign Heart’s cause, he is left to find his place in this strange world, while also trying to figure out who – and what – he truly is.
Of the more than seventy sites associated with the Civil War era that the National Park Service manages, none hold more national appeal and recognition than Gettysburg National Military Park. Welcoming more than one million visitors annually from across the nation and around the world, the National Park Service at Gettysburg holds the enormous responsibility of preserving the war’s “hallowed ground” and educating the public, not only on the battle, but also about the Civil War as the nation’s defining moment. Although historians and enthusiasts continually add to the shelves of Gettysburg scholarship, they have paid only minimal attention to the battlefield itself and the process of preserving, interpreting, and remembering the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. In On a Great Battlefield, Jennifer M. Murray provides a critical perspective to Gettysburg historiography by offering an in-depth exploration of the national military park and how the Gettysburg battlefield has evolved since the National Park Service acquired the site in August 1933. As Murray reveals, the history of the Gettysburg battlefield underscores the complexity of preserving and interpreting a historic landscape. After a short overview of early efforts to preserve the battlefield by the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association (1864–1895) and the United States War Department (1895–1933), Murray chronicles the administration of the National Park Service and the multitude of external factors—including the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the Civil War Centennial, and recent sesquicentennial celebrations—that influenced operations and molded Americans’ understanding of the battle and its history. Haphazard landscape practices, promotion of tourism, encouragement of recreational pursuits, ill-defined policies of preserving cultural resources, and the inevitable turnover of administrators guided by very different preservation values regularly influenced the direction of the park and the presentation of the Civil War’s popular memory. By highlighting the complicated nexus between preservation, tourism, popular culture, interpretation, and memory, On a Great Battlefield provides a unique perspective on the Mecca of Civil War landscapes. Jennifer M. Murray, assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, is the author of The Civil War Begins. Her articles have appeared in Civil War History, Civil War Times, and Civil War Times Illustrated.
Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields during the Civil War of the United States (Illustrations) by Francis Trevelyan Miller Pdf
This is undoubtedly the most valuable collection of historic photographs in America. It is believed to be the first time that the camera was used so extensively and practically on the battle-field. It is the first known collection of its size on the Western Continent and it is the only witness of the scenes enacted during the greatest crisis in the annals of the American nation. As a contribution to history it occupies a position that the higher art of painting, or scholarly research and literal description, can never usurp. It records a tragedy that neither the imagination of the painter nor the skill of the historian can so dramatically relate. The existence of this collection is unknown by the public at large. Even while this book has been in preparation eminent photographers have pronounced it impossible, declaring that photography was not sufficiently advanced at that period to prove of such practical use in War. Distinguished veterans of the Civil War have informed me that they knew positively that there were no cameras in the wake of the army. This incredulity of men in a position to know the truth enhances the value of the collection inasmuch that its genuineness is officially proven by the testimony of those who saw the pictures taken, by the personal statement of the man who took them, and by the Government Records. For forty-two years the original negatives have been in storage, secreted from public view, except as an occasional proof is drawn for some special use. How these negatives came to be taken under most hazardous conditions in the storm and stress of a War that threatened to change the entire history of the world is itself an interesting historical incident. Moreover, it is one of the tragedies of genius. While the clouds were gathering, which finally broke into the Civil War in the United States, there died in London one named Scott-Archer, a man who had found one of the great factors in civilization, but died poor and before his time because he had overstrained his powers in the cause of science. It was necessary to raise a subscription for his widow, and the government settled upon the children a pension of fifty pounds per annum on the ground that their father was "the discoverer of a scientific process of great value to the nation, from which the inventor had reaped little or no benefit." This was in 1857, and four years later, when the American Republic became rent by a conflict of brother against brother, Mathew B. Brady of Washington and New York, asked the permission of the Government and the protection of the Secret Service to demonstrate the practicability of Scott-Archer's discovery in the severest test that the invention had ever been given. Brady was an artist by temperament and gained his technical knowledge of portraiture in the rendezvous of Paris. He had been interested in the discoveries of Niepce and Daguerre and Fox-Talbot along the crude lines of photography but with the introduction of the collodion process of Scott-Archer he accepted the science as a profession and, during twenty-five years of labor as a pioneer photographer, took the likenesses of the political celebrities of the epoch and of eminent men and women throughout the country. Brady's request was granted and he invested heavily in cameras which were made specially for the hard usage of warfare. These cameras were cumbersome and were operated by what is known as the old wet-plate process, requiring a dark room which was carried with them onto the battle-fields. The experimental operations under Brady proved so successful that they attracted the immediate attention of President Lincoln, General Grant and Allan Pinkerton, known as Major Allen and chief of the Secret Service. Equipments were hurried to all divisions of the great army and some of them found their way into the Confederate ranks. To be continue in this ebook...
Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields during the Civil War of the United States by Francis Trevelyan Miller Pdf
Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields during the Civil War of the United States by Francis Trevelyan Miller is a deeply moving collection that captures the stark realities of war. Through Miller's carefully curated battlefield photographs, readers are offered an unfiltered, poignant glimpse into the Civil War's harrowing events. This collection serves as a powerful reminder of the sacrifices made and the resilience of the human spirit.
Guide to Gettysburg Battlefield Monuments by Tom Huntington Pdf
Where to find every monument and tablet on the Gettysburg Battlefield--over 800 in all--organized by state, military unit, person, or armyPhotos and descriptions of each monument, with information on who is being honored and what they did during the battleCovers the entire Gettysburg National Military Park and all three days of fighting
