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Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422370321
Author : Bernard Quaritch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1912 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015033665160
Author : William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148100082512W
Author : William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : English literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090292707
Author : Sir William Segar
Publisher : Academic Resources Corp
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011820159
Author : Allen Mikaelian,Mike Wallace
Publisher : Hyperion Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015055592748
In 1863, President Lincoln first awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, which was created to boost morale among the Union rank and file. In the decades that followed, the award evolved to take on an almost sacred quality. Today, it remains the highest U.S. military decoration. Of the millions of Americans who have gone into combat in the past century, fewer than 1,300 have earned the Medal of Honor, and many of those were awarded it for actions they did not survive. Their courageous and selfless feats in battle are barely conceivable. They plunged into heavy fire, ventured boldly behind enemy lines, and threw themselves on live grenades. But who are these people?
Author : William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382134921
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555063054
Author : James M. McPherson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0199741050
General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, over and over again, through countless bloody battles and four long, awful years ? Why did the conventional wisdom -- that soldiers become increasingly cynical and disillusioned as war progresses -- not hold true in the Civil War? It is to this question--why did they fight--that James McPherson, America's preeminent Civil War historian, now turns his attention. He shows that, contrary to what many scholars believe, the soldiers of the Civil War remained powerfully convinced of the ideals for which they fought throughout the conflict. Motivated by duty and honor, and often by religious faith, these men wrote frequently of their firm belief in the cause for which they fought: the principles of liberty, freedom, justice, and patriotism. Soldiers on both sides harkened back to the Founding Fathers, and the ideals of the American Revolution. They fought to defend their country, either the Union--"the best Government ever made"--or the Confederate states, where their very homes and families were under siege. And they fought to defend their honor and manhood. "I should not lik to go home with the name of a couhard," one Massachusetts private wrote, and another private from Ohio said, "My wife would sooner hear of my death than my disgrace." Even after three years of bloody battles, more than half of the Union soldiers reenlisted voluntarily. "While duty calls me here and my country demands my services I should be willing to make the sacrifice," one man wrote to his protesting parents. And another soldier said simply, "I still love my country." McPherson draws on more than 25,000 letters and nearly 250 private diaries from men on both sides. Civil War soldiers were among the most literate soldiers in history, and most of them wrote home frequently, as it was the only way for them to keep in touch with homes that many of them had left for the first time in their lives. Significantly, their letters were also uncensored by military authorities, and are uniquely frank in their criticism and detailed in their reports of marches and battles, relations between officers and men, political debates, and morale. For Cause and Comrades lets these soldiers tell their own stories in their own words to create an account that is both deeply moving and far truer than most books on war. Battle Cry of Freedom, McPherson's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the highest order." For Cause and Comrades deserves similar accolades, as McPherson's masterful prose and the soldiers' own words combine to create both an important book on an often-overlooked aspect of our bloody Civil War, and a powerfully moving account of the men who fought it.
Author : GEORGE GATFIELD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : MINN:319510020259274
Author : Joseph Lilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000624541
Author : Sir William Blackstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Law
ISBN : NYPL:33433008578902
Author : Joseph Lilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000624538
Author : London Institution (London)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V001490596
