Horse Soldiers In Blue

Author : Timothy B. Smith
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611214291

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The Real Horse Soldiers by Timothy B. Smith Pdf

“This epic account is as thrilling and fast-paced as the raid itself and will quickly rival, if not surpass, Dee Brown’s Grierson’s Raid as the standard.” —Terrence J. Winschel, historian (ret.), Vicksburg National Military Park Winner, Operational/Battle History, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award Winner, Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, Civil War Round Table of New York There were other simultaneous operations to distract Confederate attention from the real threat posed by U. S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee. Benjamin Grierson’s operation, however, mainly conducted with two Illinois cavalry regiments, has become the most famous, and for good reason: For 16 days (April 17 to May 2) Grierson led Confederate pursuers on a high-stakes chase through the entire state of Mississippi, entering the northern border with Tennessee and exiting its southern border with Louisiana. Throughout, he displayed outstanding leadership and cunning, destroyed railroad tracks, burned trestles and bridges, freed slaves, and created as much damage and chaos as possible. Grierson’s Raid broke a vital Confederate rail line at Newton Station that supplied Vicksburg and, perhaps most importantly, consumed the attention of the Confederate high command. While Confederate Lt. Gen. John Pemberton at Vicksburg and other Southern leaders looked in the wrong directions, Grant moved his entire Army of the Tennessee across the Mississippi River below Vicksburg, spelling the doom of that city, the Confederate chances of holding the river, and perhaps the Confederacy itself. Based upon years of research and presented in gripping, fast-paced prose, Timothy B. Smith’s The Real Horse Soldiers captures the high drama and tension of the 1863 horse soldiers in a modern, comprehensive, academic study. Readers will find it fills a wide void in Civil War literature.

Author : Caleb Glass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : 0970291809

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Horse Soldiers by Caleb Glass Pdf

Author : Harold Sinclair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Grierson's Cavalry Raid, 1863
ISBN : UCAL:$B105482

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The Horse Soldiers by Harold Sinclair Pdf

Fictional account of Grierson's Raid.

Author : Jean F. Blashfield
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 053120300X

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Horse Soldiers by Jean F. Blashfield Pdf

Examines the role played by cavalry, or horse soldiers, in both the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War.

Author : Raymond G. Woolfe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442245358

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The Doomed Horse Soldiers of Bataan by Raymond G. Woolfe Pdf

This is the story of the last mounted American troops to see action in battle, when, in late 1941, six-hundred men and their horses held off the Japanese invasion of Luzon in the Philippines just long enough to allow General Douglas MacArthur's forces to withdraw to Bataan. The 26th continued to fight on horseback until late February 1942 when, tragically, they were ordered dismounted and their horses and mules transferred to the Quartermaster's center and slaughtered for food for the defenders. It is on record that the 26th troopers refused to accept meat rations from their animals, regardless of their own starvation. This stirring account of a little-known aspect of the Philippine campaign is military history at its best.

Author : Randy Steffen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0806112832

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The Horse Soldier, 1776-1943: The last of the Indian wars, the Spanish-American War, the brink of the Great War, 1881-1916 by Randy Steffen Pdf

Author : Martin Windrow,Richard Hook
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0192731572

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The Horse Soldier by Martin Windrow,Richard Hook Pdf

Presents information on the horse soldier in over 3,000 years of warfare, including detailed information on the life and equipment of horse and rider.

Author : Jane Flynn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000030389

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Soldiers and Their Horses by Jane Flynn Pdf

The soldier-horse relationship was nurtured by The British Army because it made the soldier and his horse into an effective fighting unit. Soldiers and their Horses explores a complex relationship forged between horses and humans in extreme conditions. As both a social history of Britain in the early twentieth century and a history of the British Army, Soldiers and their Horses reconciles the hard pragmatism of war with the imaginative and emotional. By carefully overlapping the civilian and the military, by juxtaposing "sense" and "sentimentality," and by considering institutional policy alongside individual experience, the soldier and his horse are re-instated as co-participators in The Great War. Soldiers and their Horses provides a valuable contribution to current thinking about the role of horses in history.

Author : Edward G. Krebs (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0578536692

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The Last of the Horse Soldiers by Edward G. Krebs (Jr.) Pdf

"Many people don't realize it, but up until America's entry into World War II, the U.S. Army still had regiments of horse cavalry. This story begins with one young man's entry into the U.S. Army in 1929 as a private assigned to the 8th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division at Ft. Bliss, Texas. This man was Edward G. Krebs. His story continues through his training as a cavalryman and advancement to first sergeant at Ft. Myer, Virginia, with the 3rd Cavalry Regiment. The story continues as he graduates from Cavalry Officer Candidate School at Ft. Riley, Kansas, after the start of World War II on to where the now Capt. Krebs commands an assault gun troop through France, Luxombourg, Germany and Austria with the 106th Cavalry Group finally defeating Nazi Germany on their own soil"--

Author : George Walsh
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : United States
ISBN : 0765312700

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Those Damn Horse Soldiers by George Walsh Pdf

Author : Daniel Murphy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811772723

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Horse Soldiers at Gettysburg by Daniel Murphy Pdf

Cavalry operations during the Gettysburg campaign have been well covered, but never like this. Most cavalry treatments of the campaign and battle have focused on strategy, operations, and tactics and zoomed in on particular episodes: the Battle of Brandy Station in June 1863 (the largest cavalry engagement on American soil), Jeb Stuart’s controversial ride-for-glory that deprived Lee of important intelligence for days, Union cavalry general John Buford’s role in the start of the battle on July 1, and the cavalry battle involving not only Stuart but also George Armstrong Custer east of Gettysburg on July 3. Daniel Murphy’s book covers the grand sweep of cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign, from Lee’s crossing of the Rappahannock in early June 1863, through the epic three-day clash in Pennsylvania, to the conclusion of Lee’s retreat in July 1863. But more than that, in a book blending strategy and tactics and campaign narrative with deep research in primary sources and an equestrian’s sense for what it’s like to ride and manage horses, Daniel Murphy brings a horseman’s eye to the story of the campaign: how individual cavalrymen experienced the campaign from the saddle and how horses—with special needs for care and maintenance—were in fact weapons that helped shape battles. In this new narrative of Civil War cavalry, author Daniel Murphy gets into the saddle and explores what it was like to be a cavalryman during the Gettysburg campaign. Horse-soldiering was a unique way of doing battle, and Murphy gives it more justice and nuanced description than any author has yet given it.

Author : William Y. Chalfant
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080613500X

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Cheyennes and Horse Soldiers by William Y. Chalfant Pdf

In July 1857, the first major battle between the U.S. Army and the Cheyenne Indians took place in present-day northwest Kansas. The Cheyennes had formed a grand line of battle such as was never again seen in Plains Indians wars. But they had not seen sabres before, and when the cavalry charged, sabres drawn, they panicked. William Y. Chalfant re-creates the human dimensions of a battle that was as much a clash of cultures as it was a clash of the U.S. cavalry and Cheyenne warriors.

Author : John David Smith
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807875995

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Black Soldiers in Blue by John David Smith Pdf

Inspired and informed by the latest research in African American, military, and social history, the fourteen original essays in this book tell the stories of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union cause. An introductory essay surveys the history of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) from emancipation to the end of the Civil War. Seven essays focus on the role of the USCT in combat, chronicling the contributions of African Americans who fought at Port Hudson, Milliken's Bend, Olustee, Fort Pillow, Petersburg, Saltville, and Nashville. Other essays explore the recruitment of black troops in the Mississippi Valley; the U.S. Colored Cavalry; the military leadership of Colonels Thomas Higginson, James Montgomery, and Robert Shaw; African American chaplain Henry McNeal Turner; the black troops who occupied postwar Charleston; and the experiences of USCT veterans in postwar North Carolina. Collectively, these essays probe the broad military, political, and social significance of black soldiers' armed service, enriching our understanding of the Civil War and African American life during and after the conflict. The contributors are Anne J. Bailey, Arthur W. Bergeron Jr., John Cimprich, Lawrence Lee Hewitt, Richard Lowe, Thomas D. Mays, Michael T. Meier, Edwin S. Redkey, Richard Reid, William Glenn Robertson, John David Smith, Noah Andre Trudeau, Keith Wilson, and Robert J. Zalimas Jr.

Author : Mark Nutsch,Bob Pennington,Jim DeFelice
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781637581544

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Swords of Lightning by Mark Nutsch,Bob Pennington,Jim DeFelice Pdf

The first-person account of how a small band of Green Berets used horses and laser-guided missiles to overthrow the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan after 9/11. They landed in a dust storm so thick the chopper pilot used dead reckoning and a guess to find the ground. They were met by a band of heavily armed militiamen who didn’t understand a word they said. They climbed a mountain on horseback to meet the most ferocious warlord in Asia. They plotted a war of nineteenth-century maneuvers against a twenty-first-century foe. They saved babies and treated fevers, trekked through minefields, and waded through booby-trapped streams—sometimes past the mangled bodies of local tribesmen who’d shared food with them hours before. They found their enemy hiding in thick concrete bunkers, dodged bullets from machine-gun-laden pickup trucks, and survived ambushes launched with Russian tanks. They fought back with everything they had, from smart bombs to AK-47s. They overthrew a government, mediated blood feuds between rival commanders, and argued with generals and politicians thousands of miles away. The men they helped called them gods. One of their commanders called them devils. Hollywood called them the Horse Soldiers. They called themselves Green Berets—Special Forces ODA 595.

Author : Randy Steffen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0806123931

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The Horse Soldier, 1776-1943 by Randy Steffen Pdf

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