Loudoun Heights

Author : Susan E. Winter,Dennis E. Frye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : UOM:39015032966593

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Loudoun Heights by Susan E. Winter,Dennis E. Frye Pdf

"The Loudoun Heights Cultural Resources Inventory documented the remains of historic sites on Loudoun Heights, the northern-most extension of the Blue Ridge located in Loudoun County, Virginia, and Jefferson County, West Virginia. This wooded and steep-sloped tract overlooks the town of Harpers Ferry from the south bank of the Shenandoah River, with 482 acres lying within Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, and 378 acres within the boundary of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. This project involved both archeological and historical research. Archeological fieldwork commenced in March 1988, and concluded in November 1988. Research revealed the cultural history of Loudoun Heights divided into three periods, characterized by industrial, military, and domestic uses. ... The archeological survey delineated eight Civil War campground areas. These campgrounds, likely occupied in 1862 by Federal troops for a total of five weeks, represent some of the best preserved Civil War encampments within the National Park System. This survey also documented six nineteenth-century domestic sites, which included a hotel complex and a substantial mountain spring developed by a brewery and bottling works in lower town Harpers Ferry."--Abstract, page xi.

Author : Stephen W. Sears
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547526638

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Landscape Turned Red by Stephen W. Sears Pdf

“The best account of the Battle of Antietam” from the award-winning, national bestselling author of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville (The New York Times Book Review). The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation’s history: in this single day, the war claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. In Landscape Turned Red, the renowned historian Stephen Sears draws on a remarkable cache of diaries, dispatches, and letters to recreate the vivid drama of Antietam as experienced not only by its leaders but also by its soldiers, both Union and Confederate. Combining brilliant military analysis with narrative history of enormous power, Landscape Turned Red is the definitive work on this climactic and bitter struggle. “A modern classic.”—The Chicago Tribune “No other book so vividly depicts that battle, the campaign that preceded it, and the dramatic political events that followed.”—The Washington Post Book World “Authoritative and graceful . . . a first-rate work of history.”—Newsweek

Author : D. Scott Hartwig
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421408767

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To Antietam Creek by D. Scott Hartwig Pdf

A richly detailed account of the hard-fought campaign that led to Antietam Creek and changed the course of the Civil War. In early September 1862 thousands of Union soldiers huddled within the defenses of Washington, disorganized and discouraged from their recent defeat at Second Manassas. Confederate General Robert E. Lee then led his tough and confident Army of Northern Virginia into Maryland in a bold gamble to force a showdown that could win Southern independence. The future of the Union hung in the balance. The campaign that followed lasted only two weeks, but it changed the course of the Civil War. D. Scott Hartwig delivers a riveting first installment of a two-volume study of the campaign and climactic battle. It takes the reader from the controversial return of George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac through the Confederate invasion, the siege and capture of Harpers Ferry, the daylong Battle of South Mountain, and, ultimately, to the eve of the great and terrible Battle of Antietam.

Author : Earl J. Hess
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 1243 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807872826

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The Earl J. Hess Fortifications Trilogy, Omnibus E-book by Earl J. Hess Pdf

This three-volume Omnibus e-Book set is a collection of Earl J. Hess's definitive works on trench warfare during the Civil War. The set includes: Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864, covering the eastern campaigns, from Big Bethel and the Peninsula to Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Charleston, and Mine Run; Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign, covering Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, and Bermuda Hundred; and In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat, recounting the strategic and tactical operations in Virginia during the last ten months of the Civil War, when field fortifications dominated military planning and the landscape of battle. This invaluable trilogy is a must have for anyone interested in the battles, tactics and strategies of both sides during the Civil War.

Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1482 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : UGA:32108012064856

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The War of the Rebellion by United States. War Department Pdf

Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.

Author : United States. War Dept
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1236 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : UVA:X004921658

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The War of the Rebellion by United States. War Dept Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)
ISBN : UOM:39015078222729

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Special Boundary Study by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030819056

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Harpers Ferry Bridge Replacement, US 340 Over the Shenandoah River, Jefferson County by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)
ISBN : PURD:32754074682992

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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jay Luvaas,Harold W. Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019214175

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Guide to the Battle of Antietam, the Maryland Campaign of 1862 by Jay Luvaas,Harold W. Nelson Pdf

"America's bloodiest day"—the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862—left more dead American soldiers in its wake than any other 24-hour period in history. Antietam and the related battles of the Maryland Campaign that led up to the lethal confrontation did not result in decisive defeats for either side. But they did serve as a brutal warning to an out-gunned, out-commanded, and out-organized Union army. Eyewitness accounts by battle participants make these guides an invaluable resource for travelers and nontravelers who want a greater understanding of five of the most devastating yet influential years in our nation's history. Explicit directions to points of interest and maps—illustrating the action and showing the detail of troop position, roads, rivers, elevations, and tree lines as they were 130 years ago—help bring the battles to life. In the field, these guides can be used to recreate each battle's setting and proportions, giving the reader a sense of the tension and fear each soldier must have felt as he faced his enemy.

Author : Earl J. Hess
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807876398

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Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War by Earl J. Hess Pdf

Earl J. Hess provides a narrative history of the use of fortifications--particularly trenches and other semi-permanent earthworks--used by Confederate and Union field armies at all major battle sites in the eastern theater of the Civil War. Hess moves beyond the technical aspects of construction to demonstrate the crucial role these earthworks played in the success or failure of field armies. A comprehensive study which draws on research and fieldwork from 300 battle sites, Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War is an indispensable reference for Civil War buffs and historians.

Author : Douglas Southall Freeman
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786259509

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R. E. Lee: A Biography by Douglas Southall Freeman Pdf

Following the immediate critical success of Lee’s Dispatches, author Douglas Southall Freeman was approached by New York publisher Charles Scribner’s Sons and invited to write a biography of Robert E. Lee. He accepted, and his research of Lee was exhaustive: he evaluated and cataloged every item about Lee, and reviewed records at West Point, the War Department, and material in private collections. In narrating the general’s Civil War years, he used what came to be known as the “fog of war” technique—providing readers only the limited information that Lee himself had at a given moment. This helped convey the confusion of war that Lee experienced, as well as the processes by which Lee grappled with problems and made decisions. R. E. Lee: A Biography was published in four volumes in 1934 and 1935. In its book review, The New York Times declared it “Lee complete for all time.” Historian Dumas Malone wrote, “Great as my personal expectations were, the realization far surpassed them.” In 1935, Freeman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his four-volume biography. Freeman’s R. E. Lee: A Biography remains the authoritative study on the Confederate general.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Geology
ISBN : MINN:31951P00696015C

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U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bill Burnham,Mary Burnham
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493035007

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Best Hikes Washington, D.C. by Bill Burnham,Mary Burnham Pdf

In Best Hikes Washington, DC authors Bill and Mary Burnham detail the best hikes within about an hour's drive of downtown, hikes perfect for the urban and suburbanite hard-pressed to find great outdoor activities close to home. Each featured hike includes detailed hike specs and descriptions, trailhead location and GPS coordinates, mile-by-mile directional cues, gorgeous full-color photography, and a detailed map.

Author : Robert Lewis Dabney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOMDLP:acp4515:0001.001

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Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, (Stonewall Jackson) by Robert Lewis Dabney Pdf