Pale Horse At Plum Run

Author : Brian Leehan
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780873516891

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Pale Horse at Plum Run by Brian Leehan Pdf

Minnesota Book Award Winner! Now in paperback. The smoke had just cleared from the last volley of musketry at Gettysburg. Nearly 70 percent of the First Minnesota regiment lay dead or dying on the field--one of the greatest losses of any unit engaged in the Civil War. The significance of this July 2, 1863, battle at Gettysburg is widely known, but the harrowing details of the First's heroic stand that stopped a furious rebel assault have long been buried. In Pale Horse at Plum Run Brian Leehan brings the full story of the First at Gettysburg to light as he examines personal accounts, eyewitness reports, and official records to construct a remarkably detailed and compelling narrative. "Brian Leehan's account of the First Minnesota on Cemetery Ridge is the most detailed and complete I have read. His exhaustive research and compelling narrative are impressive and offer a much fuller understanding of the regiment's extraordinary feats." -- Richard Moe, author of The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers

Author : Jeffry D. Wert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0743225066

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The Sword of Lincoln by Jeffry D. Wert Pdf

With a swiftly moving narrative style and perceptive analysis, The Sword of Lincoln is destined to become the modern account of the army that was so central to the history of the Civil War.

Author : John David Hoptak
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614237815

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Confrontation at Gettysburg by John David Hoptak Pdf

“A clear and concise telling” of America’s most famous battle. “[Hoptak] has crafted a narrative that is similar to a well led tour of the battlefield” (Civil War Librarian). Fought on the first three days of July 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg was one of the largest and by far the bloodiest of the Civil War. Yet the importance of this great conflagration cannot be measured in numbers alone, for Gettysburg also represented a pivotal moment in the war. The battle ended General Robert E. Lee’s second invasion of Union soil, and never again did a Confederate army reach that far north. Join historian John Hoptak as he narrates the fierce action between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac at such places as McPherson’s Ridge, the Railroad Cut, the Wheatfield, the Peach Orchard, Devil’s Den, Little Round Top and on Culp’s and Cemetery Hills. “His expertise comes through loud and clear in his energetic prose, combining narrative and analysis in a book that enlightens novices without boring more experienced readers.” —Historynet.com

Author : James Madison Bowler,Elizabeth Caleff Bowler,Andrea R. Foroughi
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873516001

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Go If You Think it Your Duty by James Madison Bowler,Elizabeth Caleff Bowler,Andrea R. Foroughi Pdf

A fascinating firsthand account of life during the U.S. Civil War as told by a husband and wife through the letters they shared with one another.

Author : Allen Guelzo
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307740694

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Gettysburg by Allen Guelzo Pdf

Winner of the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History An Economist Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Battle of Gettysburg has been written about at length and thoroughly dissected in terms of strategic importance, but never before has a book taken readers so close to the experience of the individual soldier. Two-time Lincoln Prize winner Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the stone walls and gunpowder clouds of Pickett’s Charge; the reason that the Army of Northern Virginia could be smelled before it could be seen; the march of thousands of men from the banks of the Rappahannock in Virginia to the Pennsylvania hills. What emerges is a previously untold story of army life in the Civil War: from the personal politics roiling the Union and Confederate officer ranks, to the peculiar character of artillery units. Through such scrutiny, one of history’s epic battles is given extraordinarily vivid new life.

Author : Zachery A. Fry
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469654461

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A Republic in the Ranks by Zachery A. Fry Pdf

The Army of the Potomac was a hotbed of political activity during the Civil War. As a source of dissent widely understood as a frustration for Abraham Lincoln, its onetime commander, George B. McClellan, even secured the Democratic nomination for president in 1864. But in this comprehensive reassessment of the army's politics, Zachery A. Fry argues that the war was an intense political education for its common soldiers. Fry examines several key crisis points to show how enlisted men developed political awareness that went beyond personal loyalties. By studying the struggle between Republicans and Democrats for political allegiance among the army's rank and file, Fry reveals how captains, majors, and colonels spurred a pro-Republican political awakening among the enlisted men, culminating in the army's resounding Republican voice in state and national elections in 1864. For decades, historians have been content to view the Army of the Potomac primarily through the prism of its general officer corps, portraying it as an arm of the Democratic Party loyal to McClellan's leadership and legacy. Fry, in contrast, shifts the story's emphasis to resurrect the successful efforts of proadministration junior officers who educated their men on the war's political dynamics and laid the groundwork for Lincoln's victory in 1864.

Author : Thomas Christie,Hampton Smith
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873517814

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Brother of Mine by Thomas Christie,Hampton Smith Pdf

In 1861, as President Lincoln called for volunteers to defend the Union, Thomas Christie wrote to his father, voicing desires shared by many an enlistee: "I do want to 'see the world, ' to get out of the narrow circle in which I have always lived, to 'make a man of myself, ' and to have it to say in days to come that I, too, had a part in this great struggle." As it turned out, Thomas had an excellent partner in his quest: his brother William. Both signed on with the First Minnesota Light Artillery, working as "cannoneers," responsible for loading and aiming big guns at the enemy. The First Minnesota saw action in major battles at Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, and Atlanta. But the adventurers also endured the monotony of camp life, the hunger of poor supply lines, and, in William's case, the challenges of enemy capture. The ups and downs, the doubts and thrills are recounted from their differing perspectives in this collection of letters to worried parents, a winsome sister, and a younger brother eager to join in the fight. Their vivid epistles are enhanced by the familial connection of brothers in arms who eventually did see the world--and returned home changed.

Author : Mary Hawker Bakeman
Publisher : x
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1932212159

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A Genealogist's Guide to Researching Civil War and Dakota Conflict Ancestors in Minnesota by Mary Hawker Bakeman Pdf

Author : Stephanie Fitzgerald
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756546953

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The Split History of the Battle of Gettysburg by Stephanie Fitzgerald Pdf

"Describes the opposing viewpoints of the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg"--

Author : Kate Roberts
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873515943

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Minnesota 150 by Kate Roberts Pdf

A fabulous showcase of individuals, events, and inventions that have made Minnesota.

Author : Paul Bogard
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780316342285

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The Ground Beneath Us by Paul Bogard Pdf

Our most compelling resource just might be the ground beneath our feet. When a teaspoon of soil contains millions of species, and when we pave over the earth on a daily basis, what does that mean for our future? What is the risk to our food supply, the planet's wildlife, the soil on which every life-form depends? How much undeveloped, untrodden ground do we even have left? Paul Bogard set out to answer these questions in The Ground Beneath Us, and what he discovered is astounding. From New York (where more than 118,000,000 tons of human development rest on top of Manhattan Island) to Mexico City (which sinks inches each year into the Aztec ruins beneath it), Bogard shows us the weight of our cities' footprints. And as we see hallowed ground coughing up bullets at a Civil War battlefield; long-hidden remains emerging from below the sites of concentration camps; the dangerous, alluring power of fracking; the fragility of the giant redwoods, our planet's oldest living things; the surprises hidden under a Major League ballpark's grass; and the sublime beauty of our few remaining wildest places, one truth becomes blazingly clear: The ground is the easiest resource to forget, and the last we should. Bogard's The Ground Beneath Us is deeply transporting reading that introduces farmers, geologists, ecologists, cartographers, and others in a quest to understand the importance of something too many of us take for granted: dirt. From growth and life to death and loss, and from the subsurface technologies that run our cities to the dwindling number of idyllic Edens that remain, this is the fascinating story of the ground beneath our feet.

Author : Travis W. Busey,John W. Busey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 1911 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786456185

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Union Casualties at Gettysburg by Travis W. Busey,John W. Busey Pdf

This reference work chronicles and categorizes more than 23,000 Union casualties at Gettysburg by generals and staff and by state and unit. Thirteen appendices also cover information by brigade, division and corps; by engagements and skirmishes; by state; by burial at three cemeteries; and by hospitals. Casualty transports, incarceration records and civilian casualty lists are also included.

Author : Dan Brown
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1452886105

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Race the Pale Horse by Dan Brown Pdf

When a contented youth living in an overseas British military base is told that his parents' car has tumbled over a coastal bluff on a fatal accident, he is struck with a blow from which he will never recover. Years later, as a degenerate guard at a London tourist attraction, he is met by an impassioned Interpol agent who informs him that his parents' caskets are empty and that the funeral was a hoax.The two find themselves on a common quest for answers and it becomes clear that the only man who can solve the riddle is the guard's own godfather - a scientist, ex-colonel and current fugitive who was last seen ten years ago. With a couple tricks up his sleeve and an agenda of his own, the guard vanishes to follow the trail alone. Meanwhile the agent deciphers clues a decade old on his own hunt for the retired colonel, learning as he goes the very unique circumstances of the colonel's past and the catastrophic consequences that could occur if he should fail.

Author : Richard Moe
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873517393

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The Last Full Measure by Richard Moe Pdf

The definitive history of the First Minnesota Volunteers in the Civil War.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0780716183

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Path of the Pale Horse by Anonim Pdf