The Aftermath Of Battle

Author : Meg Groeling
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611211900

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The stories of what happened after the shooting stopped and the process of burying bodies in the wake of Civil War carnage and chaos. The clash of armies in the American Civil War left hundreds of thousands of men dead, wounded, or permanently damaged. Skirmishes and battles could result in casualty numbers as low as one or two and as high as tens of thousands. The carnage of the battlefield left a lasting impression on those who experienced or viewed it, but in most cases the armies quickly moved on to meet again at another time and place. When the dust settled and the living armies moved on, what happened to the dead left behind? Unlike battle narratives, The Aftermath of Battle picks up the story as the battle ends. The burial of the dead was an overwhelming experience for the armies or communities forced to clean up after the destruction of battle. In the short-term action, bodies were hastily buried to avoid the stench and the horrific health concerns of massive death; in the long-term, families struggled to reclaim loved ones and properly reinter them in established cemeteries. Visitors to a battlefield often wonder what happened to the dead once the battle was over. This compelling, easy-to-read overview, enhanced with extensive photos and illustrations, provides a look at the aftermath of battle and the process of burying the Civil War dead.

Author : Edward Dale 1886 Toland
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1360142126

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AFTERMATH OF BATTLE by Edward Dale 1886 Toland Pdf

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Author : Edward D. Toland,Owen Wister
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1499201397

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The Aftermath of Battle by Edward D. Toland,Owen Wister Pdf

This book contains a most powerful account of the experiences of a young American who undertook work in the war hospitals of France. Owen Wister shares in his Preface, “written without art, yet with the effect of high art, with the effect, for example, of Defoe's account of the Plague, the reader ceases to be looking at a picture; he is himself in the picture, its terrific realities surround him as if he were walking among them.”

Author : Gregory Coco
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781940669786

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A Strange and Blighted Land by Gregory Coco Pdf

“An exhaustive compilation of first-hand accounts of the Gettysburg battlefield in the days, weeks, and months following the fight . . . heartbreaking.” —Austin Civil War Round Table Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863) was the largest battle fought on the American continent. Remarkably few who study it contemplate what came after the armies marched away. Who would care for the tens of thousands of wounded? What happened to the thousands of dead men, horses, and tons of detritus scattered in every direction? How did the civilians cope with their radically changed lives? Gregory Coco’s A Strange and Blighted Land offers a comprehensive account of these and other issues. Arranged in a series of topical chapters, A Strange and Blighted Land begins with a tour of the battlefield, mostly through eyewitness accounts, of the death and destruction littering the sprawling landscape. Once the size and scope are exposed to readers, Coco moves on to discuss the dead of Gettysburg, North and South, how their remains were handled, and how and why the Gettysburg National Cemetery was established. The author also discusses at length how the wounded and prisoners were handled and the fate of the thousands of stragglers and deserters left behind once the armies left before concluding with the preservation efforts that culminated in the establishment of the Gettysburg National Military Park in 1895. Coco’s prose is gripping, personal, and brutally honest. There is no mistaking where he comes down on the issue: There was nothing pretty or glorious or romantic about a battle—especially once the fighting ended.

Author : Edward D. Toland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0649214293

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The Aftermath of Battle; with the Red Cross in France by Edward D. Toland Pdf

Author : Edward Dale Toland
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Red Cross and Red Crescent
ISBN : WISC:89100091685

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The Aftermath of Battle by Edward Dale Toland Pdf

Author : Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807835906

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Chancellorsville by Gary W. Gallagher Pdf

A variety of important but lesser-known dimensions of the Chancellorsville campaign of spring 1863 are explored in this collection of eight original essays. Departing from the traditional focus on generalship and tactics, the contributors address the campaign's broad context and implications and revisit specific battlefield episodes that have in the past been poorly understood. Chancellorsville was a remarkable victory for Robert E. Lee's troops, a fact that had enormous psychological importance for both sides, which had met recently at Fredericksburg and would meet again at Gettysburg in just two months. But the achievement, while stunning, came at an enormous cost: more than 13,000 Confederates became casualties, including Stonewall Jackson, who was wounded by friendly fire and died several days later. The topics covered in this volume include the influence of politics on the Union army, the importance of courage among officers, the impact of the war on children, and the state of battlefield medical care. Other essays illuminate the important but overlooked role of Confederate commander Jubal Early, reassess the professionalism of the Union cavalry, investigate the incident of friendly fire that took Stonewall Jackson's life, and analyze the military and political background of Confederate colonel Emory Best's court-martial on charges of abandoning his men. Contributors Keith S. Bohannon, Pennsylvania State University and Greenville, South Carolina Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia A. Wilson Greene, Petersburg, Virginia John J. Hennessy, Fredericksburg, Virginia Robert K. Krick, Fredericksburg, Virginia James Marten, Marquette University Carol Reardon, Pennsylvania State University James I. Robertson Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Author : Edward Dale 1886-1964 Toland
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1360142088

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AFTERMATH OF BATTLE W/THE RED by Edward Dale 1886-1964 Toland Pdf

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Author : Charles R. Bowlus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351894166

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The Battle of Lechfeld and its Aftermath, August 955 by Charles R. Bowlus Pdf

In August 955 a battle took place that effectively ended the incursions of steppe nomads into Western Europe. The forces of Otto the Great annihilated a huge army of Hungarian mounted archers in an encounter that is generally known as the battle of Lechfeld, a broad plain near Augsburg in southern Germany. Since even after a defeat these elusive warriors surely could have fled back to the Carpathian Basin to rebuild their strength and resume their raids, the total annihilation of the Hungarian army is mysterious. This book provides the first satisfactory explanation for the decisive nature of Otto's victory. Based on a detailed analysis of all contemporary, and often contradictory, sources, Bowlus provides a step-by-step reconstruction of the battle. This is preceded by chapters analysing the administrative and military reforms in tenth-century Germany, and the strengths and weaknesses of nomadic styles of warfare, in particular their archery, and setting out the historical context in which the battle occurred. A pioneering aspect of his research is the introduction of environmental factors, not only the limits they imposed on the expansion of the nomadic way of life into Europe, but also the impact the local environment had on the outcome of the battle.

Author : Chuck Raasch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811765466

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Imperfect Union by Chuck Raasch Pdf

On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, Union artillery lieutenant Bayard Wilkeson fell while bravely spurring his men to action. His father, Sam, a New York Times correspondent, was already on his way to Gettysburg when he learned of his son’s wounding but had to wait until the guns went silent before seeking out his son, who had died at the town’s poorhouse. Sitting next to his dead boy, Sam Wilkeson then wrote one of the greatest battlefield dispatches in American history. This vivid exploration of one of Gettysburg’s most famous stories--the story of a father and a son, the son’s courage under fire, and the father’s search for his son in the bloody aftermath of battle--reconstructs Bayard Wilkeson’s wounding and death, which have been shrouded in myth and legend, and sheds light on Civil War–era journalism, battlefield medicine, and the “good death.”

Author : Debra Hamel
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421416823

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Battle of Arginusae by Debra Hamel Pdf

An Athenian triumph against Sparta end in disaster and infamy in this naval history of Ancient Greece in the 5th century B.C. Toward the end of the Peloponnesian War, nearly three hundred Athenian and Spartan ships fought a pivotal skirmish in the Arginusae Islands. Larger than any previous naval battle between warring Greeks, the Battle of Arginusae was a crucial win for Athens. Its aftermath, however, was a major disaster for its people. Due to numerous factors, the Athenian commanders abandoned the crews of twenty-five disabled ships. Thousands of soldiers were left clinging to wreckage and awaiting help that never came. When the failure was discovered back home, the eight generals in charge were deposed. Two fled into exile, while the other six were tried and executed. In The Battle of Arginusae, historian Debra Hamel describes the violent battle and its horrible aftermath. Hamel introduces readers to Athens and Sparta, the two thriving superpowers of the fifth century B.C. She provides a summary of the events that caused the long war and discusses the tactical intricacies of Greek naval warfare. Recreating the claustrophobic, unhygienic conditions in which the ships’ crews operated, Hamel unfolds the process that turned this naval victory into one of the most infamous chapters in the city-state’s history.

Author : John Lawrence,Robert Lawrence,Carol Price
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Falkland Islands War, 1982
ISBN : 0747501742

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When the Fighting is Over by John Lawrence,Robert Lawrence,Carol Price Pdf

This is the story of Robert Lawrence of the Scots Guards who was severely wounded as he led his platoon in an attack against an Argentinian machine-gun position during the battle for Tumbledown Mountain in 1982. The injury to Lawrence's head was so severe that it was assumed that he would die and he had to wait for four hours before medical staff could help him, but he did eventually make a recovery, coming to terms with his paralysis.

Author : Edward D. Toland
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0260498777

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The Aftermath of Battle by Edward D. Toland Pdf

Excerpt from The Aftermath of Battle: With the Red Cross in France Ost of these pages following are, M like the photographs which go with them, torn fresh and hot, so to speak, from the diary of a young American, just as he jotted them down day by day in the war hospitals of France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : David A. Powell
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611213294

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The Chickamauga Campaign by David A. Powell Pdf

Winner of the Laney Book Prize from the Austin Civil War Round Table: “The post-battle coverage is simply unprecedented among prior Chickamauga studies.” —James A. Hessler, award-winning author of Sickles at Gettysburg This third and concluding volume of the magisterial Chickamauga Campaign trilogy, a comprehensive examination of one of the most important and complex military operations of the Civil War, examines the immediate aftermath of the battle with unprecedented clarity and detail. The narrative opens at dawn on Monday, September 21, 1863, with Union commander William S. Rosecrans in Chattanooga and most of the rest of his Federal army in Rossville, Georgia. Confederate commander Braxton Bragg has won the signal victory of his career, but has yet to fully grasp that fact or the fruits of his success. Unfortunately for the South, the three grueling days of combat broke down the Army of Tennessee and a vigorous pursuit was nearly impossible. In addition to carefully examining the decisions made by each army commander and the consequences, Powell sets forth the dreadful costs of the fighting in terms of the human suffering involved. Barren Victory concludes with the most detailed Chickamauga orders of battle (including unit strengths and losses) ever compiled, and a comprehensive bibliography more than a decade in the making. Includes illustrations

Author : Paul O'Keeffe
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781468315400

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Waterloo by Paul O'Keeffe Pdf

The consequences of Napoleon’s most famous defeat are explored in this “highly readable, richly anecdotal retelling of the battle’s devastating results” (Kirkus). In the early morning hours of June 19, 1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours, days, weeks, and months that followed, news of the battle would begin to shape the consciousness of an age; the battlegrounds would be looted and cleared, its dead buried or burned, its ground and ruins overrun by tourists; the victorious British and Prussian armies would invade France and occupy Paris. And for Napoleon, there was no avenue ahead but surrender, exile and captivity. In this dramatic account of the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, Paul O'Keeffe employs a multiplicity of contemporary sources and viewpoints to create a reading experience that brings into focus as never before the sights, sounds, and smells of the battlefield, of conquest and defeat, of celebration and riot.