The Rebel Scout Expanded Annotated

Author : Captain Thomas Nelson Conrad
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Rebel Scout (Expanded, Annotated) by Captain Thomas Nelson Conrad Pdf

"...thank God, the Rebel Scout has lived long enough to outgrow many of the prejudices engendered by the war." Though able to write those words in 1905, at the outbreak of the American Civil War, Dickinson College-educated Maryland native, Thomas Conrad was a passionate fighter for the Rebel cause. Working as a scout in the command of J.E.B. Stuart, he fought alongside his Phi Kappa Sigma buddy and life-long friend, Daniel Mountjoy Cloud. Along the way, he met and ate with Jefferson Davis and was part of a plan (separate from the Booth conspirators) to kidnap Abraham Lincoln. According to Conrad: "Neither President Davis nor his secretary of war had any knowledge of my contemplated attempt to capture Mr. Lincoln and bring him to Richmond. I consulted only the military secretary of General Bragg, and General Bragg at that time had command of Richmond and its defenses. This military secretary enjoined me, above all things, not to hurt a hair upon Lincoln’s head, or treat him with the slightest indignity." By chance, one of Conrad's men met up with John Wilkes Booth during his escape and furnished him with one of Conrad's horses, on which Booth rode to the site of his death. After the war, Conrad was president of what is today Virginia Tech. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above. Buy it today!

Author : Thomas Nelson Conrad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519045921

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The Rebel Scout (Expanded, Annotated) by Thomas Nelson Conrad Pdf

"...thank God, the Rebel Scout has lived long enough to outgrow many of the prejudices engendered by the war."Though able to write those words in 1905, at the outbreak of the American Civil War, Dickinson College-educated Maryland native, Thomas Conrad was a passionate fighter for the Rebel cause. Working as a scout in the command of J.E.B. Stuart, he fought alongside his Phi Kappa Sigma buddy and life-long friend, Daniel Mountjoy Cloud.Along the way, he met and ate with Jefferson Davis and was part of a plan (separate from the Booth conspirators) to kidnap Abraham Lincoln. According to Conrad:"Neither President Davis nor his secretary of war had any knowledge of my contemplated attempt to capture Mr. Lincoln and bring him to Richmond. I consulted only the military secretary of General Bragg, and General Bragg at that time had command of Richmond and its defenses. This military secretary enjoined me, above all things, not to hurt a hair upon Lincoln's head, or treat him with the slightest indignity."By chance, one of Conrad's men met up with John Wilkes Booth during his escape and furnished him with one of Conrad's horses, on which Booth rode to the site of his death.After the war, Conrad was president of what is today Virginia Tech.For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones.Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above. Buy it today!

Author : Albert O. Marshall
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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From a Soldier's Journal: 1861-64 (Expanded, Annotated) by Albert O. Marshall Pdf

In all of the dusty volumes of Civil War memoirs that no one reads anymore, once in a while we come across one such as this. Written by a man with literary aspirations from a regiment of like-minded soldiers, Albert Marshall’s use of the pen produced more eloquence than did that of many of his contemporaries. He left one of the most compelling accounts of the siege of Vicksburg from a private soldier's point of view. He also wrote of service in Texas, which is rare among Civil War memoirs. Eloquent, funny, poignant, and immensely satisfying, Marshall's memoir from his journal is one of the best of the genre. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers, tablets, and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Author : William Watson
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Scottish Rebel in the Confederate Army (Expanded, Annotated) by William Watson Pdf

What could possibly induce an educated, merchant Scotsman, with no citizenship in the U.S., no sympathy for slavery, and a clear opposition to secession, to join and fight for the Confederate Army? In this fascinating 1888 memoir by William Watson, you'll find out. As a foreigner, he had a unique and fairly dispassionate view of the impending calamity of the American Civil War. He had lived and done business in the South for several years, watching and listening to all points of view as the country slid towards disaster. He tells us: "I had already determined that I would never forswear or renounce my allegiance to Queen Victoria." But when war came, Watson joined the Baton Rouge Rifle Volunteer Company to fight for the Confederacy. His insights and very self-aware answers as to why will surprise you. His observations of life in the South before the war are worth the entire book. For less than you'd spend on gas going to the library, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Author : George Bird Grinnell
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Two Great Scouts: And Their Pawnee Battallion (Expanded, Annotated) by George Bird Grinnell Pdf

Few Americans realize how many Native Americans served as scouts and guides for the U.S. Army during the Indian wars of the late 19th century. This is the true story of one battallion of Pawnees organized and led by the famous scouts, the North brothers. A scout's life was hard and often short but they were essential to army operations in the West, as few army officers had knowledge of the tribes or terrain. The North brothers knew the lay of the land and spoke Pawnee. George Bird Grinnell knew the Norths. He is one of our premier historians, anthropologists, and naturalists of the Old West. He accompanied General George Armstrong Custer on the 1874 Black Hills Expedition and has some interesting things to say about Custer in this book. Grinnell was also key to the protection of Yellowstone Park and the establishment of Glacier National Park. Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the migration that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Author : Dr. Jesse Hawes
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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CAHABA: Captive Boys in Blue (Expanded, Annotated) by Dr. Jesse Hawes Pdf

It is the worst Civil War POW camp you've probably never heard of. A larger percentage of those who left Cahaba died once back in Union lines than of those who left Andersonville. it was five times more crowded than Andersonville. Jesse Hawes was an 18-year-old enlistee in the 9th Illinois Cavalry who was captured and imprisoned at Cahaba. In one of the most articulate, unique, and moving accounts of prison life in the south, the Colorado physician looks back more than thirty years to the desperate days filled with starvation, death, and disease. Not only did he rely on his memory but he researched the Union and Confederate records to bring incredible detail to this comprehensive work. After the war, Hawes became a respected Colorado surgeon. He attended many reunions of the 9th Illinois and never forgot the friendships born of unspeakable hardships. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Author : Theodore Gerrish
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Army Life in Chamberlain's 20th Maine (Expanded, Annotated) by Theodore Gerrish Pdf

Every great battle takes on new perspectives and meaning when viewed from the prone position of the private soldier, as opposed to the broad sweep of after-battle reports. Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Spottslyvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg...Theodore Gerrish was at them all with Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's 20th Maine Regiment. His vivid, compassionate, and often humorous telling is from the spot on the field where the minie-balls are thickest and the cannonading is deafening. This is one of the best private-soldier memoirs of the American Civil War in its scope and its minute details. The views Gerrish provides at the end of famous officers as seen from the private soldier's point of view include Grant, Meade, Hooker, Josuah Lawrence Chamberlain, and others with whom he came in contact. Some of the humor: “Chaplain, will you be kind enough to tell me what the two capital letters, B.C., stand for, when they are printed together upon anything?” “O, yes. It means before the birth of our Saviour, previous to the beginning of the Christian era.” He proceeded to give quite a profound theological exposition of the matter, and then inquired, “Why did you ask so unusual a question?” “O, nothin’,” answered the innocent Dick, “only we have seen it stamped on these sheets of hard-tack, and were curious to know why it was there.” Of the African-Americans who fought, Gerrish says: "As these two races march beside each other in the struggle of life, we only ask and demand that those who, in their poverty, did all they could to save the nation and assist its defenders, shall not be deprived of their sacred rights." Front-line letters and diaries of the Civil War bring an immediacy to a long-ago event and connect us to these everyday men and women who lived it. For less than you'd spend on gas going to the library, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Author : Sarah Emma Edmonds
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Female Spy of the Union Army (Expanded, Annotated) by Sarah Emma Edmonds Pdf

Her true story is as remarkable and exciting as it was dangerous. Disguising herself as a man named Franklin Flint Thompson and enlisting in the Union army, Emma saw front-line battle and acted as a spy. A master of disguise, she even traveled into enemy territory as a black man and an Irish woman. She stated her reason for leaving after two years' service was due to contracting malaria. Her poignant story was published to great acclaim in 1864 and quickly became a best seller. After the war she was lauded by former compatriots and given a small government pension. The only woman inducted into the Union veterans organization, The Grand Army of the Republic, she was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1992. [Abridged, Annotated, New Intro] Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Author : THOMAS NELSON. CONRAD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033175560

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REBEL SCOUT by THOMAS NELSON. CONRAD Pdf

Author : Richard W. Surby
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Grierson's Grand Raid in the Civil War (Expanded, Annotated) by Richard W. Surby Pdf

From April 17 to May 2, 1863, one of the most daring Union actions took place as a diversion to Grant's Vicksburg campaign. A cavalry force of 1,700 men under Colonel Benjamin Grierson rode six hundred miles through Rebel territory to tear up railroads, free slaves, and destroy Confederate supplies as special forces. The raiders seemed unstoppable and caused great damage, inflicting many times the casualties on the enemy as were inflicted upon themselves. This is the story of that guerrilla raid, by those who were there and verified by Grierson. This book also tells the story of the scout, Chickasaw, a southerner loyal to the Union who risked his life to help the Federal troops. For the first time ever, this long-out-of-print book is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.

Author : Thomas Nelson Conrad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Secret service
ISBN : 0788447696

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The Rebel Scout by Thomas Nelson Conrad Pdf

These pages offer "a faithful sketch of scouting life in the Southern Army, a life full of romance, adventure and perils " This edition contains a new name, place and subject index by John D. Bowman. C4769HB - $15.00

Author : John Frederick Finerty
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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On the Trail of Crazy Horse (Expanded, Annotated) by John Frederick Finerty Pdf

Without question, one of the premier classic books on the American Indian Wars. John Frederick Finerty was a famous journalist for the Chicago "Times" who went into the field to report on the U.S. government's efforts to force Native Americans onto reservations. In 1876, Finerty was with General George Crook's forces at the Battle of the Rosebud. Part of Crook's aim was to connect with George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn. It never happened and Custer was killed along with five companies of his regiment by Crazy Horse, Gall, Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-Face and other leaders. A teenage refugee from the Irish revolutionary movement, Finerty immigrated to the U.S. in 1864 and signed up to fight in the Civil War. By 1870 he was writing for newspapers, eventually making a national name for himself. He repeatedly went to the West to cover the Indian Wars and wrote with great intelligence, humor, and compassion about what he saw. Always self-deprecating and sardonic, he nevertheless had this to say to would-be Western journalists: “Let no easy-going journalist suppose that an Indian campaign is a picnic. If he goes out on such business he must go prepared to ride his forty or fifty miles a day, go sometimes on half rations, sleep on the ground with small covering, roast, sweat, freeze, and make the acquaintance of such vermin or reptiles as may flourish in the vicinity of his couch; and, finally, be ready to fight Sitting Bull or Satan when the trouble begins, for God and the United States hate non-combatants.” His conclusions about the Indian War included this: "White greed is not by any means satisfied, even though the fairest portion of the Sioux reservations have been given up to settlement...we of the Caucasian race must confess, however reluctantly, that even the red Indian has some rights on the soil which bore him that the whites are bound to respect." You'll have a hard time putting this one down. Expanded and heavily annotated with information about events and people. Every memoir of the Old West provides us with another view of an era that changed America forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Author : John B. Vaughter
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Prison Life in Dixie (Expanded, Annotated) by John B. Vaughter Pdf

Author : Thomas Nelson Conrad
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1528280393

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The Rebel Scout by Thomas Nelson Conrad Pdf

Excerpt from The Rebel Scout: A Thrilling History of Scouting Life in the Southern Army It is the purpose of the author of these pages to give, among other things, a faithful sketch of scouting life in the Southern Army, a life full of romance, adventure and perils; oftentimes requiring daring, dash and despera tion upon a moment's notice; at other times the coolest bravery, the steadiest nerve and the most skilled strategy; and at all times a con suming ambition, a patriotic consecration and a reckless devotion to the Southern cause the impersonation of the. Highest type of the soldier and knight. 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 : Various Soldiers
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Soldiers' Civil War Letters (Expanded, Annotated) by Various Soldiers Pdf

Perhaps no army in history, prior to the American Civil War, left such a remarkable and voluminous collection of letters to home during the years 1861 to 1865. This collection is one of the best. Men from all walks of life and all ranks in the service are represented here over the span of the entire war. The famous and anonymous are included—personal stories of great battles and humorous stories of army life. You'll find pathos, sorrow, fear, and great courage detailed in these letters. Most soldiers were very humble and modest about their own accomplishments but spoke of their comrades with love and admiration. Common soldiers often made remarkable observations. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers, tablets, and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.