The White Tecumseh

Author : Stanley P. Hirshson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997-04-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015041080246

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The White Tecumseh by Stanley P. Hirshson Pdf

A refreshing new look at one of the Civil War2s most compelling and controversial figures Best remembered as the man who burned Atlanta, and marched his army to the sea, cutting a swath of destruction through Georgia, William Tecumseh Sherman remains one of the most vital figures in Civil War annals. This beautifully crafted new biography offers a fresh perspective on this pivotal personality. It is the first Sherman biography to draw on regimental histories, giving us a fascinating view of how Sherman2s own men regarded him and how they rated him as a general. More sympathetic than other biographers, Hirshson presents Sherman as a brilliant but tormented soul, haunted by the mental instability that plagued his mother2s family. The White Tecumseh also focuses more closely on Sherman2s battles and marches than previous accounts, demonstrating that his lackluster performance on the battlefield was more than compensated for by the effectiveness of his march campaigns. Illustrations include previously unseen photos from the West Point Archives STANLEY P. HIRSHSON (Closter, New Jersey) is a professor of history at Queens College of the City University of New York. He is also the author of Farewell to the Bloody Shirt: Northern Republicans and the Southern Negro, 1877-1983. Reconsidering one of the Civil War2s most compelling and controversial figures. "As psychologically penetrating as it is painstakingly researched . . . sure to become a controversial book on one of America2s great generals."-Publishers Weekly (starred review). "Sympathetic yet excellent . . . insight into how Sherman2s own troops felt about him and his relationships with fellow generals, especially Grant. . . . Highly recommended."-Library Journal. Best remembered as the man who burned Atlanta and marched his army to the sea, cutting a swath of destruction through Georgia, William Tecumseh Sherman is treated to a beautifully crafted study from acclaimed historian Stanley Hirshson. The first to draw on regimental histories, this book presents Sherman as a brilliant but tormented soul, haunted by the mental instability that plagued his mother2s family. Among the illustrations are previously unseen photos from the West Point Archives. Stanley P. Hirshson (New York, NY) is professor of history at Queens College and City University of New York, and author of Farewell to the Bloody Shirt: Northern Republicans and the Southern Negro, 1877-1893.

Author : Stanley P. Hirshson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780471283294

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The White Tecumseh by Stanley P. Hirshson Pdf

"Extraordinarily readable." --Paul D. Casdorph, author of Jackson and Lee Best remembered as the man who burned Atlanta and marched his army to the sea, cutting a swath of destruction through Georgia, William Tecumseh Sherman remains one of the most vital figures in Civil War annals. In The White Tecumseh, Stanley Hirshson has crafted a beautiful and rigorous work of scholarship, the only life of Sherman to draw on regimental histories and testimonies by the general's own men. What emerges is a landmark portrait of a brilliant but tormented soul, haunted by a family legacy of mental illness and relentlessly driven to realize a powerful military ambition. "Sympathetic yet excellent . . . insight into how Sherman's own troops felt about him and his relationships with fellow generals, especially Grant. . . . Highly recommended." --Library Journal

Author : Peter Cozzens
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525434887

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Tecumseh and the Prophet by Peter Cozzens Pdf

"An insightful, unflinching portrayal of the remarkable siblings who came closer to altering the course of American history than any other Indian leaders."⁠ —H.W. Brands, author of The Zealot and the Emancipator The first biography of the great Shawnee leader to make clear that his misunderstood younger brother, Tenskwatawa, was an equal partner in the last great pan-Indian alliance against the United States. Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813, he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co-architects of the broadest pan-Indian confederation in United States history. In previous accounts of Tecumseh's life, Tenskwatawa has been dismissed as a talentless charlatan and a drunk. But award-winning historian Peter Cozzens now shows us that while Tecumseh was a brilliant diplomat and war leader--admired by the same white Americans he opposed--it was Tenskwatawa, called the "Shawnee Prophet," who created a vital doctrine of religious and cultural revitalization that unified the disparate tribes of the Old Northwest. Detailed research of Native American society and customs provides a window into a world often erased from history books and reveals how both men came to power in different but no less important ways. Cozzens brings us to the forefront of the chaos and violence that characterized the young American Republic, when settlers spilled across the Appalachians to bloody effect in their haste to exploit lands won from the British in the War of Independence, disregarding their rightful Indian owners. Tecumseh and the Prophet presents the untold story of the Shawnee brothers who retaliated against this threat--the two most significant siblings in Native American history, who, Cozzens helps us understand, should be writ large in the annals of America.

Author : James Laxer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1554981239

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Tecumseh by James Laxer Pdf

-This richly illustrated book tells the remarkable life story of Tecumseh--one of the great leaders of North America's First Peoples--culminating in the events of the War of 1812.---Front jacket flap.

Author : Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0230618448

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Sherman: Lessons in Leadership by Steven E. Woodworth Pdf

Sherman is not only one of the most important generals in the American Civil War, but also one of the most famous commanders in the military annals of the western world. He has become an almost mythical character in popular memory, the embodiment of grim-visaged, implacable war. Legend has him burning a sixty-mile-wide swath of desolation across the South, and southerners still confidently assert that their ancestors were burned out by Sherman and his vandal hordes. Sherman famously said, "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it," and yet, even at his most destructive, he maintained strict limits on the degree of damage his soldiers could inflict. Sherman's wartime career makes a fascinating study of the degree to which the severity of war can be channeled, directed, and limited--especially as it relates to the current war in Iraq.

Author : Glenn Tucker
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786251701

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Tecumseh: Vision Of Glory by Glenn Tucker Pdf

In the years just preceding the War of 1812 one man, an Indian, dominated the American frontier—Tecumseh. He emerges here as a vivid, splendid character, a man of unusual talents and noble aims, whereas in much previous history and biography he has been depicted as a baffling, sinister, often bloody figure—a man of inscrutable motives whose scheming for a time actually threatened to delay the settlement of the Northwest. Tecumseh’s great oratorical powers, his statesmanship, his military acumen, his personal magnetism won him the passionate loyalty of his Indians and the admiration of even his white enemies. In nobility of character, in leadership and in devotion to a lost cause he suggests points of comparison with Robert E. Lee. The need for this book is indicated by the fact that until its publication the standard biography has continued to be Benjamin Drake’s book first published in 1841 and ranks as a collectors’ item. Tecumseh’s great vision was a confederation of all the Indian tribes to check the encroachment of the whites on the Indian lands. His journeys took him from the Mohawk River in the east to the Arkansas in the west, from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Tucker offers proof that the British in Canada did not push Tecumseh on war with the United States—as historians have claimed—but on the contrary Tecumseh urged the British to declare war. The high point of Tecumseh’s point probably came when with Major General Brook he captured Detroit and made a sizeable American army to surrender. Only a few months later his forces, outnumbered and almost unsupported by their brave and futile stand on the Thames River. Tecumseh was killed, and his dream of a red empire broken. So ended the mighty vision and the greatest of the great chiefs.

Author : Alexei Orlov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735573612

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The Shadow of the Tecumseh Curse Over the White House by Alexei Orlov Pdf

This book by the Russian-language American journalist Alexei Orlov follows events of the 1830s through the subsequent centuries of American history. Between 1840 and 1960, all American presidents elected in years that are multiples of 20 were cursed by the Indian Chief Tecumseh and died in office, either of natural causes or by assassination. Orlov's book discusses the tragic lives of these presidents, from William Henry Harrison, elected in 1840, to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, elected in 1960. Ronald Reagan, elected in 1980, was severely wounded. George W. Bush, elected in 2000, narrowly avoided the fate of his bi-decennial predecessors. Has the Tecumseh curse lost its potency in the 21st century? No one can know for sure. We should avoid jumping to conclusions before the forthcoming 2020 election.

Author : Allan W. Eckert
Publisher : Domain
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780553561746

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A Sorrow in Our Heart by Allan W. Eckert Pdf

A biography of the famous Shawnee describes Tecumseh's plan to amalgamate all North American tribes into one people, his role as statesman and military strategist, and his death in the Battle of Thames.

Author : Robert G. Athearn
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0806127694

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William Tecumseh Sherman and the Settlement of the West by Robert G. Athearn Pdf

William Tecumseh Sherman is known primarily for having cut a swath of destruction through Georgia and the Carolinas during the Civil War. From the fame of these years, however, he moved into an eighteen-year phase of “insuring the tranquility” of the vast region of the American West. As commander of the Division of the Missouri from 1865 to 1869 and General of the Army of the United States under President Grant from 1869 to 1883, Sherman facilitated expansion and settlement in the West while suppressing the raids of the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Kiowa, Comanche, and Crow Indians. Robert G. Athearn explores Sherman’s and his army’s roles in the settling of the West, especially within the broad framework of railroad construction, Indian policy, political infighting, and popular opinion.

Author : James A. Huston,Anne Marshall Huston
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781452089270

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Tecumseh's Quest by James A. Huston,Anne Marshall Huston Pdf

Tecumseh, the greatest Shawnee Chief, lives in our history as an outstanding leader, a brave warrior, and a creative thinker. His dream was to unite the Indian tribes into a great confederation that would be able to withstand the encroachments of white settlers. This is the story about a portion of Tecumseh's life as a young lad whose adventures helped to shape the man he was to become. For his special vision quest he had to go alone into the woods to discover a Great Truth and his Guardian Spirit that would guide him the rest of his life. The book should have a special appeal for all children, especially those of ages 8 to 12.

Author : W. C. Madden
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462846641

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Tecumseh’S Curse by W. C. Madden Pdf

From the author of more than thirty other titles comes his first mystery fiction that is all set to absorb readers. This time W.C. Madden will take them on an exciting journey through time to witness mysteriously compelling events in Tecumsehs Curse. This story unfolds in the modern day of Battle Ground, a small town where the Battle of Tippecanoe took place two hundred years before. Through the pages of this riveting book, readers will be sent back to the Battle of Fallen Timbers in the Ohio Territory in 1793, the place where William Henry Harrison has his first encounter with the famous Shawnee Indian chief, Tecumseh. What the modern day mystery has to do with the history is something readers would find out later as the surprising end unveils in Tecumsehs Curse. Skillfully written, packed with mystery and thrill, Tecumsehs Curse is an engrossing read everyone will surely find interesting and memorable.

Author : George Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086726486

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Tecumseh and the Prophet of the West by George Jones Pdf

Author : George Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Generals
ISBN : UOM:39015082255624

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Tecumseh and the Prophet of the West, an Historical Israel-Indian Tragedy ... by George Jones Pdf

Author : James Laxer
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887842610

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Tecumseh & Brock by James Laxer Pdf

A political scientist, scholar and the best-selling author of Stalking the Elephant: My Discover of America describes the War of 1812 and discusses the strange alliance of a Shawnee chieftain and an English Major-General.

Author : George Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590546583

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Tecumseh and the prophet of the West, an historical tragedy. The life and history of general Harrison. And The first oration upon ... Shakespeare by George Jones Pdf