Three Years And A Half In The Army Or History Of The Second Colorados Union Volunteer Cavalry At War Against Indians Confederate Forces 1860 65

Author : Ellen Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0857066544

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Three Years and a Half in the Army Or, History of the Second Colorados-Union Volunteer Cavalry at War Against Indians & Confederate Forces, 1860-65 by Ellen Williams Pdf

Union horse soldiers in the far west Curiously for a work that is at least in part the regimental history of a cavalry unit, its author was a woman, Ellen Williams, who was not only a mere chronicler of the horse soldiers fortunes but who also campaigned with them as the wife of a bugler of the regiment. This remarkable camp follower recounts the activities of the Colorados in combination with her own first hand experiences which illuminate the text with a unique female perspective. The 2nd Colorado Cavalry's campaigns during the American Civil War involved combats with the Confederate Army, guerrillas and the hostile Indians of the western frontier. Organised in St Louis, Missouri in late 1863, the regiment was principally put to use as detached companies working in concert and numbers as the task required. For example three companies were despatched to Fort Lyon in the Colorado territory and then to various posts before being assigned to the protection of the Kansas border region from depredations by guerrillas which put them perpetually on the firing line until late 1864. Other companies were involved in the scout from Pleasant Hill, the expedition into Missouri, the scout to Lafayette and Jackson county and more. The principal engagements of the regiment against the Confederates were the battles of Camden Point, Second Lexington, Little Blue River, Second Independence, Byram's Ford, Westport, Marais des Cygnes, Mine Creek and Second Newtonia. The regiment then moved to the District of the Upper Arkansas to engage in operations against hostile Indians around Forts Riley, Zarah, Ellsworth and Larned. It took part in numerous skirmishes including Godfrey's Ranch, Pawnee Rock and Plum Butte whilst also protecting the overland stage route from Denver to Julesburg until September of 1865. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

Author : Clayton R. Newell
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1500983942

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The Regular Army Before the Civil War 1845 - 1860 by Clayton R. Newell Pdf

Most civil wars do not spring up overnight, and the American Civil War was no exception. The seeds of the conflict were sown in the earliest days of the republic's founding, primarily over theexistence of slavery and the slave trade. Although no conflict can begin without the conscious decisions of those engaged in the debates at that moment, in the end, there was simply no way topaper over the division of the country into two camps: one that was dominated by slavery and the other that sought first to limit its spread and then to abolish it. Our nation was indeed “half slave and half free,” and that could not stand.Regardless of the factors tearing the nation asunder, the soldiers on each side of the struggle went to war for personal reasons: looking for adventure, being caught up in the passionsand emotions of their peers, believing in the Union, favoring states' rights, or even justifying the simple schoolyard dynamic of being convinced that they were “worth” three of the soldierson the other side. Nor can we overlook the factor that some went to war to prove their manhood. This has been, and continues to be, a key dynamic in understanding combat and the professionof arms. Soldiers join for many reasons but often stay in the fight because of their comrades and because they do not want to seem like cowards. Sometimes issues of national impact shrinkto nothing in the intensely personal world of cannon shell and minié ball.

Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117841085

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American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949 by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : MINN:30000006077097

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Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Lee Stubbs,Stanley Russell Connor,United States. Dept. of the Army. Office of Military History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112045904676

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Armor-cavalry by Mary Lee Stubbs,Stanley Russell Connor,United States. Dept. of the Army. Office of Military History Pdf

Author : United States Army,Mark Bradley
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1098873335

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The Army and Reconstruction, 1865-1877 by United States Army,Mark Bradley Pdf

Within two months of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House on 9 April 1865, the Confederacy had collapsed, and its armed forces had ceased to exist. In the spring of 1865, the U.S. Army faced the unprecedented task of occupying eleven conquered Southern states and administering "Reconstruction"-the process by which the former rebellious states would be restored to the Union. But a rapid demobilization of the Army placed the remaining occupation troops at a disadvantage almost from the start.This brochure traces the Army's law enforcement, stability, and peacekeeping roles in the South from May 1865 to the end of Reconstruction in 1877, marking a unique period in American history. During that time, the Southern states remained under military occupation, and for several years, they were also ruled by military government. Veteran Army commanders such as Philip H. Sheridan, John M. Schofield, Daniel E. Sickles, Edward R. S. Canby, and Winfield S. Hancock may have found the work of Reconstruction less dangerous than fighting the Civil War had been, but they also found it no less challenging.

Author : Leo E. Oliva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fort Union (N.M.)
ISBN : MINN:30000009395397

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Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest by Leo E. Oliva Pdf

Author : Mary Lee Stubbs,Stanley Russell Connor
Publisher : Wildside Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1434458121

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Armor-Cavalry Part I by Mary Lee Stubbs,Stanley Russell Connor Pdf

Mary Lee Stubbs (Chief of the Organizational History Branch of the O.S. Office of the Chief of Military History) and Stanley Russell Connor (Deputy Chief of the U.S. Organizational History Branch, OCMH) wrote the 1968 Armor-Cavalry Part I: Regular Army and Army Reserve, part of the Army Lineage Series, which was "designed to foster the esprit de corps of United States Army units."

Author : Stan Hoig
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806187129

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The Sand Creek Massacre by Stan Hoig Pdf

Sometimes called "The Chivington Massacre" by those who would emphasize his responsibility for the attack and "The Battle of Sand Creek" by those who would imply that it was not a massacre, this event has become one of our nation’s most controversial Indian conflicts. The subject of army and Congressional investigations and inquiries, a matter of vigorous newspaper debates, the object of much oratory and writing biased in both directions, the Sand Creek Massacre very likely will never be completely and satisfactorily resolved. This account of the massacre investigates the historical events leading to the battle, tracing the growth of the Indian-white conflict in Colorado Territory. The author has shown the way in which the discontent stemming from the treaty of Fort Wise, the depredations committed by the Cheyennes and Arapahoes prior to the massacre, and the desire of some of the commanding officers for a bloody victory against the Indians laid the groundwork for the battle at Sand Creek.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0160915473

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The Civil War Begins by Anonim Pdf

Although over one hundred fifty years have passed since the start of the American Civil War, that titanic conflict continues to matter. The forces unleashed by that war were immensely destructive because of the significant issues involved: the existence of the Union, the end of slavery, and the very future of the nation. The war remains our most contentious, and our bloodiest, with over six hundred thousand killed in the course of the four-year struggle. Most civil wars do not spring up overnight, and the American Civil War was no exception. The seeds of the conflict were sown in the earliest days of the republic’s founding, primarily over the existence of slavery and the slave trade. Although no conflict can begin without the conscious decisions of those engaged in the debates at that moment, in the end, there was simply no way to paper over the division of the country into two camps: one that was dominated by slavery and the other that sought first to limit its spread and then to abolish it. Our nation was indeed “half slave and half free,” and that could not stand. Regardless of the factors tearing the nation asunder, the soldiers on each side of the struggle went to war for personal reasons: looking for adventure, being caught up in the passions and emotions of their peers, believing in the Union, favoring states’ rights, or even justifying the simple schoolyard dynamic of being convinced that they were “worth” three of the soldiers on the other side. Nor can we overlook the factor that some went to war to prove their manhood. This has been, and continues to be, a key dynamic in understanding combat and the profession of arms. Soldiers join for many reasons but often stay in the fight because of their comrades and because they do not want to seem like cowards. Whatever the reasons, the struggle was long and costly and only culminated with the conquest of the rebellious Confederacy, the preservation of the Union, and the end of slavery. These campaign pamphlets on the American Civil War, prepared in commemoration of our national sacrifices, seek to remember that war and honor those in the United States Army who died to preserve the Union and free the slaves as well as to tell the story of those American soldiers who fought for the Confederacy despite the inherently flawed nature of their cause. The Civil War was our greatest struggle and continues to deserve our deep study and contemplation.

Author : Clayton D. Laurie
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0160882680

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The role of federal military forces in domestic disorders, 1877-1945 by Clayton D. Laurie Pdf

CMH 30-15. Army Historical Series. 2nd of three planned volumes on the history of Army domestic support operations. This volume encompasses the period of the rise of industrial America with attendant social dislocation and strife. Major themes are: the evolution of the Army's role in domestic support operations; its strict adherence to law; and the disciplined manner in which it conducted these difficult and often unpopular operations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Microforms
ISBN : UIUC:30112124402030

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Guide to Microforms in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alfred Hudson Guernsey,Henry Mills Alden
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018613821

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Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War by Alfred Hudson Guernsey,Henry Mills Alden Pdf

"Contemporary accounts and illustrations from the greatest magazine of the time. With 1000 scenes, maps, plans and portraits"--Jacket subtitle.

Author : William A. Dobak
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781510720220

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Freedom by the Sword by William A. Dobak Pdf

The Civil War changed the United States in many ways—economic, political, and social. Of these changes, none was more important than Emancipation. Besides freeing nearly four million slaves, it brought agricultural wage labor to a reluctant South and gave a vote to black adult males in the former slave states. It also offered former slaves new opportunities in education, property ownership—and military service. From late 1862 to the spring of 1865, as the Civil War raged on, the federal government accepted more than 180,000 black men as soldiers, something it had never done before on such a scale. Known collectively as the United States Colored Troops and organized in segregated regiments led by white officers, some of these soldiers guarded army posts along major rivers; others fought Confederate raiders to protect Union supply trains, and still others took part in major operations like the Siege of Petersburg and the Battle of Nashville. After the war, many of the black regiments took up posts in the former Confederacy to enforce federal Reconstruction policy. Freedom by the Sword tells the story of these soldiers' recruitment, organization, and service. Thanks to its broad focus on every theater of the war and its concentration on what black soldiers actually contributed to Union victory, this volume stands alone among histories of the U.S. Colored Troops.

Author : Dr. Christopher Gabel
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782899358

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Staff Ride Handbook For The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863 [Illustrated Edition] by Dr. Christopher Gabel Pdf

Includes over 30 maps and Illustrations The Staff Ride Handbook for the Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863, provides a systematic approach to the analysis of this key Civil War campaign. Part I describes the organization of the Union and Confederate Armies, detailing their weapons, tactics, and logistical, engineer, communications, and medical support. It also includes a description of the U.S. Navy elements that featured so prominently in the campaign. Part II consists of a campaign overview that establishes the context for the individual actions to be studied in the field. Part III consists of a suggested itinerary of sites to visit in order to obtain a concrete view of the campaign in its several phases. For each site, or “stand,” there is a set of travel directions, a discussion of the action that occurred there, and vignettes by participants in the campaign that further explain the action and which also allow the student to sense the human “face of battle.” Part IV provides practical information on conducting a Staff Ride in the Vicksburg area, including sources of assistance and logistical considerations. Appendix A outlines the order of battle for the significant actions in the campaign. Appendix B provides biographical sketches of key participants. Appendix C provides an overview of Medal of Honor conferral in the campaign. An annotated bibliography suggests sources for preliminary study.