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James McPherson’s classic book For Cause & Comrades explained “why men fought in the Civil War”—and spurred countless other historians to ask and attempt to answer the same question. But few have explored why men did not fight. That’s the question Paul Taylor answers in this groundbreaking Civil War history that examines the reasons why at least 60 percent of service-eligible men in the North chose not to serve and why, to some extent, their communities allowed them to do so. Did these other men not feel the same patriotic impulses as their fellow citizens who rushed to the enlistment office? Did they not believe in the sanctity of the Union? Was freeing men held in chains under chattel slavery not a righteous moral crusade? And why did some soldiers come to regret their enlistment and try to leave the military? ’Tis Not Our War answers these questions by focusing on the thoughts, opinions, and beliefs of average civilians and soldiers. Taylor digs deep into primary sources—newspapers, diaries, letters, archival manuscripts, military reports, and published memoirs—to paint a vivid and richly complex portrait of men who questioned military service in the Civil War and to show that the North was never as unified in support of the war as portrayed in much of America’s collective memory. This book adds to our understanding of the Civil War and the men who fought—and did not fight—in it.
A blow to France. Or, a sermon [on 2 Chron. xx. 15] preached ... Nov. 22, 1709. Being the day appointed ... for a General Thanksgiving, for the late glorious victory obtained over the French, at Blaregnies, etc by Samuel HARRIS (S.T.P.) Pdf
Author : Ronald C. White Publisher : Random House Page : 513 pages File Size : 51,5 Mb Release : 2023-10-31 Category : Biography & Autobiography ISBN : 9780525510086
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero. “A vital and vivid portrait of an unlikely military hero who played a key role in the preservation of the Union and therefore in the making of modern America.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of And There Was Light SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN LINCOLN PRIZE • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North’s greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round Top, he ordered his men to wield their bayonets in a desperate charge down a rocky slope that routed the Confederate attackers. Despite being wounded at Petersburg—and told by two surgeons he would die—Chamberlain survived the war, going on to be elected governor of Maine four times and serve as president of Bowdoin College. How did a stuttering young boy come to be fluent in nine languages and even teach speech and rhetoric? How did a trained minister find his way to the battlefield? Award-winning historian Ronald C. White delves into these contradictions in this cradle-to-grave biography of General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, from his upbringing in rural Maine to his tenacious, empathetic military leadership and his influential postwar public service, exploring a question that still plagues so many veterans: How do you make a civilian life of meaning after having experienced the extreme highs and lows of war? Chamberlain is familiar to millions from Michael Shaara’s now-classic novel of the Civil War, The Killer Angels, and Ken Burns’s timeless miniseries The Civil War, but in this book, White captures the complex and inspiring man behind the hero. Heavily illustrated and featuring nine detailed maps, this gripping, impeccably researched portrait illuminates one of the most admired but least known figures in our nation’s bloodiest conflict.
Heroism in battle has been celebrated throughout history, yet it is one of the least understood virtues. What makes some men and women perform extraordinary deeds on the battlefield? What makes them risk their lives in the pursuit of victory?Max Hastings, one of our foremost military historians, has seen combat up close and written about it for decades. In Warriors, he brings us the experiences of fourteen soldiers who fought in the wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From an exuberant cavalry officer in Napoleon’s army to an abused orphan who in World War II became America’s youngest general since Custer, to an Israeli officer who recovered from a devastating injury to save his country, each portrait depicts a unique and remarkable story. A tribute to soldierly valor and a deeply insightful study of combat, this is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand what it means to be at war.
The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems by Alfred Tennyson Pdf
Treasury of verse by the great Victorian poet includes the famous long narrative poem, Enoch Arden, plus "The Lady of Shalott," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "Break, break, break," "Flower in the crannied Wall" and more. Also included are excerpts from three longer works: The Princess, "Maud" and "The Brook."
180 Classics You Must Read In Your Lifetime (Vol.2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Stendhal,Jules Verne,Gustave Flaubert,Theodor Storm,Henrik Ibsen,Charles Dickens,Honoré de Balzac,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Rabindranath Tagore,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,James Fenimore Cooper,Edgar Allan Poe,John Buchan,Confucius,George MacDonald,Bram Stoker,Henry James,Victor Hugo,Joseph Conrad,Jane Austen,Walter Scott,Laurence Sterne,Thomas Hardy,Jonathan Swift,Edith Wharton,Benito Pérez Galdós,Daniel Defoe,Henry Fielding,Sinclair Lewis,Anthony Trollope,Alexandre Dumas,William Dean Howells,Virginia Woolf,William Walker Atkinson,Kenneth Grahame,Washington Irving,Willa Cather,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Homer,Gaston Leroux,Ford Madox Ford,Benjamin Franklin,Kate Chopin,John Milton,Edgar Wallace,Laozi,James Joyce,Ann Ward Radcliffe,Kakuzo Okakura,H. G. Wells,W. B. Yeats,J. M. Barrie,G. K. Chesterton,Jerome K. Jerome,L. M. Montgomery,W. Somerset Maugham,E. M. Forster,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Lewis Wallace,Ivan Turgenev,Leo Tolstoy,Nikolai Gogol,George Bernard Shaw,Cao Xueqin,Emile Zola,Bankim Chandra Chatterjee,P. B. Shelley,Elizabeth von Arnim,Dante,Pedro Calderon de la Barca,Émile Coué,George Weedon Grossmith,Willkie Collins,D.H. Lawrence,Machiavelli Pdf
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James Fenimore Cooper: 30 Novels in One Volume - Western Classics, Adventure Novels & Sea Tales by James Fenimore Cooper Pdf
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Leatherstocking Tales: The Deerslayer The Last of the Mohicans The Pathfinder The Pioneers The Prairie The Littlepage Manuscripts: Satanstoe The Chainbearer The Redskins The Adventures of Miles Wallingford: Afloat and Ashore Miles Wallingford Other Novels: Precaution The Spy The Pilot The Red Rover The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish The Water-Witch The Bravo The Headsman The Monikins Homeward Bound Home as Found Mercedes of Castile The Two Admirals The Wing-and-Wing Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief Wyandotté The Crater Jack Tier The Oak Openings The Sea Lions James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Before embarking on his career as a writer, Cooper served in the U.S. Navy as a Midshipman, which greatly influenced many of his novels and other writings. The novel that launched his career was The Spy, a tale about counterespionage set during the Revolutionary War. He also wrote numerous sea stories, and his best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period known as the Leatherstocking Tales. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.
WESTERN CLASSICS Ultimate Collection - 11 Novels in One Volume: Complete Leatherstocking Tales, The Littlepage Manuscripts Series, Wynadotte, The Wept Of Wish-Ton-Wish and more by James Fenimore Cooper Pdf
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