William Barksdale Csa

Author : John Douglas Ashton
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476683744

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William Barksdale, CSA by John Douglas Ashton Pdf

An aggressive and colorful personality, William Barksdale was no stranger to controversy. Orphaned at 13, he succeeded as lawyer, newspaper editor, Mexican War veteran, politician and Confederate commander. During eight years in the U.S. Congress, he was among the South's most ardent defenders of slavery and advocates for states' rights. His emotional speeches and altercations--including a brawl on the House floor--made headlines in the years preceding secession. His fiery temper prompted three near-duels, gaining him a reputation as a brawler and knife-fighter. Arrested for intoxication, Colonel Barksdale survived a military Court of Inquiry to become one of the most beloved commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia. His reputation soared with his defense against the Union river crossing and street-fighting at Fredericksburg, and his legendary charge at Gettysburg. This first full-length biography places his life and career in historical context.

Author : B. J. Jordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1432733877

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One Final Charge! by B. J. Jordan Pdf

On July, 2, 1863, late in the afternoon, during the pivotal second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Mississippi's Confederate General William Barksdale was extremely annoyed and frustrated. The July day was smoldering, not only from a broiling sun in a cloudless sky, but from the incessant shelling raining down on his brigade from a Union artillery battery not too far in the distance. The lateness of the hour was of a concern, and the delay of an aggressive response by his superior officers was maddening.

Author : John Douglas Ashton
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476641720

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William Barksdale, CSA by John Douglas Ashton Pdf

An aggressive and colorful personality, William Barksdale was no stranger to controversy. Orphaned at 13, he succeeded as lawyer, newspaper editor, Mexican War veteran, politician and Confederate commander. During eight years in the U.S. Congress, he was among the South's most ardent defenders of slavery and advocates for states' rights. His emotional speeches and altercations--including a brawl on the House floor--made headlines in the years preceding secession. His fiery temper prompted three near-duels, gaining him a reputation as a brawler and knife-fighter. Arrested for intoxication, Colonel Barksdale survived a military Court of Inquiry to become one of the most beloved commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia. His reputation soared with his defense against the Union river crossing and street-fighting at Fredericksburg, and his legendary charge at Gettysburg. This first full-length biography places his life and career in historical context.

Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612001807

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Barksdale's Charge by Phillip Thomas Tucker Pdf

There is “never a dull moment” in this “excellent account” of an overlooked Confederate triumph during the Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg (San Francisco Book Review). While many Civil War buffs celebrate Picket’s Charge as the climactic moment of the Battle of Gettysburg, the Confederate Army’s true high point had come the afternoon before. When Longstreet’s corps triumphantly entered the battle, the Federals just barely held on. The foremost Rebel spearhead on that second day of the battle was Brig. Gen. William Barksdale’s Mississippi brigade, which launched what one Union observer called the “grandest charge that was ever seen by mortal man.” On the second day of Gettysburg, the Federal left was not as vulnerable as Lee had envisioned, but had cooperated with Rebel wishes by extending its Third Corps into a salient. When Longstreet finally gave Barksdale the go-ahead, the Mississippians utterly crushed the peach orchard salient and continued marauding up to Cemetery Ridge. Hancock, Meade, and other Union generals had to gather men from four different corps to try to stem the onslaught. Barksdale himself was killed at the apex of his advance. Darkness, as well as Confederate exhaustion, finally ended the day’s fight as the shaken, depleted Federal units took stock. They had barely held on against the full ferocity of the Rebels on a day that would decide the fate of the nation.

Author : Glenn Tucker
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786251107

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High Tide At Gettysburg: The Campaign In Pennsylvania by Glenn Tucker Pdf

““Gettysburg had everything,” Henry S. Commager recently wrote. “It was the greatest battle ever fought on our continent; it boasts more heroic chapters than any other one battle. It was the high tide of the Confederacy.” This is the way Glenn Tucker has always seen it and this is the way he reports it in High Tide at Gettysburg. The story of Gettysburg has never been told better, perhaps never so well as in this volume. Glenn Tucker has the immediacy of a war correspondent on the spot along with the insights that come from painstaking research. The armies live again in his pages. In his big, generous book Glenn Tucker has room to follow Lee’s army up from Chancellorsville across Maryland into Pennsylvania. With Jackson recently killed, Lee had revamped his top command. When Meade’s men caught up with the Confederates and the two armies were probing to locate each other’s concentrations, Mr. Tucker’s account becomes sharper, more dramatic. His rapidly moving, vivid narrative of the three-day battle is filled with fascinating episodes and fresh, stimulating appraisals. Glenn Tucker is akin to Ernie Pyle in his interest in people. With him you meet Harry King Burgwyn, “boy colonel” of the 26th North Carolina, just turned twenty-one, who slugged it out with Col. Henry A. Morrow of the 24th Michigan until few survived on either side. You feel the patriotic surge of white-haired William Barksdale, who led his Mississippians on the “grandest charge of the war” and died as he broke the Federal line. You sense the magnetism of Hancock the Superb, and feel the driving power of rugged Uncle John Sedgwick as he hurried his big VI Corps to the battlefield. With Old Man Greene you struggle in the darkness to save the Culp’s Hill trenches. And much more. Mr. Tucker weaves in many sharp thumbnail biographical sketches without slowing the action. Many North Carolinians, previously slighted, here receive their due. Full, dramatic, immediate, here is Gettysburg.”

Author : Ted Ballard,Billy Arthur
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782898566

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Chancellorsville Staff Ride: Briefing Book [Illustrated Edition] by Ted Ballard,Billy Arthur Pdf

Contains more than 20 maps, diagrams and illustrations Although "Fighting Joe" Hooker skillfully executes a well-conceived plan and out-flanks his adversary, months of offensive planning are shelved as he suddenly orders his army on the defensive. Lee seizes the initiative and achieves what has often been called his most brilliant victory. How could this happen when Hooker's army outnumbers that of Lee 2 to 1 and is far superior in artillery and logistics? Answers to these and other questions concerning leadership, communications, use of terrain, and the psychology of men in battle, are often found by personal reconnaissance of the battlefield. This book offers a staff ride briefing of Chancellorsville. Since 1906 staff rides have been used to in the education of U.S. Army officers to narrow the gap between peacetime training and war.

Author : Frazar Kirkland
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022690183

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The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the War of the Rebellion by Frazar Kirkland Pdf

Relive the drama and turmoil of the American Civil War with this captivating collection of anecdotes and stories. Featuring hundreds of illustrations and firsthand accounts, this book provides a vivid picture of the people and events of the War of the Rebellion. From famous battles to personal stories of soldiers and civilians, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Leslie R. Tucker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786421312

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Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble by Leslie R. Tucker Pdf

Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, one of the oldest and more eccentric officers involved in the Civil War, made himself a favorite of Stonewall Jackson through his courage and stubborn energy. Born to a Quaker family, Trimble spent his childhood on the American frontier. After graduating from West Point, he served in the Old Army and then involved himself with the growing railroad industry of the 1830s, living at the forefront of American modernization. As the war began, he sided with the South, burning railroad bridges north of Baltimore to deny Washington the support of Union troops, and then moving to Virginia. He enlisted in the Engineers and constructed battery emplacements. Commissioned brigadier general in late 1861, Trimble distinguished himself at Cross Keys, Gaines's Mill, Manassas, and Gettysburg; was involved in the Baltimore riots; and spent time as a prisoner on Johnson's Island. This biography covers Trimble's personal life and career with both the railroad and the military. Simultaneously, it serves as a case study of an American who chose to side with the South. Before the war, Trimble traveled freely between states and showed no early indication of a regional attachment. The work uses Abraham Maslow's motivation model, the hierarchy of needs, to reconcile Trimble's self-interest with his need to belong to a community. It also raises various questions related to Southern history, including community identity, modernization, and the concept of the "New South."

Author : Robert Underwood Johnson,Clarence Clough Buel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : United States
ISBN : PRNC:32101075682045

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Battles and Leaders of the Civil War by Robert Underwood Johnson,Clarence Clough Buel Pdf

Author : Randy Bishop
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781546201724

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Mississippi’S Civil War Generals by Randy Bishop Pdf

Mississippis Civil War Generals covers the lives of the forty-six Mississippians who reached the rank of general during the four-year struggle that divided the nation. Extensive primary source documents are used in conjunction with post-war documents to provide insight into the contributions of each man in his respective battlefields and associated locations. Each biography is accompanied with a photograph of the individual being discussed.

Author : Edward J. Stackpole
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811745475

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The Fredericksburg Campaign by Edward J. Stackpole Pdf

The Army of the Potomac's defeat by General Lee. A classic reference.

Author : Randy Bishop
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781455618125

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Civil War Generals of Tennessee by Randy Bishop Pdf

From James Patton Anderson to Felix Zollicoffer, author Randy Bishop, a native Tennessean, offers compelling portraits of the sons of a state regarded by many as the most torn asunder by the War Between the States. This collection brings together biographies of the fifty-one Confederate and Union generals born in Tennessee as well as those with significant ties to the state. Each entry focuses on the major military contributions of the individuals—no matter their affiliations—and also teases out the most intriguing aspects of their civilian life, particularly how they fared after the war. With fascinating details, including the men’s relationships before the divisiveness of war drove intruded, Bishop provides an insight into lives that have rarely been seen as a whole. Arranged in alphabetical order for ease of reference, the work includes such luminaries as Nathan Bedford Forrest and Leonidas Polk, while also detailing the contributions of many lesser-known figures, including Samuel Powhatan Carter and Otho French Strahl. Each entry spans approximately five pages and provides, as the author states, “insight into the contributions of selfless men who offered their best, in years of their lives as well as time, that could have been spent with their families.”

Author : James A. Hessler,Britt C. Isenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1611216753

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Gettysburg's Peach Orchard by James A. Hessler,Britt C. Isenberg Pdf

One of the most influential actions of the second day of battle at Gettysburg occurred nearly one mile west of Little Round Top in farmer Joseph Sherfy's peach orchard. Hessler and Isenberg combine the military aspects of the fighting with human interest stories in a balanced treatment of the bloody attack and defense of Gettysburg's Peach Orchard.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Battles and Leaders of the Civil War by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Underwood Johnson,Clarence Clough Buel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:32044055031801

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Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The tide shifts by Robert Underwood Johnson,Clarence Clough Buel Pdf