Civil War Letter of Hugh McInnes
Title | Civil War Letter of Hugh McInnes PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh McInnes |
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Pages | |
Release | 1981-01-01 |
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ISBN | 9780870124402 |
Civil War Letters of Hugh McInnes
Title | Civil War Letters of Hugh McInnes PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh McInnes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 13 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | United States |
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Into the Crater
Title | Into the Crater PDF eBook |
Author | Earl J. Hess |
Publisher | Univ of South Carolina Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2023-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1643364367 |
The battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864, was the defining event in the 292-day campaign around Petersburg, Virginia, in the Civil War and one of the most famous engagements in American military history. Although the bloody combat of that "horrid pit" has been recently revisited as the centerpiece of the novel and film versions of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, the battle has yet to receive a definitive historical study. Distinguished Civil War historian Earl J. Hess fills that gap in the literature of the Civil War with Into the Crater. The Crater was central in Ulysses S. Grant's third offensive at Petersburg and required digging of a five-hundred-foot mine shaft under enemy lines and detonating of four tons of gunpowder to destroy a Confederate battery emplacement. The resulting infantry attack through the breach in Robert E. Lee's line failed terribly, costing Grant nearly four thousand troops, among them many black soldiers fighting in their first battle. The outnumbered defenders of the breach saved Confederate Petersburg and inspired their comrades with renewed hope in the lengthening campaign to possess this important rail center. In this narrative account of the Crater and its aftermath, Hess identifies the most reliable evidence to be found in hundreds of published and unpublished eyewitness accounts, official reports, and historic photographs. Archaeological studies and field research on the ground itself, now preserved within the Petersburg National Battlefield, complement the archival and published sources. Hess re-creates the battle in lively prose saturated with the sights and sounds of combat at the Crater in moment-by-moment descriptions that bring modern readers into the chaos of close range combat. Hess discusses field fortifications as well as the leadership of Union generals Grant, George Meade, and Ambrose Burnside, and of Confederate generals Lee, P. G. T. Beauregard, and A. P. Hill. He also chronicles the atrocities committed against captured black soldiers, both in the heat of battle and afterward, and the efforts of some Confederate officers to halt this vicious conduct
31st Virginia Infantry
Title | 31st Virginia Infantry PDF eBook |
Author | John M. Ashcraft |
Publisher | |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Paperbound Books in Print
Title | Paperbound Books in Print PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1696 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Paperbacks |
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Three Letters to Hugh McNeile ... with his letters in reply. Being a correspondence published in the “Carlisle Examiner” ... relative to an imputation against the Society of Friends, contained in the subjoined extract from a sermon preached by H. McNeile, etc
Title | Three Letters to Hugh McNeile ... with his letters in reply. Being a correspondence published in the “Carlisle Examiner” ... relative to an imputation against the Society of Friends, contained in the subjoined extract from a sermon preached by H. McNeile, etc PDF eBook |
Author | Hudson SCOTT |
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Pages | 32 |
Release | 1858 |
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Hugh M. Ives Letters
Title | Hugh M. Ives Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh M. Ives |
Publisher | |
Pages | 6 |
Release | 1863 |
Genre | United States |
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In a 1863 letter to his sister Hattie, written from Hilton Head, South Carolina, Ives asks for medicine for his chronic diarrhea, tells her to send him a box with nothing perishable in it, describes picket duty, and draws her a sketch of a flag. The 1864 letter to his mother provides a graphic description of the execution of two deserters from his regiment. Ives, of New Haven, served with Company B, 6th Connecticut Infantry during the Civil War.