The Captured, the Sick, and the Dead
Title | The Captured, the Sick, and the Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence Desotell |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2020-08-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780990788867 |
Over 1,200 Confederate soldiers were housed at Camp Randall in Madison, Wisconsin as Prisoners of War for a short time in 1862. This book investigates the backstory of the men who came to be imprisoned there: the mustering, movements, and actions of their regiments, and the battle at Island 10 in Tennessee where they were captured. The book provides careful analysis of Camp Randall : weaknesses in leadership, supplies, and funds and a tragically high death rate. Finally, the book turns to those who are buried in Wisconsin, far from their southern homes.
This Republic of Suffering
Title | This Republic of Suffering PDF eBook |
Author | Drew Gilpin Faust |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2009-01-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0375703837 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Book of the Dead
Title | The Book of the Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Muriel Rukeyser |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781946684219 |
Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.
The Proceedings of the Hague Peace Conferences
Title | The Proceedings of the Hague Peace Conferences PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1276 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Arbitration (International law) |
ISBN |
The Capture of Louisbourg, 1758
Title | The Capture of Louisbourg, 1758 PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Boscawen |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 2013-08-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0806150254 |
Louisbourg, France's impressive fortress on Cape Breton Island's foggy Atlantic coast, dominated access to the St. Lawrence and colonial New France for forty years in the mid-eighteenth century. In 1755, Great Britain and France stumbled into the French and Indian War, part of what (to Europe) became the Seven Years' War—only for British forces to suffer successive defeats. In 1758, Britain and France, as well as Indian nations caught in the rivalry, fought for high stakes: the future of colonial America. Hugh Boscawen describes how Britain's war minister William Pitt launched four fleets in a coordinated campaign to prevent France from reinforcing Louisbourg. As the author shows, the Royal Navy outfought its opponents before General Jeffery Amherst and Brigadier James Wolfe successfully led 14,000 British regulars, including American-born redcoats, rangers, and carpenters, in a hard-fought assault landing. Together they besieged the fortress, which surrendered after forty-nine days. The victory marked a turning point in British fortunes and precipitated the end of French rule in North America. Boscawen, an experienced soldier and sailor, and a direct descendant of Admiral the Hon. Edward Boscawen, who commanded the Royal Navy fleet at Louisbourg, examines the pivotal 1758 Louisbourg campaign from both the British and French perspectives. Drawing on myriad primary sources, including previously unpublished correspondence, Boscawen also answers the question "What did the soldiers and sailors who fought there do all day?" The result is the most comprehensive history of this strategically important campaign ever written.
The Crimean Expedition, to the Capture Of Sebastopol Vol. I
Title | The Crimean Expedition, to the Capture Of Sebastopol Vol. I PDF eBook |
Author | Baron César de Bazancourt |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2017-01-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1787203409 |
This important historical account is the first in a series of two volumes, first published in 1856—the same year as the original French edition. The author, Baron de Bazancourt, was appointed official historiographer by Napoleon III, and charged with the responsibility of producing a history of the French part in the war in the Crimea. On arriving there in January 1855, he was warmly welcomed by the principal officers of the Army and, in writing his two volumes, he has drawn from “these living sources, the valuable and authentic documents which have guided [him] through the labyrinth of this complicated work.” Bazancourt was privy to the original journals of the various Divisions, as well as those of all the military operations of the campaign and the siege: “It is upon the very spot where the greater part of these events had passed, that those who had directed them have recounted to me their most striking episodes. I inquired,—I listened,—and I wrote. Not a day passed, but had its labour and its allotted task.” An invaluable addition to every personal, professional or educational British Military History library.
The Crimean Expedition, to the Capture of Sebastopol. Chronicles of the War in the East, from Its Commencement, to the Signing of the Treaty of Peace
Title | The Crimean Expedition, to the Capture of Sebastopol. Chronicles of the War in the East, from Its Commencement, to the Signing of the Treaty of Peace PDF eBook |
Author | César Lecat baron de Bazancourt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 1856 |
Genre | Crimean War, 1853-1856 |
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