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...on the iside. This was passed down from generation to generation.Does anyone have any information on value history any info at all?...
I own "Fields of Honor". Have not been able to read the entire book yet, however, its a general history of the battles included. I love Ed Bearss! Can't ya almost hear the cadence of hi...
Could someone please recommend a good battle atlas that I can use as I read Civil War history.
I would love to visually track troop movements during all the battles, large and small.
Best option...
...orps". It is written by Joseph G. Dawson and, as far as I know, available at the Society for Military History. This is their site: http://www.smh-hq.org/ ...
...of the time. Indeed, one point I made in the thread was the necessity of cross-checking ANY memoir or oral history against the physical facts and whatever reliable documentation is available.
Her...
I saw an interesting show on "Discovery" ("Investigating History" I think) that looks at troop movements in Gettysburg from a scientific POV. Excellent graphics that help with unde...
... isn't the writer his father was".
Harry Turtledove is supposed to be a very good alternative history author. I have another of his waiting to be read called "How Few Remain" - ...
...nry C. Partain. Wiley Powell was a great uncle, and the rest are cousins.
There are bits and pieces of history scattered everywhere on the 38th, but none bought together in single book, so my goal...
...es stayed with him and rebuilt his plantation.he is deffinatly one of the most interesting men in american history.it doesnt help when the modern kkk claim him....
... itself have a society with records- carlisle pennsyvania is where you can reasearch alot about the usarmy history at the barracks,maybe masschettuets has on census roles 1860 or before- goodluck...
...s they would have vouched back then, that this debate did indeed happen. I assume it would be mentioned in history books,surely.?,...
If you enjoy a mystery combined with a scavenger hunt, stop by Uncommon History's Civil War Virtual Forager and identify this week's mystery artifact.
PLEASE DO NOT REVEAL THE OBJECT...
...er way to face the ordeal. That was the last major war in which officers led from the front, at a point in history when the minie ball had changed war profoundly, albeit not the mindsets of most of th...
...nterested in this. The author is very good, he also has an article about Jefferson Davis.
http://www.history-on-the-web.com/index .php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74:abraham-
linc...
Yes, it would be a very good topic. Not to mention the history of Alonzo Cushings brother. William Cushing, called "Lincoln's Commando" by some historians, became famous after he sank a...
...company, or state he served from.I will contact the magazines you suggested.I hope this man is not lost to history; I'll just have to continue the search for him or his family.A friend asked for ...
...eople in bondage. This fact and the draft riots in the North, during the WBTS, fly in the face of what the history revisionists tell us, in terms of how many millions marched off to the War, to free t...
...e of an impact than is commonly understood. Stephen Ambrose (of "Band of Brothers" fame) wrote a history of the Transcontinental RR a few years before he died. I've not read it, but I s...
... listed for a town in maryland i knew coundnt be true,i knew mans regiment he was in,lucky for me the regt history book mentioned that a drunken soldier had started a fight with another soldier over a...
...it is about the fall of Richmond.
From the inside flap;
The "narrative of the death of Richmond is history told from the inside - through the daily and sometimes hour-by-hour jottings of parti...
...on and Nathan Bedford Forrest. I definitely think Forrest has been wrongly ignored by the popular military history press, largely because of his connection (real or imagined) with Fort Pillow and the ...
Indeed, the war in the Pacific was fought with a ruthless ferocity unprecedented in American military history. It saw hate-filled savagery on a visceral level -- read Sledge's "With the Old ...
...input, he would not have micromanaged and tried to run the war from the CSA white house. I think the whole history of ...
...e blokes thats for sure!Guerilla fighters to some,freedom fighters too others,an amazing piece of american history that is rarely mentioned,despite movies like "Outlaw Josey Wales".Actually,...
...faction by reading any of a number of books. My own personal favorites are Allan Nevins' multi-volume history (this is a dense, detailed study that's not for the faint of heart) examines the...
...d machine guns,and were cut too pieces.In two days,the Brits lost 26,000 men,the biggest defeat in British history.At Gallipoli,550 young aussies died when they charged at the Nek,a Turkish stronghold...
... without trying, I keep finding more books to add to the list.
I just found out about another alternative history book I'd like to get called "THROW AWAY THE SCABBARD" - it's base...
...len's "20th Maine" is perhaps the best example I've read of just how good a small unit history can be.
It's no secret that I'm interested in the role of Maine, my home...
No.
The only way he could have made a difference was to disobey Lee's orders or talk him out of some of the Confederate actions.
Lee's Folly was to let his troops string too far out. Onc...
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