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Author
Publisher
H.E. Howard
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
The 1st Battalion of the Virginia Infantry was raised as an unit in the Provisional Army of Virginia. By the end of the war the battalion was serving in the Army of Northern Virginia. It was also known as the Irish Battalion.
The 39th Battalion of the Virginia Cavalry was organized in 1862 under the name of 13th Battalion (name soon changed to 39th Battalion). It was also known as Richardson's Battalion of Scouts, Guides and Couriers.
The 24th Battalion...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alabama who played a decisive role in the Civil War, and how they were scrubbed from the history books. We all know how the Civil War was won: by courageous Yankees who triumphed over the South. But as veteran journalist Howell Raines shows, it was not only soldiers from Northern states who helped General William Tecumseh Sherman burn Atlanta to the ground,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
Series
Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society volume 8, 12
Publisher
Clearfield Company, Inc
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Author
Series
Army of the Potomac volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A vivid account of the early battles, first in the Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy: “One of America’s foremost Civil War authorities” (Kirkus Reviews).
The first book in Bruce Catton’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln’s Army is a riveting history of the early years of the Civil War, when a fledgling Union Army took its stumbling first steps under the command...
The first book in Bruce Catton’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln’s Army is a riveting history of the early years of the Civil War, when a fledgling Union Army took its stumbling first steps under the command...
Author
Publisher
Genealogical Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1968
Language
English
Description
This work includes a roll of the Revolutionary pensioners in Kentucky, a list of the Illinois Regiment that served under George Rogers Clark in the Northwest Campaign, and a roster of the Virginia Navy, amounting in total to about 6,500 individuals.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The story of Ethan Allen and the much-loved Green Mountain Boys of Vermont and their role in the American Revolution--the myth and the reality. A rare look at a corner of the Revolutionary War. In Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom, Wren overturns the myth of Ethan Allen as a legendary hero of the American Revolution and a patriotic son of Vermont and offers a different portrait of Allen and his Green Mountain Boys. They were ruffians who joined the...
19) Band of brothers: E company, 506th regiment, 101st airborne from Normandy to Hitler's eagle's nest
Author
Language
English
Description
"Stephen E. Ambrose's iconic New York Times bestseller about the ordinary men who became the World War II's most extraordinary soldiers: Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, US Army. They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy. And at its peak--in Holland and the Ardennes--Easy Company was as good a rifle company...
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