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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1997
Description
General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, through countless bloody battles and four long, awful...
Author
Publisher
Bowling Green State University Popular Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
An epic elegy in American Studies, this collective biography warmly delineates some 170 centenarian lives among the nation's last remnant of Confederate veterans of the 1940s and after. Heavily genealogical, this monumental 15-year study answers ambitious questions its author wanted to know about the last survivors of the War Between the States--who were they, how old did they live to be, where were they from, in what order did they die, how did...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
"When the Civil War ended, Longstreet was considered "Confederate #3," just behind Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. For four long years, Longstreet had fought tenaciously for the Confederacy. He was alongside Lee at Gettysburg (and counseled him not to order the ill-fated attacks on entrenched Union forces there). He won a major Confederate victory at Chickamauga and was seriously wounded during a later battle.
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