This meticulously edited collection offers you the true accounts about the Confederate States of America, including documents that were most influential for the creation of the states and the life stories of its principal leaders and officers. "The History of the Confederate States of America" and "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government" represent the best source for understanding the background, the creation, fight and the ultimate defeat, written by the President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis. The collection also includes memoirs and biographies of the Confederate Leaders: Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee & Heros von Borcke. Finally, this collection is enriched with the most pivotal documents of the Confederate States. Contents: History of the Confederate States of America The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Memoirs & Biographies: Jefferson Davis by Frank H. Alfriend Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke Memoirs of Heros von Borcke Official Documents of the Confederate States: Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America Constitution of the Confederate States of America The Address of the People of South Carolina assembled in Convention, to the People of the Slaveholding States of the United States South Carolina Ordinance of Secession Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union Mississippi Ordinance of Secession Florida Ordinance of Secession Alabama Ordinance of Secession Georgia Ordinance of Secession Louisiana Ordinance of Secession Texas Ordinance of Secession Arizona Territory Ordinance of Secession Virginia Ordinance of Secession Arkansas Ordinance of Secession North Carolina Ordinance of Secession Tennessee Ordinance of Secession Missouri Ordinance of Secession Kentucky Ordinance of Secession Dix-Hill Cartel Robert E. Lee's Letter Announcing Surrender ...
An account of General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's rise to prominence during the Civil War.
Just before Luther was killed, Miller had been observing the trajectory of Union artillery fire, and called his fellow officer over to see the shot moving toward the Confederate positions; a moment after he took Miller's place, ...
Popular history at its best, Hymns of the Republic reveals the creation that arose from destruction in this “engrossing…riveting” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) read.
Boston : Nichols & Noyes , 1866 . Fitzpatrick , Marion H. Letters to Amanda from Sergeant Major Marion Hill Fitzpatrick , 1862-1865 . Ed . Henry Mansel Hammock , Culloden , Ga . , 1976 . Freeman , Douglas Southall . Lee's Lieutenants ...
Although he constantly anticipated one big, decisive battle that would crush the South, he squandered one military opportunity after another, and, if Sears is correct, he was the worst strategist the Army of the Potomac ever had.
W. H. Taylor-Sister, August 17, 1862, Taylor, VSL; Scott, Orange County, pp. 195, 214; Latrobe Diary, VHS; ... 94; Scott, Orange County, p. 192; Moses, "Autobiography," p. 55, UNC. ... 300- 301; McDonald, Make Me, p. 71. 31. Freeman,/?.
This book, detailing the onset of brutal trench warfare at Petersburg, Virginia, digs deeply into the military and political background of the battle.
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Jeff Shaara's Blaze of Glory.
In this “elegant…enlightening…well-researched and well-told” (Publishers Weekly) work, Donald L. Miller tells the full story of this year-long campaign to win the city “with probing intelligence and irresistible passion” ...
--New York Times Book Review "[Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brilliant career. One can easily say that the definitive work on Joshua Chamberlain has now been done.