Iron Maidens and the Devil's Daughters: US Navy Gunboats versus Confederate Gunners and Cavalry on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, 1861-65, Paper

Reducere. Gunboats versus cavalry? Preposterous Not so fast. This unique form of Civil War combat is covered extensively for the first time in Iron Maidens a...

Reducere. Samuel A'Court Ashe was a Confederate infantry captain in the War Between the States and celebrated editor, historian, and North Carolina legislato...

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Reducere. Three days of savage and bloody fighting between Confederate and Union troops at Stones River in Middle Tennessee ended with nearly 25, 000 casualt...

During the American Civil War, both Union and Confederate forces fielded substantial numbers of cavalry, which carried out the tasks of reconnaissa...

DescriptionThis fully illustrated study assesses the fighting techniques, armament, and combat record of the Union and Confederate sharpshooters wh...

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Reducere. Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confeder...

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Reducere. "The Confederate Nation has yet to be superseded as the standard title on the subject. " --Journal of Southern History, 2007"Incisive and insightfu...

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Reducere. DescriptionDuring the Vietnam War, 270 U.S. Navy and four Royal Australian Navy warships served at various times on the gunline. Within this armada...

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In September 1864, the Confederate army abandoned Atlanta and were on the verge of being driven out of the critical state of Tennessee. In an attem...

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Publisher: Skyhorse PublishingAuthor(s): Theodore P. SavasIllustration(s): B&W photographs throughoutNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dime...

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Reducere. DescriptionOriginally published in 1911 by the women of First Presbyterian Church in Knoxville, Tennessee and Central Presbyterian Church of Bristo...

Reducere. DescriptionTennessee's Thirteenth Union Cavalry was a unit composed mostly of amateur soldiers that eventually turned undisciplined boys into seaso...

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Reducere. The struggle for control of the eastern waters of North Carolina duringthe War Between the States was a bitter, painful, and sometimeshumiliating o...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): F N MaudeIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 15Cover t...

Reducere. In 1942 Ernest Jennings Ford married nineteen-year-old Betty Jean Heminger, whom he had met at Victorville Army Air Base in California. 'River of N...

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Reducere. DescriptionHistorian and constitutional scholar Albert Taylor Bledsoe considers whether the secession of the Confederate states was legal under con...

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Reducere. The US Navy did not possess any inland river patrol forces prior to the Vietnam War and had only a handful of coastal patrol boats, despite the les...