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Author : E. M. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974142210
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cavalryman Under Custer '64-'65 written by E. M. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of letters written by Private E. M. Johnson to his family about his 10 month adventure with the 2nd New York Harris Light Cavalry between August 1864 and May of 1865, with a forward by his granddaughter,, photographs, a map of his travels, and a chart of major events of Johnson's service.

Author : Mike O'Keefe
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806188146
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big Horn written by Mike O'Keefe and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the shocking news first broke in 1876 of the Seventh Cavalry’s disastrous defeat at the Little Big Horn, fascination with the battle—and with Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer—has never ceased. Widespread interest in the subject has spawned a vast outpouring of literature, which only increases with time. This two-volume bibliography of Custer literature is the first to be published in some twenty-five years and the most complete ever assembled. Drawing on years of research, Michael O’Keefe has compiled entries for roughly 3,000 books and 7,000 articles and pamphlets. Covering both nonfiction and fiction (but not juvenile literature), the bibliography focuses on events beginning with Custer’s tenure at West Point during the 1850s and ending with the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Included within this span are Custer’s experiences in the Civil War and in Texas, the 1873 Yellowstone and 1874 Black Hills expeditions, the Great Sioux War of 1876–77, and the Seventh Cavalry’s pursuit of the Nez Perces in 1877. The literature on Custer, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and the Seventh Cavalry touches the entire American saga of exploration, conflict, and settlement in the West, including virtually all Plains Indian tribes, the frontier army, railroading, mining, and trading. Hence this bibliography will be a valuable resource for a broad audience of historians, librarians, collectors, and Custer enthusiasts.

Author : James Harvey Kidd
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803277816
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riding with Custer written by James Harvey Kidd and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riding with Custer is a rousing and vivid illustration of the tactical worth of cavalry in the army. Captain James H. Kidd raised his own company, engaged in more than sixty battles, rose to colonel in 1864, and after conspicuous valor in the Valley campaign of that year succeeded Custer as commander of the Michigan Brigade. When he wrote these memoirs several decades after the war, his recollections were sharp and indelible--among them the experience of fighting with Custer at Gettysburg, Falling Waters, the Wilderness, Yellow tavern, and Cedar Creek. He describes life on the move in all kinds of weather and terrain, the sensation of combat, the pleasure of a cup of coffee, and, besides Custer, such famous generals as Judson Kilpatrick, Phil Sheridan and Wesley Merritt.

Author : James Harvey Kidd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman with Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War written by James Harvey Kidd and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William J. Miller
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1940669650
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decision at Tom's Brook written by William J. Miller and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Tom’s Brook, recalled one Confederate soldier, was “the greatest disaster that ever befell our cavalry during the whole war.” The fight took place during the last autumn of the Civil War, when the Union General Phil Sheridan vowed to turn the crop-rich Shenandoah Valley into “a desert.” Farms and homes were burned, livestock slaughtered, and Southern families suffered. The story of the Tom’s Brook cavalry affair centers on two young men who had risen to prominence as soldiers: George A. Custer and Thomas L. Rosser. They had been fast friends since their teenage days at West Point, but the war sent them down separate paths—Custer to the Union army and Rosser to the Confederacy. Each was a born warrior who took obvious joy in the exhilaration of battle. Each possessed almost all of the traits of the ideal cavalryman—courage, intelligence, physical strength, inner-fire. Only their judgment was questionable. Their separate paths converged in the Shenandoah Valley in the summer of 1864, when Custer was ordered to destroy, and Rosser was ordered to stop him. For three days, Rosser’s gray troopers pursued and attacked the Federals. On the fourth day, October 9, the tables turned in the open fields above Tom’s Brook, where each ambitious friend sought his own advancement at the expense of the other. One capitalized upon every advantage fate threw before him, while the other, sure of his abilities in battle and eager to fight, attempted to impose his will on unfavorable circumstances and tempted fate by inviting catastrophe. This long-overlooked cavalry action had a lasting effect on mounted operations and influenced the balance of the campaign in the Valley. Based upon extensive research in primary documents and gracefully written, award-winning author William J. Miller’s Decision at Tom’s Brook presents significant new material on Thomas Rosser, and argues that his character was his destiny. Rosser’s decision-making that day changed his life and the lives of hundreds of other men. Miller’s new study is Civil War history and high personal drama at its finest.

Author : James Harvey Kidd
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman with Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War written by James Harvey Kidd and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1908 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J.H Kidd
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752376031
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman written by J.H Kidd and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman by J.H Kidd

Author : Kidd James Harvey
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781318922123
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman with Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War written by Kidd James Harvey and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Adolfo Ovies
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611215366
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Generals written by Adolfo Ovies and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in a trilogy—a study of the strategy, tactics, and rivalry between two leaders of the Army of the Potomac’s cavalry during the American Civil War. George Armstrong Custer’s career has attracted its fair share of coverage, but most Custer-related studies focus on his decision-making and actions to the exclusion of other important factors, including his relationships with his fellow officers. Custer developed his tactical philosophy within the politically ridden atmosphere of the Army of the Potomac’s Cavalry Corps. His relationship with his immediate superior, Wesley Merritt, was so acrimonious that even Custer’s wife Libbie described him as her husband’s “enemy.” The Boy Generals examines in detail the steadily deteriorating relationship of two cavalrymen with opposing tactical philosophies, and how this relationship affected events in the field. Custer was a hussar—a firm believer in the shock power of the mounted saber charge—while Merritt was a dragoon, his tactics rooted in the belief that the purpose of the horse was to transport the trooper to the battlefield, where he could fight dismounted with his carbine. With these diametrically opposed belief systems, it was inevitable that these officers would clash. What has often been described as a spirited rivalry was in fact something much darker, an association that moved from initial distaste to acrimony, and finally, outright insubordination on Custer’s part. Author Adolfo Ovies mined deeply official reports, regimental histories, and contemporary newspaper accounts, together with unpublished and little used primary sources of men who fought in their commands. This rich and satisfying study exposes the depths of one of the most dysfunctional and influential relationships in the Army of the Potomac and how it affected cavalry operations in the Eastern Theater. The Boy Generals will change the way Civil War readers think of the premier Union army’s mounted arm, as well as George Custer’s legacy. Praise for The Boy Generals “A grand effort . . . a “Must Read.” It will be a standard bearer; a marvelous book that should remain among the very best. . . . It will certainly grace my library.” —Frederic C. Wagner III, author of The Strategy of Defeat at the Little Big Horn “Well-written, thoroughly researched, and entertaining. This is one you cannot miss.” —Eric J. Wittenberg, award–winning author of “The Devil’s to Pay”: John Buford at Gettysburg: A History and Walking Tour

Author : James Harvey Kidd
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789357726047
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War written by James Harvey Kidd and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.