Confederate Devil John

Author : Claude Brown
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595372856
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confederate Devil John written by Claude Brown and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confederate Devil John is the story of John Wright as he grew up in Pike and Letcher Counties, Kentucky. John started life at an early age making corn likker with Rosan Burke. Rosan taught John how to make likker and to survive in the east Kentucky Mountains. After Rosan was caught by revenuers John set out to make his living outside the mountains. His initial horse-trading led him to meet John Hunt Morgan and joining the Confederate cause in the Civil War. He served under Confederate Capt. Quantrill, and he escaped during the battle when Quantrill was captured. During this period he met the James brothers, Bill Anderson and Sue Mundy. John and his best friend, Talt Hall, made their way back to east Kentucky after escaping capture to rejoin the Confederate Army. They were later captured and imprisoned in Fort Douglas. They escaped the fort returning to east Kentucky. John adventurous life begins by joining the circus, marrying Mattie, becoming marshal and judge, fathering thirty-two children and feuding with his archenemy, Caleb Jones.

Author : John Allan Wyeth
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807115787
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That Devil Forrest written by John Allan Wyeth and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?

Author : Edward E. Leslie
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil Knows how to Ride written by Edward E. Leslie and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1996 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lawrence massacre is still considered by historians to be the greatest atrocity of the Civil War.

Author : Edward J. Blum
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812299523
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Is All Hell written by Edward J. Blum and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln expressed hope that the "better angels of our nature" would prevail as war loomed. He was wrong. The better angels did not, but for many Americans, the evil ones did. War Is All Hell peers into the world of devils, demons, Satan, and hell during the era of the American Civil War. It charts how African Americans and abolitionists compared slavery to hell, how Unionists rendered Confederate secession illegal by linking it to Satan, and how many Civil War soldiers came to understand themselves as living in hellish circumstances. War Is All Hell also examines how many Americans used evil to advance their own agendas. Sometimes literally, oftentimes figuratively, the agents of hell and hell itself became central means for many Americans to understand themselves and those around them, to legitimate their viewpoints and actions, and to challenge those of others. Many who opposed emancipation did so by casting Abraham Lincoln as the devil incarnate. Those who wished to pursue harsher war measures encouraged their soldiers to "fight like devils." And finally, after the war, when white men desired to stop genuine justice, they terrorized African Americans by dressing up as demons. A combination of religious, political, cultural, and military history, War Is All Hell illuminates why, after the war, one of its leading generals described it as "all hell."

Author : Eric J. Wittenberg
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 161121209X
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "The Devil's to Pay" written by Eric J. Wittenberg and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2014-10-19 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning Civil War historian’s profile of the brilliant Union cavalry officer and the strategies he employed to prevent catastrophe at Gettysburg. The Battle of Gettysburg turned the tide of the Civil War. But the outcome of the decisive confrontation between North and South might have been dramatically different if not for the actions of Brig. Gen. John Buford, commander of the Union army’s First Cavalry Division. An award-winning chronicler of America’s War between the States and author of more than a dozen acclaimed works of historical scholarship, Eric J. Wittenberg now focuses on the iconic commanding officer known to his troops as “Honest John” and “Old Steadfast.” Wittenberg describes in fascinating detail the brilliant maneuvers Buford undertook to keep Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army at bay and later rescue what remained of the devastated First and Eleventh Corps.”The Devil’s to Pay” celebrates the stunning military achievements of an unparalleled tactical genius at the onset of the Gettysburg Campaign and paints an unforgettable portrait of a quiet, unassuming cavalryman who recognized a possible disaster in the making and took bold action to avert it. Based on a wealth of information from primary sources, “The Devil’s to Pay” includes pages of illustrations, maps, and photographs, as well as a walking and driving tour of the battlefield sites where America’s history was made at a staggeringly high cost in blood. A comprehensive tactical study that is both scholarly and eminently accessible, it is an essential addition to the library of any Civil War enthusiast.

Author : Kimberely S. Booth
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781492903420
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devil John Wright written by Kimberely S. Booth and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary, historically accurate telling of the "Life and Times" of Devil John Wright. This is the biography, by his great, great grandson, of the man, and uniquely American legend of Devil John Wright!

Author : John A. Wyeth
Publisher : Ravenio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book That Devil Forrest written by John A. Wyeth and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last two years of the Civil War I was a private soldier in a regiment of Alabama cavalry which had formerly served under Forrest. Four companies of this regiment had formed a portion of the famous battalion which had distinguished itself in the engagement at Fort Donelson, and, refusing to surrender, had marched out with him through the gap in General Grant’s lines. Although I was at no time directly under General Forrest, I was impressed by the enthusiastic devotion to him of these veterans, who had followed his banner for the first year of the war, and who seemed never to tire in speaking of his kind treatment of them, his sympathetic nature as a man, his great personal daring, and especially of his wonderful achievements as a commander. Of these achievements I was at that time not altogether ignorant. His escape from Fort Donelson; the desperate charge which saved Beauregard’s army from Sherman’s vigorous pursuit after Shiloh, in which he was severely wounded; the capture of Murfreesborough with its entire garrison of infantry and artillery, with his small brigade of cavalry without cannon; the charge on and capture of Coburn’s infantry at Thompson’s station; the capture of the garrison at Brentwood; and the relentless pursuit of Streight’s raiders, which ended in the surrender of these gallant Union soldiers to Forrest with less than one-half of their number, had already attracted wide attention and had made him famous. The knowledge of these facts, together with a personal association with the men who had felt the influence of his immediate leadership, naturally interested me in his career, which I closely followed to the end of the great struggle. When the general government, with wise forethought, began to collect and to place at the disposal of its citizens the official reports and correspondence, and all the reliable literature of the war, I undertook, in the light of these and other authentic papers, a closer analysis of his military record. The further my investigations proceeded, the more I became convinced that while Forrest was justly acknowledged to be one of the most famous fighters and leaders of mounted infantry or cavalry which the war produced on either side, he was more than this, and that a careful and unbiased statement of his achievements would place him in history not only as one of the most remarkable and romantic personalities of the Civil War, but as one of the ablest soldiers of the world. While I had hoped, as year after year slipped by since peace was declared, that some one abler than I would undertake the task of placing in readable shape the story of his life, I had determined if this were not done before I should pass into the “sere and yellow leaf” to pay this tribute to his memory myself. It has been a work of years to gather up from every available source the matter relating to this history—his early days, his civil and private life, and the accurate facts of his military record. In 1894, I wrote a condensed sketch, had it printed in single column upon the margin of wide sheets of paper, leaving a large blank space, and these I mailed to every surviving officer or soldier of his command whose address I could obtain, and to others personally acquainted with Forrest before or after the war. All were requested to return the sheet with corrections, and to add everything of interest, for the accuracy of which the sender could vouch. I also caused the publication of this sketch in various newspapers of wide circulation in the section of the South from which his troops were chiefly drawn, and asked as well for private letters of information. As a result of these efforts a great mass of material came into my possession, and an interest was aroused which encouraged me in the laborious task of sifting the reliable from the unreliable, and of making presentable to the reader the matter which was worthy of credence.

Author : Robin Sterling
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304218368
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winston County, Alabama Confederate Soldiers written by Robin Sterling and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about men who joined the Federal Army from the so-called Hill Country in Alabama which included Winston County. Little has been written about the men who enlisted from Winston in the Confederacy. Surprisingly, the number of Winston County Confederates almost matched the number of those who supported the Union. Many important Confederate officers hailed from Winston County. The book begins with an essay describing the Forgotten Winston County Confederates. Following is an alphabatized list of all Confederate soldiers associated with Winston County including those that moved in after the war. Information includes service records, pension applications, birth, marriage, and death information. The book is filled with rare photos and obituaries. Additional information includes articles on Captain White's Mail Guard and the Winston County Rough and Ready Volunteers. Full name index. This book is important to students of Winston County History.

Author : James R. Knight
Publisher : History Press (SC)
ISBN 13 : 9781596297456
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Franklin written by James R. Knight and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2009 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late November 1864, the last Southern army east of the Mississippi that was still free to maneuver started out from northern Alabama on the Confederacy's last offensive. John Bell Hood and his Army of Tennessee had dreams of capturing Nashville and marching on to the Ohio River, but a small Union force under Hood's old West Point roommate stood between him and the state capital. In a desperate attempt to smash John Schofield's line at Franklin, Hood threw most of his men against the Union works, centered on the house of a family named Carter, and lost 30 percent of his attacking force in one afternoon, crippling his army and setting it up for a knockout blow at Nashville two weeks later. With firsthand accounts, letters and diary entries from the Carter House Archives, local historian James R. Knight paints a vivid picture of this gruesome conflict.

Author : Carman Cumming
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252090926
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devil's Game written by Carman Cumming and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of one of the Civil War's most outlandish and mysterious characters Devil's Game traces the amazing career of Charles A. Dunham, Civil War spy, forger, journalist, and master of dirty tricks. Writing for a variety of New York papers under alternate names, Dunham routinely faked stories, created new identities, and later boldly cast himself to play those roles. He achieved his greatest infamy when he was called to testify in Washington concerning Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Many parts of Dunham's career remain shadowy, but Cumming offers the first detailed tour of Dunham's convoluted, high-stakes, international deceits, including his effort to sell Lincoln on plans for a raid to capture Jefferson Davis. Exhaustively researched and unprecedented in depth, this carefully crafted assessment of Dunham's motives, personality, and the complex effects of his schemes changes assumptions about covert operations during the Civil War.