Fort Henry

Author : David R. Starbuck
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584651666
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Massacre at Fort William Henry written by David R. Starbuck and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archeologist's lively illustrated portrayal of 18th-century America's most infamous siege and massacre.

Author : Kendall D. Gott
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 081173160X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the South Lost the War written by Kendall D. Gott and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the collapse of the Confederate defenses at Forts Henry and Donelson, the entire Tennessee Valley was open to Union invasion and control.

Author : Ben Hughes
Publisher : Westholme Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781594161469
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Siege of Fort William Henry written by Ben Hughes and published by Westholme Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opening years of the French and Indian War were disastrous for the British. Fort William Henry on the southern shore of New York's Lake George was a key fortification supporting British interests along the frontier with French America.

Author : Manning Ferguson Force
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Fort Henry to Corinth written by Manning Ferguson Force and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fielding Lewis Tyler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439613001
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fort Story and Cape Henry written by Fielding Lewis Tyler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 26, 1607, the English colonists anchored at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay and came ashore to the historic piece of land they named Cape Henry. Then, in 1917, a military post was established and fortified to protect the southern portion of the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay during World War I; it was named Fort Story. Expanded and heavily fortified to meet the demands of the Second World War, the post served as a principal installation for the Harbor Defenses of Chesapeake Bay. The big guns fell silent after that conflict, and the post became the Home of Army Amphibians with over-the-beach operations. Today Fort Story continues to provide a superb training installation for the Army Transportation Corps and Special Operations.

Author : Benjamin Franklin Cooling
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572332652
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key to the Confederate Heartland written by Benjamin Franklin Cooling and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Timothy B. Smith
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700633162
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grant Invades Tennessee written by Timothy B. Smith and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When General Ulysses S. Grant targeted Forts Henry and Donelson, he penetrated the Confederacy at one of its most vulnerable points, setting in motion events that would elevate his own status, demoralize the Confederate leadership and citizenry, and, significantly, tear the western Confederacy asunder. More to the point, the two battles of early 1862 opened the Tennessee River campaign that would prove critical to the ultimate Union victory in the Mississippi Valley. In Grant Invades Tennessee, award-winning Civil War historian Timothy B. Smith gives readers a battlefield view of the fight for Forts Henry and Donelson, as well as a critical wide-angle perspective on their broader meaning in the conduct and outcome of the war. The first comprehensive tactical treatment of these decisive battles, this book completes the trilogy of the Tennessee River campaign that Smith began in Shiloh and Corinth 1862, marking a milestone in Civil War history. Whether detailing command-level decisions or using eye-witness anecdotes to describe events on the ground, walking readers through maps or pulling back for an assessment of strategy, this finely written work is equally sure on matters of combat and context. Beginning with Grant's decision to bypass the Confederates' better-defended sites on the Mississippi, Smith takes readers step-by-step through the battles: the employment of a flotilla of riverine war ships along with infantry and land-based artillery in subduing Fort Henry; the lesser effectiveness of this strategy against Donelson's much stronger defense, weaponry, and fighting forces; the surprise counteroffensive by the Confederates and the role of their commanders' incompetence and cowardice in foiling its success. Though casualties at the two forts fell far short of bloodier Civil War battles to come, the importance of these Union victories transcend battlefield statistics. Grant Invades Tennessee allows us, for the first time, to clearly see how and why.

Author : Jack H. Lepa
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786474777
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grant's River Campaign written by Jack H. Lepa and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tennessee in the early months of 1862, Ulysses S. Grant captured forts Henry and Donelson and opened the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers to military and commercial shipping. In April the first of many terrible battles of the Civil War was fought near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River around a decrepit meeting-house known as Shiloh. This costly victory established Federal control over much of central Tennessee. These early Union victories gave the Federals control of two of the major rivers in the region--the highways of the period--opening large areas of the Confederacy to Federal invasion. Other important results were the end of the Confederate threat to control Kentucky and possibly close off the Ohio River. These victories also were a major factor in forcing the abandonment of a key Confederate fort on the Mississippi River at Columbus, Kentucky. This book describes not only the actual fighting that took place but how important political and economic factors influenced the overall military strategy in the region.

Author : Stephen D. Engle
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803267534
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Struggle for the Heartland written by Stephen D. Engle and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggle for the Heartland tells the story surrounding the military campaign that began in early 1862 with the advance to Fort Henry and culminated in late May with the capture of Corinth, Mississippi. The first significant Northern penetration into the Confederate west, this campaign saw the military coming-of-age of Ulysses S. Grant and offered a hint as to where the Federals might win the war. For the South, it dashed any hopes of avoiding a protracted conflict. Stephen D. Engle colors in the details that bring great clarity and new life to the scene of these battles as well as to the social and political context in which they occurred.

Author : Manning Ferguson Force
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385435579
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Fort Henry to Corinth written by Manning Ferguson Force and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.