Frederick W Lander

Author : Gary L. Ecelbarger
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807125809
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frederick W. Lander written by Gary L. Ecelbarger and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tall and handsome, vigorous and hot-tempered, fearless to a fault, Frederick W. Lander (1821–1862) became one of the most name-recognized Americans in the years 1854 to 1862. A top-notch railroad and wagon-road engineer in the western territories, a popular lyceum speaker, a published fic-tion writer and poet, an adept negotiator with Native Americans, and an agent for the Lincoln administration and the Union army, the Massachusetts native attracted newspaper coverage from coast to coast for his renown and versatility. His name evoked emotion and passion among his friends and associates, including artists, poets, explorers, engineers, soldiers, and politicians, but at his untimely death early in the Civil War, he quickly and tragically descended into anonymity. With an energy that befits his subject, Gary L. Ecelbarger brings to life this intriguing, romantic personality of the nineteenth century, tempting the imagination to consider what Lander might have accomplished had he lived longer. Using more than five hundred unpublished letters and documents written by Lander and his colleagues, superiors, and subordinates, Ecelbarger delves into all of the major aspects of Lander’s life but focuses upon its final chapter in the Civil War. Promoted directly from unpaid aide-de-camp to brigadier general, Lander was quickly dubbed “the great natural American soldier” by Lieutenant General Winfield Scott for his brilliant promise as a military leader. The author offers a richly detailed narrative of Lander’s courageous participation in three campaigns during the first year of the conflict: Rich Mountain, May–July, 1861; Ball’s Bluff, September–October, 1861; and the previously undocumented campaign against Stonewall Jackson, January–March, 1862. Ecelbarger studies Lander’s flaws, attributes, and achievements to provide a judicious, comprehensive analysis of his actions and character. In Frederick W. Lander, he produces the spellbinding story of a once-forgotten hero who now appears life size.

Author : Jermy Benton Wight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frederick W. Lander and the Lander Trail written by Jermy Benton Wight and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Will Bagley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806145110
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Pass written by Will Bagley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace Stegner called South Pass “one of the most deceptive and impressive places in the West.” Nowhere can travelers cross the Rockies so easily as through this high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind River Mountains. South Pass has received much attention in lore and memory but attracted no serious book-length study—until now. In this narrative, award-winning author Will Bagley explains the significance of South Pass to the nation’s history and to the development of the American West. Fur traders first saw South Pass in 1812. From the early 1840s until the completion of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads almost forty years later, emigrants on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails used South Pass in transforming the American West in a single generation. Bagley traces the peopling of the region by the earliest inhabitants and adventurers, including Indian peoples, trappers and fur traders, missionaries, and government-commissioned explorers. Later, California gold rushers, Latter-day Saints, and families seeking new lives went through this singular gap in the Rockies. Without South Pass, overland wagons beginning their journey far to the east along the Missouri River could not have reached their destinations in a single season, and western settlement might have been delayed for decades. The story of South Pass offers a rich history. The Overland Stage, Pony Express, and first transcontinental telegraph all came through the region. Nearly a century later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower designated South Pass as one of America’s first National Historic Landmarks. An American place so rich in historical significance, Bagley argues, deserves the best of historical preservation efforts.

Author : John Gilmary Shea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.ID/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Child's History of the United States written by John Gilmary Shea and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bryan S. Bush
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 161858796X
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civil War Battles of the Western Theatre written by Bryan S. Bush and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Civil War First! Never has anything comparable to this massive volume been published on the Western Theatre in America's War Between the States. Bush takes the reader through every major battle in the West complete with an order of battle listing all units involved for each confrontation. Richly illustrated with nearly 700 photographs maps, charts and drawings to embellish each detailed account. You'll see extraordinary features of some of the most outstanding artifact collections in the world, all of Western Theatre battles and men who fought them.

Author : Joanne B. Freeman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717613
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Field of Blood written by Joanne B. Freeman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery. These fights didn’t happen in a vacuum. Freeman’s dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities—the feel, sense, and sound of it—as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.

Author : Frank Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portrait Gallery of the War, Civil, Military, and Naval written by Frank Moore and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroes and Martyrs written by Frank Moore and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank MOORE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroes and Martyrs: notable men of the time. Biographical sketches of the military and naval heroes, statesmen and orators, distinguished in the American crisis of 1861-62. With portraits on steel, etc written by Frank MOORE and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1376 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: