Now The Drum Of War

Author : Robert Roper
Publisher : Walker Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now the Drum of War written by Robert Roper and published by Walker Books. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the searing letters that Walt Whitman, his brother George, their mother Louisa, and their other brothers wrote to each other during the Civil War, this work chronicles the experience of an archetypal American family enduring its own long crisis alongside the anguish of the nation.

Author : Edith Morris Hemingway
Publisher : White Mane Kids
ISBN 13 : 9781572490277
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broken Drum written by Edith Morris Hemingway and published by White Mane Kids. This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1861 Charley, a twelve-year-old drummer boy with the Army of the Potomac, is caught up in the excitement and horrors of the Civil War as he travels from Washington towards Antietam.

Author : Nancy K. Loane
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640123954
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Following the Drum written by Nancy K. Loane and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friday, December 19, 1777, dawned cold and windy. Fourteen thousand Continental Army soldiers tramped from dawn to dusk along the rutted Pennsylvania roads from Gulph Mills to Valley Forge, the site of their winter encampment. The soldiers' arrival was followed by the army's wagons and hundreds of camp women. Following the Drum tells the story of the forgotten women who spent the winter of 1777-78 with the Continental Army at Valley Forge--from those on society's lowest rungs to ladies on the upper echelons. Impoverished and clinging to the edge of survival, many camp women were soldiers' wives who worked as the army's washers, nurses, cooks, and seamstresses. Other women at the encampment were of higher status: they traveled with George Washington's entourage when the army headquarters shifted locations and served the general as valued cooks, laundresses, or housekeepers. There were also the ladies at Valley Forge who were not subject to the harsh conditions of camp life and came and went as they and their husbands, Washington's generals and military advisers, saw fit. Nancy K. Loane uses sources such as issued military orders, pension depositions after the war, soldiers' descriptions, and some of the women's own diary entries and letters to bring these women to life.

Author : Robert Roper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802777597
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now the Drum of War written by Robert Roper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt Whitman's work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound effect on the way he saw the world. Much less well known is the extraordinary record of his younger brother, George, who led his men in twenty-one major battles, almost to die in a Confederate prison camp as the fighting ended. Drawing on the searing letters that Walt, George, their mother Louisa, and their other brothers, wrote to each other during the conflict, and on new evidence and new readings of the great poet, Now the Drum of War chronicles the experience of an archetypal American family-from rural Long Island to working-class Brooklyn-enduring its own long crisis alongside the anguish of the nation. Robert Roper has constructed a powerful narrative about America's greatest crucible, and a compelling story of our most original poet and one of our bravest soldiers. "Together, the brothers Whitman define the complementary aspects of a full human response to a catastrophe like the Civil War. One is on the side of nurturing and empathy, a lover-figure who becomes a tender friend or father; the other more in line with classical definitions of masculine virtue, a man who protects his fellow-fighters while resolutely destroying the enemy...The Whitmans did not arrive at their vocations independently, or out of nowhere; their family's stalwartness in terrible trials, especially their mother's, and their own continuing awareness of each other as the war darkened, year by year, for both of them, awoke in both a kind of greatness."

Author : Ian Knight
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1848322410
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marching to the Drums written by Ian Knight and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping collection of first-hand accounts, Ian Knight presents the adventure of nineteenth-century warfare from the thrill of the cavalry charges at Balaklava and Omdurman, to the terror of battle against an overwhelming odds such as Rorke's Drift in the words of the men actually there.These eyewitness accounts provide a vivid and sometimes shocking insight into the brutal realities of warfare for the British imperial soldier, who fought against enemies from massed ranks of Russians and assegai-armed natives to sharp-shooting Boers, in often the most terrible conditions imaginable.These stirring tales of military adventure have been edited by Ian Knight and brought together and published in book form. Originally featured in turn-of-the-century magazine, popular during the heyday of empire, these historically valuable accounts throw considerable light on campaign conditions during Queen Victoria's colonial wars.Marching to the Drums includes accounts focusing on the experience of battle during such pivotal conflicts as the Sikh Wars, the Crimean War, the Afghan Wars, the Anglo-Zulu War, and those in China, the Sudan and South Africa.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drum-Taps written by Walt Whitman and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drum-Taps" by Walt Whitman is an affirmative and poignant collection of poems that reflects the poet's deep engagement with the American Civil War. Published during the mid-19th century, Whitman's work captures the emotional and physical toll of war while celebrating the resilience and spirit of the American people. In "Drum-Taps," readers can expect a series of verses that provide a vivid and personal portrayal of the Civil War experience. Whitman, often referred to as the "poet of democracy," likely employs a free verse style to convey the raw and unfiltered emotions of soldiers on the battlefield, as well as the impact of the war on the nation. The title, "Drum-Taps," suggests a thematic focus on the military and the rhythmic beats of war drums, emphasizing the sounds and cadences associated with conflict. Whitman's verses may explore themes of camaraderie, sacrifice, and the profound human experiences that emerge during times of strife.

Author : Henry De Vere Stacpoole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drums of War written by Henry De Vere Stacpoole and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harold Holzer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101613114
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civil War in 50 Objects written by Harold Holzer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects, a fresh, visual perspective on the Civil War From a soldier’s diary with the pencil still attached to John Brown’s pike, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the leaves from Abraham Lincoln’s bier, here is a unique and surprisingly intimate look at the Civil War. Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer sheds new light on the war by examining fifty objects from the New-York Historical Society’s acclaimed collection. A daguerreotype of an elderly, dignified ex-slave; a soldier’s footlocker still packed with its contents; Grant’s handwritten terms of surrender at Appomattox—the stories these objects tell are rich, poignant, sometimes painful, and always fascinating. They illuminate the conflict from all perspectives—Union and Confederate, military and civilian, black and white, male and female—and give readers a deeply human sense of the war.

Author : Henry De Vere Stacpoole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drums of War. (Abridged.). written by Henry De Vere Stacpoole and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Glassman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004377522
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drums of War, Drums of Development: The Formation of a Pacific Ruling Class and Industrial Transformation in East and Southeast Asia, 1945-1980 written by Jim Glassman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Drums of War, Drums of Development, Glassman offers an interpretation of industrialization in East and Southeast Asia that foregrounds Pacific ruling class geopolitical economic manoeuvring during the Vietnam War, challenging interpretations that ignore the effects of military violence.