A One-Armed General During the Indian Wars (Abridged, Annotated) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A One-Armed General During the Indian Wars (Abridged, Annotated) write by O. O. Howard. This book was released on 2016-11-15. A One-Armed General During the Indian Wars (Abridged, Annotated) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a rare book of keen observation, respect, and in some instances even affection for Native Americans of his time. General Oliver O. Howard commanded Union forces in the American Civil War and lost his right arm at the Battle of Fair Oaks in 1862. After recovery, he continued in important commands, including the Army of the Tennessee. He fought at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.After the war, he commanded troops on the frontier during the conflicts with Native Americans. He accepted the surrender of the famous chief Joseph, and led campaigns and negotiations with an astonishing number of the western tribes. No student of the Indian Wars in the United States should miss reading this book.
A One-Armed General in the Indian Wars (Abridged, Annotated)
A One-Armed General in the Indian Wars (Abridged, Annotated) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A One-Armed General in the Indian Wars (Abridged, Annotated) write by Major General O. O. Howard. This book was released on . A One-Armed General in the Indian Wars (Abridged, Annotated) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a rare book of keen observation, respect, and in some instances even affection for Native Americans of his time. (It's a good bet his editor or the marketing department had something to do with the language.) General Oliver O. Howard commanded Union forces in the American Civil War and lost his right arm at the Battle of Fair Oaks in 1862. After recovery, he continued in important commands, including the Army of the Tennessee. He fought at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. For nine years after the Civil War, he was commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau and worked to integrate free African Americans into southern society. Howard was also a leader in promoting higher education for freedmen, most notably in founding of Howard University in Washington and serving as its president 1867–73. He accepted the surrender of the famous chief Joseph, and led campaigns and negotiations with an astonishing number of the western tribes. No student of the Indian Wars in the United States should miss reading this book. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
The Battle of Beecher Island (Abridged, Annotated)
The Battle of Beecher Island (Abridged, Annotated) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Battle of Beecher Island (Abridged, Annotated) write by General George "Sandy" Forsyth. This book was released on . The Battle of Beecher Island (Abridged, Annotated) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the legendary figures of the frontier U.S. Army and the Indian Wars, Sandy Forsyth is unknown to most Americans. This volume contains his exciting account of the Battle of Beecher Island in September, 1868. Forsyth commanded a tiny force pinned down on a sand bar in the Republican River for nine days against hundreds of Cheyenne warriors led by Roman Nose. Forsyth was badly wounded but stayed in command as men and horses fell around him. Earlier in his career, he had been an aide-de-camp to Major-General Phil Sheridan during the Civil War. He rode with Sheridan on his famous nighttime ride from Winchester to avert catastrophe at the Battle of Cedar Creek. That story is here, as well as Forsyth's memory of his presence at the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. This is one of the most exciting and well-written memoirs of an officer who served in the Civil War and on the frontier. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers, tablets, and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Journal of Rachel Wilson Moore: 1863-4 (Abridged, Annotated)
Journal of Rachel Wilson Moore: 1863-4 (Abridged, Annotated) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Journal of Rachel Wilson Moore: 1863-4 (Abridged, Annotated) write by Rachel Wilson Moore. This book was released on 2016-11-27. Journal of Rachel Wilson Moore: 1863-4 (Abridged, Annotated) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the Civil War raged during its worst years, Rachel Moore and her husband left cold New York for the Caribbean in an attempt to restore her failing health. At times it seemed the voyage itself was going to kill her. But she survived and kept a journal of her keen observations of life in the islands. What shocked her the most was the state of Caribbean slavery; worse, in her mind, than what she had seen traveling through the American south. A Quaker and an abolitionist, slavery was an absolute evil to her. Her descriptions of slave life, the islands, the people, and what she loved about her time there are all fascinating to read. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
The Earth Is Weeping
The Earth Is Weeping - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Earth Is Weeping write by Peter Cozzens. This book was released on 2016-10-25. The Earth Is Weeping available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together Custer, Sherman, Grant, and other fascinating military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo, this “sweeping work of narrative history” (San Francisco Chronicle) is the fullest account to date of how the West was won—and lost. After the Civil War the Indian Wars would last more than three decades, permanently altering the physical and political landscape of America. Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the intertribal strife over whether to fight or make peace; explores the dreary, squalid lives of frontier soldiers and the imperatives of the Indian warrior culture; and describes the ethical quandaries faced by generals who often sympathized with their native enemies. In dramatically relating bloody and tragic events as varied as Wounded Knee, the Nez Perce War, the Sierra Madre campaign, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, we encounter a pageant of fascinating characters, including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of officers, soldiers, and Indian agents, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud and the warriors they led. The Earth Is Weeping is a sweeping, definitive history of the battles and negotiations that destroyed the Indian way of life even as they paved the way for the emergence of the United States we know today.
