An Unerring Fire - 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 An Unerring Fire write by Richard Fuchs. This book was released on 2017-09-15. An Unerring Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What really happened at Fort Pillow on April 12, 1864? The Union called it a massacre. The Confederacy called it necessity. TheTennessee spring came early that year, “awakening regional plants as warmer air and mois soil nurtured new life. Across the landscape could be seen the faint hint of green as sweet gum, hickory, oak cottonwood,…Sweet Williams, and wild dogwood added their hues.” This serene backdrop in hardly the place where one would imagine such a one-sided military atrocity to take place. Although at first glance the numbers are hardly noteworthy, the casualty ratio speaks volumes on the event. Eyewitness accounts relate “vivid recollection” of the numerous and specific nature of the injuries suffered by the survivors.” Controversy and scandal surround the Southern general Nathan Bedford Forrest. Why did it seem that he passively watched his men attack and mutilate more than one hundred apparently unarmed soldiers? Perhaps the biggest controversy involved racial prejudice. Was there a reason that Fort Pillow was singled out for Confederate vengeance, with the knowledge that the majority of the men were African-American? Of the dead, 66 percent were black. An Unerring Fire answers these questions and more in a critical examination of what remains one of the most controversial episodes of the Civil War.
Fighting Means Killing
Fighting Means Killing - 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 Fighting Means Killing write by Jonathan M. Steplyk. This book was released on 2020-10-05. Fighting Means Killing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “War means fighting, and fighting means killing,” Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest famously declared. The Civil War was fundamentally a matter of Americans killing Americans. This undeniable reality is what Jonathan Steplyk explores in Fighting Means Killing, the first book-length study of Union and Confederate soldiers’ attitudes toward, and experiences of, killing in the Civil War. Drawing upon letters, diaries, and postwar reminiscences, Steplyk examines what soldiers and veterans thought about killing before, during, and after the war. How did these soldiers view sharpshooters? How about hand-to-hand combat? What language did they use to describe killing in combat? What cultural and societal factors influenced their attitudes? And what was the impact of race in battlefield atrocities and bitter clashes between white Confederates and black Federals? These are the questions that Steplyk seeks to answer in Fighting Means Killing, a work that bridges the gap between military and social history—and that shifts the focus on the tragedy of the Civil War from fighting and dying for cause and country to fighting and killing.
Black Soldiers in Blue
Black Soldiers in Blue - 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 Black Soldiers in Blue write by John David Smith. This book was released on 2004-08-01. Black Soldiers in Blue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inspired and informed by the latest research in African American, military, and social history, the fourteen original essays in this book tell the stories of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union cause. Collectively, these essays probe
Thrilling Adventures Among the Early Settlers, Embracing Desperate Encounters with Indians, Tories, and Refugees
Thrilling Adventures Among the Early Settlers, Embracing Desperate Encounters with Indians, Tories, and Refugees - 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 Thrilling Adventures Among the Early Settlers, Embracing Desperate Encounters with Indians, Tories, and Refugees write by Warren Wildwood (pseud.). This book was released on 1890. Thrilling Adventures Among the Early Settlers, Embracing Desperate Encounters with Indians, Tories, and Refugees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Daring Deeds of Pioneer Women
Daring Deeds of Pioneer Women - 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 Daring Deeds of Pioneer Women write by John Frost. This book was released on 2020-10-14. Daring Deeds of Pioneer Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stirring tales, dating from the French and Indian War through the 1850s, recount desperate situations from the lives of westward-bound women and their families, including encounters with the Native Americans they ultimately displaced.
