The Battle of Five Forks: March 31, 1865-April 1, 1865 ... - 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 Five Forks: March 31, 1865-April 1, 1865 ... write by John Gibb Simpson. This book was released on 1966. The Battle of Five Forks: March 31, 1865-April 1, 1865 ... available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Battle of Five Forks
Battle of Five Forks - 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 Battle of Five Forks write by Edwin C. Bearss. This book was released on 1985. Battle of Five Forks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Confederate Waterloo
Confederate Waterloo - 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 Confederate Waterloo write by Michael Joseph McCarthy. This book was released on 2017. Confederate Waterloo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Confederate Waterloo is the first fully researched and unbiased book-length account of the Battle of Five Forks and the aftermath fought in the courts and at the bar of public opinion.
Five Forks
Five Forks - 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 Five Forks write by Robert Alexander. This book was released on 2003-04-30. Five Forks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Battle of Five Forks was one of the the last battles of the American Civil War. A week later, Lee surrendered. Two weeks later, Lincoln was dead. In this meditation on that battle, Alexander juxtaposes the story of the battle, which he tells through narrative, letters, and journal entries, with his own impressions, viewing the South through Northern eyes. In addition, he views contemporary American society through the story of the Civil War and specifically through the story of Five Forks. If it is true that we meet our past coming to us out of the future, then, Alexander posits, America is still grappling with issues unresolved by the Civil War. Those issues are not just the obvious ones of race and class, or of North vs. South, but also the more ephemeral issues surrounding the mythos Americans live by. Alexander is not a historian, and this is much more a literary work than a battle story. However, the immediacy with which Alexander tells his tale leads the reader to experience Five Forks—the land, the smells, the cries—as if present there in 1865. Thus, he does not just describe a battle; he captures the spirit of all battles, all wars.
Confederate Waterloo
Confederate Waterloo - 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 Confederate Waterloo write by Michael J. McCarthy. This book was released on 2016-12-15. Confederate Waterloo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Engrossing . . . A lengthy review of the events of the final days of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and the road to Appomattox” (Mark Silo, author of The 115th New York in the Civil War). The Battle of Five Forks broke the long siege of Petersburg, Virginia, triggered the evacuation of Richmond, precipitated the Appomattox Campaign, and destroyed the careers and reputations of two generals. Michael J. McCarthy’s Confederate Waterloo is the first fully researched and unbiased book-length account of this decisive Union victory and the aftermath fought in the courts and at the bar of public opinion. When Gen. Phil Sheridan’s forces struck at Five Forks on April 1, the attack surprised and collapsed Gen. George Pickett’s Confederate command and turned General Lee’s right flank. An attack along the entire front the following morning broke the siege and forced the Virginia army out of its defenses and, a week later, into Wilmer McLean’s parlor to surrender at Appomattox. Despite this decisive Union success, Five Forks spawned one of the most bitter and divisive controversies in the postwar army when Sheridan relieved Fifth Corps commander Gouverneur K. Warren for perceived failures connected to the battle. McCarthy’s Confederate Waterloo is grounded upon extensive research and a foundation of primary sources, including the meticulous records of a man driven to restore his honor in the eyes of his colleagues, his family, and the American public. The result is a fresh and dispassionate analysis that may cause students of the Civil War to reassess their views about some of the Union’s leading generals. “A detailed, scholarly analysis of one of the final battles of the American Civil War . . . A studious, unbiased account of the entire affair.” —Midwest Book Review
