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  • Lincoln Memorial University and the Shaping of Appalachia

    de Earl J. Hess ...
    Located near Cumberland Gap in the rugged hills of East Tennessee, Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) was founded in 1897 to help disadvantaged Appalachian youth and reward the descendents of Union loyalists in the region. Its founder was former Union General Oliver Otis Howard, a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, who made it his mission to sustain an institution of higher learning in the ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • My Dear Nelly

    The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife Eleanor

    Edición de Taylor ...
    An epistolary chronicle of love and reflection from the Civil War frontMore than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, West Point engineer and Brevet Brigadier General Orlando M. Poe (1832–1895) remains one of the Union’s most unsung heroes. He served the Union in uniform from day one of the conflict until the Confederate surrender in North Carolina in late April 1865, and he used his ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Earl J. Hess Fortifications Trilogy, Omnibus E-book

    Includes Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War; Trench Warfare Under Grant and Lee; and In the Trenches at Petersburg

    de Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series Civil War America
    This three-volume Omnibus e-Book set is a collection of Earl J. Hess’s definitive works on trench warfare during the Civil War. The set includes:Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864, covering the eastern campaigns, from Big Bethel and the Peninsula to Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Charleston, and Mine Run;Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee: Field ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • The Knoxville Campaign

    Burnside and Longstreet in East Tennessee

    de Earl J. Hess ...
    “Hess’s account of the understudied Knoxville Campaign sheds new light on the generalship of James Longstreet and Ambrose Burnside, as well as such lesser players as Micah Jenkins and Orlando Poe. Both scholars and general readers should welcome it. The scholarship is sound, the research, superb, the writing, excellent.” —Steven E. Woodworth, author of Decision in the Heartland: The Civil War in ... Leer más

    $22.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Civil War Camps and Soldier Health

    Sanitation and Military Effectiveness in the Union Army

    de Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series Interpreting the Civil War: Texts and Contexts
    An immersive analysis of camp life and soldiers’ well-being during the Civil WarThe Civil War was a watershed in public awareness of the many health-related issues soldiers faced while living in camps. Sanitarians among civilians and regular army officers attempted to meet those challenges by addressing a range of topics associated with preventive healthcare in the volunteer army. The US Sanitary ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • July 22

    The Civil War Battle of Atlanta

    de Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    So remarkable was the fighting to the east of Atlanta on July 22, 1864, that it earned its place as the only engagement of the Civil War to be widely referred to by the date of its occurrence. Also known as the Battle of Atlanta, this was the largest engagement of the four-month-long Atlanta Campaign for control of the city and the region. Although Confederate commander John Bell Hood’s forces ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Civil War Cavalry

    Waging Mounted Warfare in Nineteenth-Century America

    de Earl J. Hess ...
    The Civil War produced the largest cavalry force ever raised in American history. In Civil War Cavalry, Earl J. Hess examines that force comprehensively and from new perspectives, challenging standard views of the war’s mounted arm. Hess surveys the organization, training, administration, arming, and mounting of cavalry units and examines mounted troops’ tactical formations and maneuvers. He ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Civil War Field Artillery

    Promise and Performance on the Battlefield

    de Earl J. Hess ...
    The American Civil War saw the creation of the largest, most potent artillery force ever deployed in a conflict fought in the Western Hemisphere. It was as sizable and powerful as any raised in prior European wars. Moreover, Union and Confederate artillery included the largest number of rifled pieces fielded in any conflagration in the world up to that point. Earl J. Hess’s Civil War Field ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Managing the Union Army

    Scott, McClellan, Halleck, and Grant as General-in-Chief

    de Earl J. Hess ...
    The general-in-chief did not command the million-man Union army that fought in the Civil War, as most historians have assumed; rather, he was a member of a management team that included the president and the secretary of war. The president, as commander-in-chief, created the position by appointing an officer to it, and he could dismiss that officer at any time and choose not to appoint another. ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Guerrilla Hunters

    Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War

    de Adam Domby, Andrew Fialka, Scott Thompson, Lisa Tendrich Frank, Joseph Beilein, Earl J. Hess, Laura J. Davis, Andrew F. Lang, Matthew M. Stith, Aaron Astor, Brian Steel Wills, Stephen Rockenbach, Daniel E. Sutherland, Matthew Christopher Hulbert ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare—including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics—thrived in localized guerrilla fights within the Border States and the Confederate South. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors in these conflicts, from the Confederate-authorized Partisan Rangers, a military force directed to spy ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Civil War Infantry Tactics

    Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness

    de Earl J. Hess ...
    For decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket-with a range five times longer than that of the smoothbore musket-made the shoulder-to-shoulder formations of linear tactics obsolete. Author Earl J. Hess challenges this deeply entrenched assumption. He contends that long-range rifle fire did not dominate Civil War battlefields or dramatically alter the course ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat

    Reality and Myth

    de Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    The Civil War’s single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we’ve been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully challenges that claim, offering a new, clear-eyed, and convincing assessment of the rifle musket’s actual performance on the battlefield and its impact on the course of the Civil War.Many contemporaries were impressed with the new weapon’s increased ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD