Extraordinary Circumstances - The Seven Days Battles

Informationen zum Autor Brian K. Burton Klappentext Burton's retelling of the campaign that lifted Southern spirits, began Lee's ascent to fame, and almost prompted European recognition of the Confederacy. Zusammenfassung The campaign that made Robert E. Lee famous Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. "The Nation Has Been Making Progress" 2. "How Are We to Get at Those People" 3. "The Responsibility Cannot Be Thrown on My Shoulders" 4. "Charging Batteries Is Highly Dangerous" 5. "Little Powell Will Do His Full Duty To-Day" 6. "We're Holding Them, But It's Getting Hotter and Hotter" 7. "I Have A Regiment That Can Take It" 8. "You Have Done Your Best to Sacrifice This Army" 9. "His Only Course Seemed to Me Was to Make for James River" 10. "But What Do You Think? Is the Enemy in Large Force?" 11. "He Has Other Important Duty to Perform" 12. "Why, Those Men Are Rebels!" 13. "We've Got Him" 14. "He . . . Rose and Walked Off in Silence" 15. "I Thought I Heard Firing" 16. "It Is Nothing When You Get Used to It" 17. "We Had Better Let Him Alone" 18. "Press Forward You Whole Line and Follow Up Armistead's Success" 19. "General Macgruder, Why Did You Attack?" 20. "The Thickest Red Mud Imaginable" 21. "Under Ordinary Circumstances the Federal Army Should Have Been Destroyed" Important Persons in the Seven Days Campaign Orders of Battle Appendices Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Brian Burton, Brian K Burton, Brian K. Burton, Burton Brian K
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2010
• EAN: 9780253222770
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22277-0
• No. of pages: 544
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; zweite Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert (1850 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, HISTORY / Military / General, History - Military / War, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)