Commanding the Storm: Civil War Battles in the Words of the Generals Who Fought Them

From Beauregard and Custer to Lee and Sherman, twelve commanders from each side vividly describe what they and their men experienced at twelve of the war’s most legendary battles from Fort Sumter to Appomattox Court House in accounts gathered from letters, memoirs, reports, and testimonies. They relate noted incidents and personal triumphs and tragedies while covering strategies and explaining battlefield decisions. Trench warfare at Petersburg and Sherman’s scorched earth policy in Georgia foreshadowed the world wars to come, and technological advancements—such as armored steamships, landmines, and machine guns—literally changed the landscape of war. Submarines and a time bomb even came into play. Informative biographies and headnotes for each battle give parallel statistics at a glance and establish context; sidebars cover notable tactics and technologies, including espionage, aerial reconnaissance, and guerilla warfare; and a concise roll-call outline each commander's life in full after the war. Here, from the men who conducted and controlled it, is an invaluable sourcebook of what happened in the War Between the States and why.

Commanding the Storm: Civil War Battles In The Words Of The Generals Who Fought Them

History

Stephens, John Richard

Americas

LYONS PRESS+

The Gold Rush era was an amazing time in our country’s history. California had just been occupied during the Mexican-American War and wasn’t officially a U.S. territory yet when gold was discovered in 1848. Suddenly the whole world was electrified by the news and tales of men digging vast amounts of wealth out of the ground, even finding gold nuggets just lying around. Within five years, 250,000 miners dug up more than $200 million in gold—about $600 billion in today’s dollars.Gold offers a feel for what it was like to live through the heady days of the discovery and exploitation of gold in California in the mid-1800s through firsthand accounts, short stories, and tall tales written by the people who were there. These eyewitness accounts offer an immediacy that brings the events to life.

Gold: Firsthand Accounts From The Rush That Made The West

TwoDot

A collection of supernatural tales about mysterious felines contains fiction, nonfiction, and legends from noted writers such as Edgar Allen Poe, Cervantes, Saki, Bram Stoker, and others.

Mysterious Cat Stories

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Carroll & Graf Pub.

A collection of twenty-five supernatural tales of cats features the writings of such authors as Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Lilian Jackson Braun, Washington Irving, Algernon Blackwood, and Christopher Fahy.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Smith, Kim

Pets & Animal Care

Bbs Pub Corp

By and about the greatest celebrities of frontier America, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, intimate letters, and court testimony. Read these personal accounts as told by Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea, Davy Crockett, Black Hawk, John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, John Sutter, Buffalo Bill, Mark Twain, Jesse James, Cole Younger, Frank James, George Armstrong Custer, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull. This book offers a rare glimpse into the world of these legendary figures as they describe their own heroic exploits, dangerous rescues, fierce battles, deadly gunfights, horrible crimes, thrilling discoveries, and harsh dangers of life on the frontier of the American West, while revealing the roles they played in the notable events that made them famous.

Wildest Lives of the Frontier: America Through the Words of Jesse James, George Armstrong Custer, and Other Famous Westerners

By and about the greatest celebrities of the Wild West, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony. These glimpses into the worlds of these legendary figures as they describe their own personal experiences, impressions, what life in the Wild West was like, reveal the roles they played in notable events in American history.

Wildest Lives of the Wild West: America through the Words of Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, and Other Famous Westerners

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Collects curious tales from American history, including animal prosecutions and strange medical remedies

Weird History 101

World

Adams Media

A celebration of the dog features prose, poetry, artwork, and photographs by such figures as Napoleon, Admiral Byrd, President Harding, London, Kipling, Tennyson, Poe, Wordsworth, Twain, Stevenson, and others. Original.

The Dog Lover's Literary Companion

Literature & Fiction

Prima Pub.

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Books by Stephens, John Richard

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Commanding the Storm: Civil War Battles In The Words Of The Generals Who Fought Them

Commanding the Storm: Civil War Battles in the Words of the Generals Who Fought Them

Gold: Firsthand Accounts From The Rush That Made The West

Mysterious Cat Stories

Mysterious Cat Stories

Wildest Lives of the Frontier: America Through the Words of Jesse James, George Armstrong Custer, and Other Famous Westerners

Wildest Lives of the Wild West: America through the Words of Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, and Other Famous Westerners

Weird History 101

The Dog Lover's Literary Companion