Sökt på: william c. davis
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Diary of a Confederate Soldier
This is the diary of John S. Jackman, a Confederate soldier in the Orphan Brigade, a regiment in Tennessee's 9th Kentucky Brigade which participated in most of the major Western …
The Greatest Fury
"Davis's accounts of small fights won by hot blood and cold steel are thrilling."--The Wall Street Journal From master historian William C. Davis, the definitive story of the …
Detonation
Detonation, as the authors point out, differs from other forms of combustion "e;in that all the important energy transfer is by mass flow in strong compression waves, with …
The American Frontier
In The American Frontier, historian William C. Davis masterfully chronicles the history of the territory beyond the Mississippi, with particular attention to exploration, …
Flight into Oblivion
Hanna begins with General Lee's fatal telegram and the hasty exodus of Jefferson Davis and high officials to Danville, then Greensboro and Charlotte. From there the Confederate …
The Civil War Paintings of Mort Künstler Volume 3
For nearly thirty years, Mort Künstler has focused his considerable artistic talent on interpreting the Civil War. In crafting his work to reflect poignant moments or critical …
Union Heartland
Historians have broadened the somewhat simplistic interpretation of the Civil War as a battle between the North and the South by revealing the “many Souths” that made up the …
Battle at Bull Run
From the first passage in William C. Davis' book about ""the twilight of America's innocence: to the last, the reader is carried through what many in the 1860s believed would be …
Civil War Writing
Civil War Writing is a collection of new essays that focus on the most significant writing about the American Civil War by participants who lived through it, whether as civilians …
Inventing Loreta Velasquez
This groundbreaking biography of Loreta Janeta Velasquez delves into the life of one of America’s early celebrities. She claimed to have posed as a man to fight for the …
Duel Between the First Ironclads
One was called ""a tin can on a shingle""; the other, ""a half-submerged crocodile."" Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the U.S.S. …
Virginia at War, 1862
As the Civil War entered its first full calendar year for the Old Dominion, Virginians began to experience the full ramifications of the conflict. Their expectations for the coming …