wyszukanych pozycji: 4
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Sailing with Farragut – The Civil War Recollections of Bartholomew Diggins
ISBN: 9798895270844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Sailing with Farragut shows readers the war through the recollections of Bartholomew Diggins, a young sailor who fought under U.S. Admiral David G. Farragut in the battles for control of the Mississippi River. A recent Irish immigrant, Diggins joined the crew of the USS Hartford, Admiral Farragut's flagship, at age seventeen and served for three years. Diggins's memoir, one of a very few writtenby a sailor on either side, allows readers to experience a Northern seamen's daily existence and the perilous battles he endured during the Civil War. Wounded during the first foiled approach... Sailing with Farragut shows readers the war through the recollections of Bartholomew Diggins, a young sailor who fought under U.S. Admiral D... |
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96,15 |
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Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath: No Quarter in the Civil War
ISBN: 9780809327430 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This provocative new study proves the existence of a de facto Confederate policy of giving no quarter to captured black combatants during the Civil Warkilling them instead of treating them as prisoners of war. Rather than looking at the massacres as a series of discrete and random events, this work examines each as part of a ruthless but standard practice.
Author George S. Burkhardt details a fascinating case that the Confederates followed a consistent pattern of murder against the black soldiers who served in Northern armies after Lincoln s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. He shows... This provocative new study proves the existence of a de facto Confederate policy of giving no quarter to captured black combatants during the Civil Wa...
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156,72 |
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Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath: No Quarter in the Civil War
ISBN: 9780809332076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This provocative study proves the existence of a de facto Confederate policy of giving no quarter to captured black combatants during the Civil War killing them instead of treating them as prisoners of war. Rather than looking at the massacres as a series of discrete and random events, this work examines each as part of a ruthless but standard practice.
Author George S. Burkhardt details a fascinating case that the Confederates followed a consistent pattern of murder against the black soldiers who served in Northern armies after Lincoln s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. He shows... This provocative study proves the existence of a de facto Confederate policy of giving no quarter to captured black combatants during the Civil War ki...
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97,90 |
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Double Duty in the Civil War: The Letters of Sailor and Soldier Edward W. Bacon
ISBN: 9780809329106 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1861 at the age of eighteen, Edward Woolsey Bacon, a Yale student and son of well-known abolitionist minister Leonard Bacon, left his home in New Haven, Connecticut, to fight for the United States. Over the next four years Bacon served in both the Union navy and army, which gave him a sweeping view of the Civil War. His postings included being a captain's clerk on the USS Iroquois, a hospital clerk in his hometown, a captain in the 29th Connecticut Infantry (Colored), and a major in the 117th U.S. Colored Infantry, and he described these experiences in vibrant letters to his friends...
In 1861 at the age of eighteen, Edward Woolsey Bacon, a Yale student and son of well-known abolitionist minister Leonard Bacon, left his home in New H...
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112,60 |