Six Gems of Forgotten Civil War History: Essays that Did Not Make it Into the Dissertation, But Were Too Much Fun to DiscardBackintyme, 2005 - 201 oldal Historian reenactor Sweet presents six Civil War tales: The Minstrel Show, The Longstreet Controversy, America: War Service of a Racing Yacht, Yulee's Railroad, The Evolution of Rifle Tactics, and The Evolution of Indirect Fire. |
Tartalomjegyzék
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War Service of a Racing Yacht | 55 |
Yulees Railroad | 91 |
The Evolution of Rifle | 113 |
Two Lessons | 151 |
The Evolution of Indirect | 159 |
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
African-American aiming goniometer arms Army artillerymen attack audiences Balck battalion battery battle became blackface Blackface Minstrelsy Boer Boswell brigade British Butler Captain casualties Cavalry Cedar Key century Civil Colonel command Confederate cordite D.H. Hill dance Dastrup David Levy David Levy Yulee deadly ground Decie defenders deployed Early enemy Fernandina field artillery Florida Railroad French Gainesville George Steers German Gettysburg goniometer gunners Hanna History History of Florida indirect fire infantry assault invented Irish Jacksonville Jacksonville FL James James Longstreet Jim Crow John Jubal Jubal Early later Lee's Lieutenant Longstreet maneuver element military minstrel show muskets Navy officers Ordnance passim Pendleton Piston position recoil regiments rifle Rousmaniere 1986 Russian sailed shell shot SHSP siege skirmishers soldiers songs South Stevens tactics target technique tion train troops troupe Union United University Upton Wagner Walter Krueger weapons William Yacht America yards York
Népszerű szakaszok
26. oldal - Negro newspaper to label these black-face imitators as "the filthy scum of white society, who have stolen from us a complexion denied to them by nature, in which to make money, and pander to the corrupt taste of their fellowcitizens.
42. oldal - I never knew of it, or it has strangely escaped my memory. I think it more than probable that if General Lee had had your troops available the evening previous to the day of which you speak, he would have ordered an early attack ; but this does not touch the point at issue. I regard it as a great mistake on the part of those who, perhaps because of political differences, now undertake to criticise and attack your war record.
56. oldal - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end to which, indeed, all history points, the realization of the Unity of Mankind!
46. oldal - Longstreet, ascribes the failure at Gettysburg to Lee's mistakes, which he (Longstreet) in vain pointed out and remonstrated against. That any subject involving the possession and exercise of intellect should be clear to Longstreet and concealed from Lee, is a startling proposition to those having knowledge of the two men. We have Biblical authority for the story that the angel in the path was visible to the ass, though unseen by the seer his master; but suppose, instead of smiting the honest, stupid...
46. oldal - A recent article in the public press, signed by General Longstreet, ascribes the failure at Gettysburg to Lee's mistakes, which he [Longstreet] in vain pointed out and remonstrated against. That any subject involving the possession and exercise of intellect should be clear to Longstreet and concealed from Lee, is a startling proposition to those having knowledge of the two men.
174. oldal - Trust the sailor to make himself 146 at home. As we passed through the camp the bluejackets rose to a man and lined up trimly on either side. Trust the sailor to keep his self-respect, even in five weeks' beleaguered Ladysmith. Up a knee-loosening ladder of rock, and we came out on to the green hill-top, where they first had their camp. Among the orderly trenches, the sites of the deported tents, were rougher irregular blotches of hole — footprints of shell. " That gunner," said the captain, waving...
13. oldal - I'll speak to thee, thou look'st so like my dad. In a trim grave so snugly wast thou lain, Say what the devil brought thee out again ? I like a joke myself; but 'tis not right To come and frighten us to death at night. Say, why is this ? and straight the reason tell us, For fright'ning me, Horatio, and Marcellus.— Horatio.
100. oldal - There's that Yulee,' he said, 'miserable little cuss! I remember him in the House — the contemptible little Jew — standing there and begging us — yes ! begging us to let Florida in as a State. Well ! we let her in, and took care of her, and fought her Indians; and now that despicable little beggar stands up in the Senate and talks about her rights.
81. oldal - I know in my early service days we gloried in her as in no other thing which floated, save the Constitution, Cumberland and Monitor, and looking back I can recall many a night when the peace and quiet of Gardiner's Bay would be broken by the chorus of a hundred boyish voices singing: — Where did she come from ? New York town ! Who was her skipper? Old Dick Brown!
15. oldal - My name's Jim Crow. Weel about and turn about And do jis so, Eb'ry time I weel about And jump Jim Crow.