Prince John Magruder
Author | : Paul D. Casdorph |
Publisher | : Wiley-Interscience |
Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 1996-10-16 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015038172592 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
His life and campaigns.
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Author | : Paul D. Casdorph |
Publisher | : Wiley-Interscience |
Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 1996-10-16 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015038172592 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
His life and campaigns.
Author | : Thomas Settles |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2009-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780807149621 |
ISBN-13 | : 0807149624 |
Rating | : 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Of all the major figures of the Civil War era, Confederate general John Bankhead Magruder is perhaps the least understood. The third-ranking officer in Virginia's forces behind Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston, Magruder left no diary, no completed memoirs, no will, not even a family Bible. There are no genealogical records and very few surviving personal papers. Unsurprisingly, then, much existing literature about Magruder contains incorrect information. In John Bankhead Magruder, an exhaustive biography that reflects more than thirty years of painstaking archival research, Thomas M. Settles remedies the many factual inaccuracies surrounding this enigmatic man and his military career. Settles traces Magruder's family back to its seventeenth-century British American origins, describes his educational endeavors at the University of Virginia and West Point, and details his early military career and his leading role as an artillerist in the war with Mexico. Tall, handsome, and flamboyant, Magruder earned the nickname "Prince John" from his army friends and was known for his impeccable manners and social brilliance. When Virginia seceded in April of 1861, Prince John resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and offered his services to the Confederacy. Magruder won the opening battle of the Civil War at Big Bethel. Later, in spite of severe shortages of weapons and supplies and a lack of support from Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, Samuel Cooper, and Joseph E. Johnston, Prince John, with just 13,600 men, held his position on the Peninsula for a month against George B. McClellan's 105,000-man Federal army. This successful stand, at a time when Richmond was exceedingly vulnerable, provided, according to Settles, John Magruder's greatest contribution to the Confederacy. Following the Seven Days' battles, however, his commanders harshly criticized Magruder for being too slow at Savage Station, then too rash at Malvern Hill and they transferred him to command the District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. In Texas, he skillfully recaptured the port of Galveston in early 1863 and held it for the Confederacy until the end of the war. After the war, he joined the Confederate exodus to Mexico but eventually returned to the United States, living in New York City and New Orleans before settling in Houston, where he died on February 18, 1871. John Bankhead Magruder offers fresh insight into many aspects of the general's life and legacy, including his alleged excesses, his family relationships, and the period between Magruder's death and his memorialization into the canon of Lost Cause mythology. With engaging prose and impressive research, Settles brings this vibrant Civil War figure to life.
Author | : Paul D. Casdorph |
Publisher | : Paragon House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1989 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015015171781 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Chronicles the shifts in styles, moods, tastes, emotions, and opinions on the American home front during World War II.
Author | : Paul Casdorph |
Publisher | : Castle Books |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2007-02 |
ISBN-10 | : 0785822348 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780785822349 |
Rating | : 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Based on extensive research this entertaining biography offers a vivid account of a significant player in the drive for southern independence. A leading exponent of light artillery companies, Major General John Bankhead Magruder was involved in nearly every major event of the Civil War era until he gave the last Confederate command of the war. A colorful, unorthodox figure he was called "Prince John" due to his great showmanship, ornate uniforms, and a raucous lifestyle that met with disfavor among some of his 19th-century associates. Magruder's list of famous acquaintances included Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, and Mexican Emperor Maximilian.
Author | : Jim Stempel |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780786485604 |
ISBN-13 | : 0786485604 |
Rating | : 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
It is commonly accepted that the South could never have won the Civil War. By chronicling perhaps the best of the South's limited opportunities to turn the tide, this provocative study argues that Confederate victory was indeed possible. On June 30, 1862, at a small Virginia crossroads known as Glendale, Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee sliced the retreating Army of the Potomac in two and came remarkably close to destroying their Federal foe. Only a string of command miscues on the part of the Confederates--and a stunning command failure by Stonewall Jackson--enabled the Union army to escape a defeat that day, one that may well have vaulted the South to its independence. Never before or after would the Confederacy come as close to transforming American history as it did at the Battle of Glendale.
Author | : Clayton E. Jewett |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2012-05-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780807143575 |
ISBN-13 | : 080714357X |
Rating | : 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era. Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne M. Hudson, and Daniel E. Sutherland delve into the master-slave relationship, the role of blacks in the army, and the nature of southern violence. Herman Hattaway, Paul D. Escott, and Judith F. Gentry offer innovative perspectives on the influential leadership of President Jefferson Davis, Lieutenant-General Stephen D. Lee, and General Edmund Kirby Smith. Other contributors consider politicians and the public: Michael J. Connolly and Clayton E. Jewett investigate how despotism contributed to Confederate defeat; David E. Kyvig and Alan M. Kraut examine the war's impact on the Constitution and racial relationships with Jews; and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Kenneth Nivison, and Emory M. Thomas discuss the critical function of memory in our understanding of Lincoln's assassination. The essays in The Battlefield and Beyond consider the fundamental issue of the Confederacy's failure and military defeat but also expose our nation's continuing struggles with race, individual rights, terrorism, and the economy. Collectively, this distinguished group of historians reveals that 150 years after the nation's most defining conflict its consequences still resonate.
Author | : Gary W. Gallagher |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2000-09-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780807873564 |
ISBN-13 | : 080787356X |
Rating | : 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
The Richmond campaign of April-July 1862 ranks as one of the most important military operations of the first years of the American Civil War. Key political, diplomatic, social, and military issues were at stake as Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan faced off on the peninsula between the York and James Rivers. The climactic clash came on June 26-July 1 in what became known as the Seven Days battles, when Lee, newly appointed as commander of the Confederate forces, aggressively attacked the Union army. Casualties for the entire campaign exceeded 50,000, more than 35,000 of whom fell during the Seven Days. This book offers nine essays in which well-known Civil War historians explore questions regarding high command, strategy and tactics, the effects of the fighting upon politics and society both North and South, and the ways in which emancipation figured in the campaign. The authors have consulted previously untapped manuscript sources and reinterpreted more familiar evidence, sometimes focusing closely on the fighting around Richmond and sometimes looking more broadly at the background and consequences of the campaign. Contributors: William A. Blair Keith S. Bohannon Peter S. Carmichael Gary W. Gallagher John T. Hubbell R. E. L. Krick Robert K. Krick James Marten William J. Miller
Author | : Edward T. Cotham |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780292782471 |
ISBN-13 | : 0292782470 |
Rating | : 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
The Civil War history of Galveston is one of the last untold stories from America's bloodiest war, despite the fact that Galveston was a focal point of hostilities throughout the conflict. As other Southern ports fell to the Union, Galveston emerged as one of the Confederacy's only lifelines to the outside world. When the war ended in 1865, Galveston was the only major port still in Confederate hands. In this beautifully written narrative history, Ed Cotham draws upon years of archival and on-site research, as well as rare historical photographs, drawings, and maps, to chronicle the Civil War years in Galveston. His story encompasses all the military engagements that took place in the city and on Galveston Bay, including the dramatic Battle of Galveston, in which Confederate forces retook the city on New Year's Day, 1863. Cotham sets the events in Galveston within the overall conduct of the war, revealing how the city's loss was a great strategic impediment to the North. Through his pages pass major figures of the era, as well as ordinary soldiers, sailors, and citizens of Galveston, whose courage in the face of privation and danger adds an inspiring dimension to the story.
Author | : Spencer C. Tucker |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 3088 |
Release | : 2012-10-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9798216079279 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
This user-friendly encyclopedia comprises a wide array of accessible yet detailed entries that address the military, social, political, cultural, and economic aspects of the Mexican-American War. The Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War: A Political, Social, and Military History provides an in-depth examination of not only the military conflict itself, but also the impact of the war on both nations; and how this conflict was the first waged by Americans on foreign soil and served to establish critical U.S. military, political, and foreign policy precedents. The entries analyze the Mexican-American War from both the American and Mexican perspectives, in equal measure. In addition to discussing the various campaigns, battles, weapons systems, and other aspects of military history, the three-volume work also contextualizes the conflict within its social, cultural, political, and economic milieu, and places the Mexican-American War into its proper historical and historiographical contexts by covering the eras both before and after the war. This information is particularly critical for students of American history because the conflict fomented sectional conflict in the United States, which resulted in the U.S. Civil War.
Author | : James C. Bradford |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 3109 |
Release | : 2004-12-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781135950330 |
ISBN-13 | : 1135950334 |
Rating | : 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
With its impressive breadth of coverage – both geographically and chronologically – the International Encyclopedia of Military History is the most up-to-date and inclusive A-Z resource on military history. From uniforms and military insignia worn by combatants to the brilliant military leaders and tacticians who commanded them, the campaigns and wars to the weapons and equipment used in them, this international and multi-cultural two-volume set is an accessible resource combining the latest scholarship in the field with a world perspective on military history.