[PDF] Arm For The Union eBook

Author : Dudley Taylor Cornish
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,71 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :

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Describes the hopes, fears, and accomplishments of Black troops in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307792358

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"It is absolutely unique--without question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read." Professor James M. McPherson Pultizer Prize-winning BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM January 1864--General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equpped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower. Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: Its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking--and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantitites to the Confederates. The name of the weapon is the AK-47.... Selected by the Science Fiction Book Club A Main Selection of the Military Book Club

Author : Ian Anthony
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :

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For this study, a group of Russian authors were commissioned to describe and assess the arms trade policies and practices of Russia under new domestic and international conditions. The contributors, drawn from the government, industry, and academic communities, offer a wide range of reports on the political, military, economic, and industrial implications of Russian arms transfers, as well as specific case studies of key bilateral arms transfer relationships.

Author : Richard Nelson Current
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,45 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9781555531249

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With this path-breaking book, Richard Nelson Current closes a major gap in our understanding of the important role of white southerners who fought for the Union during the Civil War. The ranks of the Union forces swelled by more than 100,000 of these men known to their friends as "loyalists" and to their enemies as "tories". They substantially strengthened the Union, weakened the Confederacy, and affected the outcome of the Civil War. Despite the assertions of southern governors that Lincoln would get no troops from the South to preserve the Union, every Confederate state except South Carolina provided at least a battalion of white troops for the Union Army. The role of black soldiers (including those from the South) continues to receive deserved attention. Curiously, little heed has been paid to the white southern supporters of the Union cause, and nothing has been published about the group as a whole. Relying almost entirely on primary sources, Current here opens the long-overdue investigation of these many Americans who, at great risk to themselves and their families, made a significant contribution to the Union's war effort. Current meticulously explores the history of the loyalists in each Confederate state during the war. Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia provided over 70 percent of the loyalist troops, but 10,000 from Arkansas, 7,000 from Louisiana, and thousands from North Carolina, Texas, and Alabama volunteered as well. The author weaves the separate state stories into an intriguing and detailed tapestry. The loyalists served in a variety of capacities--some performing mundane tasks, some fighting with valor. Whatever his individual role, each southerner joining the Unionconstituted a double loss to the Confederacy: a subtraction from its own ranks and an addition to the Union's. Undoubtedly, this played an important role in the Confederate defeat.

Author : James A. Black
Publisher :
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781434393678

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"Reconciliation in Action" gives a synoptic view of her intense belief of sanctity toward humanity in her written thoughts on person-to-person interactions. Sadie Williams believes that the realities of the journey through life should be treated with the best possible commonsense attitude in order to maintain a well balanced focus toward a positive direction. She believes that individuals should accept accountability of their thought process that reflects behavioral conduct. Sadie believes that personal conduct is a state of mind that can revel itself in spoken words of harmonious, or contemptuous behavior. She refers to the thought process as being very individually unique within itself, therefore the individual needs to be first, "true to self", in order to accept reality as truth. Sadie applauds respect in dealing with issues of differences or indifference that relates to settling disputes: because there are always two sides to a story that needs to be heard and given its due rewards. Her idea is that it is good for the individual to have and maintain a peaceful mindset that is good for both the mind as well as physical well-being. "Reconciliation in Action" is a book packed with great food-for-thoughts-ideas that is designed to have a delightful impact on its readers.

Author : Samuel Sam Rush Watkins
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781481211079

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This collection explores monetary institutions linking Europe and the Americas in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.

Author : A. G. Smith
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 10,8 MB
Release : 1995-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486284538

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24 large — approximately 4 1/2 inches tall — 2-sided free-standing Confederate soldiers from many different units. Detailed, accurate re-creations in full color.