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 pagina's 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. |
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The Longstreet Controversy Attacks on Longstreet 32 | 32 |
War Service of a Racing Yacht | 55 |
Yulees Railroad | 91 |
The Evolution of Rifle | 113 |
Two Lessons | 151 |
The Evolution of Indirect | 159 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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
Populaire passages
Pagina 13 - 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.
Pagina 15 - My name's Jim Crow. Weel about and turn about And do jis so, Eb'ry time I weel about And jump Jim Crow.