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Author : Thomas Budd Van Horne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Life of Major-General George H. Thomas written by Thomas Budd Van Horne and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benson Bobrick
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743290265
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book Master of War written by Benson Bobrick and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • A first-rate historian: Benson Bobrick is the author of several celebrated books, including The Fated Sky and Testament . His work has been hailed as “Lucid and vivid” by The New Yorker , “elegant” by The Washington Post Book World , and “engrossing…detailed and gripping” by the Chicago Tribune . And The New York Times Book Review says, “Bobrick is perhaps the most interesting historian writing in America today.”. • A fascinating biography of an underappreciated American hero: George H. Thomas was, Bobrick argues, the greatest general of the Civil War. Known as the Rock of Chickamauga, Thomas was regarded by his contemporaries as the equal of Grant and Sherman. In the entire Civil War, he never lost a battle or a movement, and he was the only Union commander to destroy two Confederate armies in the field. But Thomas never wrote a memoir and history neglected him. Until now. . • Powerfully told and grippingly rendered: With his characteristic flair for drama and fast-paced writing, Bobrick takes readers onto the battlefields, into the smoke of gunpowder and the stench of bodies. From the parade grounds of West Point to the bloody Battle of Chattanooga, Bobrick masterfully renders every detail, right down to the buckles on Thomas’s boots and the courage in his heart. Backed by scholarly research, this informed and vivid biography at last brings Thomas’s tale to readers everywhere..
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Total Pages : 667 pages
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Download or read book Life of Major General George H. Thomas written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manuscript copy of Van Horne's biography of Major-General George H. Thomas, leader in the Union Army during the Civil War. This manuscript varies somewhat from the published edition.
Author : Brian Steel Wills
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700628991
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book George Henry Thomas written by Brian Steel Wills and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2019-06-09 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although often counted among the Union's top five generals, George Henry Thomas has still not received his due. A Virginian who sided with the North in the Civil War, he was a more complicated commander than traditional views have allowed. Brian Wills now provides a new and more complete look at the life of a man known to history as "The Rock of Chickamauga," to his troops as "Old Pap," and to General William T. Sherman as a soldier who was "as true as steel." While biographers have long been hampered by Thomas's lack of personal papers, Wills has drawn on previously untapped sources—notably the correspondence of Thomas's contemporaries—to offer new insights into what made him tick. Focusing on Thomas's personality and motivations, Wills contributes revealing discussions of his style and approach to command and successfully captures his troubled interactions with other Union commanders, providing a particularly more evenhanded evaluation of his relationship with Grant. He also gives a more substantial account of battlefield action than can be found in other biographies, capturing the ebb and flow of key encounters—Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga and Atlanta, Stones River and Mill Springs, Peachtree Creek and Nashville—to help readers better understand Thomas's contributions to their outcomes. Throughout Wills presents a well-rounded individual whose complex views embraced the worlds of professional military service and scientific inquisitiveness, a man known for attention to detail and compassion to subordinates. We also meet a sharp-tempered person whose disdain for politics hurt his prospects for advancement as much as it reflected positively on his character, and Wills offers new insight into why Thomas might not have progressed as quickly up the ladder of command as he might have liked. More deeply researched than other biographies, Wills's work situates Thomas squarely in his own time to provide readers with a more thorough and balanced life story of this enigmatic Union general. It is a definitive military history that gives us a new and needed picture of the Rock of Chickamauga—a man whose devotion to duty and ideals made him as true as steel.
Author : John Watts De Peyster
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Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.G1/5 ( download)
Download or read book Major-General George H. Thomas written by John Watts De Peyster and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donn Piatt
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Total Pages : 700 pages
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Download or read book General George H. Thomas written by Donn Piatt and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William H 1842-1912 Lambert
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020791734
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Major General George H. Thomas written by William H 1842-1912 Lambert and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get to know one of the most remarkable generals of the Civil War with this engaging biography of George H. Thomas. Known as the "Rock of Chickamauga," Thomas played a pivotal role in many of the war's most important battles. This book offers a detailed and lively portrait of a true American hero. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Benson Bobrick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439156506
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Master of War written by Benson Bobrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revelatory, dynamic biography, one of our finest historians, Benson Bobrick, profiles George H. Thomas, arguing that he was the greatest and most successful general of the Civil War. Because Thomas didn't live to write his memoirs, his reputation has been largely shaped by others, most notably Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, two generals with whom Thomas served and who, Bobrick says, diminished his successes in their favor in their own memoirs. Born in Virginia, Thomas survived Nat Turner's rebellion as a boy, then studied at West Point, where Sherman was a classmate. Thomas distinguished himself in the Mexican War and then returned to West Point as an instructor. When the Civil War broke out, Thomas remained loyal to the Union, unlike fellow Virginia-born officer Robert E. Lee (among others). He compiled an outstanding record as an officer in battles at Mill Springs, Perryville, and Stones River. At the Battle of Chickamauga, Thomas, at the time a corps commander, held the center of the Union line under a ferocious assault, then rallied the troops on Horseshoe Ridge to prevent a Confederate rout of the Union army. His extraordinary performance there earned him the nickname "The Rock of Chickamauga." Promoted to command of the Army of the Cumberland, he led his army in a stunning Union victory at the Battle of Chattanooga. Thomas supported Sherman on his march through Georgia in the spring of 1864, winning an important victory at the Battle of Peachtree Creek. As Sherman continued on his March to the Sea, Thomas returned to Tennessee and in the battle of Nashville destroyed the army of Confederate General John Bell Hood. It was one of the most decisive victories of the war, and Thomas won it even as Grant was on his way to remove Thomas from his command. (When Grant discovered the magnitude of Thomas's victory, he quickly changed his mind.) Thomas died of a stroke in 1870 while still on active duty. In the entire Civil War, he never lost a battle or a movement. Throughout his career, Thomas was methodical and careful, and always prepared. Unlike Grant at Shiloh, he was never surprised by an enemy. Unlike Sherman, he never panicked in battle but always remained calm and focused. He was derided by both men as "Slow Trot Thomas," but as Bobrick shows in this brilliant biography, he was quick to analyze every situation and always knew what to do and when to do it. He was not colorful like Grant and Sherman, but he was widely admired by his peers, and some, such as Grant's favorite cavalry commander, General James H. Wilson, thought Thomas the peer of any general in either army. He was the only Union commander to destroy two Confederate armies in the field. Although historians of the Civil War have always regarded Thomas highly, he has never captured the public imagination, perhaps because he has lacked an outstanding biographer -- until now. This informed, judicious, and lucid biography at last gives Thomas his due.
Author : T. B. Van Horne
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ISBN 13 : 9780795041136
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life of Major written by T. B. Van Horne and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Budd Van Horne
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230212432
Total Pages : 166 pages
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Download or read book The Life of Major-General George H. Thomas written by Thomas Budd Van Horne and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...corps moved nearly abreast, taking position some distance to the right, across a depression, and also constructed a barricade. Williams' division of the same corps formed on Geary's right, in the woods, closely connecting with Johnson's division of the Fourteenth corps, while Ward's division, also of the Twentieth corps, remained on the low ground facing the depression between Newton and Geary. Beyond the line of hills upon which these divisions had taken position was first, a depression and then, another series of hills, and upon these Hood had posted his attacking forces. He had maneuvered to hide his purpose that he might attack the Army of the Cumberland while it was constructing defenses. To this end he had withdrawn his skirmishers, and had sent men into our lines to report that the enemy was not in front in force. But although a battle was not expected on the hills south of Peach Tree Creek, neither Thomas nor his army were surprised when it opened. A battle here had not been indicated by the manner of the required movement on Atlanta, nor by the removal of two divisions from his left after his army had crossed the stream. But under the circumstances better preparations for an action could not have been made. About 3 P. M., Hardee's central division advancing in strong lines, without skirmishers, made a furious attack upon Newton in front as initial to assaults by divisions, in echelon, from right to left. Soon Geary's and Williams' divisions and Colonel Anson McCook's brigade of Johnson's division were hotly engaged. Newton was isolated for a time, the enemy bending back the right of Kimball's brigade and the left of Blake's, and Bate's division having passed round Newton's flank on the low wooded ground, -and appeared far to his..
