At the very end of the War Between the States, seventeen commanders delivered farewell addresses to the men they had led through four years of hell during which 750, 000 died and over a million were maimed. The seventeen include General Robert E. Lee, General Ulysses S. Grant, Major General William T. Sherman, Lieutenant-General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Major General George Gordon Meade, Colonel John Singleton Mosby, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles T. Trowbridge (U.S. Colored Troops), General Joseph E. Johnston, Major General Joseph Wheeler and Major General Robert F. Hoke.
Those eight Confederate and nine Union addresses are important documents in American history because they show CLEARLY what each side was fighting for.
Historian Michael R. Bradley has given us exciting narrative history researched in minute detail on the seventeen commanders, their units, battles and last words to their men. If you love history, it does not get better than this.
Includes 47 page Prologue by historian Gene Kizer, Jr., and Introduction by the author.
Inhoudsopgave
Prologue, Setting the Stage
Introduction
The Farewell Addresses
General Robert E. Lee
General Orders, No. 9, Address to the Army of Northern Virginia, CSA
General Ulysses S. Grant
Address to the Soldiers of the Armies of the United States, USA
Lieutenant-General Nathan Bedford Forrest
Address to Forrest’s Cavalry Corps, CSA
Major General George Gordon Meade
Address to the Army of the Potomac, USA
Major General William T. Sherman
Address to the Army of Tennessee and Georgia, USA
General Joseph E. Johnston
Address to All Confederate Units East of the Mississippi River, CSA
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles T. Trowbridge
Address to the 33d United States Colored Troops, USA
Brigadier-General Randall L. Gibson
Address to Gibson’s Brigade, CSA
Brevet Brigadier General William Cogswell
Address to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of Georgia, USA
Colonel John Singleton Mosby
Address to the 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, ‘Mosby’s Command, ‘ CSA
Brigadier General Francis Barretto Spinola
Address to the Keystone Brigade, USA
General Edmund Kirby Smith
Address to the District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, CSA
Brevet Colonel J. K. Robison
Address to the 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry, USA
Major General Henry Warner Slocum
Address to the Army of Georgia, USA
Major General Joseph Wheeler
Address to the Cavalry Corps, CSA
Lt. Col. & Brev. Brig. Gen. Isaac Sherwood
Address to the 111th Ohio Infantry, USA
Major General Robert F. Hoke
Address to Hoke’s Division, CSA
Epilogue
Over de auteur
Gene Kizer, Jr. is an author and the founder of Charleston Athenaeum Press. He graduated magna cum laude from the College of Charleston (SC) in 2000 at middle age with History Departmental Honors, the Rebecca Motte American History Award, and the highest award for the History Department, the Outstanding Student Award.He is author of Slavery Was Not the Cause of the War Between the States, The Irrefutable Argument., 360 pages, 218 footnotes, 207 sources in the bibliography; The Elements of Academic Success, How to Graduate Magna Cum Laude from College (or how to just graduate, PERIOD!), 364 pages; and Charleston, SC Short Stories, Book One, an e Book on Amazon.He is compiler and wrote the Introduction for Charles W. Ramsdell, Dean of Southern Historians, Volume One: His Best Work, 462 pages.He wrote the 47 page Prologue to Michael R. Bradley’s The Last Words, The Farewell Addresses of Union and Confederate Commanders to Their Men at the End of the War Between the States.He lives on James Island in Charleston where he is also broker-in-charge of Charleston Saltwater Realty.
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