George Alfred Townsend: 8 books

5 works of George Alfred Townsend War correspondent during the American Civil War (1841-1914) This ebook presents a collection of 5 works of George Alfred Townsend. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - Bohemian Days-...

Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend, a noted war correspondent during the American Civil War, and a later novelist. Townsend wrote under the pen name "Gath", which was derived by adding an "H" to his initials, and inspired by the biblical passage II Samuel 1:20, "Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askalon."

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” - Niccolò Machiavelli.   A study of legendary Russian military force The Cossacks, an essay on Thomas Jefferson, a history of The Knights Templar, a biography of Louis...

In the early part of 1863, while I was resident in London, – the first of the War Correspondents to go abroad, – I wrote, at the request of Mr. George Smith, publisher of the Cornhill Magazine, a series of chapters upon the Rebellion, thus introduced: – Few wars have been so well chronicled, as...

One year ago the writer of the letters which follow, visited the Battle Field of Waterloo. In looking over many relics of the combat preserved in the Museum there, he was particularly interested in the files of journals contemporary with the action. These contained the Duke of Wellington's first despatch...

The purpose of this book, which was originally published at the beginning of the 20th century, was to make Washington visible to voters, so that they could be guided in criticism upon abuses such as have been related. The course of the chapters is purposely made discursive so that the mind can be carried through a variety of scenes without flagging.