Jeffry D Wert: 10 books
From Winchester to Cedar Creek
The Shenandoah Campaign of 1864
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Utilizing a vast array of unpublished letters, diaries, and memoirs and published regimental histories, Jeffry Wert has written a path-breaking study of the crucial 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign. In vivid detail he describes the battles of Third Winchester, Fisher’s Hill, and Cedar Creek, Union...
The Sword of Lincoln
The Army of the Potomac
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005
The Sword of Lincoln is the first authoritative single-volume history of the Army of the Potomac in many years.
From Bull Run to Gettysburg to Appomattox, the Army of the Potomac repeatedly fought -- and eventually defeated -- Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. Jeffry D. Wert, one of...
by Jeffry D. Wert
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
George Armstrong Custer has been so heavily mythologized that the human being has been all but lost. Now, in the first complete biography in decades, Jeffry Wert reexamines the life of the famous soldier to give us Custer in all his colorful complexity.
Although remembered today as the loser...
A Glorious Army
Robert E. Lee's Triumph, 1862-1863
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
From the time Robert E. Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia on June 1, 1862, until the Battle of Gettysburg thirteen months later, the Confederate army compiled a record of military achievement almost unparalleled in our nation’s history. How it happened—the relative contributions...
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause is the first major biography in decades of the famous Confederate general J. E. B. Stuart. Based on research in manuscript collections, personal memoirs and reminiscences, and regimental histories, this comprehensive volume reflects outstanding Civil War scholarship.
James...
Civil War Barons
The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, Inventors, and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Before the robber barons there were Civil War barons--a remarkable yet largely unknown group of men whose contributions won the war and shaped America's future.
The Civil War woke a sleeping giant in America, creating unprecedented industrial growth that not only supported the struggle but...
by Jeffry D. Wert
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Jeffry D. Wert re-creates the last day of the bloody Battle of Gettysburg in astonishing detail, taking readers from Meade's council of war to the seven-hour struggle for Culp's Hill -- the most sustained combat of the entire engagement. Drawing on hundreds of sources, including more than 400 manuscript...
by Jeffry D. Wert
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
No single battalion was more feared during the Civil War than the 43rd Battalion of Virginia Cavalry. As one contemporary said, “They had…all the glamour of Robin Hood…all the courage and bravery of the ancient crusaders.” Better known as Mosby’s Rangers, they were an elite guerrilla unit...
A Brotherhood Of Valor
The Common Soldiers Of The Stonewall Brigade C S A And The Iron Brigade U S A
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
This unusual and moving chronicle covers some of the most important battles of the Civil War—Sharpsburg (Antietam), Gettysburg, and Chancellorsville—through the stories of the two brigades who confronted each other on the bloody fields of battle.
Drawing on original source material, Jeffry...
General James Longstreet
The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
General James Longstreet fought in nearly every campaign of the Civil War, from Manassas (the first battle of Bull Run) to Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Gettysburg, and was present at the surrender at Appomattox. Yet, he was largely held to blame for the Confederacy's defeat at Gettysburg....