Mcfarland: 2486 books
by Steven M. LaBarre
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
In January 1863, a long-anticipated military order arrived on the desk of Massachusetts Governor John Andrew. President Lincoln’s secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, had granted the governor authority to raise regiments of black soldiers. Two units—the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry—were...
The Infamous Dakota War Trials of 1862
Revenge, Military Law and the Judgment of History
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
The U.S.–Dakota War, the bloodiest Indian war of the 19th century, erupted in southwestern Minnesota during the summer of 1862. In the war’s aftermath, a hastily convened commission of five army officers conducted trials of 391 Indians charged with murder and massacre. In 36 days, 303 Dakota men...
by Milton C. Van Vlack
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Silas Deane was the victim of one of the most vicious character assassination conspiracies ever carried out in the Revolutionary War era. Even after almost two and a half centuries, he remains in the eyes of many modern historians, “worse than Arnold,” his boyhood friend. This is very wrong. Because...
Scapegoat of Shiloh
The Distortion of Lew Wallace's Record by U.S. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
A great controversy surrounds General Lew Wallace at the Battle of Shiloh. General U.S. Grant blamed Wallace for the huge number of casualties the Union suffered, citing a dilatory march and poor choice of route to the battlefield. Wallace was obsessed with these accusations his entire life and wrote...
Torn Families
Death and Kinship at the Battle of Gettysburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
The Battle of Gettysburg lasted only three days but involved more than 160,000 Union and Confederate soldiers. Seven thousand died outright on the battlefield; hundreds more later succumbed to their wounds. For each of these soldiers, family members somewhere waited anxiously. Some went to Gettysburg...
Mad Minutes and Vietnam Months
A Soldier's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This thoughtful memoir recounts one man’s transformation from a glory-seeking, gung-ho Kansas teenager to a weary, twice-wounded grunt who had volunteered for a second tour of duty. Enlisting in the Army in June 1964 at age 17, Micheal Clodfelter was assigned to an artillery battalion of the 101st...
The Travels of Elkanah Watson
An American Businessman in the Revolutionary War, in 1780s Europe and in the Formative Decades of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Elkanah Watson (1758–1842) travelled everywhere and associated with everyone—soldiers, politicians, diplomats, Indians, artists, scientists, slave traders and abolitionists. He met the Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Paine and many other American...
Military Decision-Making Processes
Case Studies Involving the Preparation, Commitment, Application and Withdrawal of Force
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
President Bill Clinton, speaking as might any commander-in-chief, on the eve of his decision to deploy ground troops to Bosnia in 1995, declared he had “no responsibility more grave than putting soldiers in harm’s way.” Such a statement suggests that a study of the decision-making process associated...
Americans in Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918
Accounts of the War from Journalists, Tourists, Troops and Medical Staff
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Belgium in the First World War—the first country invaded, the longest occupied, and when the war finally ended, the first forgotten. In 1914, Belgium was home to a large American colony which included representatives of American companies, artists, writers and diplomats with the American Legation....
by Daniel M. Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
When President Lincoln issued his 1861 call to arms, the 63rd, 69th and 88th New York Volunteers were among the first to step forward. Comprised primarily of first and second generation Irish immigrants, these three regiments were later joined by the 28th Massachusetts and the 116th Pennsylvania....
The Melville-Hawthorne Connection
A Study of the Literary Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This book offers the first in-depth examination of the friendship between the authors. Hawthorne’s influence upon Moby-Dick is weighed, as is the probability of Melville’s influence upon Hawthorne. This was a friendship whose true basis—beyond an almost instantaneous mutual affinity and admiration...
Captaining the Corps d'Afrique
The Civil War Diaries and Letters of John Newton Chamberlin
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
“I have stood by their side in the grim conflict,” wrote Union Captain John Chamberlin of the Corps d’Afrique. “Woe to the nation that long withholds their rights from them.” Chamberlin spent nearly five years in the South during and after the Civil War. A well read, observant and articulate...
The Holy Grail
The Legend, the History, the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The existence of the Holy Grail has long been debated, and many of these debates focus on the intellectualized or psychological aspects of it. This work explores the events that gave rise to the legend of the Holy Grail and pays special attention to the texts that form the body of the legend, as well...
Brigadier General Robert L. McCook and Colonel Daniel McCook, Jr.
A Union Army Dual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
The dramatic battlefield deaths of brother Union Army commanders Robert L. McCook and Daniel McCook, Jr.—members of a prominent Ohio family known as “the Fighting McCooks”—drew the full attention of the news media and a war-weary nation. A veteran of Shiloh and Chickamauga, Colonel Daniel...