Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (474 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0813138159
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0813128668
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1283327368
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9780813138152
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9780813128665
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9781283327367
Inhalt:
"The Battle Rages Higher tells, for the first time, the story of the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry, a hard-fighting Union regiment raised largely from Louisville and the Knob Creek valley where Abraham Lincoln lived as a child. Although recruited in a slave state where Lincoln received only 0.9 percent of the 1860 presidential vote, the men of the Fifteenth Kentucky fought and died for the Union for over three years, participating in all the battles of the Atlanta campaign, as well as the battles of Perryville, Stones River and Chickamauga. Using primary research, including soldiers' letters an
Inhalt:
Cover; The Battle Rages Higher; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps and Photographs; Preface; Chapter 1. Raising the Regiment; Chapter 2. Missed Opportunities; Chapter 3. Seeing the Elephant; Chapter 4. The Orphan Regiment; Chapter 5. The Fight in the Cedars; Chapter 6. Flanking Bragg; Chapter 7. Riot on the River of Death; Chapter 8. Holding Chattanooga; Chapter 9. Fighting Kentuckians All the Time; Chapter 10. Coming Home; Epilogue: Starting Over; Notes; Biographical Roster; Bibliography; Index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780813122816
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jenkins, Kirk Battle Rages Higher : The Union's Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2010 ISBN 9780813122816
Sprache:
Englisch
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