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Olson, Gordon L.

 
9780802868015: The Notorious Isaac Earl and His Scouts: Union Soldiers, Prisoners, Spies
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0802868010 ISBN 13 : 9780802868015
Editeur : William B Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2014

Synopsis

While large armies engaged in epic battles in the eastern theater of the Civil War, a largely unchronicled story was unfolding along the Mississippi River. Thirty Special Scouts under the command of Lieutenant Isaac Newton Earl patrolled the river, gathering information about Confederate troop activity, arresting Rebel smugglers and guerillas, and opposing anti-Union insurrection. Gordon Olson gives this special unit full book-length treatment for the first time in The Notorious Isaac Earl and His Scouts. Olson uses new research in assembling his detailed yet very readable account of Earl, a dynamic leader who rose quickly through Union Army ranks to command this elite group. He himself was captured by the Confederates three times and escaped three times, and he developed a strategic and later romantic relationship with a Southern woman, Jane ONeal, who became one of his spies. In keeping the river open for Union Army movement of men and supplies to New Orleans, Earls Scouts played an important, heretofore unheralded, role in the Unions war effort.

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While large armies engaged in epic battles in the eastern theater of the Civil War, a largely unchronicled story was unfolding along the Mississippi River. Thirty Special Scouts under the command of Lieutenant Isaac Newton Earl patrolled the river, gathering information about Confederate troop activity, arresting Rebel smugglers and guerillas, and opposing anti-Union insurrection. Gordon Olson gives this special unit full book-length treatment for the first time in The Notorious Isaac Earl and His Scouts. Olson uses new research in assembling his detailed yet very readable account of Earl, a dynamic leader who rose quickly through Union Army ranks to command this elite group. He himself was captured by the Confederates three times and escaped three times, and he developed a strategic and later romantic relationship with a Southern woman, Jane ONeal, who became one of his spies. In keeping the river open for Union Army movement of men and supplies to New Orleans, Earls Scouts played an important, heretofore unheralded, role in the Unions war effort.

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Éditeur
William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0802868010
ISBN 13 
9780802868015
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
300
Coordonnées du fabricant
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