Partisan life with Col. John S. Mosby. - Couverture souple

Scott, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1275797075 ISBN 13 : 9781275797079

Editeur : Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012

Synopsis

Title: Partisan life with Col. John S. Mosby.

Author: John Scott

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana

Description:

Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.

Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.

Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.

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The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library

DocumentID: SABCP02998800

CollectionID: CTRG99-B1199

PublicationDate: 18670101

SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America

Notes:

Collation: 492 p.: ill., folded map; 24 cm

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Dedication. soldier, with a command of his own creation, at no time numbering more than a few hundred kindred spirits, planted himself in a district abandoned to the occupation of the enemy, and, besides capturing a multitude of prisoners and destroying many millions of public property, kept in a defensive attitude, according to their own admission, thirty-five thousand of their troops, which would otherwise have been employed on the active theatre of war. But this was not all. More than once, with his band of followers, he compelled the invading armies to relinquish actual and projected lines of commu. nication, to fall back from advanced positions, and if we may credit the assertion of the Federal Secretary of War, occasioned the loss by the enemy of an important battle. Such deeds deserve the pen of History; and when recorded on her scrolls though in a manner far below the merit of the subject or the dignity of this occasion are worthy to be laid at your feet, ladies of Baltimore. This mode of defensive warfare, as original as it proved effective, deserves to be understood both in its principles and details, the mode of execution in war, as in every other practical science, being of the first importance to success. With this object kept constantly in view, I have observed a great particularity in the relation of what may appear to some minor details, as they constitute a part of the system of defensive warfare which it is the purpose of this book to develop and explain. By the advocates of rectitude and justice in every age and country, by all the lovers of good and haters of evil, let this matchless chief be remembered, for he has invented, and in arms developed, a mode by which, in a more auspicious era, mankind may be enabled to defend their homes and their altars against those wasting and bloody conquerors who murder the independence of nations. My ad
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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gale, Sabin Americana
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1275797075
• ISBN 13: 9781275797079
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 504
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible