Shelby's Expedition to Mexico: An Unwritten Leaf of the War - Couverture rigide

Edwards, John N; Beasley Paul Richard Richard Richard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1557287325 ISBN 13 : 9781557287328

Editeur : University of Arkansas Press, 2002

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Book by EDWARDS JOHN

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This dethroned king had transferred its empire from the Carolinas to the Gulf, from the Tombigbee to the Rio Grande. It was a fugitive king, however, with a broken sceptre and a meretricious crown. Afterwards it was guillotined. Gen. E. Kii-by Smith was the Commander-in-C hief of this Department, who had under him as lieutenants, Generals John B. Magruder and Simon B. Buckner. Smith was a soldier turned exhorter. It is not known that he preached ;he prayed, however, and his prayers, like the prayers of the wicked, availed nothing. Other generals in other parts of the army prayed, too, notably Stonewall Jackson, but between the two there was this difference: The first trusted to his prayers alone; the last to his prayers and his battalions. Faith is a fine thing in the parlor, but it never yet put grape-shot in an empty caisson, and pontoon bridges over a fullfed river. As I have said, while the last act in the terrible drama was being performed east of the Mississippi river, all west of th(5 Mississippi was asleep. Lee ssurrender at Appomattox Court House awoke them. Months, however, before the last march Price had made into Missouri, Shelby had an interview with Smitli. They talked of many things, but chiefly of the war. Said Smith: What would you do in this emergency, Shelby f Iwould, was the quiet reply, march every single soldier of my command into Missouri infantry, artillery, cavalry, all; 1would fight there and stay there. Do not deceive yourself. Lee is overpowered ;J ohnson is giving up county after county, full of our corn and wheat fields; Atlanta is in danger, and Atlanta furnishes the powder; the end approaches; a supreme eflbrt is necessary; the eyes of the Eastare upon the West, and with fifty thousand soldiers such as yours you can seize St. Louis, hold it, fortify it, and cross over into I llinois. It would be a diversion, expanding into a c
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Published in 1871, this is the history of Confederate General Shelby's expedition to Mexico at the end of the Civil War in the United States.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Arkansas Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1557287325
• ISBN 13: 9781557287328
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 231