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Wiley Sword’s Followers (10)
Wiley Sword
Born
in Mexico, Missouri, The United States
December 07, 1937
Died
November 09, 2015
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The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
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published
1992
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21 editions
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Mountains Touched With Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863
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1995
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10 editions
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Shiloh: Bloody April
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published
1974
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15 editions
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President Washington's Indian War: The Struggle for the Old Northwest, 1790–1795
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published
1985
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7 editions
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Southern Invincibility: A History of the Confederate Heart
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published
1999
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11 editions
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Courage Under Fire: Profiles in Bravery from the Battlefields of the Civil War
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published
2007
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5 editions
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Sharpshooter: Hiram Berdan, His Famous Sharpshooters and their Sharps Rifles
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published
1988
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5 editions
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The Historic Henry Rifle: Oliver Winchester's Famous Civil War Repeater
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published
2002
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4 editions
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Civil War Times illustrated May 1978 (Shiloh cover) (Volume XVII, No. 2)
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The Battle of Shiloh
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1978
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7 editions
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“Hood, meanwhile, was virtually tripping over his foot in the rush”
― The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
― The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
“General Hood has betrayed us. This is not the kind of fighting he promised us at Tuscumbia and Florence, Alabama when we started into Tennessee. This was not a fight with equal numbers and choice of the ground.… The wails and cries of widows and orphans made at Franklin, Tennessee, November 30th, 1864 will heat up the fires of the bottomless pit to burn the soul of General J. B. Hood for murdering their husbands and fathers.” Hood’s actions “can’t be called anything else but murder,” he asserted. “He sacrificed those men to make the name of Hood famous; when [and] if the history of [Franklin] is ever written it will make him infamous.” The men had a right to be told the truth; therefore, “Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord, and it will surely overtake him.”38”
― The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
― The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
“Corps commander Alexander P. Stewart, writing with profound emotion, explained in his own mind the mystery of what had occurred in the face of almost certain success at Spring Hill: “There is a Divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we may. If in the next life we are permitted an insight into the events of this life and their causes, we shall be surprised to find how much Providence, and how very little human agency and planning have to do with all really noble and grand achievements. And how little credit is due to many who pass among us as great.”56”
― The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
― The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
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