Summary Of Jack Hinson: How His Revenge Made History

Many individual soldier’s stories also demonstrate the resilience of either side, showing how unwilling they were to give up, and stop fighting, until absolutely necessary. Even John Hay’s efforts to get Florida to join upcoming United States political gatherings, show the unwavering pursuit for unity from the Union’s side.

The article “Hayfoot, Strawfoot!” was published on April 1957 in the American Heritage magazine. It was written by a well known Civil War historian, Bruce Catton, who also won a Pulitzer Prize and Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work in the field of history. In this article, Catton covered various aspects of the Civil War experience through the point of views of the mostly amateur soldiers, and how that contributed to the soldiers’ fortitude.

Company Aytch, a memoir written by Sam Watkins, tells the personal tale of a lowly private fighting four long years in the American Civil War. Watkins was from Columbia, Tennessee, and was a part of Company H, 1st Tennessee Infantry. He recounts his military career in chronological order, from before the Battle of Shiloh in 1862 to the day the Confederacy surrendered at Nashville in 1865. Watkins is a humble writer, often reminds the reader that he is not aiming to provide a comprehensive account of the entire war, but rather a collection of personal stories. Military history books often recount the lives of generals and of great strategies, but this book insists that history should not exclude the common men who filled the ranks of the military.

The author decided to write the book this way because he wanted to foreshadow you in ways. The way he did this was to make the chapters blend with each other or to mix and make good chapters and a good book. Also the reason why he makes it all blend is because when you write or make a story or book, it doesn't just jump to one event to the next. But the author does the exact opposite.

The Sniper, written by Liam O’Flaherty, is a story about a Republican sniper in the Irish civil war in 1922. This story tells of a night spent on a roof looking for the enemy, the Free-Staters. In this short description of the nights events, the sniper kills 3 people; a soldier, an informer, and finally an enemy sniper on the roof across the road from him. In the end this enemy sniper turns out to be the republicans brother. This story shows the the specific characteristics a sniper must have to carry out their duty. A key moment in this text which influenced the sniper is the Civil war itself.

War covets the aspect of man that is man itself, for it craves to morph them into mere objects and targets. For many soldiers, they succumb to such a fate; being depleted their ability to feel immediate emotion, they develop primitive, animalistic urges of bloodlust during a time of bloodshed. The aspects of war gravely impacts a person, and as such can be seen in O’Flaherty’s character “the sniper,” as well as seen in O’Brien’s character “Private Paul Berlin.” The sniper is a victim to the war’s cold, emotionless embrace. A Republican soldier, he is, divided from his brothers in arms on the other side, the ones called the “Free Staters.” Nonetheless, under the circumstances, they all are pawns to Dublin’s chess table of a civil war, being played at the mercy of the war’s

In “Company Aytch,” Sam R. Watkins first wrote this book to describe his experience at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, in 1864. As a soldier in Company H of the First Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, CSA, Watkins witnessed the panorama of war in grand scale as he marched and fought with the hard luck Confederate Army of Tennessee across the Western Theater. His honest, vivid, and dramatic memoir, published in the 1880s, is a classic that conveys the horrors, humor, and realism of the Civil War, and the firsthand experience of being in this war

Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby was quite the character. Known as the “Gray Ghost”, his strategy of rapid military assaults against Union troops proved deadly effective (Wheeler, thewashingtonpost.com, 2012). He sported a plumed hat and scarlet-lined grey cloak as he directed his troops, Mosby’s Rangers, straight from the saddle (Wheeler, thewashingtonpost.com, 2012). Their mission was to harass and discourage Union soldiers in stationed Virginia (Wheeler, thewashingtonpost.com, 2012). Their success was blatantly obvious as they killed hundreds of Union soldiers during their many conflicts (Wheeler, thewashingtonpost.com, 2012).

What they fought for is an analysis of a collection of nearly a thousand personal letters and journals entries written by the soldiers who fought America’s famous Civil War. This book seeks to define the ideology of what the soldiers understood they were fighting for, and their comprehension of the outcome of their service .Although counter arguments agree that most soldiers could not give a solid explanation of why they fought for, nor the real Constitutional issues that were at stake; the thoughts the soldiers recorded show that they fought for more than just masculine identity; they highly valued being at home safe with their loved ones, at any cost. This book gives an inside perception of the Civil War, and a

What would you do if you were a sniper in the civil war or a man that walks through his town after a civil war? In fact this is what happens in two stories called the “Sniper, and the “Cranes”. In the story “Cranes” a police officer sees his friend and has to decide whether he let his friend be free or send to a prison because he was looked as the cause of the civil war. The “Sniper” is about a young man who is in the civil war who killed his brother.

No other mention is made about guerrilla warfare. Because his work was published in 1973, when attention was still predominantly focused on the conventional engagements of the Civil War, this oversight is unsurprising though certainly lamentable. Despite the lack of attention given to the irregular forces supporting the Union and Confederate Armies, those men engaged in raids and operations that contribute to a deeper understanding of why, during the American Civil War, a strategy of annihilation was supported by the Union as their strategy against the Confederacy.

Jack Hinson was a wealthy man with a total of ten children of his own. He was well known and even had General Ulysses S. Grant over for supper once. When two of his sons were picked up by union soldiers they were stripped of their weapons, tied to a tree then, shot. The union soldiers thought they were rebels so they thought it was ‘okay’. Hinson was a guy who had no military experience that was actually found but an amazing huntsman he was.

Perhaps the historiography of no war has been as focused on the men in the ranks as has that of the American Civil War. Bell Wiley began the trend with his two famous works, The Life of Billy Yank and The Life of Johnny Reb. Thereafter a number of historians have weighed in on this subject, including James L. Robertson, Reid Mitchell and

The most deadly and violent war in history also known as the civil war, belongs to the United States of America. Not only was this war the bloodiest war in history but it help shape and develop some of the most gruesome and ferocious men. Bloody Bill Anderson was one of these men, who viciously fought in the civil war for the south. His extreme passion for slavery and war was proven numerous times as he and his ruffian’s murdered, demolished, and destroyed towns and villages in Missouri and Kansas. In Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla, Albert Castel and Thomas Goodrich provide a look at the "real war" by describing a gritty, brutally realistic portrait of William Anderson, and his malicious acts to protect what he believed. In this review I will look at the life of William “Bloody Bill” Anderson and what shaped and made him the most vicious, ruthless man in guerilla war fare in the civil war and how he fought till the very end. I will also look further into him and his jay hawkers in terms of the destruction and gruesome acts that took against Union troops and those in support to abolish slavery.

In conclusion, The American Way of War is an iconic book filled with the glorious moments of traditional strategic warfare. Weigley’s work was great on focusing purely on the details of American strategy. Weigley also did a good job in keeping it interesting knowing that it would be pretty difficult with this