Three Months in the Southern StatesApplewood Books, 2008 M11 4 - 312 pages The author of this book, Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, has, perhaps, achieved more renown in recent years than at any time since the publication of his literary efforts. Those familiar with the film Gettysburg will recall the unusual figure of a British Guards officer attired (inaccurately) in his full dress Guardsman's scarlet uniform among the ranks of the Virginians at the famous and pivotal battle. The cinema may have taken its usual liberties, but the character was firmly based in fact and was none other than the Fremantle himself. The British Empire felt no need to come down strongly on either side of the conflict between the States, but its support for the Confederacy was both implicit and occasionally obvious. Fremantle wanted to see the war at first hand and so he traveled to America and accompanied the Confederate forces--actually unglamorously in mufti--in the field. His experiences brought him to the collision of Gettysburg, and history is indebted to Fremantle for the observations of a comparatively impartial military man on these monumental times and events. |
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Page 28
... Harriet Lane . The latter pressed me most vehemently to wait until General Magruder's arrival , and he promised , if I did so , that I should be sent to San Antonio in a first - rate ambulance . Major Leon Smith is a seafaring man by ...
... Harriet Lane . The latter pressed me most vehemently to wait until General Magruder's arrival , and he promised , if I did so , that I should be sent to San Antonio in a first - rate ambulance . Major Leon Smith is a seafaring man by ...
Page 71
... Harriet Lane ) , was close off one of the wharves . That of the West- field ( blown up by the Yankee Commodore ) , was off Pelican Island . In the night of the 1st January , General Hagruder suddenly entered Galveston , placed his field ...
... Harriet Lane ) , was close off one of the wharves . That of the West- field ( blown up by the Yankee Commodore ) , was off Pelican Island . In the night of the 1st January , General Hagruder suddenly entered Galveston , placed his field ...
Page 72
... Harriet Lane to the cotton - boat Bayou City , and the extra- ordinary conduct of Commodore Benshaw , converted a Confederate disaster into the recapture of Galveston . General Magruder certainly deserves immense credit for his boldness ...
... Harriet Lane to the cotton - boat Bayou City , and the extra- ordinary conduct of Commodore Benshaw , converted a Confederate disaster into the recapture of Galveston . General Magruder certainly deserves immense credit for his boldness ...
Page 77
... Harriet Lane are confined in the penitentiary there , and are not treated as prisoners of war . This seems to be the system now with regard to offi- cers since the enlistment of negroes by the North- erners . My fellow - travellers were ...
... Harriet Lane are confined in the penitentiary there , and are not treated as prisoners of war . This seems to be the system now with regard to offi- cers since the enlistment of negroes by the North- erners . My fellow - travellers were ...
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... Harriet Lane , which vessel had been manned by the Confederates after her capture ; but she had since been dismantled , and her crew were being marched to Shrieveport to man the iron - clad Missouri , which was being 78 JOURNEY TO ...
... Harriet Lane , which vessel had been manned by the Confederates after her capture ; but she had since been dismantled , and her crew were being marched to Shrieveport to man the iron - clad Missouri , which was being 78 JOURNEY TO ...
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