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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... San Antonio in a first - rate ambulance . Major Leon Smith is a seafaring man by profession , and was put by General Magrnder in command of one of the small steamers which captured the Harriet Lane at Galveston , the crews of the ...
... San Antonio in a first - rate ambulance . Major Leon Smith is a seafaring man by profession , and was put by General Magrnder in command of one of the small steamers which captured the Harriet Lane at Galveston , the crews of the ...
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... San Antonio at 11 A. M. Our vehicle was a roomy , but rather overloaded , four- wheel carriage , with a canvas roof , and four mules . Besides M'Carthy , there was a third passenger , in the shape of a young merchant of ... SAN ANTONIO . 29.
... San Antonio at 11 A. M. Our vehicle was a roomy , but rather overloaded , four- wheel carriage , with a canvas roof , and four mules . Besides M'Carthy , there was a third passenger , in the shape of a young merchant of ... SAN ANTONIO . 29.
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... San Antonio , and I find my Turkish lantern most useful , at night . * 15th April ( Wednesday ) .— I slept well last night in spite of the ticks and fleas , and we started at 5.30 After passing a dead rattlesnake eight feet P. M. long ...
... San Antonio , and I find my Turkish lantern most useful , at night . * 15th April ( Wednesday ) .— I slept well last night in spite of the ticks and fleas , and we started at 5.30 After passing a dead rattlesnake eight feet P. M. long ...
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... San Antonio at all , " too much hanging and murdering for me , " she said . She had seen a man hanged in the middle of the day , just in front of her door . Mr. Sargent bought two chickens and some eggs at a ranch , but one of the ...
... San Antonio at all , " too much hanging and murdering for me , " she said . She had seen a man hanged in the middle of the day , just in front of her door . Mr. Sargent bought two chickens and some eggs at a ranch , but one of the ...
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... San Antonio . No corn or water , but plenty of grass ; our food , also , was now entirely expended . Mr. Ward struggled up at 8.15 , making a desperate effort to keep up with us , and this rivalry between Sargent and him was of great ...
... San Antonio . No corn or water , but plenty of grass ; our food , also , was now entirely expended . Mr. Ward struggled up at 8.15 , making a desperate effort to keep up with us , and this rivalry between Sargent and him was of great ...
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