Determined Southerners filled the cut and together as a symbol of defiance resorted to throwing rocks as the last movable Yankee left the hill. Private M. OKeefe with the 1st Louisiana jumped up and hollered, "Boys, give em the rocks " A great story of courage, but flanking artillery fire by Brockenbroughs Baltimore Battery, not rocks, drove back the New Yorkers. This mad uphill charge turned a Union success to an undignified disaster at their center. The sweeping drama of victory at Second Manassas had just past to the Confederates. 1862 opened in the eastern theater with the conquest of North Carolinas tidewater and closed with the Federal catastrophe at Fredericksburg. Detailed descriptions of individual North Carolinian sacrifice are intertwined with Robert E. Lees newly named Army of Northern Virginia. Southern nonfiction narratives provide a fresh view of the Second Manassas victory which first forced Lee to enter Maryland and then to the defining battle at Sharpsburg (Antietam.) From this battle and political machinations emerged the Emancipation Proclamation.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
America Star Books
ISBN-10
1630008370
ISBN-13
9781630008376
eBay Product ID (ePID)
164809178
Product Key Features
Book Title
North Carolina Confederate Regiments 1862
Author
Jeffrey A. Hicks, George w. Hicks
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, FL, GA, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)