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General Lee's immortals : the battles and campaigns of the Branch-Lane Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865
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- Creator
- Michael C. Hardy
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- El Dorado Hills, CA : Savas Beatie LLC, [2018]
- Physical Details
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- x, 396 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781611213621, 1611213622, 9781611213638
- OCLC
- ocn975127296
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "I do not see how the union is to be saved": Lawrence O'Bryan Branch -- "We are drilling very hard every day": the formation of Branch's Brigade -- "Boys, you have stern work before you": the Battle of Hanover Court House -- "Literally shot to pieces ": the Seven Days Campaign -- "I fear if we get under Jackson we will get hard times": Cedar Run-Second Manassas -- "The brave, lamented General Branch": Harpers Ferry-Antietam-Shepherdstown -- "Oh! How fearful the scenes around a 'field hospital'": brigade medical care -- "I doo not like to beare Old Abe's mark": the Fredericksburg Campaign -- "It is so terrible dull here": daily camp life -- "I reckon the Devil himself would have run with Jackson in his rear": the Chancellorsville Campaign -- "With waving banners pressing into the very jaws of death": the Gettysburg Campaign -- "Perhaps we are to be shot or hung": the plight of the prisoner -- "Will amount to but little": the Bristoe and Mine Run Campaigns -- "Mahone took his cussing": the Overland Campaign -- "I have to be shot to death": military discipline -- "The canons are all rouring like if they were going to tair up evry thing": the Petersburg Campaign -- "Furled their bullet ridden battle flags": to Appomattox -- Epilogue: "one of the finest fighting records": the Branch-Lane Brigade's place in history
Subjects
- Confederate States of America. Army. Branch-Lane Brigade.
- Branch, Lawrence O'B. (Lawrence O'Bryan), 1820-1862.
- Lane, James Henry, 1833-1907.
- North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.