Paul Brueske

Gebundenes Buch

Digging All Night and Fighting All Day

The Civil War Siege of Spanish Fort and the Mobile Campaign, 1865

Beschreibung

"The bloody two-week siege of Spanish Fort, Alabama (March 26-April 8, 1865) was one of the final battles of the Civil War. The siege and battle that unfolded on the rough and uneven bluffs of Mobile Bay's eastern shore, fought mainly by veterans of the principal battles of the Western Theater, witnessed every offensive and defensive art known to war. It is an outstanding study of a little-known but astonishingly important event rife with acts of heroism that rivaled any battle of the war"--

Autor

Paul Brueske, a lifelong resident of the Gulf Coast, has been studying the Civil War history of northwest Florida and south Alabama for the past 20 years. He is the president and founder of the Mobile Area Civil War Round Table and the head track and field coach at the University of South Alabama. Brueske is a regular speaker on Gulf Coast-related Civil War topics and a member of the Friends of Historic Blakeley State Park, the Historic Mobile Preservation Society, and Friends of the History Museum of Mobile. He is the author of The Last Siege: The Mobile Campaign, Alabama 1865 (2018).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Savas Beatie
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9781611217100
• ISBN-10: 1611217105
• Artikelnr.: 70274075