Tag: shock troops of the confederacy
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Shock Troops on Kindle!
It’s done, finally. I have had Shock Troops of the Confederacy ported over to Kindle format and it’s now ready for download at only $9.99. It’s a big download but I and my conversion guy spent considerable time seeing that everything made the transition correctly. In spite of what you may hear, it’s not a […]
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“The stuff of the troops”
One of the few criticisms I got on my sharpshooter book was in quoting this passage: It became painfully apparent that, however inferior the Confederate armies were in point of education and general intelligence to the men of the Union, man for man they were the superiors of their northern antagonists in the use of […]
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Amazon Book Stats
I took a look at the entry Amazon.com has for my book, and I see they’ve added some new features related to their Search Inside add-in. In addition to selected pages, they now have a concordance of the 100 most frequently used words (not surprisingly, the most common word is sharpshooter). It also has a […]
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Shock Troops of the Confederacy, Part 10
Shock Troops of the Confederacy, Part 10 Shock Troops of the Confederacy: The Sharpshooter Battalions of the Army of Northern Virginia by Fred L. Ray ISBN-10 0-9649585-5-4 ISBN-13 978-0-9649585-5-5 6 x 9 inch hardback – 450 Pages 43 Maps, 59 Illustrations Footnoted / Indexed / Complete Bibliography Publication date: Winter 2005 Price $34.95 In my […]
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Shock Troops of the Confederacy
Shock Troops of the Confederacy:The Sharpshooter Battalions of the Army of Northern Virginia by Fred L. Ray I came across this book recently after reading about it over at Drew Wagenhoffer’s Civil War Books and Authors blog. It deals with the Sharpshooter Battalions formed in each brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia. The idea […]