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What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.

Described by friends and relatives as smart, literate, compassionate and funny, did McCandless simply read too much Thoreau and Jack London and lose sight of the dangers of heading into the wilderness alone? Krakauer, whose own adventures have taken him to the perilous heights of Everest, provides some answers by exploring the pull the outdoors, seductive yet often dangerous, has had on his own life. --Amazon.com

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What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.

Described by friends and relatives as smart, literate, compassionate, and funny, did McCandless simply read too much Thoreau and Jack London and lose sight of the dangers of heading into the wilderness alone? Krakauer, whose own adventures have taken him to the perilous heights of Everest, provides some answers by exploring the pull the outdoors, seductive yet often dangerous, has had on his own life.

Produktbeschreibung

While many volumes have been written on the war from any number of perspectives and the "top 100 battles" have been dissected in excruciating detail, most of these 6,000 events lie largely unexplored and forgotten.

While we lament the thousands of casualties at Chickamauga, Shiloh, Pea Ridge, Stones River, Franklin, Kennesaw, Fredericksburg, Second Manassas, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Petersburg, et. al., I am always touched when I see an account of a minor event that states there were 23 Confederate and 41 Union killed. These "minor" events represent the shattering of 64 families, each with a story to tell of their loss of fathers, brothers, uncles and dreams.

This work focuses on uncovering and telling those stories. It is not our intent or objective to refight the war, but to uncover and document the stories of these families in the war.

We will necessarily limit the scope of our writings when we reach the major battles of '62 and '63, but our focus will always be on uncovering as many first hand accounts as possible.

It is our intent to release on Sunday of each week an accounting of the events which occurred that week 150 years ago. We will publish this week's volume for the Kindle on Amazon FREE for Sunday through Thursday of each week.

This volume is excerpted from our multi-volume work, "All the Battles of the Civil War" which gives a narrative account of the more than 5,000 events which occurred in the war. This work runs to more than 2,700 pages and forms the basis of our series of "Historical Sketch and Roster" volumes on each of the more than 6,000 units formed for both the Union and the Confederacy.

Events of the Week
May. 18 - May 24, 1862

Sunday May 18, 1862
· Woodstock, Virginia
· Searcy, Arkansas
· Princeton, Virginia
Monday, May 19, 1862
· Hornersville, Missouri
· Clinton, North Carolina
· City Point, Virginia
· Bottom's Bridge, Virginia
· Richmond, Virginia
· James River, Virginia
Tuesday, May 20, 1862
· Crooked River, Florida
· Cole's Island, South Carolina
· Wardensville, Virginia
· Rolla, Missouri
· Tucson, Arizona
· Jackson River Depot, Virginia
· Bottom's Bridge, VA
Wednesday, May 21, 1862
· Corinth, Mississippi
· Phillips' Creek, Mississippi
· Battery Island, South Carolina
· Georgetown, South Carolina
· Gaines Mills, Virginia
· Fort Pillow, Tennessee
· Strasburgh, Virginia
Thursday, May 22, 1862
· Florida, Missouri
· New Berne, North Carolina
· Fort Craig, New Mexico
· Stono River, South Carolina
Friday, May 23, 1862
· Front Royal, Virginia
· Buckton Station, Virginia
· Lewisburg, West Virginia
· Fort Craig, New Mexico
· Grand Gulf, Mississippi
· Mechanicsville, Virginia
Saturday, May 24, 1862
· Winchester, Tennessee
· Newtown, Virginia
· Seven Pines, Virginia
· Middletown, Virginia
· Craighead Point, Tennessee
· New Bridge, Virginia
· Capture of the British Steamer, Stettin
· Corinth, Mississippi
· Sheff's Mountain, Virginia
· Capture of the Steamer, Swan

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