Edward G Longacre

Gentleman and Soldier

A Biography of Wade Hampton III

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Produktbeschreibung

Edward G. Longacre has written twenty-three books on the Civil War. His book The Cavalry at Gettysburg, available in a Bison Books edition, won the Fletcher Pratt Award as the best book of Civil War nonfiction. He is also the author of Pickett, Leader of the Charge and Lee's Cavalrymen, a main selection of the History Book Club.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780803213548
• ISBN-10: 0803213549
• Artikelnr.: 26014839

Autorenporträt

 is a retired historian for the U.S. Department of Defense and the award-winning author of numerous books on the Civil War, including Fitz Lee: A Military Biography of Major General Fitzhugh Lee, C.S.A. (Bison Books, 2010), The Sharpshooters: A History of the Ninth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War (Potomac Books, 2017), and The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
1 - "I will sacrifice everything but principle and honor."
2 - "The legion is to serve wherever ordered."
3 - "In the face of the enemy"
4 - "Remarkable for coolness, promptness, and . . . ability"
5 - "Theirs was the sleepless watch and the . . . petite guerre."
6 - "We have stirred up the Yankees greatly."
7 - "A veritable god of war"
8 - "Charge them, my brave boys!"
9 - "A vast difference between the old and the new"
10 - "I propose to fight!"
11 - "Sherman can be destroyed."
12 - "My reputation is the only thing that I have left."
13 - "God bless all my people, black and white."
Notes
Bibliography
Index