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Last in their class : Custer, Pickett and the goats of West Point / James S. Robbins.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robbins, James S., 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States Military Academy.
- Military education.
- History.
- Alumni and alumnae.
- United States--History, Military--19th century.
- United States.
- History, Military.
- Soldiers--United States--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- United States. Army--Biography.
- United States. Army.
- United States Military Academy--Alumni and alumnae--Biography.
- Military education--United States--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 503 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Encounter Books, 2006.
- Summary:
- Today's Goat, the West Point cadet finishing at the bottom of his class, is temporary celebrity among his classmates. But in the 19th century, he was something of a cult figure. Custer's contemporaries at the Academy believed that the same spirit of adventure that led him to carouse at local taverns motivated his dramatic cavalry attacks in the Civil War and afterwards. And the same willingness to accept punishment from Academy authorities also sent George Pickett into the teeth of the Union guns at Gettsyburg. The story James S. Robbins tells goes from the beginnings of West Point through the carnage of the Civil War to the grassy bluffs over the Little Big Horn. The Goats he profiles tell us much about the soul of the American solider, his daring, imagination and desire to prove himself against high odds.
- Contents:
- Nathaniel Wyche Hunter
- Benny Havens'
- Ephraim Kirby Smith
- The Seminole War
- Henry Heth
- Flirtation walk
- Zeb Inge
- Churubusco
- Chapultepec
- James McNeill Whistler
- William Logan Crittenden
- The Battle of Blue Waters
- Solomon's Fork
- The Pig War
- George Armstrong Custer
- Absent friends
- James McQueen McIntosh
- Charles Nelson Warner
- Gettysburg
- Pickett's charge
- Laurence Simmons Baker
- Five Forks
- Appomattox
- The reunion
- Charles Dempsey
- John Jordan Crittenden
- Hurrah for Custer
- Washita
- The boy president
- The Sioux campaign
- Little Bighorn
- My every thought was ambition
- The immortals
- Whither the goat?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 414-479) and index.
- ISBN:
- 159403141X
- OCLC:
- 62895798
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