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Orlando M. Poe : Civil War general and Great Lakes engineer / Paul Taylor.
Van Pelt Library E467.1.P65 T39 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Paul, 1959-
- Series:
- Civil War in the North
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poe, O. M. (Orlando Metcalfe), 1832-1895.
- Poe, O. M.
- United States. Army--Officers--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Army.
- Engineers.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.
- History.
- Engineers--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- 1 "There is a Bright Prospect before Me": A Young Man's Dreams 1
- 2 "I Have Been Called a Damned Abolitionist": Educated at West Point 6
- 3 "Energy and Tenacity of Purpose": Surveying the Great Lakes 19
- 4 "It All Seems Like a Dream to Me": 1861-Western Virginia and Washington, D.C. 31
- 5 "Do You See How Handsomely Kearny Speaks of Poe at Williamsburg?":1862-Virginia 58
- 6 "A Matter of Much Gratification to a Proud and Sensitive Man": 1863-Kentucky and Tennessee 100
- 7 "God Help Us if We Fail!": 1864-The Atlanta Campaign 140
- 8 "A Sort of Wild Goose Chase": 1864-The March to the Sea 184
- 9 "Hot Work is Sure to Follow Soon": 1865-The Carolinas 203
- 10 A Position "That I Can Honorably Take": The Lighthouse Years 221
- 11 "A Man of Marked Ability": With Sherman Again 243
- 12 "The Wildest Expectations of One Year Seem Absolutely Tame...the Next": At "the Soo" 269.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781606350409
- 1606350404
- OCLC:
- 354901486
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