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Robert Toombs : the civil wars of a United States senator and Confederate general / Mark Scroggins.
Van Pelt Library E415.9.T6 S38 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scroggins, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885.
- Toombs, Robert Augustus.
- United States. Congress. Senate.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- History.
- United States.
- Georgia.
- United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.
- Generals--Confederate States of America--Biography.
- Generals.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.
- Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.
- United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.
- Politics and government.
- Georgia--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 230 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2011]
- Summary:
- "Robert Toombs of Georgia stands as one of the most fiery and influential politicians of the nineteenth century. This biography chronicles his days as a student and young lawyer, his political career, his appointment as the Confederacy's first Secretary of State, his unsuccessful stint as a Confederate General, and his role as an unreconstructed rebel after the war"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Georgia
- Milledgeville
- House
- Senate
- Dixie
- Un-reconstructed.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780786463633
- 0786463635
- OCLC:
- 703210176
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