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Gettysburg requiem : the life and lost causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates / Glenn W. LaFantasie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- LaFantasie, Glenn W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Governors--Alabama--Biography.
- Governors.
- Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
- United States.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Biography.
- Confederate States of America.
- Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 15th.
- Oates, William C. (William Calvin), 1835-1910.
- Oates, William C.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (464 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- William C Oates is best remembered as the Confederate officer defeated at Gettysburg's Little Round Top, losing a golden opportunity to win the battle. Written by the author of ""Twilight at Little Round Top"", this biography of Oates talks about the compelling and sometimes astonishing dimensions of this remarkable individual.
- Contents:
- Rough and tumble days
- Baptism by fire
- An unchristian state of mind
- Ragged jacks
- Boulders like gravestones
- In the purple gloom
- Gone to flickering
- The end of chivalry
- Before the bar
- The one-armed hero of Henry County
- Striking to hurt
- A soldier in his heart
- Stumbling toward equality
- Requiem.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-396) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-84486-8
- 0-19-803895-X
- 1-4294-2073-1
- OCLC:
- 466425198
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