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The life and wars of Gideon J. Pillow / Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr. and Roy P. Stonesifer, Jr. ; with a new foreword by Timothy D. Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs, Jr., 1930-2012.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Generals--Confederate States of America--Biography.
- Generals.
- Mexican War, 1846-1848--Biography.
- Mexican War, 1846-1848.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
- United States.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Biography.
- Confederate States of America.
- Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878.
- Pillow, Gideon Johnson.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (481 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- One of nineteenth-century America's most controversial military figures, Gideon Johnson Pillow gained notoriety early in the Civil War for turning an apparent Confederate victory at Fort Donelson into an ignominious defeat. Dismissed by contemporaries and historians alike as a political general with dangerous aspirations, his famous failures have overshadowed the tremendous energy, rare talent, and great organizational skills that also marked his career. In this exhaustive biography, Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. and Roy P. Stonesifer Jr. look beyond conventional historical inte
- Contents:
- A Jacksonian tradition
- A friend indeed
- Tennessee's own son
- Hurra for Pa
- Hero of Chapultepec
- Leonidas
- Making good Democratic music
- Palace of fire
- The provisional Army of Tennessee
- To aid our friends in Missouri
- A plunge into the forest
- I will die first
- Is this right?
- A place he so exactly fits
- I only want a respectable command
- A bitter cup
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1: And afterward
- Appendix 2: Some of Gideon J. Pillow's staff officers.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1993.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613282323
- 9781283282321
- 1283282321
- 9781572337916
- 1572337915
- OCLC:
- 753480559
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