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Confederate generals in the Trans-Mississippi Volume 1, Essays on America's Civil War / edited by Lawrence Lee Hewitt with Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. and Thomas E. Schott; with a foreword by Terrence J. Winschel.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Western theater in the Civil War.
- The western theater in the Civil War
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Generals--Confederate States of America--History.
- Generals.
- Generals--Confederate States of America--Biography.
- Command of troops--History--19th century.
- Command of troops.
- Military art and science--Confederate States of America--History.
- Military art and science.
- Mississippi River Valley--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (400 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Until relatively recently, conventional wisdom held that the Trans-Mississippi Theater was a backwater of the American Civil War. Scholarship in recent decades has corrected this oversight, and a growing number of historians agree that the events west of the Mississippi River proved integral to the outcome of the war. Nevertheless, generals in the Trans-Mississippi have received little attention compared to their eastern counterparts, and many remain mere footnotes to Civil War history. This welcome volume features cutting-edge analyses of eight Southern generals in this most neglect
- Contents:
- v. 1. "An ultra and stupid conservatism ruined us" : general Thomas C. Hindman Jr. and the defense of Arkansas / Bobby L. Roberts
- Theophilus H. Holmes and Confederate generalship / Joseph G. Dawson III
- "To carry off the glory" : Edmund Kirby Smith in 1864 / Jeffery S. Prushankin
- Mosby Monroe Parsons : Missouri's forgotten brigadier / Bill J. Gurley
- A "gallant and prudent commander" : Major General John S. Marmaduke / Helen P. Trimpi
- "Not fortunate in war" : Major General Thomas James Churchill / Mark K. Christ
- Days in April : Tom Green's contributions at Carroll's Mill, Mansfield, and Pleasant Hill during the Red River campaign / Curtis W. Milbourn
- Exile to submission, death to dishonor : General Joseph Orville Shelby / Stuart W. Sanders
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-57233-985-3
- OCLC:
- 867739719
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