Soldier's General (eBook)

The Civil War Letters of Major General Lafayette McLaws

John C. Oeffinger (Herausgeber)

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2003
322 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-6047-2 (ISBN)

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During his service in the Confederate army, Major General Lafayette McLaws (1821-1897) served under and alongside such famous officers as Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, James Longstreet, and John B. Hood. He played a significant role in some of the most crucial battles of the Civil War, including Harpers Ferry, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. Despite this, no biography of McLaws or history of his division has ever been published.A Soldier's General gathers ninety-five letters written by McLaws to his family between 1858 and 1865, making these valuable resources available to a wide audience for the first time. The letters, painstakingly transcribed from McLaws's notoriously poor handwriting, contain a wealth of opinion and information about life and morale in the Confederate army, Civil War-era politics, the Southern press, and the impact of war on the Confederate home front. Among the fascinating threads the letters trace is the story of McLaws's fractured relationship with childhood friend Longstreet, who had McLaws relieved of command in 1863. John Oeffinger's extensive introduction sketches McLaws's life from his beginnings in Augusta, Georgia, through his early experiences in the U.S. Army, his marriage, his Civil War exploits, and his postwar years.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.4.2003
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Zusatzinfo: 14 photos, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Abram Huguenin McLaws • Alfred Cumming • A Soldier's General# groe Goggin • Augusta • Battle of Bentonville • Battle of Chancellorsville • battle of fredericksburg • Battle of Gettysburg • Battle of Harpers Ferry • Battle of Knoxville • Battle of Sharpsburg • Battle of Williamsburg • Braxton Bragg • Edward Porter Alexander • Fort Brown • Fort Defiance • Fort Gibson • Fort Loudon • Georgia • Jefferson lor McLaws • John Bell Hood • John Calvin Fizer • Joseph Brevard Kershaw • Joseph Eggleston Johnston • Joseph Ganahl • Maryland • new mexico territory • North Carolina • Paul Jones Semmes • Robert E. Lee • rs. • Samuel Cooper • Savannah • Simon Bolivar Buckner • South Carolinavis • Tennessee • Texas • Thomas Reade Rootes Coress (esp. smes Longstreet • Ulysses Simpson Grant • Utah Territory • Virginia • Virginia Randall McLaws • William Barksdale • William Joseph Hardee • William Raymond McLaws • William Tatum Wofford • Zachary Taylor
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-6047-6 / 0807860476
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-6047-2 / 9780807860472