More Generals in Gray - Brossura

Allardice, Bruce S.

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ISBN 10: 0807131482 ISBN 13: 9780807131480

Casa editrice: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 2006

Riassunto

Describes the six categories of Confederate general and offers biographical sketches for 137 of the more obscure officers

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L'autore:

Bruce S. Allardice is the coauthor of Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables. He has published articles in Civil War History, Civil War Times Illustrated, and North & South, and he teaches history at South Suburban College near Chicago.

Product Description:

In this masterpiece of research, a splendid supplement to Ezra J. Warner's Generals in Gray, Bruce S. Allardice brings to light a neglected class of officers: the Confederacy's "other" generals -- men who attained their rank outside the usual avenue of appointment by President Jefferson Davis and who had been virtually forgotten as a consequence. Explaining that the process of becoming a general was fraught with politics, lobbying, intrigue, accident, mismanagement, and chance, Allardice identifies six main categories of legitimate claimants to the rank of Confederate General -- two more than historians have traditionally recognized. He presents a substantial biographical sketch of 137 generals not found in Warner's original and a short bibliography of each. For the vast majority, his is the first treatment ever published.

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• Editore: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0807131482
• ISBN 13: 9780807131480
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 301