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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810753903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2013

ISBN

1-57233-985-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Collana

The western theater in the Civil War

Altri autori (Persone)

HewittLawrence L

BergeronArthur W

SchottThomas Edwin <1943->

Disciplina

973.7092/2

Soggetti

Generals - Confederate States of America - History

Generals - Confederate States of America

Command of troops - History - 19th century

Military art and science - Confederate States of America - History

Mississippi River Valley History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 --

Sommario/riassunto

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