LEADER 03033nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910807450403321 005 20230725051156.0 010 $a1-283-28232-1 010 $a9786613282323 010 $a1-57233-791-5 035 $a(CKB)2550000000048634 035 $a(EBL)772834 035 $a(OCoLC)753480559 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000538558 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11339899 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538558 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10559815 035 $a(PQKB)10065579 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18429 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL772834 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10500337 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL328232 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC772834 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000048634 100 $a20101029e20111993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe life and wars of Gideon J. Pillow /$fNathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr. and Roy P. Stonesifer, Jr. ; with a new foreword by Timothy D. Johnson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aKnoxville $cUniversity of Tennessee Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (481 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1993. 311 $a1-57233-755-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA 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. 330 $aOne 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 606 $aGenerals$zConfederate States of America$vBiography 606 $aMexican War, 1846-1848$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xCampaigns 615 0$aGenerals 615 0$aMexican War, 1846-1848 676 $a973.7/42092 676 $aB 700 $aHughes$b Nathaniel Cheairs$01666859 701 $aStonesifer$b Roy P$01666860 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807450403321 996 $aThe life and wars of Gideon J. Pillow$94026347 997 $aUNINA