Confederate generals in the Trans-Mississippi [[electronic resource] ] . 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

• Pubblicazione: Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.7092/2
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Mississippi River Valley History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HewittLawrence L BergeronArthur W SchottThomas Edwin <1943->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Confederate generals in the Trans-Mississippi
• ISBN: 1-57233-985-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463587103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Western theater in the Civil War.