Research Catalog

Title

The military memoirs of General John Pope / edited by Peter Cozzens and Robert I. Girardi.

Author

Pope, John, 1822-1892

Publication

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Cozzens, Peter, 1957-
• Girardi, Robert I.
• Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM

Description

xviii, 287 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

• Union general John Pope was among the most controversial and misunderstood figures to hold major command during the Civil War. Before being called east in June 1862 to lead the Army of Virginia against General Robert E. Lee, he compiled an enviable record in Missouri and as commander of the Army of the Mississippi. After his ignominious defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run, he was sent to the frontier. Over the next twenty-four years Pope held important department commands on the western plains and was recognized as one of the army's leading authorities on Indian affairs, but he never again commanded troops in battle.
• In 1886, Pope was engaged by the National Tribune, a weekly newspaper published in Washington, D.C., to write a series of articles on his wartime experiences. Over the next five years, in twenty-nine installments, he wrote about the war as he had lived it. Collected here for the first time, Pope's "war reminiscences" join a select roster of memoirs written by Civil War army commanders.

Series Statement

Civil War America

Uniform Title

Civil War America.

Subject

• Pope, John, 1822-1892
• United States. Army > Biography
• 1861-1865
• Geschichte 1861-1862
• Generals > United States > Biography
• United States > Personal narratives. > Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States > Campaigns > Civil War, 1861-1865

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• Personal narratives

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-280) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / John Y. Simon -- pt. 1. Missouri in 1861. 1. The Rush to the Ranks. 2. An Unpleasant Page of History. 3. Quiet and Good Order Are of All Things Desirable -- pt. 2. New Madrid and Island No. 10. 4. The Conduct of the Troops Was Splendid -- pt. 3. The Siege of Corinth. 5. We Sauntered Along Slowly. 6. Confederate Generals at Corinth. 7. Federal Generals at Corinth. 8. We Frittered Away Our Strength -- pt. 4. The Second Bull Run Campaign. 9. Summoned East: I Was Most Reluctant to Leave. 10. The Battle of Cedar Mountain: Always a Source of Regret. 11. Leave Pope to Get Out of His Scrape -- pt. 5. Miscellaneous Recollections. 12. Abraham Lincoln. 13. The Mexican War and Washington in 1861. 14. Prominent Confederates.

ISBN

0807824445 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98013801^

OCLC

• 38549785
• SCSB-13442368

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library