Research Catalog

Title

Confederate generals in the western theater / edited by Lawrence Lee Hewitt and Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. ; with a foreword by Terrence J. Winschel.

Publication

• Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2010-2018]
• ©2010-©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hewitt, Lawrence L.
• Bergeron, Arthur W.
• Joiner, Gary D.
• Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM

Description

4 volumes : maps, portraits, plans; 24 cm

Series Statement

The western theater in the Civil War

Uniform Title

• Classic essays on America's Civil Wa.
• Essays on America's Civil War.
• Project Muse UPCC books
• Western theater in the Civil War

Alternative Title

• Confederate generals in the western theater : classic essays on America's Civil War
• Confederate generals in the western theater : essays on America's Civil War

Subject

• American Civil War (1861-1865)
• 1800-1899
• Generals > Confederate States of America > History
• Generals > Confederate States of America > Biography
• Command of troops > History > 19th century
• Military art and science > Confederate States of America > History
• Command of troops
• Generals
• Military art and science
• Military campaigns
• Mississippi River Valley > History > Campaigns. > Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States > History > Campaigns > Civil War, 1861-1865
• Mississippi River Valley
• United States
• United States > Confederate States of America

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• Biography.

Note

• "Like its predecessors, the fourth and final volume of Confederate generals in the western theater makes a generous contribution to the historiography of a poorly understood theater of war, ..."--Jacket, volume 4.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• volume 1. Classic essays on America's Civil War -- volume 2. Essays on America's Civil War -- volume 3. Essays on America's Civil War / edited by Lawrence Lee Hewitt and Arthur W. Bergeron ; with a foreword by Steven E. Woodworth -- volume 4. Essays on America's Civil War / edited by Lawrence Lee Hewitt and Thomas E. Schott ; with a foreword by Wiley Sword.
• v. 1. Classic essays on America's Civil War -- A bishop as general / Grady McWhiney -- Albert Sidney Johnston and the defense of the Confederate west / Charles P. Roland -- Beauregard at Shiloh / T. Harry Williams -- Mansfield Lovell / Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr -- Braxton Bragg and the Confederate invasion of Kentucky in 1862 / Lawrence Lee Hewitt -- Tennessee and Mississippi, Joe Johnston's strategic problem / Archer Jones -- Misused merit : the tragedy of John C. Pemberton / Michael B. Ballard -- Soldier with a blunted sword : Braxton Bragg and his lieutenants in the Chickamauga campaign / Steven E. Woodworth -- Patrick Cleburne's defense of Tunnel Hill revisited / Craig L. Symonds -- Bedford Forrest and his "critter" cavalry at Brice's Cross Roads / Edwin C. Bearss -- A reassessment of Jefferson Davis as war leader : the case from Atlanta to Nashville / William J. Cooper, Jr -- General Hood as logistician / Frank E. Vandiver -- Hardee's defense of Savannah / Nathaniel C. Hughes, Jr. -- Patton Anderson : major general, C.S.A. / Richard M. McMurry -- No better officer in the Confederacy : the wartime career of Daniel C. Govan / Daniel E. Sutherland.
• v. 2. Essays on America's Civil War -- Glory denied : the hard fate of George B. Crittenden / James M. Prichard -- "To hell or to victory" : Confederate General Alfred J. Vaughan Jr. / Stuart W. Sanders -- Van Dorn's blitzkrieg stumbles : Comanches, command decisions, and combat in the Baton Rouge campaign of 1862 / Charles N. Elliott -- The absence of will : Joseph E. Johnston and the fall of Vicksburg / Terrence J. Winschel -- "The harmony and subordination essential to success" : General James Longstreet, Braxton Bragg, and the Army of Tennessee, 1863-1864 / Alexander Mendoza -- "I regard Maj. Genl Stewart as the best qualified of the maj. genls of this army" : Alexander P. Stewart in the first phase of the Atlanta campaign / Sam Davis Elliott -- Lieutenant General William J. Hardee, the historians, and the Atlanta campaign / Thomas E. Schott -- A Kentucky Lyon roars : Hylan B. Lyon in the Civil War / Brian Steel Wills -- John Bell Hood's historiographical journey; or, How did a Confederate general become a laudanum addict? / Stephen Davis -- Joseph E. Johnston in North Carolina / Craig L. Symonds.
• v. 3. Essays on America's Civil War -- Leonidas Polk and the fate of Kentucky in 1861 / Robert I. Girardi -- To conquer or perish : the last hours of Albert Sidney Johnston / Timothy B. Smith -- General G.T. Beauregard's role at the battle of Shiloh : hero or villain? / Wiley Sword -- Martin Luther Smith and the defense of the lower Mississippi river valley, 1861-1863 / Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. -- Daniel Weisiger Adams : defender of the confederacy's heartland / M. Jane Johansson -- A name worth a division : Simon Bolivar Buckner and the 1862 Kentucky campaign / Stuart W. Sanders -- William Preston's civil war / Thomas E. Schott -- An Irish confederate : Brigadier General Joseph Finegan of Florida / Rory T. Cornish -- "It was perfect murder" : Stephen D. Lee at Ezra Church / Bruce S. Allardice -- Hiram Bronson Granbury : from Chattanooga to Franklin / John R. Lundberg.
• v. 4. Essays on America's Civil War -- "He died on the field of glory" : Felix Kirk Zollicoffer and the Confederate defeat at Mill Springs / C. David Dalton -- Robert E. Lee's lost campaign / Roger S. Durham -- "I have gone in for the war" : Benjamin Hardin Helm / Stuart W. Sanders -- From Hoover's Gap to Chickamauga : Bushrod Rust Johnson's best three months of the war / Michael R. Bradley -- "Hellraising" Abraham Buford : Nathan Bedford Forrest's dependable lieutenant / Brian S. Wills -- Unwept, unhonored, and unsung : Gideon J. Pillow / Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. -- Banner in the dust : John Hunt Morgan's last Kentucky raid / James M. Prichard -- A ghost on horseback : the many wounds and curious death of William H. T. Walker / Stewart L. Bennett -- "He exhibited the highest soldierly qualities : Edward C. Walthall / Keith S. Bohannon -- Unlucky in war : Braxton Bragg's return to field duty at Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864-65 / Chris E. Fonvielle Jr.

ISBN

• 9781572337008
• 1572337001
• 9781572336995
• 1572336994
• 9781572337534
• 1572337532
• 9781621902904
• 1621902900

LCCN

• 2009051917
• 40017911793

OCLC

• 489720690
• SCSB-10645605

Owning Institutions

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