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Title:

Confederate generals in the trans-Mississippi : essays on America's Civil War / edited by Lawrence Lee Hewitt with Arthur W. Bergeron Jr. and Thomas E. Schott ; with a foreword by William L. Shea.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Tennessee Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013-

Description:

v. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Southwest, Old--Campaigns.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
Missouri--Campaigns.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
Generals--Confederate States of America--Biography.
Confederate States of America.--Trans-Mississippi Department.--Trans-Mississippi Department.
Command of troops--History--19th century.

Other Authors:

Hewitt, Lawrence L.
Bergeron, Arthur W.
Schott, Thomas Edwin, 1943-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"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 -- Three 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.

Series:

The western theater in the Civil War

ISBN:

1572338660 (hardcover : v. 1)
9781572338661 (hardcover : v. 1)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)800447387

LCCN:

2012026776

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)