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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Woodworth, Steven E. Jefferson Davis and his generals. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, ©1990 (OCoLC)645075857 |
Named Person: | Jefferson Davis; Jefferson Davis; Jefferson Davis; Jefferson Davis; Jefferson Davis |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Steven E Woodworth; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) |
ISBN: | 0700604618 9780700604616 9780700605675 0700605673 |
OCLC Number: | 20594089 |
Description: | xv, 380 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The man and the hour -- Organizing the Western theater -- Kentucky -- The coming of Albert Sidney Johnston -- The gateway to East Tennessee -- Collapse -- Shiloh -- The Gibraltar of the West -- Bragg moves north -- Unified command -- Winter of discontent -- The fall of Vicksburg -- The loss of Tennessee -- To Atlanta and beyond -- The Commander in Chief. |
Series Title: | Modern war studies. |
Responsibility: | Steven E. Woodworth. |
More information: | |
Local System Bib Number: | 1610475867688_133601 991000302129705351 |
Abstract:
This portrait of Jefferson reveals an experienced, talented and courageous leader who, nevertheless, undermined the Confederacy's cause in the trans-Appalachian West, where the South lost the war.
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