The life and wars of Gideon J. Pillow /

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One of nineteenth-century America's most controversial military figures, Gideon Johnson Pillow gained notoriety early in the Civil War for turning an apparent Confederate victory at Fort Donelson into an ignominious defeat. Dismissed by contemporaries and historians alike as a political general...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs, Jr., 1930-2012
Otros Autores: Stonesifer, Roy P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Pillow, Gideon Johnson, > 1806-1878.
Pillow, Gideon Johnson, > 1806-1878
Confederate States of America. > Army > Biography.
Confederate States of America. > Army
1846-1865
Generals > Confederate States of America > Biography.
Mexican War, 1846-1848 > Biography.
Généraux > États confédérés d'Amérique > Biographies.
Guerre du Mexique, 1846-1848 > Biographies.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY > General.
Generals
Military campaigns
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Campagnes et batailles.
United States
United States > Confederate States of America
Biographies
History
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  • A Jacksonian tradition
  • A friend indeed
  • Tennessee's own son
  • Hurra for Pa
  • Hero of Chapultepec
  • Leonidas
  • Making good Democratic music
  • Palace of fire
  • The provisional Army of Tennessee
  • To aid our friends in Missouri
  • A plunge into the forest
  • I will die first
  • Is this right?
  • A place he so exactly fits
  • I only want a respectable command
  • A bitter cup
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1: And afterward
  • Appendix 2: Some of Gideon J. Pillow's staff officers.

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