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A young general and the fall of Richmond : the life and career of Godfrey Weitzel /
Despite his military achievements and his association with many of the great names of American history, Godfrey Weitzel (1835-1884) is perhaps the least known of all the Union generals. After graduating from West Point, Weitzel, a German immigrant from Cincinnati, was assigned to the Army Corps of E...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Over-the-Rhine
- Welcome to West Point
- No longer a plebe
- Early career in New Orleans
- Lincoln inauguration and war begins
- From Cincinnati to New Orleans
- The capture of New Orleans
- Occupation of the Crescent City
- The LaFourche campaign
- Fighting in the bayous
- Commanding Black troops
- Destroying the J.A. Cotton
- Battle of Port Hudson
- Thibodeaux and the Sabine Pass
- Reunited: Drewry's Bluff and the spring campaign of '64
- Fort Fisher and Ben Butler's powder boat
- Christmas day, 1864: attack on Fort Fisher
- The trial of Benjamin F. Butler
- Final days of war
- The fall of the confederacy
- Entry into Richmond
- Lincoln in Richmond
- Political troubles
- Good Friday; black friday
- Postwar life of the young general.