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The Bravest of the Brave : The Correspondence of Stephen Dodson Ramseur /
Born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, Stephen Dodson Ramseur rose meteorically through the military ranks. Graduating from West Point in 1860, he joined the Confederate army as a captain. By the time of his death near the end of the war at the Battle of Cedar Creek, he had attained the rank o...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, Stephen Dodson Ramseur rose meteorically through the military ranks. Graduating from West Point in 1860, he joined the Confederate army as a captain. By the time of his death near the end of the war at the Battle of Cedar Creek, he had attained the rank of major general in the Army of Northern Virginia. He excelled in every assignment and was involved as a senior officer in many of the war's most important conflicts east of the Appalachians. Ramseur's letters--over 180 of which are collected and transcribed here by George Kundahl--provide hi. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781469604022 |