The Class of 1861 : Custer, Ames, and Their Classmates after West Point /

"Ralph Kirshner has provided a richly illustrated forum to enable the West Point class of 1861 to write its own autobiography. Through letters, journals, and published accounts, George Armstrong Custer, Adelbert Ames, and their classmates tell in their own words of their Civil War battles and v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirshner, Ralph, 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Custer, George A. > (George Armstrong), > 1839-1876
Ames, Adelbert, > 1835-1933
Ames, Adelbert, > 1835-1933.
Custer, George A. > (George Armstrong), > 1839-1876.
West Point (N.Y.) > Militärakademie.
United States Military Academy. > Class of 1861.
United States. > Army.
United States. > Army > Officers > Biography.
United States Military Academy. > Class of 1861 > Biography.
United States Military Academy. > Class of 1861 > History.
Geschichte 1861.
Sezessionskrieg > 1861-1865
Absolvent
Armed Forces > Officers.
United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Biographies.
Biography.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: buglers' assembly
  • Flames of rebellion
  • Courage and ambition
  • The Vicksburg campaign
  • Gettysburg
  • The boy generals
  • Custer, Rosser, and du Pont
  • Ending the war
  • Adelbert Ames: reconstruction governor
  • George Armstrong Custer: Little Bighorn
  • Thomas Lafayette Rosser: Custer's rebel friend
  • John Whitney Barlow: explorer of Yellowstone
  • Henry Algernon du Pont: businessman, senator, author
  • Judson Kilpatrick: playwright and diplomat
  • Orville E. Babcock: the rise and fall of Grant's secretary
  • Pierce M.B. Young: Confederate general and U.S. diplomat
  • John J. Garnett: sketches of Grant and Lee
  • Peter C. Hains: Bull Run to World War I
  • Emory Upton: "the class genius."

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