A young general and the fall of Richmond : the life and career of Godfrey Weitzel /
G. William Quatman.
- Athens : Ohio University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.