Essays on America's Civil waredited by Lawrence Lee Hewitt with Arthur W. Bergeron Jr. ; with a foreword by William L. Shea. - first edition. - Knoxville, Tenn. : University of Tennessee Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xxiii, 302 pages) - Confederate generals in the trans-Mississippi ; v. 1 The western theater in the Civil War .

Includes bibliographies and index.

"An ultra and stupid conservatism ruined us" : general Thomas C. Hindman Jr. and the defense of Arkansas / Theophilus H. Holmes and Confederate generalship / "To carry off the glory" : Edmund Kirby Smith in 1864 / Mosby Monroe Parsons : Missouri's forgotten brigadier / A "gallant and prudent commander" : Major General John S. Marmaduke / "Not fortunate in war" : Major General Thomas James Churchill / Three days in April : Tom Green's contributions at Carroll's Mill, Mansfield, and Pleasant Hill during the Red River campaign / Exile to submission, death to dishonor : General Joseph Orville Shelby / Bobby L. Roberts -- Joseph G. Dawson III -- Jeffery S. Prushankin -- Bill J. Gurley -- Helen P. Trimpi -- Mark K. Christ -- Curtis W. Milbourn -- Stuart W. Sanders.



9781572339859


Confederate States of America. Army. Trans-Mississippi Department.


Generals--Confederate States of America--Biography.
Command of troops--History--19th century.


Electronic Books.

E470 / .E873 2013