General A.P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warrior

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Random House, 1987 - 382 Seiten
He was known as Little Powell, and at West Point was a classmate of such future Civil War generals as Jackson, McClellan, and Burnside. He rose to command a corps in the famous Army of Northern Virginia and was a central figure in virtually every major engagement in the vital eastern theater. He possessed what a fellow soldier called "an unquenchable thirst for battle." His "Light Division" was the largest and became the most famous division in all the Confederate armies. Hill spearheaded Lee 's counteroffensive against McClellan in the Peninsular Campaign. He was also at Mechanicsville and Gaines's Mill, Cedar Mountain, Second Manassas, Harper's Ferry, Antietam (his savage flank attack in midafternoon remains one of the most dramatic events in American military history), Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristoe Station (the most stunning defeat of his career), the Wilderness, Cold Harbor--and, of course, he became "the abiding strength and dependence of Lee's army" in the siege of Petersburg. Yet in the years since this hero of the Confederacy has remained relatively obscure. Based upon years of research, a previously undiscovered cache of Hill's papers, and never-published letters and memoirs by men who fought under him, this biography by a distinguished scholar at last restores to history the dauntless Light Division commander who, "as much as anyone, symbolized the Southern Confederacy: its enthusiasm, its pride, its incongruity, its sacrifice." A.P. Hill was killed in the last moments of the war by a Federal soldier whose surrender he had just demanded.--From dust jacket.

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Stormy Road to Manhood
3
Love Affairs and War Clouds
19
The General Emerges
35
Urheberrecht

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