Stephen Dodson Ramseur
Lee's Gallant General
Seiten
1995
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New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-4522-6 (ISBN)
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-4522-6 (ISBN)
Stephen Dodson Ramseur, born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, compiled an enviable record as a brigadier in the Army of Northern Virginia. Commissioned major general the day after his twenty-seventh birthday, he was the youngest West Pointer to achieve that rank in the Confederate army. He later showed great skill as a divisional leader in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley campaigns before he was fatally wounded at Cedar Creek on 19 October of that year. Based on Ramseur's extensive personal papers as well as on other sources, this absorbing biography examines the life of one of the South's most talented commanders and brings into sharper focus some of the crosscurrents of this turbulent period. |One of the principal aims of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua was to end the exploitation of the rural poor. But its attempts to promote balanced economic development and redistribute agricultural resources created labor shortages that threatened th
Gary W. Gallagher is John L. Nau III Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is author, most recently, of Lee and His Army in Confederate History.
Verlagsort | Chapel Hill |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 389 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8078-4522-1 / 0807845221 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8078-4522-6 / 9780807845226 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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