Lee's Maverick General by Hal Bridges

Lee's Maverick General by Hal Bridges

Among the high-ranking gray uniforms Daniel Harvey Hill caused a stir as a sash of red in a bullpen would. Hot-tempered, outspoken, he stormed his way through the Civil War, leading his soldiers at Malvern Hill and Antietam, and sometimes stepping on the toes of superiors. But he was much more than a seemingly impervious shield against Union bullets: a devout Christian, a family man, a gloomy fatalist, an intellectual. Lee's Maverick General makes clear that he was often caught in the crossfire of military politics and ultimately made a scapegoat for the costly, barren victory at Chickamauga. Hal Bridges, drawing on Hill's unpublished papers, offers an outsider's inside views of Lee, Jefferson Davis, Braxton Bragg, James Longstreet, Stonewall Jackson, and others up and down the embattled line. In his introduction, Gary W. Gallagher rounds out the portrait of the controversial Hill, whose reading of military affairs was always perceptive.

A professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, Gary W. Gallagher is the editor of Lee the Soldier (Nebraska, 1996) and the author of many books, including The Confederate War.

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Titel	Lee's Maverick General
Autor	Hal Bridges
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1991-08-01
Seitenanzahl	323
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