John Bankhead Magruder : a military reappraisal /
Of all the major figures of the Civil War era, Confederate General John Bankhead Magruder is perhaps the least understood. The third-ranking officer in Virginias forces, behind Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston, Magruder left no diary, no completed memoirs, no will, not even a family Bible. There...
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Southern biography series.
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Table of Contents:
- Every inch a soldier
- Opportunity in Mexico
- Between the wars
- Protecting the approach to Richmond
- Magruder defends, Johnston retreats
- "In obedience to your orders, twice repeated"
- High tide, low tide, in Texas
- Postwar odyssey.
