Joshua Chamberlain's exploits on Little Round Top have gained worldwide fame since the release of the film Gettysburg. He is also the author of Pickett, Leader of the Charge and Lee's Cavalrymen, a main selection of the History Book Club.The Man and the Soldier. His book The Cavalry at Gettysburg, available in a Bison Books edition, won the Fletcher Pratt Award as the best book of Civil War nonfiction. Longacre has written twenty-three books on the Civil War. For more than forty years he gave selflessly of himself to his state and his community, not only when wealthy but also when teetering on the abyss of poverty. He "redeemed" South Carolina from Reconstruction but then extended more political benefits to African Americans than any other Democratic governor in the postwar South. He condemned violence and abhorred dueling, but he probably killed more opponents in battle than any other general with the possible exception of Nathan Bedford Forrest. He was the quintessential slave owner who nonetheless questioned the ethical underpinnings of the "peculiar institution." He was a prewar spokesperson for national unity but became an avid secessionist. Hampton's life, however, was one of dramatic contradictions. He fought in a remarkable number of battles from Antietam to Gettysburg to Bentonville and after the war served as governor of South Carolina and in the U.S.
Hampton was a leading citizen of South Carolina before the war and the highest-ranking cavalry leader on either side during the war. Winner of the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, Gentleman and Soldier is the first biography in more than fifty years of Wade Hampton III (1818-1902), a Confederate general whose life provides a unique, sweeping insight into the entire history of the Civil War in the South. Read detail book and summary below and click download button to get book file and read directly from your devices. This Book has 356 pages and Available to download in PDF, EPUB and Kindle Format. It was published by U of Nebraska Press on.
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