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The life and wars of Gideon J. Pillow [electronic resource] / Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr. and Roy P. Stonesifer, Jr. ; with a new foreword by Timothy D. Johnson.

By: Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs.
Contributor(s): Stonesifer, Roy P | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2011Edition: 1st ed.Description: xxi, 455 p. : ill., maps.Subject(s): Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878 | Confederate States of America. Army -- Biography | Generals -- Confederate States of America -- Biography | Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Biography | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- CampaignsGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 973.7/42092 | B Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
A Jacksonian tradition -- A friend indeed -- Tennessee's own son -- Hurra for Pa -- Hero of Chapultepec -- Leonidas -- Making good Democratic music -- Palace of fire -- The provisional Army of Tennessee -- To aid our friends in Missouri -- A plunge into the forest -- I will die first -- Is this right? -- A place he so exactly fits -- I only want a respectable command -- A bitter cup -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: And afterward -- Appendix 2: Some of Gideon J. Pillow's staff officers.

Originally published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Jacksonian tradition -- A friend indeed -- Tennessee's own son -- Hurra for Pa -- Hero of Chapultepec -- Leonidas -- Making good Democratic music -- Palace of fire -- The provisional Army of Tennessee -- To aid our friends in Missouri -- A plunge into the forest -- I will die first -- Is this right? -- A place he so exactly fits -- I only want a respectable command -- A bitter cup -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: And afterward -- Appendix 2: Some of Gideon J. Pillow's staff officers.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.