Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs.

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. - 1st ed. - Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2011. - xxi, 455 p. : ill., maps.

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.


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2011.
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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--Campaigns.--Civil War, 1861-1865


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