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A Wisconsin Yankee in Confederate Bayou Country
The Civil War Reminiscences of a Union General
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Artikel-Nr:
9780807134184
Veröffentl:
2009
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.05.2009
Seiten:
208
Autor:
Halbert Eleazer Paine
Gewicht:
399 g
Format:
218x142x23 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., is a professor of history and the Leon Ford Endowed Chair at Southeastern Louisiana University. He is also the director of the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies and the author or editor of several books, including Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1899.
General Halbert Eleazer Paine, commanding officer of the Fourth Wisconsin Regiment of Volunteers, took part in most significant military actions in the lower Mississippi Valley during the Civil War. Nearly forty years after the conflicts end, Painea former school teacher and attorney who would become a three-term congressmanpenned recollections of his wartime exploits, including his involvement in the Vicksburg campaign, the operations that resulted in the capture of New Orleans, the Battle of Baton Rouge, the Bayou Teche offensive, and the siege of Port Hudson. Now available for the first time, A Wisconsin Yankee in the Confederate Bayou offers Paines excellent eyewitness account of the complexities of war. Introduced and annotated by noted historian Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.