Books by "Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr."
2 books found
The Life and Wars of Gideon J. Pillow
by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Roy P. Stonesifer
1993 · Univ of North Carolina Press
Commonly portrayed in Civil War literature as a bungling general who disgraced himself at Fort Donelson, Gideon Johnson Pillow (1806-78) is one of the most controversial military figures of nineteenth-century America. In this first full-length biography,
Provides a tactical study of the first battle in the western theater of the Civil War, which catapulted Grant into prominence