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050 00 $aE467.1.D26$bH84 2002
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100 1 $aHughes, Nathaniel Cheairs,$cJr.,$d1930-2012.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81027697
245 10 $aJefferson Davis in blue :$bthe life of Sherman's relentless warrior /$cNathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., Gordon D. Whitney.
260 $aBaton Rouge :$bLouisiana State University Press,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $axviii, 475 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 429-455) and index.
520 1 $a"Besides his illustrious name, Jefferson Columbus Davis, who fought for the Union, is best known for two appalling actions: the September 1862 murder of General William "Bull" Nelson - his former commanding officer - and the abandonment of hundreds of African American refugees to the mercy of Confederate cavalry at Ebenezer Creek during Sherman's march through Georgia in 1864.
520 8 $aHistorians have generally dismissed Davis (1828-1879) as a reckless assassin, a racist, a journeyman soldier at best, and an embarrassment to the Lincoln war effort. But as Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., and Gordon D. Whitney demonstrate in the first biography of the unredeemed general, such smoke of notoriety obscures the real story of a complex military leader.".
520 8 $a"Hughes and Whitney bring order to the muddle of contradictions that was Davis's life and offer an impartial profile of the soldier and the man. They describe his distinctive service in the Mexican War at the age of eighteen, his role in the regular army's First Artillery attack on Fort Sumter, and his subsequent rapid advancement to general officer.
520 8 $aAlthough Davis's sensational killing of Nelson - for which he was never tried - undoubtedly damaged his career, he continued to command divisions in all the major engagements of the Army of Cumberland from Murfreesboro to Atlanta and quite capably led George Thomas's Fourteenth Corps during Sherman's March to the Sea and the Carolinas campaign. As the authors show, he was venerated by professional military men even as he was vilified by civilians."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aDavis, Jefferson Columbus,$d1828-1879.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91076609
650 0 $aGenerals$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105089
610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140616
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xCampaigns.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140216
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory, Military$yTo 1900.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140339
600 14 $aDavis, Jefferson,$d1808-1889.
610 14 $aUnited States.$bArmy$vBiography.
651 4 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xCampaigns.
651 4 $aUnited States$xHistory, Military$y19th century.
700 1 $aWhitney, Gordon D.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001155562
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