The Perfect Lion : the Life and Death of Confederate Artillerist John Pelham.

By:

Maxwell, Jerry H

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (439 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780817385484
0817385487
9780817317355
081731735X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Perfect Lion : The Life and Death of Confederate Artillerist John Pelham.DDC classification:

973.7/42092 973.7/42092 973.742092

LOC classification:

E467.1.P36M39 2011

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Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "The Most Adventuresome Member of That Adventurous Group"; 2. "We Are a Class beyond the Common Ones"; 3. "Fear God and Know No Other Fear"; 4. "Madness and Fanaticism"; 5. "We Predict for Them a Brilliant Future"; 6. "War Is Not Glorious"; 7. "An Honour to Be One of Them"; 8. "Like a Duck on a June Bug"; 9. "We Are Going to Whip the Yankees Like the Mischief "; 10. "I Have Had My Revenge Out of Pope"; 11. "Who Could Not Conquer with Such Troops as These"; 12. "The Lord of Hosts Was Plainly Fighting on Our Side."

13. "The Lord Bless Your Dirty Ragged Souls"14. "Put on the War Paint!"; 15. "An Exile from His Own Land of Alabama"; 16. "Stuart Has Euchered Us Again"; 17. "Like Some God of Battle"; 18. "We Have a Magnificent Position . . ."; 19. "You Men Stand Killing Better than Any I Know!"; 20. "A System of Irritation"; 21. "One Could Never Forget Him"; 22. "Such Is the Fortune of War"; 23. "I Want Jimmie to Be Just Like Him"; Appendix; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Photographs follow page 187.

Summary: The South has made much of J.E.B. Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, but no individual has had a greater elevation to divine status than John Pelham, remembered as the "Gallant Pelham." An Alabama native, Pelham left West Point for service in the Confederacy and distinguished himself as an artillery commander in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Lee is reported to have said of him, "It is glorious to see such courage in one so young!" Blond, blue-eyed, and handsome, Pelham's modest demeanor charmed his contemporaries, and he was famously attractive to.

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The South has made much of J.E.B. Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, but no individual has had a greater elevation to divine status than John Pelham, remembered as the "Gallant Pelham." An Alabama native, Pelham left West Point for service in the Confederacy and distinguished himself as an artillery commander in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Lee is reported to have said of him, "It is glorious to see such courage in one so young!" Blond, blue-eyed, and handsome, Pelham's modest demeanor charmed his contemporaries, and he was famously attractive to.