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Gettysburg requiem :

(Number (ISBN

019803895X

(Number (ISBN

1280844868

(Number (ISBN

1429420731

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6610844860

(Number (ISBN

9780198038955

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9781280844867

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9781429420730

(Number (ISBN

9786610844869

Erroneous ISBN

0195174585

Erroneous ISBN

0195331311

Erroneous ISBN

9780195174588

Erroneous ISBN

9780195331318

Number

b766057

Title Proper

Gettysburg requiem :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the life and lost causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates /

First Statement of Responsibility

Glenn W. LaFantasie.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2006.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xxxi, 414 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, portraits

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-396) and index.

Text of Note

Rough and tumble days -- Baptism by fire -- An unchristian state of mind -- Ragged jacks -- Boulders like gravestones -- In the purple gloom -- Gone to flickering -- The end of chivalry -- Before the bar -- The one-armed hero of Henry County -- Striking to hurt -- A soldier in his heart -- Stumbling toward equality -- Requiem.

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Text of Note

William C. Oates is best remembered as the Confederate officer defeated at Gettysburg's Little Round Top, losing a golden opportunity to turn the Union's flank and win the battle - and perhaps the war. Now, Glenn W. LaFantasie - bestselling author of "Twilight at Little Round Top"--Has written a gripping biography of Oates, a narrative that reads like a novel and that reveals, for the first time, the compelling and sometimes astonishing dimensions of this remarkable individual. Oates was no moonlight-and-magnolias Southerner, as LaFantasie shows. Raised in the hard-scrabble Wiregrass Country of Alabama, he ran away from home as a teenager, roamed through Louisiana and Texas - where he took up card sharking - and finally returned to Alabama, to pull himself up by his bootstraps and become a respected attorney. During the war, he rose to the rank of colonel, served under Stonewall Jackson and Lee, was wounded six times and lost an arm. Returning home, he became wealthy investing in land and cotton, married a woman half his age, and launched a successful political career, becoming a seven-term congressman and ultimately governor.; LaFantasie shows how, for Oates and many others of his generation, the war never really ended - he remained devoted to the Lost Cause, and spent the rest of his life waging the political battles of Reconstruction. Yet, in one of the final acts of his political career, Oates championed the cause of suffrage for black Americans, delivering an impassioned speech at his state's constitutional convention. Here, then is a richly evocative story of Southern life before, during, and after the Civil War, based on first-time and exclusive access of family papers and never-before-seen archives.

Text of Note

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Title

Gettysburg requiem.

International Standard Book Number

0195174585

Oates, William C., (William Calvin),1835-1910.

Oates, William C., (William Calvin),1835-1910.

Confederate States of America.

Confederate States of America.

Confederate States of America.

Confederate States of America.

Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.

Governors-- Alabama, Biography.

Soldiers-- Confederate States of America, Biography.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.

Governors.

HISTORY-- State & Local-- General.

Military campaigns.

Soldiers.

United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Campaigns.

Alabama.

Pennsylvania, Gettysburg.

United States, Confederate States of America.

United States.

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BIO-- 006000

HBKR

HIS-- 036010

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Edition

Class number

Book number

LaFantasie, Glenn W.

Date of Transaction

20201206112846.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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