Lee's Maverick General: Daniel Harvey Hill
by Hal Bridges
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Among the high-ranking gray uniforms Daniel Harvey Hill caused a stir as a sash of red in a bullpen would. Hot-tempered, outspoken, he stormed his way through the Civil War, leading his soldiers at Malvern Hill and Antietam, and sometimes stepping on the toes of superiors. But he was much more than a seemingly impervious shield against Union bullets: a devout Christian, a family man, a gloomy fatalist, an intellectual. Lee's Maverick General makes clear that he was often caught in the show more crossfire of military politics and ultimately made a scapegoat for the costly, barren victory at Chickamauga. Hal Bridges, drawing on Hill's unpublished papers, offers an outsider's inside views of Lee, Jefferson Davis, Braxton Bragg, James Longstreet, Stonewall Jackson, and others up and down the embattled line. In his introduction, Gary W. Gallagher rounds out the portrait of the controversial Hill, whose reading of military affairs was always perceptive. show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 1961
- People/Characters
- Braxton Bragg; Jefferson Davis; Daniel Harvey Hill; Stonewall Jackson; Robert E. Lee; James Longstreet
- Important places
- USA; Antietam Creek, Pennsylvania-Maryland, USA; Maryland, USA
- Important events
- American Civil War (1861 | 1865); Battle of Antietam (1862)
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 973.7 — History & geography History of North America United States Abraham Lincoln, (1861-1865) Civil War
- LCC
- E467.1 .H563 .B65 — History of the United States United States Civil War period, 1861-1865 The Civil War, 1861-1865
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
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- 2
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