The life and wars of Gideon J. Pillow

The life and wars of Gideon J. Pillow /

One of nineteenth-century America's most controversial military figures, Gideon Johnson Pillow gained notoriety early in the Civil War for turning an apparent Confederate victory at Fort Donelson into an ignominious defeat. Dismissed by contemporaries and historians alike as a political general...

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Main Author: Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs, Jr., 1930-2012
Other Authors: Stonesifer, Roy P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Pillow, Gideon Johnson, > 1806-1878.
Confederate States of America. > Army > Biography.
Generals > Confederate States of America > Biography.
Mexican War, 1846-1848 > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
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