The military memoirs of General John Pope / edited by Peter Cozzens and Robert I. Girardi.
Union general John Pope was among the most controversial and misunderstood figures to hold major command during the Civil War. Before being called east in June 1862 to lead the Army of Virginia against General Robert E. Lee, he compiled an enviable record in Missouri and as commander of the Army of...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1998], ©1998.
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| Series: | Civil War America (Series)
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Foreword / John Y. Simon
- Missouri in 1861
- The Rush to the Ranks
- An Unpleasant Page of History
- Quiet and Good Order Are of All Things Desirable
- New Madrid and Island No. 10
- The Conduct of the Troops Was Splendid
- The Siege of Corinth
- We Sauntered Along Slowly
- Confederate Generals at Corinth
- We Frittered Away Our Strength
- The Second Bull Run Campaign
- Summoned East: I Was Most Reluctant to Leave
- The Battle of Cedar Mountain: Always a Source of Regret
- Leave Pope to Get Out of His Scrape
- Miscellaneous Recollections
- Abraham Lincoln
- The Mexican War and Washington in 1861
- Prominent Confederates
- West Pointers to the Front
- Appendix A: Postwar Correspondence between Pope and the Comte de Paris Pertaining to the Second Bull Run Campaign
- Appendix B: Pope's Memoirs in the National Tribune.