Ben McCulloch and the frontier military tradition
(2000)

Nonfiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : The University of North Carolina Press : Made available through hoopla, 2000
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9780807860946 (electronic bk.) MWT11718309, 0807860948 (electronic bk.) 11718309
LANGUAGE
English
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[A] well-written, comprehensively researched biography.--Publishers Weekly "Will both edify the scholar while captivating and entertaining the general reader. . . . Cutrer's research is impeccable, his prose vigorous, and his life of McCulloch likely to remain the standard for many years.--Civil War "A well-crafted work that makes an important contribution to understanding the frontier military tradition and the early stages of the Civil War in the West.--Civil War History "A penetrating study of a man who was one of the last citizen soldiers to wear a general's stars.--Blue and Gray "A brisk narrative filled with colorful quotations by and about the central figure. . . . Will become the standard biography of Ben McCulloch.--Journal of Southern History "A fast-paced, clearly written narrative that does full justice to its heroically oversized subject.--American Historical Review

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