Confederate colonels
Subtitle: a biographical register
By: Bruce S. Allardice.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press; University of Missouri; Brand: University of Missouri
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780826218094
Subjects: Confederate States of America. -- Army -- Officers -- Biography; Confederate States of America. -- Army -- Organization; Confederate States of America. -- Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc; Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Allardice provides detailed biographical information on 1,583 Confederate colonels, both staff and line officers and members of all armies. In his introduction, he explains how one became a colonel -- the mustering process, election of officers, reorganizing of regiments -- and discusses problems of the nominating process, seniority, and "rank inflation""--Provided by publisher.