M. Jeff Thompson
Subtitle: Missouri's swamp fox of the Confederacy
By: Doris Land Mueller.
Series: Missouri heritage readers
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9780826217240
Subjects: Thompson, Meriwether Jeff, -- 1826-1876; Confederate States of America. -- Army -- Biography; Generals -- Confederate States of America -- Biography; Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns; Missouri -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Doris Land Mueller offers an adventurous account of the life of Confederate Army commander Meriwether Jeff Thompson. Thompson's military exploits in the Missouri Bootheel region earned him the nicknamed "Swamp Fox" from Union General Ulysses S. Grant, while his writing earned him the nickname "Poet Laureate of the Marshes"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.