Leaders of the American Civil War
Subtitle: A Biographical and Historiographical Dictionary
Contributors: Charles F. Ritter (Editor); Jon L. Wakelyn (Editor)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: November 30, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780313295607
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Biography: historical; Civil war; Reference works; c 1800 to c 1900; Military History - U.S. Civil War; U.S. History - Civil War And Reconstruction (1860-1877); History - Military / War; History: World; USA; General; Reference; United States - Civil War; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); Biography; Civil War, 1861-1865; Dictionaries; Historiography; History; United States
First sentence: As president of Richmond's Tredegar Iron Works and brigadier general in the Confederate Army, Joseph Reid Anderson was the South's major manufacturer of military weapons.