Frock coats and epaulets
Subtitle: the men who led the Confederacy
By: Alf J. Mapp, Jr.
Publisher: Madison Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 501
Subjects: Confederate States of America -- Biography; Confederate States of America -- History; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography
Description: The passion of Robert E. Lee and the puritan streak in cavalier J. E. B. Stuart are only two of the surprises in Alf J. Mapp, Jr's, highly regarded psychological analysis of Confederate military and political leaders. In this beautifully written book, Mapp also brings to life the defensively genteel Jefferson Davis, the paradoxically bold retreater Joseph E. Johnston, the amazingly transformed "Stonewall" Jackson, and the mysterious and astonishingly durable Judah P. Benjamin.

Mapp's first-rate scholarship, fresh insights, and exciting prose have made Frock Coats and Epaulets essential reading for several generations of historians and readers interested in the Civil War. Revised and with a new introduction and updated bibliography, Mapp's classic study of the men who led the Confederate rebellion against the United States will appeal to a whole new generation of Americans.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: New York : T. Yoseloff, 1963.