Theophilus Hunter Holmes
Subtitle: A North Carolina General in the Civil War
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780786473106
Subjects: Generals, biography; United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865; North carolina, biography
Description: "The son of a North Carolina governor, Holmes graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1829 and served on the frontier during the "Trail of Tears." He fought in the Second Seminole War and the War with Mexico and, in 1859, became U.S. Army's chief recruiting officer and was assigned to Governors Island at New York City"--