The Class of 1861
Subtitle: Custer, Ames, and their classmates after West Point
By: Ralph Kirshner ; foreword by George A. Plimpton.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876; Ames, Adelbert, 1835-1933; United States Military Academy. Class of 1861 -- History; United States Military Academy. Class of 1861 -- Biography; United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Description: "Ralph Kirshner has provided a richly illustrated forum to enable the West Point class of 1861 to write its own autobiography. Through letters, journals, and published accounts, George Armstrong Custer, Adelbert Ames, and their classmates tell in their own words of their Civil War battles and varied careers after the war."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-216) and index.