The gallant dead
Subtitle: Union and Confederate generals killed in the Civil War
By: Derek Smith.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Mechanicsburg, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: United States. Army -- Biography; Confederate States of America. Army -- Biography; Generals -- United States -- Biography; Generals -- Confederate States of America -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers of dead; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
Genres: Biography.; Registers of dead.
Description: Profiles over 120 Union and Confederate generals, listed in chronological order, who were killed in battle including Thomas J. Jackson, A.P. Hill, and John Reynolds.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-401) and index.
Table of contents: title: First to fall, 1861; title: Death in the West, early 1862; title: Johnston : the eagle's fall at Shiloh; title: A deadly Virginia summer, 1862; title: Phil Kearny and other Union losses; title: Antietam's terrible toll; title: Bloody Mississippi and Perryville; title: Fury at Fredericksburg; title: Stones River and Port Gibson; title: Stonewall and Chancellorsville; title: Mississippi mourning and South Carolina; title: Gettysburg; title: Chickamauga, Knoxville and Bristoe Station; title: The Red River Campaign; title: The wilderness; title: John Sedgwick and other Virginia dead, May-June, 1864; title: Jeb Stuart's final glory; title: McPherson, Bishop Polk and the Atlanta Campaign; title: Shrouds in the Shenandoah; title: More dirges in Virginia, 1864; title: John Hunt Morgan's inglorious end; title: The Franklin generals; title: The engineer and the newlywed, 1865; title: "You have killed General A.P. Hill . . ."; title: Last blood; title: Short stories and loose ends.