Essays in modern military biography
By: by Charles Cornwallis Chesney.
Publisher: Longmans, Green
Published: 1874
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Subjects: Military biography.
Notes: "Reprinted chiefly from the 'Edinburgh review.'"
Table of contents: title: De Fezensac's recollections of the grand army.; title: Henry von Brandt, a German soldier of the first empire.; title: Cornwallis and the Indian services.; title: A Carolina loyalist in the revolutionary war.; title: Sir William Gordon of Gordon's battery.; title: Chinese Gordon and the Taiping rebellion.; title: The military life of General Grant.; title: Admirals Farragut and Porter and the navy of the union.; title: A northern raider in the civil war.; title: A memoir of General Lee.