Essays in military biography
By: by Charles Cornwallis Chesney.
Publisher: Holt
Published: 1874
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Military biography; China -- History -- Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864
Notes: A digital reproduction made from a copy held by the University of Michigan is available from the University of Michigan's Making of America Web site.
on t.-p. of the English edition, London, 1874: Reprinted chiefly from the 'Edinburgh review'.
Table of contents: title: The military life of General Grant.- A memoir of General Lee.- Admirals Farragut and Porter and the navy of the Union.- A northern raider in the civil war.- De Fezenszc's recollections of the grand army.- Henry von Brandt, a German soldier of the first empire.- Cornwallis and the Indian services.- a Carolina loyalist in the revolutionary war- Sir William Gordon of Gordon's battery.- Chinese Gordon and the Taiping rebellion..