Title: Forgotten valor
First published: 1999
Description: The papers of Major General Orlando Bolivar Willcox, one of the most prominent division commanders in the Union army, were recently discovered locked in a trunk in a Washington, D.C., attic, virtually untouched since his death nearly a century ago. Editor Robert Garth Scott has sifted through what is arguably the largest collection of Civil War-related material to surface in fifty years. From his childhood in Detroit through his cadetship at West Point, his service in the Mexican, Seminole, and Civil Wars, and his post-Civil War experiences in the West, Willcox’s story is published here for the first time.
Subjects: Biography, Campaigns, Generals, History, Personal narratives, United States, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States. Army, United states, army, biography, Generals, biography, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, campaigns
Places: United States
People: Orlando B. Willcox
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865
LC classification: E467.1.W715 A4 1999