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During his service in the Confederate army, Major General Lafayette McLaws (1821-1897) served under and alongside such famous officers as Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, James Longstreet, and John B. Hood. He played a significant role in some of the most crucial battles of the Civil War, including Harpers Ferry, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. Despite this, no biography of McLaws or history of his division has ever been published.
A Soldier's General gathers ninety-five letters written by McLaws to his family between 1858 and 1865, making these valuable resources available to a wide audience for the first time. The letters, painstakingly transcribed from McLaws's notoriously poor handwriting, contain a wealth of opinion and information about life and morale in the Confederate army, Civil War-era politics, the Southern press, and the impact of war on the Confederate home front. Among the fascinating threads the letters trace is the story of McLaws's fractured relationship with childhood friend Longstreet, who had McLaws relieved of command in 1863.
John Oeffinger's extensive introduction sketches McLaws's life from his beginnings in Augusta, Georgia, through his early experiences in the U.S. Army, his marriage, his Civil War exploits, and his postwar years.
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"Oeffinger has done yeoman work in making selected writings of the Georgia Confederate major general available to the researching public. . . . A well-written and accurately researched work. The editor has done an excellent job of telling, in part, the story of a Confederate general who was known throughout the army for his skill as a defensive fighter and for his thoroughness in attention to detail."-- North Carolina Historical Review
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Confederate Major General Lafayette McLaws (1821-1897) served under and alongside Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet, and played a significant role in some of the most crucial battles of the Civil War. This book gathers letters written by McLaws to his family, painstakingly transcribed from McLaws's notoriously poor handwriting. They contain a wealth of opinion and information about life and morale in the Confederate army, Civil War-era politics, the Southern press, and the impact of war on the Confederate home front.
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- PublisherThe University of North Carolina Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0807826901
- ISBN 13 9780807826904
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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