
The Last Confederate General: John C. Vaughn And His East Tennessee Cavalry
John Crawford Vaughn was one of the most famous men in Tennessee in the mid-nineteenth century. He was the first man to raise an infantry regiment in the state--and one of the very last Confederate generals to surrender. History has not been kind to Vaughn, who finally emerges from the shadows in this absorbing assessment of his life and military career. Making use of recent research and new infor...
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Zenith Press; First Edition edition (March 15, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0760335176
ISBN-13: 978-0760335178
Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.2 x 8.8 inches
Amazon Rank: 331752
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“I have read a lot of Civil War Histories, but The Last Confederate General provides a different perspective. First, it is well researched and well written. (OK, that is not a different perspective.) Second, it looks at a leader who never made it i...”
ation, Larry Gordon’s biography follows Vaughn to Manassas, Vicksburg and other crucial battles; it shows him as a close friend of Jefferson Davis, and Davis’s escort during the final month of the war. And it considers his importance as one of the few Confederate generals to return to Tennessee after Reconstruction, where he became President of the State Senate. Gordon examines Vaughn’s (hitherto unknown) location on the field of crucial battles; his multiple wounds; the fact that his wife and family, captured by Union soldiers, were the only family members of a Confederate general incarcerated as hostages during the Civil War; and the effect of this knowledge on his performance as a military commander. Finally, the book is as valuable for its view of this little understood figure as it is for the light it casts on the culture of his day.
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