Edward Porter Alexander (1835–1910)
Autore di Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander
Sull'Autore
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Do not confuse/combine with historian Edward P. Alexander, 1907-2003
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Opere di Edward Porter Alexander
Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander (1989) 259 copie
Railway Management 3 copie
General Edward Porter Alexander at Gettysburg: Account of the Battle from His Memoirs (2015) 2 copie
General Edward Porter Alexander at Second Manassas: Account of the Battle from His Memoirs (2015) 2 copie
Museums in Motion 2 copie
Catterel ratterel (doggerel) 1 copia
General Edward Porter Alexander and the Peninsula Campaign: Account of the Battles from His Memoirs (2015) 1 copia
General Edward Porter Alexander at Chancellorsville: Account of the Battle from His Memoirs (2015) 1 copia
General Edward Porter Alexander at First Bull Run: Account of the Battle from His Memoirs (2015) 1 copia
General Edward Porter Alexander at Fredericksburg: Letters to the Southern Historical Society (2015) 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Alexander, Edward Porter
- Nome legale
- Alexander, Edward Porter
- Altri nomi
- Alexander, E. Porter
- Data di nascita
- 1835-05-26
- Data di morte
- 1910-04-28
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta, Georgia, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Washington, Georgia, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Savannah, Georgia, USA
- Istruzione
- United States Military Academy (BA|1857)
- Attività lavorative
- railroad executive
military engineer
professor
memoirist
planter - Organizzazioni
- Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Savannah and Memphis Railroad
Charlotte, Columbia, and Augusta Railroad
University of South Carolina
Confederate States Army (mostra tutto 7)
United States Army - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame (2006)
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Do not confuse/combine with historian Edward P. Alexander, 1907-2003
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This is as close as we will come to an unbiased perspective of the Confederacy. Critical portraits of everyone from Lee on down. Some strategic thinking about the war over all. Written in a very easy to read style. I highly recommend it.
What I enjoyed most about this book were the easy style that revealed the personality of the author and the personal reminisces that revealed the personalities of the protagonists of the story. No other civil war history i have read so captures the spirit and emotion of the war.
Terrific memoir of a respected middle-ranking officer of the Army of Northern Virginia. Colonel Alexander has produced a good story, relatively balanced, of what he experienced, which was the battles of the Army of Northern Virginia, and Longstreet's excursion to the West for Chickamauga and Knoxville. He does tend to inflate (or maybe not!) Confederate successes. There are times where later scholarship revised his account. Nonetheless, it is a required read for a serious student of the American Civil War.… (altro)
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- Opere
- 14
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 419
- Popolarità
- #58,191
- Voto
- 4.4
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 24
- Preferito da
- 1
Alexander wrote two books: a personal memoir intended for his children, which remained unnoticed until 1989, when it was published to enormous critical acclaim as Fighting for the Confederacy; and this book, Military Memoirs of a Confederate, which was first published in 1907 and immediately recognized as a classic. Unlike Fighting for the Confederacy, which was based largely on Alexander's own recollections, Military Memoirs relies on a vast amount of research. It is undoubtedly the most accurate and most important firsthand general history of the Civil War.… (altro)