Sheridan R. Barringer

Unhonored Service

The Life of Lee's Senior Cavalry Commander, Colonel Thomas Taylor Munford, CSA

Buch

Thomas Taylor Munford was the most senior, and likely the most important, cavalry colonel in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. As a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, Munford was well placed, but not a member of the West Point military elite. This likely contributed to his being overlooked repeatedly for promotion to brigadier general, despite having commanded Fitzhugh Lee's brigade in some of the war's most important battles and commanding a division at the end of the war.Bitterness over these snubs and other issues led to Munford's famous feud with Major General Thomas L. Rosser, the subject of author Sheridan Barringer's… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-945602-21-4
EAN: 9781945602214
Produktnummer: 38706051
Verlag: Fox Run Publishing, LLC
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 428 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.7 cm 784 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
Gewicht: 784

Über den Autor

Sheridan R. Barringer retired from NASA where he worked as a mechanical engineer and project manager at Langley ResearchCenter for 37 years. He graduated from Virginia Tech in mechanical engineering in 1965. He is the author of Fighting for General Lee: General Rufus Barringer and The North Carolina Cavalry Brigade about his ancestor for which he won the Douglas Southall Freeman Best Southern History Book Award and the North Carolina Society of Historians History Book Award in 2016. He is also the author of Custer's Gray Rival about the life of Confederate Major General Thomas L. Rosser. He continues work on other cavalry figures from the Army of Northern Virginia. He and his wife Pam have two grown children and reside in Virginia.