J. Patton Anderson, Confederate general : a biography
J. Patton Anderson was from Florida, the seceding state that was referred to as the ""tadpole"" of the Confederate states, but nevertheless he was one of the Confederacy's great military leaders. Anderson oversaw a large plantation, Casa Bianca, and his views meshed with secessionist views sufficiently for him to be elected as a delegate to the Secession Conference held in Montgomery, Alabama. After Florida seceded, President Davis appointed Anderson as a Brigadier General. Anderson engaged the enemy in the Western theater for four years under his mentor, General Braxton Bragg, who advanced hi
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Cover; Contents; Preface; I. Scholastic and Impressionable Years; II. The Marriage, and Honeymoon in Washington Territory ; III. Florida Plantation Years ; IV. Confederate Florida ; V. Shiloh and Farmington; VI. Invasion of Tennessee and Kentucky, the Great Railroad Move, and the Battles of Perryville and Stones River ; VII. Love Letters and Poetry; VIII. Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge; IX. Anderson Commands in Florida-The Cow Cavalry ; X. The Atlanta Campaign-Jonesboro ; XI. To the End of the War-Bentonville ; XII. The End of the Confederacy; XIII. The Bittersweet End. Appendix: J. Patton Anderson's Confederate Staff Officers, 1861-1865 Notes ; Bibliography; Index
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