Philander P. Lane: Colonel of Volunteers in the Civil War (Abridged, Annotated)

Résumé du livre

"I have felt in writing this story of Colonel Lane, that I was writing the story of a thousand other colonels in that war that saved the country."So wrote William Scott about his father-in-law, Philander P. Lane. Those who knew him during and after the war considered him a great man. Yet his decision to resign his commission after Gettysburg and Vicksburg haunted him for years afterward. He believed the war was nearly over and his business concerns had faltered greatly during his service in the American Civil War.But he commanded troops at Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and in other important fights. Those stories are all here.Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the great battles and persons of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.