Edward Porter Alexander (1835–1910)
Auteur de Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander
A propos de l'auteur
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) Do not confuse/combine with historian Edward P. Alexander, 1907-2003
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Œuvres de Edward Porter Alexander
Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander (1989) 261 exemplaires
Railway Management 3 exemplaires
General Edward Porter Alexander at Gettysburg: Account of the Battle from His Memoirs (2015) 2 exemplaires
General Edward Porter Alexander at Second Manassas: Account of the Battle from His Memoirs (2015) 2 exemplaires
Museums in Motion 2 exemplaires
Catterel ratterel (doggerel) 1 exemplaire
General Edward Porter Alexander and the Peninsula Campaign: Account of the Battles from His Memoirs (2015) 1 exemplaire
General Edward Porter Alexander at Chancellorsville: Account of the Battle from His Memoirs (2015) 1 exemplaire
General Edward Porter Alexander at First Bull Run: Account of the Battle from His Memoirs (2015) 1 exemplaire
General Edward Porter Alexander at Fredericksburg: Letters to the Southern Historical Society (2015) 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Alexander, Edward Porter
- Nom légal
- Alexander, Edward Porter
- Autres noms
- Alexander, E. Porter
- Date de naissance
- 1835-05-26
- Date de décès
- 1910-04-28
- Lieu de sépulture
- Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta, Georgia, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Washington, Georgia, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Savannah, Georgia, USA
- Études
- United States Military Academy (BA|1857)
- Professions
- railroad executive
military engineer
professor
memoirist
planter - Organisations
- 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 (tout afficher 7)
United States Army - Prix et distinctions
- Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame (2006)
- Notice de désambigüisation
- Do not confuse/combine with historian Edward P. Alexander, 1907-2003
Membres
Critiques
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.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 14
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 421
- Popularité
- #57,942
- Évaluation
- 4.4
- Critiques
- 10
- ISBN
- 24
- Favoris
- 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.… (plus d'informations)