The gallant dead : Union and Confederate generals killed in the Civil War /
Derek Smith.
- Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, 2005.
- viii, 408 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-401) and index.
First to fall, 1861-- Death in the West, early 1862 -- Johnston : the eagle's fall at Shiloh -- A deadly Virginia summer, 1862 -- Phil Kearny and other Union losses -- Antietam's terrible toll -- Bloody Mississippi and Perryville -- Fury at Fredericksburg -- Stones River and Port Gibson -- Stonewall and Chancellorsville -- Mississippi mourning and South Carolina -- Gettysburg -- Chickamauga, Knoxville and Bristoe Station -- The Red River Campaign -- The wilderness -- John Sedgwick and other Virginia dead, May-June, 1864 -- Jeb Stuart's final glory -- McPherson, Bishop Polk and the Atlanta Campaign -- Shrouds in the Shenandoah -- More dirges in Virginia, 1864 -- John Hunt Morgan's inglorious end -- The Franklin generals -- The engineer and the newlywed, 1865 -- "You have killed General A.P. Hill . . ." -- Last blood -- Short stories and loose ends.
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