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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Over-the-Rhine -- Welcome to West Point -- No longer a plebe -- Early career in New Orleans -- Lincoln inauguration and war begins -- From Cincinnati to New Orleans -- The capture of New Orleans -- Occupation of the Crescent City -- The LaFourche campaign -- Fighting in the bayous -- Commanding Black troops -- Destroying the J.A. Cotton -- Battle of Port Hudson -- Thibodeaux and the Sabine Pass -- Reunited: Drewry's Bluff and the spring campaign of '64 -- Fort Fisher and Ben Butler's powder boat -- Christmas day, 1864: attack on Fort Fisher -- The trial of Benjamin F. Butler -- Final days of war -- The fall of the confederacy -- Entry into Richmond -- Lincoln in Richmond -- Political troubles -- Good Friday; black friday -- Postwar life of the young general. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Despite his military achievements and his association with many of the great names of American history, Godfrey Weitzel (1835-1884) is perhaps the least known of all the Union generals. After graduating from West Point, Weitzel, a German immigrant from Cincinnati, was assigned to the Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans. The secession of Louisiana in 1861, with its key port city of New Orleans, was the first of a long and unlikely series of events that propelled the young Weitzel to the center of many of the Civil War's key battles and brought him into the orbit of such well-known personage. |
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Weitzel, G. (Godfrey), 1835-1884.
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Weitzel, G. (Godfrey), 1835-1884. (OCoLC)fst00419358
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American Civil War (1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
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Generals -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Generals. (OCoLC)fst00939841
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Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1861-1865
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Quatman, G. William, 1958- Young general and the fall of Richmond 0821421417 (DLC) 2014042209 (OCoLC)894777719 |
| ISBN |
9780821445167 (electronic bk.) |
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0821445162 (electronic bk.) |
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