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The Life and Wars of Gideon J. Pillow, by Nathaniel Chairs Hughers and Roy P. Stonesifer
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1993. xvii, 455 pp. Illus, maps, notes, bibliog, index. $37.50. ISBN:0-8078-2107-1.
An unusually valuable look at the life of one who was arguably the least capable general on either side in the Civil War. The work not only treats of Pillow�s military career (which, despite a lack of strategic and tactical ability did have some bright spots, notably in Mexico, due primarily to Pillow�s undoubted personal courage and ability to inspire troops), but also his rags-to-riches rise as a frontier businessman, lawyer, and politician.
Reviewer: A. A. Nofi
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