Walter H. Taylor (1838–1916)
Autor de Four Years with General Lee
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: By unattributed - The Museum of the Confederacy Richmond, Virginia, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12400088
Obras de Walter H. Taylor
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1838-06-13
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1916-03-01
- Lugar de sepultura
- Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
CSA - Lugar de nacimiento
- Norfolk, Virginia, USA
- Educación
- Virginia Military Institute
- Ocupaciones
- politician
railway executive
merchant
banker - Organizaciones
- Confederate States Army
Miembros
Reseñas
También Puede Gustarte
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 2
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 147
- Popularidad
- #140,982
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 14
The one battle that does get substantial treatment is Gettysburg. Taylor makes the claim that McLaws' and Hood's divisions were to have participated in the infantry assault of the third day but failed to do so. This is not something I have read elsewhere. Taylor includes the text of post- war correspondence with Longstreet regarding this matter in which Taylor asked why Hood's and McLaws' division did not advance. Longstreet wrote back that he had never received orders for them to participate in the assault. Perhaps Taylor is trying to shift blame for the events of the third day away from Lee.
Overall a valuable book for the information it contains regarding army strengths but Taylor should have included more of his personal observations of the commanders of the ANV. He seems to have realized this since thirty years later, he wrote a second memoir General Lee, 1861-1865.… (más)