Alexandria Goes to War
Author: George G. Kundahl
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9781572333208
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Alexandria Goes to War chronicles the lives of men and women whose service made the city unique in the exceptional quality and variety of talent it provided to the Confederate cause. Some of these sixteen individuals are familiar to Civil War readers as their contributions to the Southern war effort brought them special notoriety: General Lee, of course, and his son Custis; Samuel Cooper, the senior general in the Confederate army; and Commodore French Forrest. For others less well known - attorneys George Brent and Douglas Forrest, engineer Wilson Presstman, politician Daniel Funsten, student Randolph Fairfax, and immigrant Patrick O'Gorman - the Civil War provided an opportunity to exercise their full talents."--Jacket.