Full name: Lee's Maverick General: Daniel Harvey Hill

Author: Hal Bridges Year: 1961 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780803260962 0803260962

Among the high-ranking gray uniforms Daniel Harvey Hill caused a stir as a sash of red in a bullpen would. Hot-tempered, outspoken, he stormed his way through the Civil War, leading his soldiers at Malvern Hill and Antietam, and sometimes stepping on the toes of superiors. But he was much more than a seemingly impervious shield against Union bullets: a devout Christian, a family man, a gloomy fatalist, an intellectual. Lee's Maverick General makes clear that he was often caught in the crossfire of military politics and ultimately made a scapegoat for the costly, barren victory at Chickamauga. Hal Bridges, drawing on Hill's unpublished papers, offers an outsider's inside views of Lee, Jefferson Davis, Braxton Bragg, James Longstreet, Stonewall Jackson, and others up and down the embattled line. In his introduction, Gary W. Gallagher rounds out the portrait of the controversial Hill, whose reading of military affairs was always perceptive. Similar books: R. E. Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman Jeb Stuart by Burke Davis Stonewall of the West by Craig L. Symonds George B. McClellan by Stephen W. Sears Stonewall Jackson by James I. Robertson Robert E. Lee by Emory M. Thomas Sherman by Lee Kennett Generals in Gray by Ezra J. Warner Lee's Lieutenants by Douglas Southall Freeman Bold Dragoon by Emory M. Thomas Sherman by John F. Marszalek The Marble Man by Thomas Lawrence Connelly Lee Considered by Alan T. Nolan Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman Generals in Blue by Ezra J. Warner