James Alex Baggett
Auteur van The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction
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James Alex Baggett is retired dean and professor of history of Union University in Tennessee.
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Homegrown Yankees: Tennessee's Union Cavalry in the… door James Alex Baggett
This book follows the Tennessee Cavalry units during the Civil War from 1962-1865. The book follows each regiment through all their battles. It is sometimes hard to follow the regiments because the author doesn't list the units as specifically Union or CSA. Its confusing and at time bewildering. The author used many of the regimental histories as his reference guides. It is will researched and documented. The book is a valuable reference book for the Civil War enthusiast.
4070 The Scalawags Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction, by James Alex Baggett (read 11 Sep 2005) When I saw this book I thought of the good book I read 25 Dec 1990 called Those Terrible Carpetbaggers, which studied with some discernment the careers of ten Northerners in the post-Civil War South. But this book takes a different approach in its study of Southerners who cooperated with the Republicans after the Civil War. It examines who were scalawags and what they did. No effort is made to understand the individuals and there is an appendix full of statistics on Scalawags and "Redeemers" and reaching some obvious conclusions about them. I found this book of minor interest--it jumped around from state to state in a very haphazard way.… (meer)
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