Books written by Emory M. Thomas

The Confederate State of Richmond: A Biography of the Capital

Two valuable collections of primary sources are William J. Kimball's Richmond in Time of War , and Katherine M. Jones's Ladies of Richmond : Confederate Capital . Kimball's volume is a " canned source ” designed primarily to be used in ...
Bold Dragoon: The Life of J.E.B. Stuart

The Life of J.E.B. Stuart Emory M. Thomas ... from his mule kick ; and the Robertson / Munford brigade had a new commander , Grumble Jones Stuart and Jones were hardly friends ; Stuart did not believe Jones would work for him .
Robert E. Lee: A Biography

Emory M. Thomas ... 50, 248 Mexican War, 119, 124 Peninsula Campaign, 220-21, 222, 224-25 western command, 288, 306, 313, 343 at West Point, 50 wounding of, 225 Johnston, Samuel R., 297 Johnston, William Preston, 405-6 Jones, D. R., ...
The Dogs of War: 1861

1861 Emory M. Thomas ... The choir sang, and Pastor John A. Jones preached a farewell sermon to his son, who was a member of the Light Guards; the rest of the volunteer soldiers; and the eight hundred other citizens who packed the space ...
Travels to Hallowed Ground: A Historian's Journey to the American Civil War

A Historian's Journey to the American Civil War Emory M. Thomas ... Historian Virgil Carrington Jones after exhaustive research in the preparation of his monograph about the raid , Eight Hours Before Richmond , concluded that the papers ...
The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience

Emory M. Thomas. symptomatic of heightened class awareness among ... The most celebrated case of disloyalty to the Confederacy occurred in the piney woods of Jones County , Mississippi . There indigenous Unionist sentiment and a band of ...
Robert E. Lee: A Biography

Nelson D. Lankford were ever helpful, and the Society was kind enough to grant me an Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship to aid my work. Elizabeth Lux, Guy Swanson, Robin Reed, and Cory Hudgins were gracious and generous at The Museum ...
The American War and Peace, 1860-1877

John Pope had won in the West and believed that he could do the same in Virginia . The Union War Office hoped he could . Pope got off on the wrong foot from the beginning ; he belittled his men . There was nothing wrong with the Union's ...
Bold Dragoon: The Life of J.E.B. Stuart

Douglas S. Freeman , Lee's Lieutenants : A Study in Command , 3 vols . ( New York , 1942–44 ) , III , 373–87 ; Stuart ... Freeman , Lee's Lieutenants , III , 411-13 ; Starr , Union Cavalry , II , 97-102 . 18.
The Confederate Nation: 1861 to 1865

This work fills that order admirably ... [Thomas] sensibly and deftly integrates the course of Southern military fortunes with the concerns that shaped them and were shaped by them.
The Dogs of War: 1861

Charleston Mercury, May 30, 1861, quoted in T. Harry Williams, P. G. T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray (Baton Rouge, 1955), 64–65. 8. U.S. War Department, War of the Rebellion: A Compilation 96 ♢ Notes.
The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience

This volume, first published in 1971, has made us look again at the events surrounding the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee: A Biography

Providing a thorough examination of the life of Robert E. Lee, a biography finds meaning in Lee's successes and failures and portrays him as a man struggling with personal inner torments who found release in the responsibilities of war.
Robert E. Lee: An Album

A portrait of a legendary figure in American military history, who lived during the early years of photography, offers 120 photographs, capturing the life and times of a great man.
The American War and Peace, 1860-1877

The American war and peace, 1860-1877 is a stimulating view of a tragic chapter in United States history. The presentation interprets events in the light of modern scholarship and research....