Ben McCulloch and the Frontier Military Tradition
- ISBN-10
- 0807820768
- ISBN-13
- 9780807820766
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 402
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- Thomas W. Cutrer
Description
The life of Ben McCulloch, a frontiersman, entrepreneur, and soldier mortally wounded at the battle of Pea Ridge in 1862, exemplifies the path of nineteenth-century American military cultture
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