Gettysburg Requiem The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C Oates 1st Edition by Glenn Lafantasie 1429420731 9781429420730

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ISBN 10: 1429420731 

ISBN 13: 9781429420730

Author: Glenn W. Lafantasie

William C. Oates is best remembered as the Confederate officer defeated at Gettysburg’s Little Round Top, losing a golden opportunity to turn the Union’s flank and win the battle–and perhaps the war. Now, Glenn W. LaFantasie–bestselling author of Twilight at Little Round Top–has written a gripping biography of Oates.Oates was no moonlight-and-magnolias Southerner, as LaFantasie shows. Raised in the hard-scrabble Wiregrass Country of Alabama, he ran away from home as a teenager, roamed through Louisiana and Texas–where he took up card sharking–and finally returned to Alabama, to pull himself up by his bootstraps and become a respected attorney. During the war, he rose to the rank of colonel, served under Stonewall Jackson and Lee, was wounded six times and lost an arm. Returning home, he launched a successful political career, becoming a seven-term congressman and ultimately governor. LaFantasie shows how, for Oates, the war never really ended–he remained devoted to the Lost Cause, and spent the rest of his life waging the political battles of Reconstruction. Here then is a richly evocative story of Southern life before, during, and after the Civil War, based on first-time and exclusive access of family papers and never-before-seen archives.

Table of contents:

1 Rough and Tumble Days

2 Baptism by Fire

3 An Unchristian State of Mind

4 Ragged Jacks

5 Boulders Like Gravestones

6 In the Purple Gloom

7 Gone to Flickering

8 The End of Chivalry

9 Before the Bar

10 The One-Armed Hero of Henry County

11 Striking to Hurt

12 A Soldier in His Heart

13 Stumbling Toward Equality

14 Requiem

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