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Staff Officers in Gray: A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia
written by Robert E. L. Krick
Studio : The University of North Carolina Press
by The University of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2008-09-03
Publisher : The University of North Carolina Press
Released : 2003-06-09
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780807827888
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 4 reviews)
List Price : $45.00
Our Price : $7.95
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Product Description |
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This indispensable Civil War reference profiles some 2,300 staff officers in Robert E. Lee's famous Army of Northern Virginia. A typical entry includes the officer's full name, the date and place of his birth and death, details of his education and occupation, and a synopsis of his military record. Two appendixes provide a list of more than 3,000 staff officers who served in other armies of the Confederacy and complete rosters of known staff officers of each general in the Army of Northern Virginia. |
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Excellent effort, but I wish it had an index |
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This is an impressive and useful book. Mr. Krick's efforts to compile information regarding the staff officers of the Army of Northern Virginia are thorough and explanatory. However, I am left wanting an index, so that I would be able to search for specific Regiments, as I am currently doing regimental research. |
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Serious Research |
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The older I get. the more I realize that the only history that really counts is "useable history". Readers want to know how history touches them. They want to know the people, places and ideas close to them. That is a start. Krick gives us a genealogical smorgasbord of the best and brightest young men of the southern states during the Civil War. Do you want to understand the Confederacy? Flip through this book and see that excellent minds served the South as well as the North. This is a deeply researched, unbiased presentation of facts that will help both genealogists and Civil War historians for decades to come. |
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The Krick family tradition lives on! |
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Bob Krick--the son, not the father--has proven himself a worthy successor to his father. In this extraordinarily useful work, Bob Krick has given us a volume every bit as useful as his father's earlier landmark work, _Lee's Colonels_. In this work, Krick provides us with informative capsule biographies of the many staff officers who played an important role in the Civil War, and photos of many are also provided. I wish someone would do the Union equivalent to this book. |
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A New Standard Reference |
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A product of a decade of dedicated research, "Staff Officers in Gray" is an essential reference for historians, genealogists and the "just plain curious" concerning themselves with the Confederate Army. It is not limited to the Army of Northern Virginia, but includes Krick's gleanings from records dealing with other Confederate armies and other generals, as well as several rare illustrations. Excellent introductory essay is itself worth the price of admission. Super. |
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