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A Gentleman and an Officer

A Military and Social History of James B. Griffin's Civil War

A Gentleman and an Officer( )
Author: McArthur, Judith N.
Burton, Orville Vernon
Foreword by: McPherson, James M.
ISBN:978-0-19-535766-0
Publication Date:Jan 1996
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $145.80
Book Description:

In 1861, James B. Griffin left Edgefield, South Carolina and rode off to Virginia to take up duty with the Confederate Army in a style that befitted a Southern gentleman: on a fine-blooded horse, with two slaves to wait on him, two trunks, and his favorite hunting dog. He was thirty-five years old, a wealthy planter, and the owner of sixty-one slaves when he joined Wade Hampton's elite Legion as a major of cavalry. He left behind seven children, the eldest only twelve, and a wife who...
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