THE LIFE AND WARS OF GIDEON J. PILLOW

1993

First American Edition

By: Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr. and Roy P. Stonesifer, Jr.

University of North Carolina Press [Chapel Hill, NC]

8vo (455 pages; 25 illustrations and 6 maps)

Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Brown cloth]

Item Number: 6790

$45.00

Description

This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket. Pillow served with distinction in the Mexican War. During the Civil War he commanded the Army of Tennessee but disgraced himself against Grant at Ft. Donelson. and was removed from command.