Forgotten Valor: The Memoirs, Journals, & Civil War Letters of Orlando B. Willcox (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780873386289)

The papers of Major General Orlando Bolivar Willcox, one of the most prominent division commanders in the Union army, were recently discovered locked in a trunk in a Washington, D.C., attic, virtually untouched since his death nearly a century ago. Editor Robert Garth Scott has sifted through what is arguably the largest collection of Civil War-related material to surface in fifty years. From his childhood in Detroit through his cadetship at West Point, his service in the Mexican, Seminole, and Civil Wars, and his post-Civil War experiences in the West, Willcox's story is published here for the first time.

Author: Scott
ISBN-10: 0873386280
ISBN-13: 9780873386289
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/02/1999
Pages: 732
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.74lbs
Size: 9.63h x 6.43w x 1.91d

Review Citation(s):
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2000 pg. 106 - Strongly Recommended