Donald C. Pfanz, Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier’s Life. 1st Ed., Signed

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Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier’s Life is Donald C. Pfanz’s voluminous and reliable story of the life of one of Robert E. Lee’s controversial commanders.

For four months Ewell was Stonewall Jackson’s most trusted subordinate. Together they battled Union armies in the Shenandoah Valley, at Richmond, and in Northern Virginia. When Jackson died Ewell took over the II Corps and led it with mixed success at Gettysburg, the Wilderness and Spotsylvania. His alleged failure to capture Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg is a controversial chapter of that battle story.

In this biography Donald Pfanz presents the most detailed portrait yet of the man sometimes referred to as Stonewall Jackson’s right arm. Drawing on a rich array of previously untapped materials, including more than two hundred letters written by Ewell himself, Pfanz concludes that Ewell was a highly competent general, whose successes on the battlefield far outweighed his failures.

Fine condition; dust jacket. Signed bookplate pasted in.

Donald C. Pfanz. Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier’s Life. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 1st edition, 655p., frontispiece, illustrations, maps, dust jacket.