Colonel Grenfell's Wars: The Life of a Soldier of Fortune - Softcover

Starr, Stephen Z.

 
9780807120347: Colonel Grenfell's Wars: The Life of a Soldier of Fortune
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807120340 ISBN 13: 9780807120347
Verlag: LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

In the predawn hours of March 7, 1868, four prisoners aided by a guard escaped from Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas and steered a small, open fishing boat into a violent storm in the Gulf of Mexico. The men were never seen again.
One of them, Colonel George St. Leger Grenfell, was a British soldier of fortune who had come to America in 1862 and earned a unique place in the Confederate Valhalla. Grenfell, a talented cavalry officer who served with John H. Morgan, Braxton Bragg, and J. E. B. Stuart, plotted to help northern Copperheads overthrow the governments of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois and establish a Northwestern Confederacy. When the plan - the "Chicago Conspiracy" as it became known - was discovered, Grenfell, along with 150 cohorts, was arrested. He and six others were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Although Grenfell's escape from Fort Jefferson apparently ended in tragedy, rumors that the legendary soldier of fortune was still alive persisted for many years. Stephen Z. Starr vividly recounts here the fascinating story of this romantic and neglected character.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stephen Z. Starr's definitive trilogy on the history of the Union cavalry includes The Union Cavalry in the Civil War, Volume I: From Fort Sumter to Gettysburg, 1861-1863, The Union Cavalry in the Civil War, Volume II: The War in the East from Gettysburg to Appomattox, 1863-1865 and The Union Cavalry in the Civil War, Volume III: The War in the West,1861-1865, completed shortly before his death in 1985. His other books are Colonel Grenfell's Wars: The Life of a Soldier of Fortune and Jennison's Jayhawkers: A Civil War Cavalry Regiment and Its Commander.

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In the predawn hours of March 7, 1868, four prisoners aided by a guard escaped from Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas and steered a small, open fishing boat into a violent storm in the Gulf of Mexico. The men were never seen again. One of them, Colonel George St. Leger Grenfell, was a British soldier of fortune who had come to America in 1862 and earned a unique place in the Confederate Valhalla. Grenfell, a talented cavalry officer who served with John H. Morgan, Braxton Bragg, and J. E. B. Stuart, plotted to help northern Copperheads overthrow the governments of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois and establish a Northwestern Confederacy. When the plan - the "Chicago Conspiracy" as it became known - was discovered, Grenfell, along with 150 cohorts, was arrested. He and six others were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Although Grenfell's escape from Fort Jefferson apparently ended in tragedy, rumors that the legendary soldier of fortune was still alive persisted for many years. Stephen Z. Starr vividly recounts here the fascinating story of this romantic and neglected character.

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Verlag
LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807120340
ISBN 13 
9780807120347
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Anzahl der Seiten
360
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