stephens robert grier (2 Ergebnisse)

1st edition. 8vo. 598pp. B/w. illustrations, maps, genealogical tables printed on e.ps. Original boards. Pictorial red d/w. with black lettering to faded spine. D/w. rubbed to edges and reinforced on verso to head and tail of spine. ISBN 0890295409 US$15.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. John Heiser (Maps) (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. 598, [2] pages. Family tree endpaper. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Editor's Explanation. Introduction. Foreword. 28 chapters. Epilogue. Appendix A. Relatives. Appendix B. Personal Diary of General Evans of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, July through December 15, 1864. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling and is in a plastic sleeve. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads This book is given to my friend Bucky Redwine, a true son of the Old South, is appreciation of his encouragement to continue working on this book until it was finished. Robert G. Stephens, Jr. April, 1992. The editor was the grandson of General Evans. The editor is a former Congressman. A rare love story, the devotion of a very brave man for his remarkable wife and children, and it is a history of man's unfailing duty to the Southern cause. This is like no other personal Civil War record. Robert Grier Stephens Jr. (August 14, 1913 - February 20, 2003) was a United States Representative from Georgia. Stephens was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a great-great nephew of Alexander Stephens, a grandson of Clement Anselm Evans and a distant cousin of 19th-century U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Cooper Grier. Robert Stephens attended the University of Georgia (UGA) at Athens and obtained a Bachelor of Arts (bachelor of arts) in 1935, a master of arts in 1937, and a bachelor of laws ([LL.B.) in 1941. During his education at UGA, he attended the University of Hamburg in Germany in 1935 and 1936. After serving in the United States Army from 1941 through 1946, Stephens joined the UGA faculty. During the Nuremberg trials following World War II, Stephens served on the staff of Robert H. Jackson, the United States Supreme Court Justice who served as the chief prosecutor for the United States during the trials. In 1951, Stephens was elected to the Georgia Senate and was re-elected through 1953, when he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives. He served in the state House through 1959. He was elected in 1960 as a Democrat representing Georgia's 10th congressional district in the 87th United States Congress, and won re-election to seven additional terms in that body until he chose not to run for re-election in 1976. During his congressional service, Stephens served as a delegate to the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Brigadier-General Clement Anselm Evans (February 25, 1833 - July 2, 1911) was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. Afterwards, he edited a 12-volume work on Confederate military history, so named, in 1899. With the election of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1860, Evans organized a company of militia. Evans was commissioned as major of the 31st Georgia Infantry on November 19, 1861, and was promoted to colonel on May 13, 1862, fighting in the Seven Days Battles, Second Manassas, and Antietam. He had temporary command of Alexander Lawton's Georgia brigade from September until November 1862, seeing additional action at Fredericksburg. During the Gettysburg Campaign and the 1864 fighting at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania, Evans again commanded the 31st Georgia while John Brown Gordon commanded the brigade. Evans was promoted to brigadier general in May 1864 (replacing Gordon who ascended to division command) and was wounded at Monocacy. He commanded Gordon's Division, Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, from Petersburg to Appomattox. Evans survived five wounds during the war. Evans authored the Military History of Georgia, heavily based upon his Civil War memoirs. He then edited and co-wrote the Confederate Military History, a 12-volume compendium, first published in 1899. Finally, he co-authored the four-volume Cyclopedia of Georgia. Regarding the war, Evans said: "If we cannot justify the South in the act of Secession, we will go down in History solely as a brave, impulsive but rash people who attempted in an illegal manner to overthrow the Union of our Country." Evans was very active in establishing and administering fraternal veterans organizations following the war. He helped organize the Confederate Survivors Association (a regional group based in Augusta, Georgia) in 1878 and served as its first president. He was a founder of the first national Confederate veterans group, the United Confederate Veterans, in 1889 and commander of the UCV's Georgia division for 12 years.