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LaFantasie, Glenn W.

Gettysburg requiem the life and lost causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates / [electronic resource] : Glenn W. LaFantasie. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008, c2006. - 1 online resource (xxxi, 414 p.) : maps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

William C. Oates is best remembered as the Confederate officer defeated at Gettysburg's Little Round Top, losing a golden opportunity to win the battle. This biography of Oates talks about the compelling and sometimes astonishing dimensions of this remarkable individual.

ISBN: 9780199851515 (ebook) : No price

Subjects--Personal Names:
Oates, William C. 1835-1910.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Confederate States of America. Army --Biography.
Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 15th.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Biography.
Governors--Alabama--Biography.
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--History--Campaigns.--Civil War, 1861-1865

LC Class. No.: E467.1.O18

Dewey Class. No.: 976.1061092