ThxAssuming you're including autobiographies and memoirs, IMO one of the best is Charles Wainwright's A Diary of Battle. (It deserved a better editor, as Nevins made several egregious factual errors and whose analysis of some of the events is highly questionable.)
Assuming you're including autobiographies and memoirs, IMO one of the best is Charles Wainwright's A Diary of Battle. (It deserved a better editor, as Nevins made several egregious factual errors and whose analysis of some of the events is highly questionable.)
This sounds more like a memoir than a bio, and have read lots of memoirs and never heard of this, but I looked it up and immediately ordered a 6.95 copy : )
I agree. It's outstanding. I got in on Audiable.I just finished American Ulysses by Ronald C. White. I can highly recommend it.
So did I.I agree. It's outstanding. I got in on Audiable.
Thank you I was looking for something on Jubal. Just placed an order for it on Amazon.Personally, I consider these books to be some of the best WBTS biographies ever written:
- R.E. Lee: A Biography, by Douglas S. Freeman
- Jubal: The Life and Times of General Jubal A. Early, C S A, Defender of the Lost Cause, by Charles C. Osborne
- Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Solider, The Legend, by James I. Robertson, Jr.
- John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence, by Richard M. McMurry
- Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier's Life, by Donald C. Pfanz
- Richard Taylor: Soldier Prince of Dixie, by T. Michael Parrish
- Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy, Earl J. Hess
- P. G. T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray, by T. Harry Williams
- General Jo Shelby: Undefeated Rebel, by Daniel O'Flaherty
- General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier, by Jeffry D. Wert.
I am afraid this “best of” list can be way too long, as there's no shortage of well-written and meticulously researched biographies in today's book market.