Biographies

[Klink]

Best Biographies, if any for Lafayette Maclaws, Dick Anderson and Harry Heth?

 

[Nathanb1]

Best Biographies, if any for Lafayette Maclaws, Dick Anderson and Harry Heth?

Just out of curiosity, after I read your post, I looked. Apparently there's not one for McLaws, but he's mentioned in other books. Google "biography of Lafayette McLaws" and you'll find one of the entries is a book with transcripts of his letters (which looks really interesting and I wonder if anyone's read it?), and it references books the author feels are particularly appropriate. Hope that helps. One of the "complaints" I've read in recent years among historians is that all the books are written about Lee, Longstreet, THAT GUY.....and not these equally interesting but lesser known personalities. I'm hoping some folks will chime in and give us some good recommendations!

 

[KLSDAD]

The Memoirs of Henry Heth (1974 Greenwood Press) is noted in Eicher's The Civil War in Books (1996).

Nothing on the other two is listed.

 

[donna]

General Henry "Harry" Heth is an interesting General in Civil War. Amazon has "The Memoirs of Henry Heth" edited by James L. Morrison. General Heth was well liked and respected by Robert E. Lee. Lee looked out for Heth all during the War. He was one of few Generals he called by first name. Heth was close friends with A.P. Hill and Ambroise Burnside. They were classmates at West Point.

 

[Bomac]

John Brown Gordon: Soldier Southerner American, by Raplh Lowell Eckert

Not a bad one. Could been better, but pretty fair treatment of the man.

 

[5fish]

Here 1917 on Anderson....

http://books.google.com/books?id=PC...&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

I found this Stonewall Jackson's memoirs.....1895 by is wife..

http://books.google.com/books?id=d5...EwATgK#v=onepage&q=general Henry Heth&f=false

Here is a 2002 Letters by General Lafayette Mclaw...

http://books.google.com/books?id=pl...&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false