Description: "This book was published with the assistance of the Fred W. Morrison Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."--Title page verso.
Brief description: Earl J. Hess is Stewart W. McClelland Chair in History at Lincoln Memorial University and author of many books on the Civil War, including The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta.
Review Quotes: "A thoughtful reexamination of a man who has become, unfortunately and unfairly, the South's 'chief whipping boy'. . . . [A] sharp-eyed profile of the general's dour personality and snakebit career [that] will bring much-needed perspective to future studies of the Confederacy."--Russell S. Bonds, Wall Street Journal