Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana : Confederate general and New South reformer /
Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana offers the first biography of one of Louisiana's most intriguing nineteenth-century politicians and a founder of Tulane University. Gibson (18321892) grew up on his family's sugar plantation in Terrebonne Parish and was educated at Yale University before stu...
| Основен автор: | McBride, Mary Gorton, 1937- |
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| Други автори: | McLaurin, Ann M. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
℗♭2007.
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| Серия: |
Southern biography series.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=329422 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana. |
| Резюме: |
Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana offers the first biography of one of Louisiana's most intriguing nineteenth-century politicians and a founder of Tulane University. Gibson (18321892) grew up on his family's sugar plantation in Terrebonne Parish and was educated at Yale University before studying law at the University of Louisiana in New Orleans. He purchased a sugar plantation in Lafourche Parish in 1858 and became heavily involved in the pro-secession faction of the Democratic Party. Elected colonel of the Thirteenth Louisiana Volunteer Regiment at the start of the Civil War, he commanded a b. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages) : portrait. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-307) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780807135723 0807135720 |