Richard Taylor

Destruction and Reconstruction

Personal Experiences of the Late War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Richard Taylor (1826-1879), son of President Zachary Taylor and brother-in-law of Jefferson Davis, was a planter, politician, and general. Taylor's memoir of his Civil War and Reconstruction experiences is regarded as one of the best-written of the period. His recollections focus on his service in Virginia under Stonewall Jackson and later as commander of the department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana.

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This highly literate account by the son of President Zachary Taylor follows the author's Confederate commands in all three major theatres of the war, and provides a unique view of the Reconstruction period. "Taylor possessed literary art that approached the first rank."-Douglas Southall Freeman.

Produktdetails

• Southern Classics Series
• Verlag: J.S. Sanders Books
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781879941212
• ISBN-10: 187994121X
• Artikelnr.: 20976076

Autorenporträt

His parents both from Maine, Richard Taylor grew up in rural New Hampshire. His education came from Dartmouth, the University of Kiel (Fulbright Fellowship) and Yale. He has been a teacher of German language and literature in colleges, Latin and English as well at private secondary schools. A member of the 1964 Olympic Nordic Ski Team and for many years a staff coach with the National Team, he has been variously a construction worker, ski touring center designer and operator, a translator, and for twenty years (through 2007) a teacher of German, Latin, and English and a running and cross-country ski coach at Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine. He and his wife Sally still live in Bethel. His first book, The Absence of Strangers, was published by Goose River Press in 2017.