William G. Le Duc

Broschiertes Buch

This Business of War

Recollections of a Civil War Quartermaster

Beschreibung

Amidst the din of battle and the chaos of armies on the move, William G. Le Duc of Hastings, Minnesota, writes of the frenzied life of an officer in the Quartermaster Department during the Civil War.

Autor

William G. Le Duc (1823?1917) moved to the Minnesota Territory in 1850. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he volunteered into the Quartermaster Department and mustered out four years later as brevet brigadier general. He later served as the U.S. Commissioner of Agriculture from 1877 until 1881 and retired to his home in Hastings, Minnesota. Adam E. Scher is a curator at the Minnesota Historical Society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780873515085
• ISBN-10: 0873515080
• Artikelnr.: 21507387