Bøger af Terry L. Jones

Uses letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper articles, and muster rolls to provide a detailed account of the origins, enrollments, casualties, and desertion rates of the Army of Northern Virginia. Illustrations chart the Tigers' positions on key battlefields in the tumultuous campaigns throughout Virginia.

Sometimes called the "wharf rats from New Orleans" and the "lowest scrapings of the Mississippi," Lee's Tigers were the approximately twelve thousand Louisiana infantrymen who served in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Terry Jones offers a colourful, highly readable account of this notorious group of soldiers.