A Gentleman and an Officer: A Military and Social History of James B. Griffin's Civil War

by Judith N. McArthur and Orville Vernon Burton

Book Overview

In 1861, James B. Griffin left Edgefield, South Carolina and rode off to Virginia to take up duty with the Confederate Army in a style that befitted a Southern gentleman: on a fine-blooded horse, with two slaves to wait on him, two trunks, and his favorite hunting dog. He was thirty-five years old, a wealthy planter, and the owner of sixty-one slaves when he joined Wade Hampton's elite Legion as a major of cavalry. He left behind seven children, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195093127
• ISBN13: 9780195093124
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.2"