Soldier and Scholar: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the Civil War

By: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve

One of America's greatest classical scholars, Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (1831-1924) was also a Civil War journalist. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, and a self-described "southerner beyond dispute," he received his doctorate in Germany and returned to America an enthusiastic advocate of Greek scholarship. Like every male member of his immediate family (including his father). Gildersleeve enlisted after Fort Sumter, but he continued to teach at...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813917433
• ISBN13: 9780813917436
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 9.6"