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The Edge of Glory |
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Louisiana State University Press,
Baton Rouge |
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| I feel all of this book is one big bookmark. Without it my history of Rosecrans would be much smaller. Using the snippets on information Lamers provided I've searched for there sources and uncovered what I hope is an even more rounded version of the man called General Rosecrans. | ||||
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page 5 |
Chasing the gander | |||
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page 10-11 |
William remembers his elders, education | |||
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page 11 |
Motto: "Lick and not get licked" | |||
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page 12 |
T. W. Barkley and appointment to West Point | |||
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page 13 |
Old Rosy and the encounter with Grant at West Point | |||
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page 14 |
Duel | |||
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page 14 |
Anna Elizabeth Hegeman | |||
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page 15 |
"Brilliant Rosy Rosecrans", Napoleon Club | |||
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page 16 |
Henry Crandall Rosecrans in the Mexican War | |||
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page 16 |
Corps of Engineers at
Newport, RI, Massachusetts Harbor and Washington Navy Yard |
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page 17 |
Mrs. Hegeman, Negro Sunday School | |||
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page 17 |
Canal River Coal Company, New Coal River-Slack Water Navigation | |||
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page 48-49 |
Battle of Carnifax Ferry | |||
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page 62 |
Jemima died in Iowa.
Children have whooping cough in Yellow Springs. Annie will join William in Wheeling |
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page 67 |
Designed the Ambulance in Wheeling | |||
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pages 103-130 |
Battle of Iuka, Mississippi | |||
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pages 131-158 |
Corinth, Mississippi | |||
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page 154 |
Cyrus Boyd's witness. Stats of the battle | |||
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page 157 |
Grant vs Rosecrans from Personal Memoirs by U. S. Grant, New York,1885, 2 vols |
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page 172, 176 |
Annie is ill. Baby dies. | |||
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page 173 |
Bickham's account. | |||
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page 183 |
Army of the Cumberland | |||
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page 187 |
Muster out drunk officers, build cavalry, discipline men | |||
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page 217 |
Rosecrans' horses were Boney his
favorite gray or Tobey a mettlesome dappled gray |
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page 275-291 |
Tullahoma -- "Outstanding Operation of the War" | |||
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pages 325-394 |
Chattanooga / Chickamauga. Whitelaw Reid on Rosecrans | |||
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page 424-25 |
Ask to serve as Lincoln's running-mate | |||
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page 414-439 |
Missouri Campaign, Rosecrans second removal | |||
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page 440 |
Finances in order and bring charges against Grant. Political office | |||
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page 441 |
Southern Pacific Railroad | |||
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page 442-3 |
Deaths of Adrain, Mary, Sylvester and Annie 1876-80 | |||
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page 446 |
Doctor of Laws, Board of Regents for University of California | |||
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page 447 |
Bill passed to restore his rank
and place him on the retirement list Henderson's comments |
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page 447 |
1892 reunion of the Grand Army in Washington | |||
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page 448 |
Laetare Medal from Notre Dame university | |||
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page 448 |
Grandchildren remember him | |||
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| The Charles Young Research Library at UCLA has the research papers used by Lamars to write the biography. Copies of Edge of Glory are available for purchase in the Myers Inn Museum Gift Shop | ||||
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Rosecrans, Part 1,
Genealogy and Youth Return to Rosecrans, Part 2, West Point, Marriage, Corps of Engineers Return to Rosecrans, Part 3, Civilian Inventor, Engineer Return to Rosecrans, Part 4 Civil War Return to Rosecrans, Part 5 Post War Civilian Life |
(09/21/2010) |
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