Thomas Ewing Jr : Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (396 pages)
- Shades of Blue and Gray Series ; v.1 .
- Shades of Blue and Gray Series .
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Part One: Hardscrabble -- 1 The Judgment of Heaven on a Country -- 2 LE GRAND DÉTOUR -- 3 MORTGAGES, PRESS BOOKS, AND OFFICE BOYS -- 4 MR. CHIEF JUSTICE AND A MAN NAMED LINCOLN -- Part Two: They'd as Soon Fight the Devil as to Fight Kansas Men -- 5 A WORLD WAS WATCHING -- 6 EWING'S LIGHT ARTILLERY -- 7 EXTERMINATE THEM, ROOT AND BRANCH -- 8 THE VISIBLE INTERPOSITION OF GOD -- 9 THERMOPYLAE OF THE WEST -- Part Three: The Politics of Money -- 10 DR. MUDD'S TRIALAND WIDOW ADIE'S COTTON -- 11 THE GATHERING OF EVIL BIRDS -- 12 THE CRÉDIT MOBILIER AND"HIS FRAUDULENCY" -- 13 SWEATY OLD COINS AND LAST HURRAHS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
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Ewing, Thomas,-1829-1896. Ewing family. United States.-Congress.-House-Biography. Legislators-United States-Biography. Generals-United States-Biography. Lawyers-Ohio-Biography. Judges-Kansas-Biography. Businessmen-United States-Biography. Kansas-History-Civil War, 1861-1865. Missouri-History-Civil War, 1861-1865.