Stephen T Dodson

Becoming Confederates: Paths to a New National Loyalty (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures)

In Becoming Confederates, Gary W. Gallagher explores loyalty in the era of the Civil War, focusing on Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, and Jubal A. Early—three prominent officers in the Army of Northern Virginia who became ardent Confederate nationalists. Loyalty was tested and proved in many ...

Uglier Than a Monkey's Armpit: Untranslatable Insults, Put-Downs, and Curses from Around the World

The most curious, funny, insightful, and expressive invectives from more than forty languages-fully illustrated, you miserable misokakku. "Misokkasu": Scum of soya paste. (Japanese) "Tu es um borra-battos.": You s**t in your own boots. (Portugese) "Like a fart in a trance.": A dreamy person who seem...

Sketches of Maj.-Gen. Stephen Dodson Ramseur

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Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Lee's Gallant General

Stephen Dodson Ramseur, born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, compiled an enviable record as a brigadier in the Army of Northern Virginia. Commissioned major general the day after his twenty-seventh birthday, he was the youngest West Pointer to achieve that rank in the Confederate army. He la...

The Bravest of the Brave: The Correspondence of Stephen Dodson Ramseur (Civil War America)

Stephen Dods Ramseur

Stephen Dodson Ramseur (May 31, 1837 October 20, 1864) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, at one point the youngest in the army.