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Thomas Ewing Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General (SHADES OF BLUE & GRAY)

By Ronald D. Smith

Book information

Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0826218067, 9780826218063
LCC
E415.9.E95 S65 2008
Open Library ID
OL20988604M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1926874 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
396\396
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Ewings influenced the course of the Midwest for more than fifty years. Patriarch Thomas Ewing raised four major players in the nation s history including William Tecumseh Cump Sherman, taken in as a nine-year-old. Smith shows that Tom Jr. had a remarkable career of his own. He came to national prominence in the fight over the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution, was instrumental in starting up the Union Pacific Railroad, and became the first chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court. Ewing obtained a commission in the Civil War and issued the dramatic General Order No. 11 that expelled residents from sections of western Missouri. Then this confidant of Abraham Lincoln s went on to courageously defend three of the assassination conspirators and lobbied the key vote to block the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.

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