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John P. Slough : the forgotten Civil War general  Cover Image Book Book

John P. Slough : the forgotten Civil War general

Miller, Richard L. (author.).

Summary: "John Potts Slough, the Union commander at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, lived a life of relentless pursuit for success that entangled him in the turbulent events of mid-nineteenth-century America. As a politician, Slough fought abolitionists in the Ohio legislature and during Kansas Territory's fourth and final constitutional convention. He organized the 1st Colorado Volunteer Infantry after the Civil War broke out, eventually leading his men against Confederate forces at the pivotal engagement at Glorieta Pass. After the war, as chief justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court, he struggled to reform corrupt courts amid the territory's corrosive Reconstruction politics. Slough was known to possess a volcanic temper and an easily wounded pride. These traits not only undermined a promising career but ultimately led to his death at the hands of an aggrieved political enemy who gunned him down in a Santa Fe saloon. Recounting Slough's timeless story of rise and fall during America's most tumultuous decades, historian Richard L. Miller brings to life this extraordinary figure"--

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  • ISBN: 9780826362193
  • ISBN: 0826362192
  • ISBN: 9780826362209
  • ISBN: 0826362206
  • Physical Description: print
    xv, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2021.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Part I Ohio -- 1 Coming of Age -- 2 "An Ardent and Zealous Democrat" -- 3 Disgrace and Defeat -- Part II Kansas Territory -- 4 A Righteous Fight -- 5 Fruitless Labor -- 6 Two Elections -- Part III Colorado Territory -- 7 Gilpin's Pet Lambs -- 8 "The Great Mogul of the Colorado First" -- 9 "We Have Saved this Territory" -- Part IV Virginia -- 10 The Defense of Harpers Ferry -- 11 "Disorder and Vice Had Been the Rule" -- 12 Enemies within the Lines -- 13 "Why Then Am I Kept Here So Long?" -- Part V New Mexico Territory -- 14 Chief Justice -- 15 Disintegration.
Subject: Slough, John Potts -1867
Generals United States Biography
Judges New Mexico Biography
New Mexico Politics and government 1848-1950
Généraux États-Unis Biographies
Slough, John Potts -1867
Generals
Judges
Politics and government
New Mexico
United States
Genre: collective biographies.
Biographies.
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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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