Bøger af James Lee Conrad

Focusing on the South's four major military collegesthe Virginia Military Institute (VMI), the South Carolina Military Academy (later The Citadel), the Georgia Military Institute, and the University of AlabamaThe Young Lions is the story of young Confederate military cadets at war. From the opening of VMI in 1839 through the struggles of all the schools to remain open during the war, the death of Stonewall Jackson (a VMI professor), and the Pyrrhic victory of the Battle of New Market to the burning of the University of Alabama in 1865, this book reveals the everyday dramatic actions of cadets on battlefield and beyond.

The story of Southern cadets at major military colleges during the Civil War - the Georgia Military Institute, the South Carolina Military Academy , the University of Alabama, and the Virginia Military Institute. It is also the story of the Confederate government's lack of policy on military colleges and its failure to adequately support them.