<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/issues/civil-war-leader.html" dsn="news"><item_date>09/24/2014 12:00:00 AM</item_date><category_header/><title>Civil War leader</title><subheader/><description>Richard Lowe, Regents Professor of history, annotated the previously unpublished manuscript of a Civil War military leader in Greyhound Commander: Confederate General John G. Walker's History of the Civil War West of the Mississippi.</description><author/><photographer> </photographer><image> <img src="/sites/default/files/default_images/diving-eagle_356_0r_0_1_fade_1_0.png" width="900" height="676" alt=""/></image><taxonomy-story-type/><taxonomy-cultural-story-category/><taxonomy-news-sections/><taxonomy-college-department/><taxonomy-tags/><type>story</type><categories/><relationships/><main-content>
    
    
    Richard Lowe, Regents Professor of history, annotated the previously unpublished manuscript of a Civil War military leader in Greyhound Commander: Confederate General John G. Walker's History of the Civil War West of the Mississippi (LSU Press). Walker's troops played a major role in the war and also were the subject of Lowe's 2004 Walker's Texas Division, C.S.A.: Greyhounds of the Trans-Mississippi, which won the Jefferson Davis Book Award.

"When I learned more about him, Walker became increasingly interesting," Lowe says. "Before he assumed command of the Texas Division, he had fought in the bloodiest single day of the war as a young general at Antietam and had performed at a very high level."

 
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