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John P. Slough - The Forgotten Civil War General (Hardcover)
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John P. Slough - The Forgotten Civil War General (Hardcover)
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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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