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Sayler's Creek : A Battlefield, A Park, Peter Warren Eldredge
Sayler's Creek : A Battlefield, A Park, Peter Warren Eldredge
Master's Theses
The significance in history of the land area known as Sayler's Creek is derived from the fact that the last major conflict between Union and Confederate forces was fought there on April 6, 1865. The battle has been neglected because it immediately precedes the surrender; however, the engagement does contain valuable historical information.
William Roane Aylett, 1833-1900, Joseph P. Harahan
William Roane Aylett, 1833-1900, Joseph P. Harahan
Master's Theses
This thesis grew out of a paper presented in Dr. Joseph C. Robert's Civil War Seminar in January, 1967. At that time the topic was limited to a study of the subject with only a cursory narrative of his life.
The decision to expand this topic into a full biography was based on two factors. First, the need for such a study was pointed out by military historian Theodore Ropp in an article in the South Atlantic Quarterly on the Civil War. The second factor involved the material available for this biographical study. In 1966, a large manuscript collection (approx. …