TY - GEN T1 - John P. Slough : the forgotten Civil War general A1 - Miller, Richard L. LA - English PP - Albuquerque PB - University of New Mexico Press YR - 2021 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1242106950 AB - "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"-- CN - E467.1.S64 M55 2021 SN - 9780826362209 SN - 0826362206 SN - 0826362192 SN - 9780826362193 KW - Slough, John Potts, : 1829-1867. KW - Slough, John Potts, : 1829-1867 KW - Generals : United States : Biography. KW - Judges : New Mexico : Biography. KW - New Mexico : Politics and government : 1848-1950. KW - Généraux : États-Unis : Biographies. KW - Civil War Period (1850-1877) KW - United States. KW - HISTORY. KW - Southwest (AZ. KW - State & Local. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY. KW - Generals KW - Judges KW - Politics and government KW - New Mexico KW - United States KW - 1848-1950 KW - Electronic books. KW - collective biographies. KW - Biographies KW - Biographies. ER -