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Author : Kenneth P. Williams
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Download or read book Lincoln Finds a General written by Kenneth P. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 616 pages
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Download or read book Lincoln Finds a General written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth Powers Williams
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
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Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lincoln Finds a General written by Kenneth Powers Williams and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1949 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military study of the Civil War to Grant's appointment in 1864. Volumes planned to complete the study were still not started when the author died.
Author : Kenneth P. Williams
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Download or read book Lincoln Finds a General written by Kenneth P. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military study of the Civil War to Grant's appointment in 1864. Volumes planned to complete the study were still not started when the author died.
Author : David Work
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252078616
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lincoln's Political Generals written by David Work and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, David Work examines Lincoln's policy of appointing political generals to build a national coalition to fight and win the Civil War. Work follows the careers of sixteen generals through the war to assess their contributions and to ascertain how Lincoln assessed them as commander-in-chief. Eight of the generals began the war as Republicans and eight as Democrats. Some commanded armies, some regiments. Among them were some of the most famous generals of the Union--such as Francis P. Blair Jr., John A. Dix, John A. Logan, James S. Wadsworth--and others whose importance has been obscured by more dramatic personalities. As the war proceeded, the value of the political generals became a matter of serious dispute. Could politicians make the shift from a political campaign to a military one? Could they be trusted to fight? Could they avoid destructive jealousies and the temptations of corruption? And with several of the generals being Irish or German immigrants, what effect would ethnic prejudices have on their success or failure? Work finds that Lincoln's policy was ultimately successful, as these generals provided effective political support and made important contributions in military administration and on the battlefield. Although several of them proved to be poor commanders, others were effective in exercising influence on military administration and recruitment, slavery policy, and national politics.
Author : John C. Waugh
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780230106765
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lincoln and McClellan written by John C. Waugh and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was no more remarkable pair in the Civil War than Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan. At only 35 years old, McClellan commanded the Ohio troops early in the war, and won skirmishes for the Union in western Virginia. After the disastrous Union defeat at Bull Run in the summer of 1861, Lincoln sent word for McClellan to come to Washington, and soon elevated him to commander-in-chief of the Union army. But in the late summer and fall of 1861, things took a turn for the worst. Meticulous in his planning and preparations, McClellan began to delay attacking the enemy and developed a penchant for vastly overestimating the Confederate forces he faced. All of this hampered his ability to lead an aggressive force in a fast-moving battlefield environment. Finally losing his patience, Lincoln was famously quoted as saying, "If General McClellan does not want to use the army, I would like to borrow it for a time." Lincoln and McClellan takes an in-depth look at this fascinating relationship, from the early days of the Civil War to the 1864 presidential election when McClellan ran against Lincoln on an anti-war platform and lost. Here, award-winning author John C. Waugh weaves a tale of hubris, paranoia, failure, and triumph, illuminating as never before this unique and complicated alliance.
Author : Geoffrey Perret
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429923083
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book Commander in Chief written by Geoffrey Perret and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq Made The Commander In Chief and Foretell the Future of America This is a story of ever-expanding presidential powers in an age of unwinnable wars. Harry Truman and Korea, Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam, George W. Bush and Iraq: three presidents, three ever broader interpretations of the commander in chief clause of the Constitution, three unwinnable wars, and three presidential secrets. Award-winning presidential biographer and military historian Geoffrey Perret places these men and events in the larger context of the post-World War II world to establish their collective legacy: a presidency so powerful it undermines the checks and balances built into the Constitution, thereby creating a permanent threat to the Constitution itself. In choosing to fight in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq, Truman, Johnson, and Bush alike took counsel of their fears, ignored the advice of the professional military and major allies, and were influenced by facts kept from public view. Convinced that an ever-more powerful commander in chief was the key to victory, they misread the moment. Since World War II wars have become tests of stamina rather than strength, and more likely than not they sow the seeds of future wars. Yet recent American presidents have chosen to place their country in the forefront of fighting them. In the course of doing so, however, they gave away the secret of American power—for all its might, the United States can be defeated by chaos and anarchy.
Author : T. Harry Williams
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307948153
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lincoln and His Generals written by T. Harry Williams and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was first published in 1952, Lincoln and His Generals has remained one of the definitive accounts of Lincoln’s wartime leadership. In it T. Harry Williams dramatizes Lincoln’s long and frustrating search for an effective leader of the Union Army and traces his transformation from a politician with little military knowledge into a master strategist of the Civil War. Explored in depth are Lincoln’s often fraught relationships with generals such as McClellan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker, Fremont, and of course, Ulysses S. Grant. In this superbly written narrative, Williams demonstrates how Lincoln’s persistent “meddling” into military affairs was crucial to the Northern war effort and utterly transformed the president’s role as commander-in-chief.
Author : Kenneth Powers Williams
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Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lincoln Finds a General: Grant's first year in the West written by Kenneth Powers Williams and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military study of the Civil War to Grant's appointment in 1864. Volumes planned to complete the study were still not started when the author died.
Author : Edward A. Miller
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570031106
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lincoln's Abolitionist General written by Edward A. Miller and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sentiments than Lincoln, the two developed a friendship that lasted until Lincoln's death. Miller details the evolution of their relationship, from their early correspondence to Hunter's leading role in the trial of those accused of Lincoln's assassination. Dealing extensively with Hunter's Civil War experience, Miller recounts the general's wounding at Bull Run and leadership of the Department of the South at Hilton Head Island, where he issued an order to free the.
