American Civil War Commanders (3)

Union Leaders in the West

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American Civil War Commanders (3)

Union Leaders in the West

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Osrpey's examination of the commanders of the American Civil War (1861-1865). When the War Between the States broke out in 1861, the US Army had only four line generals – and three of those were over 70 years of age and veterans of the Napoleonic period. About one in three of America's professional officers chose to serve the Confederacy, and the government's urgent need to find commanders for its vastly expanded army put stars on the shoulders of men of very varied backgrounds and talents. The trials of war would soon separate the born leaders from the over-promoted and the political opportunists. This second volume devoted to Union generals examines the careers and personalities of 25 commanders whose service was mainly, or at first, in the Western theater of war.

Table of Contents

Christopher Augur · Absalom baird · Nathaniel Banks · Francis Blair · Don Carlos Buell · Edward Canby · Ulysses Grant · Benjamin Grierson · Henry Halleck · Oliver Howard · Hugh Kilpatrick · John Logan · Nathaniel Lyon · John Mc Arthur · John McClernand · John McPherson · William Rosencrans · John Schofield · William Sherman · George Thomas · Louis Watkins · Alpheus Williams · James Williamson · James Wilson

Product details

Published Mar 11 2003
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 64
ISBN 9781841763217
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 48 b/w; 8 col
Dimensions 10 x 7 inches
Series Elite
Short code ELI 89
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Philip Katcher

Philip Katcher was born in Los Angeles, California…

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Richard Hook

Richard Hook was born in 1938 and trained at Reiga…

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