Leaders Of The American Civil War
Covering both the great military leaders and the critical civilian leaders, this book provides an overview of their careers and a professional assessment of their accomplishments. Entries consider the leaders' character and prewar experiences, their contributions to the war effort, and the war's impact on the rest of their lives. The entries then look at how history has assessed these leaders, thus putting their longtime reputations on the line. The result is a thorough revision of some...
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Covering both the great military leaders and the critical civilian leaders, this book provides an overview and a professional assessment of their accomplishments. Library Journal Civil War buffs will welcome this biographical dictionary, edited by Ritter (Coll. of Notre Dame) and Wakelyn (Kent State Univ.), which includes 47 articles on outstanding military and civilian Union and Confederate leaders as well as entries for other significant figures, including Frederick Douglass, Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix, and even Walt Whitman (a volunteer nurse in Washington). Missing, however, is Admiral David Farragut, the Union's most successful naval officer. Each article discusses prewar and wartime careers as well as postwar activities. A valuable feature is an extended commentary and analysis of some of the outstanding items of the vast historiography about the Civil War. For Civil War collections in academic and larger public libraries.--Harry Frumerman, formerly with Hunter Coll., New York
PrefaceIntroduction: The Making and Meaning of GreatnessJoseph Reid Anderson1Clara Barton9Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard19Henry Ward Beecher31Judah Philip Benjamin41Thomas Stanley Bocock48Braxton Bragg54Joseph Emerson Brown67Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain75Salmon Portland Chase84Jay Cooke95Charles Anderson Dana104Jefferson Finis Davis112Varina Howell Davis122Dorothea Lynde Dix128Frederick Douglass137Josiah Gorgas146Ulysses Simpson Grant153Henry Wager Halleck169John Bell Hood178Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter187Thomas Jonathan Jackson194Andrew Johnson204Joseph Eggleston Johnston214Robert Edward Lee221Abraham Lincoln235James Longstreet249George Brinton McClellan259Stephen Russell Mallory272George Gordon Meade278Christopher Gustavus Memminger288Oliver Perry Morton296Benjamin Morgan Palmer306Edward Alfred Pollard315David Dixon Porter322James Alexander Seddon332Raphael Semmes339William Henry Seward346Philip Henry Sheridan357William Tecumseh Sherman366Edwin McMaster Stanton379Alexander Hamilton Stephens388Thaddeus Stevens397Charles Sumner405George Henry Thomas416Walt(er) Whitman425Louis Trezevant Wigfall434Index443About the Contributors463
\ Library JournalCivil War buffs will welcome this biographical dictionary, edited by Ritter (Coll. of Notre Dame) and Wakelyn (Kent State Univ.), which includes 47 articles on outstanding military and civilian Union and Confederate leaders as well as entries for other significant figures, including Frederick Douglass, Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix, and even Walt Whitman (a volunteer nurse in Washington). Missing, however, is Admiral David Farragut, the Union's most successful naval officer. Each article discusses prewar and wartime careers as well as postwar activities. A valuable feature is an extended commentary and analysis of some of the outstanding items of the vast historiography about the Civil War. For Civil War collections in academic and larger public libraries.--Harry Frumerman, formerly with Hunter Coll., New York\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsProfiles 47 men and women who contributed significantly to the US War Between the States, and for whom the war constituted the major event of their lives and the major activity and accomplishment on their careers. Some are considered among the most important leaders in the country's history, such as Henry Ward Beecher, Jefferson Davis, Dorothea Dix, Frederick Douglass, U. S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, William Sherman, and Walt Whitman. Others have blurred into the neglect of time. The main focus is on their wartime activities, but the time leading up to the war and their lives after it are also considered. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
