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Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff

By Stephen E. Ambrose

Book information

Publisher
LSU Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0807120715, 9780807120712
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (28081946 bytes)
Pages
248\245
Time added
2015-04-26 23:04:36

Description

Halleck is a challenged biography of controversial figure Union General-in-Chief Henry Wager Halleck, who was cast into negative stereotype by many historians since Appomattox more famously by Lincoln's secretary of the navy, Gideon Welles. The author argues that Halleck has been greatly underrated as a war theorist because of past writers' failure to do justice to his close involvement with movements basic to the development of the American military establishment. He concedes that "by all the touchstones used to judge great captains of the past, Halleck was a failure," but maintains he was nonetheless, "the 'Old Brains' of the Union Army in the time of the testing of the nation."

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