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Author: Steve Norder Publisher: ISBN: 9781611214574 Category : Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862 Languages : en Pages : 408
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"The first study to detail the important week in March 1862 when, for the first and only time in the country's history, a sitting president took direct control of military forces, land and sea, to wage a campaign with wide-ranging consequences. Abraham Lincoln ordered a beach-landing to capture Norfolk, the shelling of major Confederate installations and defenses, and guiding naval assets that helped capture two important cities (Norfolk and Portsmouth) and the Gosport Navy Yard, the best of its kind along the entire Atlantic seaboard. Based on extensive primary sources, supported by original maps and photos, footnotes, biblio, appendices, and index."--
Author: Steve Norder Publisher: ISBN: 9781611214574 Category : Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862 Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
"The first study to detail the important week in March 1862 when, for the first and only time in the country's history, a sitting president took direct control of military forces, land and sea, to wage a campaign with wide-ranging consequences. Abraham Lincoln ordered a beach-landing to capture Norfolk, the shelling of major Confederate installations and defenses, and guiding naval assets that helped capture two important cities (Norfolk and Portsmouth) and the Gosport Navy Yard, the best of its kind along the entire Atlantic seaboard. Based on extensive primary sources, supported by original maps and photos, footnotes, biblio, appendices, and index."--
Author: John S. Tilley Publisher: ISBN: 9780931709036 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 371
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NOT JUST ANOTHER CIVIL WAR BOOK. Many books have been written about the causes of the Civil War; however "Lincoln Takes Command" is different in that it was researched & written by John S. Tilley, an attorney of national stature. Mr. Tilley spent many months in Washington searching records, many of which were piled in the corner of a warehouse mixed with other non-related records. The index is very complete & you will notice that the record is given from the original source such as Ida Tarbell & John G. Nicolay, Lincoln's secretaries, Secretary of State Seward & others who served as Lincoln's inner circle & knew exactly what transpired & when. The Confederate record is from correspondence of Jefferson Davis, the governor of South Carolina & other such sources that were on the scene at the time the drama unfolded. Many people agree that "Lincoln Takes Command" is the most accurate & best indexed book on the causes of the separation of the states. The open minded reader will find in Mr. Tilley's work much that will both surprise & enlighten him. "Lincoln Takes Command" is a classic classroom text. A necessity for any serious history student's library.
Author: John F. Marszalek Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674040643 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 353
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In the summer of 1862, President Lincoln called General Henry W. Halleck to Washington, D.C., to take command of all Union armies in the death struggle against the Confederacy. For the next two turbulent years, Halleck was Lincoln's chief war advisor, the man the President deferred to in all military matters. Yet, despite the fact that he was commanding general far longer than his successor, Ulysses S. Grant, he is remembered only as a failed man, ignored by posterity. In the first comprehensive biography of Halleck, the prize-winning historian John F. Marszalek recreates the life of a man of enormous achievement who bungled his most important mission. When Lincoln summoned him to the nation's capital, Halleck boasted outstanding qualifications as a military theorist, a legal scholar, a brave soldier, and a California entrepreneur. Yet in the thick of battle, he couldn't make essential decisions. Unable to produce victory for the Union forces, he saw his power become subsumed by Grant's emergent leadership, a loss that paved the way for Halleck's path to obscurity. Harnessing previously unused research, as well as the insights of modern medicine and psychology, Marszalek unearths the seeds of Halleck's fatal wartime indecisiveness in personality traits and health problems. In this brilliant dissection of a rich and disappointed life, we gain new understanding of how the key decisions of the Civil War were taken, as well as insight into the making of effective military leadership.
Author: Benton Rain Patterson Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786478578 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 243
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Lincoln's most controversial generals--his so-called "political generals"--were appointed, promoted or kept in service for political purposes without regard for their competence. "It seems but little better than murder," the Army's general in chief, Henry Halleck, protested, "to give important commands to such men." The book shows these seven generals--Butler, Banks, Sigel, Fremont, McClernand, Hurlbut and Wallace--in action, allowing readers to decide for themselves if Halleck was right in his withering assessment of Lincoln's political generals.
Author: Richard N. Current Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0809000598 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 326
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"Abraham Lincoln as politician, president, and human being comes to life in all the conflicts, paradoxes, and seeming contradictions that surround him. Packed with fascinating details, The Lincoln Nobody Knows is a study of the obscure and misunderstood facets of the great statesman's career and private life."--Back cover
Author: Civil War Institute Gettysburg College Gabor S. Boritt Director Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0198024657 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 278
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From the moment the battle ended, Gettysburg was hailed as one of the greatest triumphs of the Union army. Celebrations erupted across the North as a grateful people cheered the victory. But Gabor Boritt turns our attention away from the rejoicing millions to the dark mood of the White House--where Lincoln cried in frustration as General Meade let the largest Confederate army escape safely into Virginia. Such unexpected portraits abound in Lincoln's Generals, as a team of distinguished historians probes beyond the popular anecdotes and conventional wisdom to offer a fascinating look at Lincoln's relationship with his commanders. In Lincoln's Generals, Boritt and his fellow contributors examine the interaction between the president and five key generals: McClellan, Hooker, Meade, Sherman, and Grant. In each chapter, the authors provide new insight into this mixed bag of officers and the president's tireless efforts to work with them. Even Lincoln's choice of generals was not as ill-starred as we think, writes Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark E. Neely, Jr.: compared to most Victorian-era heads of state, he had a fine record of selecting commanders (for example, the contemporary British gave us such bywords for incompetence as "the charge of the Light Brigade," while Napoleon III managed to lose the entire French army). But the president's relationship with his generals was never easy. In these pages, Stephen Sears underscores McClellan's perverse obstinancy as Lincoln tried everything to drive him ahead. Neely sheds new light on the president's relationship with Hooker, arguing that he was wrong to push the general to attack at Chancellorsville. Boritt writes about Lincoln's prickly relationship with the victor of Gettysburg, "old snapping turtle" George Meade. Michael Fellman reveals the political stress between the White House and William T. Sherman, a staunch conservative who did not want blacks in his army but who was crucial to the war effort. And John Y. Simon looks past the legendary camaraderie between Lincoln and Grant to reveal the tensions in their relationship. Perhaps no other episode has been more pivotal in the nation's history than the Civil War--and yet so much of these massive events turned on a few distinctive personalities. Lincoln's Generals is a brilliant portrait that takes us inside the individual relationships that shaped the course of our most costly war.
Author: Thomas B. Allen Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 9781426303791 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 152
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Shows the part technology played in the North winning the Civil War over the South and how Lincoln appreciated technology after awhile.
Author: Tony Wolk Publisher: Ooligan Press ISBN: 1932010009 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 258
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Imagine Abraham Lincoln walking the streets of Evanston, Illinois, on Easter weekend in 1955, just a man suddenly and magically free of the terrible burden of leading the nation through war. How will the Great Emancipator react to this new world, where he finds comfort and love in the arms of a young widow? How will learning of his own death affect his efforts to end the war when he suddenly returns to the horrors of 1865? ""Abraham Lincoln, A Novel Life"" answers these provocative questions in a singular depiction of emotional reality and temporal fantasy that brings America's most beloved president to life as never before. Tony Wolk tells this haunting tale from the perspectives of Lincoln and three women in his real and fictional life.
Author: Steve Norder
Author: Steve Norder
Author: John S. Tilley
Author: John S. Tilley
Author: John F. Marszalek
Author: Benton Rain Patterson
Author: Samuel A'Court Ashe
Author: Richard N. Current
Author: Civil War Institute Gettysburg College Gabor S. Boritt Director
Author: Thomas B. Allen
Author: Tony Wolk