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Author | : David Work |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0252078616 |
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 | : Theodore Winthrop |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2021-11-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Names must act upon character. Every preceding Waddy, save one short-lived Ira, from the first ancestor, the primal Waddy, cook of the Mayflower, had been a type of placid meekness, of mild, humble endurance. During all Boston's material changes, from a petty colony under Winthrop to a great city under General Jackson, and all its spiritual changes from Puritanism to Unitarianism, Boston divines had pointed to the representative Waddy of their epoch as the worthy successor of Moses upon earth—Moses the meekest man, not Moses the stalwart smiter of rocks and irate iconoclast of golden calves. Why, then, was Ira Waddy, with whom this tale is to concern itself, other than his race? Why had he revolutionized the family history? Why was he a captor, not a captive of Fate? Why was the Waddy name no longer hid from the world in the unfragrant imprisonment and musty gloom of a blind court in Boston, but known and seen and heard of all men, wherever tea-chests and clipper-ships are found, or fire-crackers do pop? Why was Ira Waddy, in all senses, the wholesale man, while every other Waddy had been retail? Brief questions—to be answered not so briefly in this history of his return.
Author | : Frederick Waddy |
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Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1873 |
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Author | : David Williams Higgins |
Publisher | : Toronto, William Briggs |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : British Columbia |
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Author | : Orville Vernon Burton |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813931738 |
This collection of essays, organized around the theme of the struggle for equality in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, also serves to honor the renowned Civil War historian James McPherson. Complete with a brief interview with the celebrated scholar, this volume reflects the best aspects of McPherson's work, while casting new light on the struggle that has served as the animating force of his lifetime of scholarship. With a chronological span from the 1830s to the 1960s, the contributions bear witness to the continuing vigor of the argument over equality. Contributors
Author | : Theodore Winthrop |
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Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Author | : A. Keith COLLINS |
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Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Squatters |
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Total Pages | : 1050 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
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Includes cases argued and determined in the District Courts of the United States and, Mar./May 1880-Oct./Nov. 1912, the Circuit Courts of the United States; Sept./Dec. 1891-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Circuit Courts of Appeals of the United States; Aug./Oct. 1911-Jan./Feb. 1914, the Commerce Court of the United States; Sept./Oct. 1919-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.
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Total Pages | : 790 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Charley Hester |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780803273467 |
Captures the remarkable experiences, exploits, and adventures of a teenage runaway from Illinois in the Wild West, in a memoir that describes his encounter with Wild Bill Hickok and Doc Holliday, a surprise encounter with Indians, and conflicts with nature. Original.