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Author | : Frank P. Simione |
Publisher | : Savas Beatie |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2023-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1954547420 |
Irvin McDowell was a prominent figure during the early months of the Civil War. With so much at stake, he was called upon to lead the Union’s largest Eastern Theater army. Pressed by the media and President Abraham Lincoln to move into Virginia and defeat the Confederates gathering there, McDowell led his neophyte army out to the plains of Manassas and was soundly defeated. McDowell went on to hold an independent command in northern Virginia during the Peninsula Campaign and serve in the Army of Virginia under Maj. Gen. John Pope during the disastrous Second Bull Run Campaign. Despite his significant contributions, a lack of personal papers left him in obscurity. Authors Frank Simione Jr. and Gene Schmiel used available sources to create a reliable and readable synthesis of the man and his career to fill a sizable gap in the historiography. Unless or until his private papers surface, Searching for Irvin McDowell will stand as the best treatment available.
Author | : Gene Schmiel |
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Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2021-08-05 |
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Irvin McDowell was a major actor in the Civil War for a short, but critical time, and his life history deserves to be told and remembered. Like so many others, he was caught up in that national calamity. He was a dutiful, dependable, and diligent military officer. But perhaps unlike some others, early in the Civil War he was called upon to perform duties which, in retrospect, may have been beyond his capacity and only served both to enhance his peculiarities and shine light on his shortcomings. This book is the first attempt to make the journey of searching for Irvin McDowell and trying to understand him and his role in the Civil War era via a full-length biography.
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Author | : Allie Stuart Povall |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2022-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476649871 |
Ulysses S. Grant was appointed general-in-chief of the U.S. Army after the Civil War and served two terms as president. His former subordinates, Philip Henry Sheridan and William Tecumseh Sherman, also served as generals-in-chief--Sherman indulging his passion for young women until his death. Two other former generals ran for president, one against his old commander, Grant. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the hero of Gettysburg, became president of Bowdoin College and served as governor of Maine. George Armstrong Custer found the immortality that had eluded him during the War, at Little Big Horn. Chronicling the sunset years of 20 Union generals, this book details their attempts to resume productive lives in the aftermath of America's defining cataclysm.
Author | : Irvin McDowell |
Publisher | : Gale Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry |
ISBN | : 9781432822514 |
Author | : Eugene D. Schmiel |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0821444808 |
The wrenching events of the Civil War transformed not only the United States but also the men unexpectedly called on to lead their fellow citizens in this first modern example of total war. Jacob Dolson Cox, a former divinity student with no formal military training, was among those who rose to the challenge. In a conflict in which “political generals” often proved less than competent, Cox, the consummate citizen general, emerged as one of the best commanders in the Union army. During his school days at Oberlin College, no one could have predicted that the intellectual, reserved, and bookish Cox possessed what he called in his writings the “military aptitude” to lead men effectively in war. His military career included helping secure West Virginia for the Union; jointly commanding the left wing of the Union army at the critical Battle of Antietam; breaking the Confederate supply line and thereby helping to precipitate the fall of Atlanta; and holding the defensive line at the Battle of Franklin, a Union victory that effectively ended the Confederate threat in the West. At a time when there were few professional schools other than West Point, the self-made man was the standard for success; true to that mode, Cox fashioned himself into a Renaissance man. In each of his vocations and avocations—general, governor, cabinet secretary, university president, law school dean, railroad president, historian, and scientist—he was recognized as a leader. Cox’s greatest fame, however, came to him as the foremost participant historian of the Civil War. His accounts of the conflict are to this day cited by serious scholars and serve as a foundation for the interpretation of many aspects of the war.
Author | : Irvin McDowell |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1863 |
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Author | : Sean Michael Chick |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2022-04-15 |
Genre | : Generals |
ISBN | : 9781611215212 |
Few Civil War generals attracted as much debate and controversy as Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard. He combined brilliance and charisma with arrogance and histrionics. Sean Michael Chick explores a life of contradictions and dreams unrealized--the first real hero of the Confederacy who sometimes proved to be his own worst enemy.
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Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Fredericksburg (Va.) |
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The first letter, dated September 30, 1861, is from General McDowell to Governor Ichabod Goodwin, recommending 1st Lieutenant Haldimand S. Putnam for the appointment of Colonel. The second letter, dated May 23, 1862, is from General McDowell to Captain R. S. Lacy, asking for delivery of oats and hay to Sergeant Butler. The third letter, dated May 24, 1862, is from General McDowell to General King, asking him to meet General Chase at headquarters to discuss the recent actions of President Lincoln.