Corps Commanders in Blue : Union Major Generals in the Civil War.
Title:
Corps Commanders in Blue : Union Major Generals in the Civil War.
Author:
Rafuse, Ethan S.
ISBN:
9780807157039
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Series:
Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Conservatism's Dying Ember Fitz John Porter and the Union War, 1862 -- 2 "Too Bad, Poor Fellows" Joseph K. F. Mansfield and the XII Corps at Antietam -- 3 An "Acting Major General" Charles Champion Gilbert at Perryville -- 4 "The Longest and Clearest Head of Any General Officer" George Gordon Meade as Corps Commander, December 1862-June 1863 -- 5 Grant's Junior Lieutenant James B. McPherson and the Vicksburg Campaign, 1863 -- 6 William B. Franklin and the XIX Corps in the Trans-Mississippi, 1863-64 -- 7 "Always 'Fighting Joe'" Joseph Hooker and the Campaign in North Georgia, May-July 1864 -- 8 Winfield Scott Hancock and the Overland Campaign -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Ethan S. Rafuse is professor of military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the author of eight books on the Civil War, including Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy and Manassas: A Battlefield Guide.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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