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 Sepp, 1968-
ISBN:
9780807157039
9780807157046
9780807157022
Publication Information:
Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (311 pages).
Series:
Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War.
Contents:
COVER; 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 18648 Winfield Scott Hancock and the Overland Campaign; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
Abstract:
The outcomes of campaigns in the Civil War often depended on top generals having the right corps commanders in the right place at the right time. Mutual trust and respect between generals and their corps commanders, though vital to military success, was all too rare: Corps commanders were often forced to exercise considerable discretion in the execution of orders from their generals, and bitter public arguments over commanders'' performances in battle followed hard on the heels of many major engagements. Controversies that arose during the war around the decisions of corps and army commanders-
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