Covering both the great military leaders and the critical civilian leaders, this book provides an overview of their careers and a professional assessment of their accomplishments. Entries consider the leaders' character and prewar experiences, their contributions to the war effort, and the war's impact on the rest of their lives. The entries then look at how history has assessed these leaders, thus putting their longtime reputations on the line. The result is a thorough revision of some leaders' careers, a call for further study of others, and a reaffirmation of the accomplishments of the…mehr
Covering both the great military leaders and the critical civilian leaders, this book provides an overview of their careers and a professional assessment of their accomplishments. Entries consider the leaders' character and prewar experiences, their contributions to the war effort, and the war's impact on the rest of their lives. The entries then look at how history has assessed these leaders, thus putting their longtime reputations on the line. The result is a thorough revision of some leaders' careers, a call for further study of others, and a reaffirmation of the accomplishments of the greatest leaders. Analyzing the leaders historiographically, the work shows how the leaders wanted to be remembered, how postwar memorists and biographers saw them, the verdict of early historians, and how the best modern historians have assessed their contributions. By including a variety of leaders from both civilian and military roles, the book provides a better understanding of the total war, and by relating their lives to their times, it provides a better understanding of historical revisionism and of why history has been so interested in Civil War lives.
CHARLES F. RITTER is Professor and Chairperson of History at the College of Notre Dame in Maryland. He is coauthor, with Jon L. Wakelyn, of American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910 (Greenwood, 1989). JON L. WAKELYN is Professor of History at Kent State University. He is the author of several books, including Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy (Greenwood, 1977), Web of Southern Social Relations (1985), and Southern Pamphlets on Secession (1996).
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Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Historiography and the Making and Meaning of Greatness Biographies Joseph Reid Anderson Clara Barton Henry Ward Beecher Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard Judah Philip Benjamin Thomas Stanley Bocock Braxton Bragg Joseph Emerson Brown Joseph Lawrence Chamberlain Salmon Portland Chase Jay Cooke Charles Anderson Dana Jefferson Finis Davis Varina Howell Davis Dorothea Lynde Dix Frederic Douglass Josiah Gorgas Ulysses Simpson Grant Henry Wager Halleck John Bell Hood Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter Thomas Jonathan Jackson Andrew Johnson Joseph Eggleston Johnston Robert Edward Lee Abraham Lincoln James Longstreet George Brinton McClellan Steven Russell Mallory George Gordon Meade Christopher Gustavus Memminger Oliver Perry Morton Benjamin Morgan Palmer Edward Alfred Pollard David Dixon Porter James Alexander Seddon Raphael Semmes William Henry Seward Philip Henry Sheridan William Tecumseh Sherman Edwin McMaster Stanton Alexander Hamilton Stephens Thaddeus Stevens Charles Sumner George Henry Thomas Walt Whitman Louis Tresevant Wigfall Index
Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Historiography and the Making and Meaning of Greatness Biographies Joseph Reid Anderson Clara Barton Henry Ward Beecher Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard Judah Philip Benjamin Thomas Stanley Bocock Braxton Bragg Joseph Emerson Brown Joseph Lawrence Chamberlain Salmon Portland Chase Jay Cooke Charles Anderson Dana Jefferson Finis Davis Varina Howell Davis Dorothea Lynde Dix Frederic Douglass Josiah Gorgas Ulysses Simpson Grant Henry Wager Halleck John Bell Hood Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter Thomas Jonathan Jackson Andrew Johnson Joseph Eggleston Johnston Robert Edward Lee Abraham Lincoln James Longstreet George Brinton McClellan Steven Russell Mallory George Gordon Meade Christopher Gustavus Memminger Oliver Perry Morton Benjamin Morgan Palmer Edward Alfred Pollard David Dixon Porter James Alexander Seddon Raphael Semmes William Henry Seward Philip Henry Sheridan William Tecumseh Sherman Edwin McMaster Stanton Alexander Hamilton Stephens Thaddeus Stevens Charles Sumner George Henry Thomas Walt Whitman Louis Tresevant Wigfall Index
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