Lincoln's Generals

Name: Lincoln's Generals
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ISBN: 9780803234543

ISBN-10: 0803234546

ISBN-13: 9780803234543

Edition: 2010

Authors: Gabor S. Boritt, Stephen W. Sears, Michael Fellman, Mark Neely, John Simon

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InLincoln's Generals, Gabor S. Boritt and a team of distinguished historians examine the interaction between Abraham Lincoln and his five key Civil War generals: McClellan, Hooker, Meade, Sherman, and Grant, providing fresh insight into this mixed bag of officers and the president's tireless efforts to work with them. The president's relationship with his generals was never easy. Stephen W. Sears underscores McClellan's perverse obstinacy as Lincoln tried to drive him ahead. Pulitzer Prizewinner Mark E. Neely Jr. sheds new light on the president's relationship with Hooker, arguing that he was wrong to push the general to attack at Chancellorsville. Boritt writes about Lincoln's prickly…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 9/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction




Lincoln and McClellan




Wilderness and the Cult of Manliness: Hooker, Lincoln, and Defeat




ï¿½Unfinished Workï¿½: Lincoln, Meade, and Gettysburg




Lincoln and Sherman




Grant, Lincoln, and Unconditional Surrender



Notes


For Further Reading: A Bibliography


Contributors