Generals in Blue and Gray
Title:
Generals in Blue and Gray
Author:
Jones, Wilmer L., 1931-
ISBN:
9780811732864
9780811732888
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Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, 2006.
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
V. 1. LINCOLN'S GENERALS. The making of a president -- Abraham Lincoln: Commander-in-Chief -- Winfield Scott: "Old Fuss and Feathers" -- Irvin McDowell: hard luck general -- Benjamin F. Butler: "the beast" -- George B. McClellan: the general with the "slows" -- Don Carlos Buell: "the McClellan of the west" -- William S. Rosecrans: "Old Rosy" -- John Pope: the "Miscreant" -- John A. McClernand: the congressman general -- Henry Wagner Halleck: "Old Brains" -- Ambrose E. Burnside: reluctant commander -- Ulysses S. Grant: "Unconditional Surrender Grant" -- Daniel E. Sickles: a man of controversy -- William Tecumseh Sherman: advocate of total war -- John Sedgwick: "Uncle John" -- Joseph Hooker: "Fighting Joe" -- George H. Thomas: "The Rock of Chickamauga" -- Philip Sheridan: worth his weight in gold -- John F. Reynolds: man of honor -- George Gordon Meade: the cautious general -- Hugh Judson Kilpatrick: "Kill-Cavalry" -- Winfield Scott Hancock: "Hancock the Superb" -- Epilogue: the death of a president -- V. 2. DAVIS'S GENERALS. The making of a rebel -- Jefferson Davis: Confederate chief -- Martyr of the lost cause -- P.G.T. Beauregard: "Napoleon in gray" -- Joseph E. Johnston: "Retreatin' Johnston" -- Robert E. Lee: Man of honor -- Thomas J. Jackson: "Stonewall" -- Albert Sidney Johnston: Texan, soldier, gentleman -- Braxton Bragg: "quick-tempered martinet" -- Patrick Cleburne: Stonewall of the west -- Nathan Bedford Forrest: "that devil Forrest" -- James Longstreet: "scapegoat general" -- J.E.B. Stuart: bold warrior -- John Bell Hood: the fighting Texan -- John C. Breckinridge: statesman and soldier of the Confederacy -- Leonidas Polk: "the fighting bishop" -- John Hunt Morgan: "thunderbolt of the Confederacy" -- Ambrose Powell Hill: always ready for a fight -- Richard Taylor: "soldier prince of the Confederacy" -- Richard S. Ewell: "Old Bald Head" -- Jubal E. Early: "Old Jube" -- John Brown Gordon: "A soldier's soldier" -- Daniel Harvey Hill: "maverick general" -- William J. Hardee: "Old Reliable" -- Epilogue: Davis as Commander-in-Chief.
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