Leaders of the American Civil War

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Leaders of the American Civil War A Biographical and Historiographical Dictionary

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Edited by Charles F. Ritter and Jon L. Wakelyn

ISBN: 0-313-29560-3

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29560-7

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504 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 11/30/1998

List Price: $129.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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The essays are accurate, objective, and authoritative....[T]he scope of the entries, the particular context provided by focusing on the war, and the readability of the prose mean that the volume will be a useful addition to public and academic libraries.
—Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
Civil War buffs will welcome this biographical dictionary...a valuable feature is an extended commentary and analysis of some of the outstanding items of the vast historiography about the Civil War.
—Library Journal
Undergraduates and general readers will find this volume to be a boon in their initial search for facts and interpretations about forty-seven selected leaders of the American Civil War. Historians will find cogent essays surveying the lives and failures or accomplishments of a diverse group of politicians, journalists, religious leaders, military commanders, and other public figures.
—Journal of Military History
This volume makes good reading for pleasure by any Civil War buff....History students in colleges and universities will find it invaluable for course and research assignments....This book is highly recommended for all libraries and individuals with an interest in the Civil War.
—American Reference Books Annual

Description: 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.

Table of Contents:

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

LC Card Number: 98-12156

LCC Class: E467

Dewey Class: 973


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