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    Commanders of the Civil War: Brief Biographies of Selected Generals and Statesmen in the Conflict of the War Between the States
    Commanders of the Civil War: Brief Biographies of Selected Generals and Statesmen in the Conflict of the War Between the States
    Commanders of the Civil War: Brief Biographies of Selected Generals and Statesmen in the Conflict of the War Between the States
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    Commanders of the Civil War: Brief Biographies of Selected Generals and Statesmen in the Conflict of the War Between the States

    By George A Scott

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    Entering the service on either side at various ranks and from all walks of life, thousands of men commanded as officers over the course of the Civil War. Some rose meteorically to high rank, while others ended their service considerably lower than their initial commission. The select group of forty-four commanders included in this book all served at the highest ranks and have been included for their particular contributions during the war between the states. Each brief biography includes the highlights of the subject's career, place and date of birth and death, and is paired with a period photographic portrait (recently digitized at high resolution) from the Library of Congress collection of images.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScott Nix, Inc.
    Release dateDec 1, 2011
    ISBN9781935622352
    Commanders of the Civil War: Brief Biographies of Selected Generals and Statesmen in the Conflict of the War Between the States

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      Commanders of the Civil War - George A Scott

      COMMANDERS

      OF THE

      CIVIL WAR

      BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF

      SELECTED GENERALS AND STATESMEN

      IN THE CONFLICT OF

      THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES

      GEORGE SCOTT

      © 2011 by Scott & Nix, Inc., New York

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher.

      frontispiece: Brady-Handy Collection (Library of Congress)

      Prepared by Scott & Nix, Inc.

      150 West 28th Street, Suite 1103

      New York, NY 10001

      www.scottandnix.com

      All photography reproduced courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

      Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

      isbn (ePub): 978-1-935622-35-2

      isbn (PDF): 978-1-935622-36-9

      isbn (Kindle): 978-1-935622-37-6

      Contents

      Introduction

      General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

      General Braxton Bragg

      Admiral Franklin Buchanan

      Major General Benjamin Franklin Cheatham

      Major General George Armstrong Curly Custer

      President Jefferson Davis

      Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early

      Admiral David Glasgow Farragut

      Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest

      Major General John Charles Frémont

      Major General James Abram Garfield

      Major General John Gibbon

      General-in-Chief Ulysses Simpson Grant

      Chief-of-Staff Henry Wager Halleck

      Vice President Hannibal Hamlin

      Major General Winfield Scott Hancock

      Lieutenant General William Joseph Old Reliable Hardee

      Lieutenant General Ambrose Powell Hill

      Lieutenant General John Bell Hood

      Major General Joseph Fightin’ Joe Hooker

      Lieutenant General Thomas Jonathan Stonewall Jackson

      Major General Richard W. Johnson

      General Joseph Eggleston Johnston

      General-in-Chief Robert Edward Lee

      President Abraham Lincoln

      Major General John Alexander Black Jack Logan

      Lieutenant General James Old Pete Longstreet

      Major General George Brinton Little Mac McClellan

      Major General Irvin McDowell

      Major General George Gordon Meade

      Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan

      Lieutenant General John Clifford Pemberton

      Major General George Edward Pickett

      Major General Philip Henry Little Phil Sheridan

      Major General William Tecumseh Cump Sherman

      General Edmund Kirby Smith

      Vice President Alexander Stephens

      Major General Carter Littlepage Stevenson

      Major General James Ewell Brown Jeb Stuart

      Major General George Henry Rock of Chickamauga Thomas

      Major General Emory Upton

      Lieutenant General Joseph Fightin’ Joe Wheeler

      Major General James Harrison Wilson

      Admiral John Lorimer Worden

      Introduction

      Entering the service on either side at various ranks and from all walks of life, thousands of men commanded as officers over the course of the Civil War. Some rose meteorically to high rank, while others ended their service considerably lower than their initial commission. Hundreds of officers fell during this bloody period in our nation’s past, sacrificing their lives in the service of their cause and country.

      The select group of commanders included in this small book all served at the highest ranks and have been included for their particular contributions.

      Interested readers are urged to seek out the excellent books that summarize the lives of famous figures of the Civil War in a much more comprehensive and scholarly way, including Ezra J. Warner’s classic books in two volumes,

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