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Corps commanders in blue : Union major generals in the Civil War / edited by Ethan S. Rafuse.

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The outcomes of campaigns in the Civil War often depended on top generals having the right corps commanders in the right place at the right time. Mutual trust and respect between generals and their corps commanders, though vital to military success, was all too rare: Corps commanders were often forc...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Rafuse, Ethan Sepp, 1968- (Author, Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2015.
Series:Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War.
Subjects:
United States. > Army > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
Command of troops > History > 19th century.
Generals > United States > Biography.
United States. > Army.
American Civil War > (1861-1865)
Command of troops.
Generals.
Military campaigns.
United States.
Biography.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Conservatism's dying ember: Fitz John Porter and the Union war, 1862 / John J. Hennessy
  • "Too bad, poor fellows": Joseph K.F. Mansfield and the XII Corps at Antietam / Thomas G. Clemens
  • An "acting major general": Charles Champion Gilbert at Perryville / Kenneth W. Noe
  • "The longest and clearest head of any general officer": george gordon meade as corps commander, december 1862 june 1863 / Christopher S. Stowe
  • Grant's junior lieutenant: James B. McPherson and the Vicksburg Campaign, 1863 / Steven E. Woodworth
  • William B. Franklin and the XIX Corps in the trans-Mississippi, 1863-64 / Mark A. Snell
  • "Always Fighting Joe'": Joseph Hooker and the campaign in North Georgia, May-July 1864 / Ethan S. Rafuse
  • Winfield Scott Hancock and the Overland Campaign / Brooks D. Simpson.

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