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Lincoln Takes Command

Author : Steve Norder
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1611214580
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Lincoln Takes Command written by Steve Norder and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed history of one week during the Civil War in which the American president assumed control of the nation’s military. One rainy evening in May, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln boarded the revenue cutter Miami and sailed to Fort Monroe in Hampton Roads, Virginia. There, for the first and only time in our country’s history, a sitting president assumed direct control of armed forces to launch a military campaign. In Lincoln Takes Command, author Steve Norderdetails this exciting, little-known week in Civil War history. Lincoln recognized the strategic possibilities offered by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s ongoing Peninsula Campaign and the importance of seizing Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the Gosport Navy Yard. For five days, the president spent time on sea and land, studied maps, spoke with military leaders, suggested actions, and issued direct orders to subordinate commanders. He helped set in motion many events, including the naval bombardment of a Confederate fort, the sailing of Union ships up the James River toward the enemy capital, an amphibious landing of Union soldiers followed by an overland march that expedited the capture of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the navy yard, and the destruction of the Rebel ironclad CSS Virginia. The president returned to Washington in triumph, with some urging him to assume direct command of the nation’s field armies. The week discussed in Lincoln Takes Command has never been as heavily researched or told in such fine detail. The successes that crowned Lincoln’s short time in Hampton Roads offered him a better understanding of, and more confidence in, his ability to see what needed to be accomplished. This insight helped sustain him through the rest of the war.

Lincoln Takes Command

Author : John S. Tilley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780931709128
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Lincoln Takes Command

Author : John S. Tilley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780931709036
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Lincoln Takes Command written by John S. Tilley and published by . This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOT JUST ANOTHER CIVIL WAR BOOK. Many books have been written about the causes of the Civil War; however "Lincoln Takes Command" is different in that it was researched & written by John S. Tilley, an attorney of national stature. Mr. Tilley spent many months in Washington searching records, many of which were piled in the corner of a warehouse mixed with other non-related records. The index is very complete & you will notice that the record is given from the original source such as Ida Tarbell & John G. Nicolay, Lincoln's secretaries, Secretary of State Seward & others who served as Lincoln's inner circle & knew exactly what transpired & when. The Confederate record is from correspondence of Jefferson Davis, the governor of South Carolina & other such sources that were on the scene at the time the drama unfolded. Many people agree that "Lincoln Takes Command" is the most accurate & best indexed book on the causes of the separation of the states. The open minded reader will find in Mr. Tilley's work much that will both surprise & enlighten him. "Lincoln Takes Command" is a classic classroom text. A necessity for any serious history student's library.

Lee Takes Command

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 : 9780809448043
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Lee Takes Command written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When General Robert E. Lee took command of the Confederate forces defending Richmond in June of 1862, he was famous yet little known. How Lee's background and training prepared him for his supreme trial is shown on the following pages. - from the book.

Grant Takes Command

Author : Bruce Catton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504024214
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Grant Takes Command written by Bruce Catton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s “lively and absorbing” biography of Ulysses S. Grant and his leadership during the Civil War (The New York Times Book Review). This conclusion to Bruce Catton’s acclaimed history of General Grant begins in the summer of 1863. After Grant’s bold and decisive triumph over the Confederate Army at Vicksburg, President Lincoln promoted him to the head of the Army of the Potomac. The newly named general was virtually unknown to the Union’s military high command, but he proved himself in the brutal closing year and a half of the War Between the States. Grant’s strategic brilliance and unshakeable tenacity crushed the Confederacy in the battles of the Overland Campaign in Virginia and the Siege of Petersburg. In the spring of 1865, Grant finally forced Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, thus ending the bloodiest conflict on American soil. Although tragedy struck only days later when Lincoln—whom Grant called “incontestably the greatest man I have ever known”—was assassinated, Grant’s military triumphs would ensure that the president’s principles of unity and freedom would endure. In Grant Takes Command, Catton offers readers an in-depth portrait of an extraordinary warrior and unparalleled military strategist whose brilliant battlefield leadership saved an endangered Union.

Lincoln Takes Command

Author : John Shipley Tilley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lincoln Takes Command written by John Shipley Tilley and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Alabama lawyer undertakes to show just how war came about between the United States and the confederacy in 1861.

Conflict of Command

Author : George C. Rable
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807179779
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Conflict of Command written by George C. Rable and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fraught relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan is well known, so much so that many scholars rarely question the standard narrative casting the two as foils, with the Great Emancipator inevitably coming out on top over his supposedly feckless commander. In Conflict of Command, acclaimed Civil War historian George C. Rable rethinks that stance, providing a new understanding of the interaction between the president and his leading wartime general by reinterpreting the political aspects of their partnership. Rable pays considerable attention to Lincoln’s cabinet, Congress, and newspaper editorials, revealing the role each played in shaping the dealings between the two men. While he surveys McClellan’s military campaigns as commander of the Army of the Potomac, Rable focuses on the political fallout of the fighting rather than the tactical details. This broadly conceived approach highlights the army officers and enlisted men who emerged as citizen-soldiers and political actors. Most accounts of the Lincoln-McClellan feud solely examine one of the two individuals, and the vast majority adopt a steadfast pro-Lincoln position. Taking a more neutral view, Rable deftly shows how the relationship between the two developed in a political context and ultimately failed spectacularly, profoundly altering the course of the Civil War itself.

Mr. Lincoln's Army

Author : Bruce Catton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504024184
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Lincoln's Army written by Bruce Catton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of the early battles, first in the Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy: “One of America’s foremost Civil War authorities” (Kirkus Reviews). The first book in Bruce Catton’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln’s Army is a riveting history of the early years of the Civil War, when a fledgling Union Army took its stumbling first steps under the command of the controversial general George McClellan. Following the secession of the Southern states, a beleaguered President Abraham Lincoln entrusted the dashing, charismatic McClellan with the creation of the Union’s Army of the Potomac and the responsibility of leading it to a swift and decisive victory against Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Although a brilliant tactician who was beloved by his troops and embraced by the hero-hungry North, McClellan’s ego and ambition ultimately put him at loggerheads with his commander in chief—a man McClellan considered unworthy of the presidency. McClellan’s weaknesses were exposed during the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history, which ended in a stalemate even though the Confederate troops were greatly outnumbered. After Antietam, Lincoln ordered McClellan’s removal from command, and the Union entered the war’s next chapter having suffered thousands of casualties and with great uncertainty ahead. America’s premier chronicler of the nation’s brutal internecine conflict, Bruce Catton is renowned for his unparalleled ability to bring a detailed and vivid immediacy to Civil War battlefields and military strategy sessions. With tremendous depth and insight, he presents legendary commanders and common soldiers in all their complex and heartbreaking humanity.

Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies

Author : John F. Marszalek
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674040643
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies written by John F. Marszalek and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1862, President Lincoln called General Henry W. Halleck to Washington, D.C., to take command of all Union armies in the death struggle against the Confederacy. For the next two turbulent years, Halleck was Lincoln's chief war advisor, the man the President deferred to in all military matters. Yet, despite the fact that he was commanding general far longer than his successor, Ulysses S. Grant, he is remembered only as a failed man, ignored by posterity. In the first comprehensive biography of Halleck, the prize-winning historian John F. Marszalek recreates the life of a man of enormous achievement who bungled his most important mission. When Lincoln summoned him to the nation's capital, Halleck boasted outstanding qualifications as a military theorist, a legal scholar, a brave soldier, and a California entrepreneur. Yet in the thick of battle, he couldn't make essential decisions. Unable to produce victory for the Union forces, he saw his power become subsumed by Grant's emergent leadership, a loss that paved the way for Halleck's path to obscurity. Harnessing previously unused research, as well as the insights of modern medicine and psychology, Marszalek unearths the seeds of Halleck's fatal wartime indecisiveness in personality traits and health problems. In this brilliant dissection of a rich and disappointed life, we gain new understanding of how the key decisions of the Civil War were taken, as well as insight into the making of effective military leadership.

Lincoln's Lieutenants

Author : Stephen W. Sears
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544826256
Total Pages : 901 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book Lincoln's Lieutenants written by Stephen W. Sears and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 901 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multilayered group biography of the Civil War commanders who led the Army of the Potomac: “a staggering work . . . by a masterly historian” (Kirkus, starred review). The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War. President Lincoln oversaw, argued with, and finally tamed his unruly team of lieutenants as the eastern army was stabilized by an unsung supporting cast of corps, division, and brigade generals. With characteristic style and insight, Stephen Sears brings these courageous, determined officers, who rose through the ranks and led from the front, to life and legend. “A masterful synthesis . . . A narrative about amazing courage and astonishing gutlessness . . . It explains why Union movements worked and, more often, didn’t work in clear-eyed explanatory prose that’s vivid and direct.” —Chicago Tribune

Lee Takes Command

Author : Clifford Dowdey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Lee Takes Command written by Clifford Dowdey and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this? account of the emergence of Robert E. Lee, Clifford Dowdey proves the Lee?s aggressive military strategy -- reduced to the simple truism?a good offense is the best defense? -- made the Seven Days battle the single most significant military engagement of the war. Lee?s leadership of the Confederate Army over the next three years placed him among the world?s greatest commanders"--Jacket

Two Roads to Sumter

Author : William B. Catton
Publisher : Castle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780785815976
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Two Roads to Sumter written by William B. Catton and published by Castle Books. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis did not bring the war about. They were, as the word went then, moderates, sharing a common vision of the ultimate value of an undivided country, hoping that the country could compose its differences without loss of blood. But the war came, party in spite of these men and partly because of them, and when it came they fought one another, and led others to fight, so tenaciously that the nation had its most fearful trial by combat. Lincoln and Davis were both the leaders of their peoples and the victims of their times?"(Excerpt from the Introduction) -- back cover.

Command at Antietam: Lincoln, McClellan and Lee

Author : David L. Keller
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467146730
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Command at Antietam: Lincoln, McClellan and Lee written by David L. Keller and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Antietam, widely known as the bloodiest day in American history, was also a pivotal point in the Civil War. The battle itself was a draw, but it ended Robert E. Lee's first attempt at invading the North when his troops withdrew back across the Potomac in the aftermath of the engagement. The outcome of the battle caused President Lincoln to reevaluate the performance of his general George B. McClellan, a decision that altered the outcome of the war. Author David Keller provides a fresh look at the command decisions of Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan before, during and after the Battle of Antietam, with insight into President Lincoln's evaluation of McClellan and his use of the Battle of Antietam for political purposes.

The Lincoln Nobody Knows

Author : Richard N. Current
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809000598
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Lincoln Nobody Knows written by Richard N. Current and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1958 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abraham Lincoln as politician, president, and human being comes to life in all the conflicts, paradoxes, and seeming contradictions that surround him. Packed with fascinating details, The Lincoln Nobody Knows is a study of the obscure and misunderstood facets of the great statesman's career and private life."--Back cover

Lincoln's Political Generals

Author : Benton Rain Patterson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786478578
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Lincoln's Political Generals written by Benton Rain Patterson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lincoln's most controversial generals--his so-called "political generals"--were appointed, promoted or kept in service for political purposes without regard for their competence. "It seems but little better than murder," the Army's general in chief, Henry Halleck, protested, "to give important commands to such men." The book shows these seven generals--Butler, Banks, Sigel, Fremont, McClernand, Hurlbut and Wallace--in action, allowing readers to decide for themselves if Halleck was right in his withering assessment of Lincoln's political generals.

Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails

Author : Tom Wheeler
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061749834
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails written by Tom Wheeler and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War was the first "modern war." Because of the rapid changes in American society, Abraham Lincoln became president of a divided United States during a period of technological and social revolution. Among the many modern marvels that gave the North an advantage was the telegraph, which Lincoln used to stay connected to the forces in the field in almost real time. No leader in history had ever possessed such a powerful tool to gain control over a fractious situation. An eager student of technology, Lincoln (the only president to hold a patent) had to learn to use the power of electronic messages. Without precedent to guide him, Lincoln began by reading the telegraph traffic among his generals. Then he used the telegraph to supplement his preferred form of communication—meetings and letters. He did not replace those face-to-face interactions. Through this experience, Lincoln crafted the best way to guide, reprimand, praise, reward, and encourage his commanders in the field. Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails tells a big story within a small compass. By paying close attention to Lincoln's "lightning messages," we see a great leader adapt to a new medium. No reader of this work of history will be able to miss the contemporary parallels. Watching Lincoln carefully word his messages—and follow up on those words with the right actions—offers a striking example for those who spend their days tapping out notes on computers and BlackBerrys. An elegant work of history, Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails is an instructive example of timeless leadership lessons.

Lincoln and His Generals

Author : T. Harry Williams
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307741966
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Lincoln and His Generals written by T. Harry Williams and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was first published in 1952, Lincoln and His Generals has remained one of the definitive accounts of Lincoln’s wartime leadership. In it T. Harry Williams dramatizes Lincoln’s long and frustrating search for an effective leader of the Union Army and traces his transformation from a politician with little military knowledge into a master strategist of the Civil War. Explored in depth are Lincoln’s often fraught relationships with generals such as McClellan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker, Fremont, and of course, Ulysses S. Grant. In this superbly written narrative, Williams demonstrates how Lincoln’s persistent “meddling” into military affairs was crucial to the Northern war effort and utterly transformed the president’s role as commander-in-chief.