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Language: en
Pages: 328
Pages: 328
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Modern War Studies
As this book reveals, professional generals viewed the war as a military problem requiring battlefield solutions, while appointees (and President Lincoln) focus
Language: en
Pages: 420
Pages: 420
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Kent State University Press
A sympathetic assessment of Major General John Alexander McClernand, a highly controversial individual who served his country as soldier and statesman. It sheds
Language: en
Pages: 218
Pages: 218
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-11 - Publisher: McFarland
John A. McClernand was a career politician, and those ambitions and qualities continued during his Civil War service. A member of the Illinois General Assembly
Language: en
Pages: 322
Pages: 322
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-03-18 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
At the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln sought to bind important political leaders to the Union by appointing them as generals. The task wa