From first to last : the life of Major General William B. Franklin / Mark A. Snell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snell, Mark A.

Series:

North's Civil War ; no. 19.

The North's Civil War series, 1089-8719 ; no. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Franklin, William Buel, 1823-1903.

Franklin, William Buel.

Generals--United States--Biography.

Generals.

United States.

Civil engineers--United States--Biography.

Civil engineers.

United States. Army--Biography.

United States. Army.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 392 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2002.

Contents:

1 "A Dutiful and Affectionate Son": From York to West Point 1

2 "Fire Grape at Them if They Get Too Close": From the Great Lakes to the South Pass and Beyond 11

3 "I Have Thought So Much of Leaving the Army": Between Two Wars 27

4 "Rascality in High Places": Washington, 1857-1860 36

5 "The Hottest and Most Disagreeable Fire That Anyone Ever Was In": The War Begins 53

6 "The First Great Crime of the War": From Bull Run to Yorktown 68

7 "Glory Enough for One Day": The Peninsula Campaign, April-June 1862 95

8 "It Is Likely That We Should Have Been Defeated": The Seven Days 116

9 "We Will Try to Do Our Duty": Harrison's Landing to Second Manassas 143

10 "I Would Prefer to Make the Attack": The Maryland Campaign, September 1862 166

11 "The Radical Thirst for Blood": The Battle of Fredericksburg 197

12 "Halleck Deserves Hanging": The Army of the Potomac and the Politics of Defeat 227

13 "The Army Is Literally Stuck in the Mud": Mud Marching and Mudslinging 245

14 "My Whole Campaign Has Been a Perfect Purgatory": Operations in the Department of the Gulf, 1863 263

15 "Don't You Know This Is Mutiny?": The Red River Campaign 295

16 "The Noble Army of the Shelved": Capture, Escape, and Waiting Out the War's End 320

17 "A Butterfly Kind of Existence": Colt's Firearms and a New Beginning 334

18 "A Person Whose Life Had So Little in It to Awake Popular Enthusiasm": Public Servant Till the Very End 347.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-377) and index.

ISBN:

0823221482

0823221490

OCLC:

48053854