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Leaders of the American Civil War : a biographical and historiographical dictionary / edited by Charles F. Ritter and Jon L. Wakelyn.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography--Dictionaries.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Historiography--Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (500 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Provides an overview of the careers of the great military leaders and the critical political leaders of the American Civil War. Entries consider the leader's character and pre-war experience, their contributions to the war effort, and the war's impact on the rest of their lives. An assessment of their historical treatment puts their long-term reputations on the line, and results in a thorough revision of some leaders, a call for further study of others, and a reaffirmation of the accomplishments of the greatest leaders.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Making and Meaning of Greatness; Biographical Dictionary; Joseph Reid Anderson; Clara Barton; Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard; Henry Ward Beecher; Judah Philip Benjamin; Thomas Stanley Bocock; Braxton Bragg; Joseph Emerson Brown; Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain; Salmon Portland Chase; Jay Cooke; Charles Anderson Dana; Jefferson Finis Davis; Varina Howell Davis; Dorothea Lynde Dix; Frederick Douglass; Josiah Gorgas; Ulysses Simpson Grant; Henry Wager Halleck; John Bell Hood
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro HunterThomas Jonathan Jackson; Andrew Johnson; Joseph Eggleston Johnston; Robert Edward Lee; Abraham Lincoln; James Longstreet; George Brinton McClellan; Stephen Russell Mallory; George Gordon Meade; Christopher Gustavus Memminger; Oliver Perry Morton; Benjamin Morgan Palmer; Edward Alfred Pollard; David Dixon Porter; James Alexander Seddon; Raphael Semmes; William Henry Seward; Philip Henry Sheridan; William Tecumseh Sherman; Edwin McMaster Stanton; Alexander Hamilton Stephens; Thaddeus Stevens; Charles Sumner; George Henry Thomas; Walt(er) Whitman
- Louis Trezevant WigfallIndex; About the Contributors
- Notes:
- First published 1998 by Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-93625-0
- 1-135-00460-9
- 1-135-93618-8
- 1-315-06229-1
- 9781315062297
- OCLC:
- 874146576
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