Generals in Blue and Gray
The twenty-one profiles of Confederate generals in this volume chronicle the South's war effort. Familiar leaders such as Lee, Jackson, and Stuart are each covered, as are the notorious Nathan Bedford Forrest, Episcopalian bishop Leonidas Polk, and John C. Breckinridge, who ran against Lincoln in 1860 and briefly served in the US Senate.
Print Book, English, 2006
Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2006
Biography
2 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780811732864, 9780811732888, 081173286X, 0811732886
71193563
V. 1. LINCOLN'S GENERALS. The making of a president
Abraham Lincoln: Commander-in-Chief
Winfield Scott: "Old Fuss and Feathers"
Irvin McDowell: hard luck general
Benjamin F. Butler: "the beast"
George B. McClellan: the general with the "slows"
Don Carlos Buell: "the McClellan of the west"
William S. Rosecrans: "Old Rosy"
John Pope: the "Miscreant"
John A. McClernand: the congressman general
Henry Wagner Halleck: "Old Brains"
Ambrose E. Burnside: reluctant commander
Ulysses S. Grant: "Unconditional Surrender Grant"
Daniel E. Sickles: a man of controversy
William Tecumseh Sherman: advocate of total war
John Sedgwick: "Uncle John"
Joseph Hooker: "Fighting Joe"
George H. Thomas: "The Rock of Chickamauga"
Philip Sheridan: worth his weight in gold
John F. Reynolds: man of honor
George Gordon Meade: the cautious general
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick: "Kill-Cavalry"
Winfield Scott Hancock: "Hancock the Superb"
Epilogue: the death of a president
V. 2. DAVIS'S GENERALS. The making of a rebel
Jefferson Davis: Confederate chief
Martyr of the lost cause
P.G.T. Beauregard: "Napoleon in gray"
Joseph E. Johnston: "Retreatin' Johnston"
Robert E. Lee: Man of honor
Thomas J. Jackson: "Stonewall"
Albert Sidney Johnston: Texan, soldier, gentleman
Braxton Bragg: "quick-tempered martinet"
Patrick Cleburne: Stonewall of the west
Nathan Bedford Forrest: "that devil Forrest"
James Longstreet: "scapegoat general"
J.E.B. Stuart: bold warrior
John Bell Hood: the fighting Texan
John C. Breckinridge: statesman and soldier of the Confederacy
Leonidas Polk: "the fighting bishop"
John Hunt Morgan: "thunderbolt of the Confederacy"
Ambrose Powell Hill: always ready for a fight
Richard Taylor: "soldier prince of the Confederacy"
Richard S. Ewell: "Old Bald Head"
Jubal E. Early: "Old Jube"
John Brown Gordon: "A soldier's soldier"
Daniel Harvey Hill: "maverick general"
William J. Hardee: "Old Reliable"
Epilogue: Davis as Commander-in-Chief