Description
Book SynopsisAssesses Union generalship during the final two years of the Civil War. Steven Woodworth, one of the war’s premier historians, is joined by a team of distinguished scholars who critique Ulysses S. Grant’s commanders in terms of both their working relationship with their general-in-chief and their actual performances.
Trade Review"In the long run, the relationships commanders forge with subordinates are no less important than the decisions they make on a battlefield. Informed, insightful and sometimes surprising, these eleven essays extend and revise our perspective on Grant during the first three years of the Civil War. Highly recommended."—Mark Grimsley, author of The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861–1865
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- “A Full Share of All the Credit”: Sherman and Grant to the Fall of Vicksburg, John F. Marszalek
- “Earned on the Field of Battle”: William H.L. Wallace, Steven E. Woodworth
- The Reliable First Team: Grant and Charles Ferguson Smith, Benjamin Franklin Cooling
- “If He Had Less Rank”: Lewis Wallace, Stacy D. Allen
- The Forging of Joint Army-Navy Operations: Andrew Hull Foote and Grant, Benjamin Franklin Cooling
- “I Could Not Make Him Do As I Wished”: The Failed Relationship of William S. Rosecrans and Grant, Lesley J. Gordon
- Fighting Politician: John A. McClernand, Terrence J. Winschel
- A Matter of Trust: Grant and James B. McPherson, Tamara A. Smith
- “We Had Lively Times up the Yazoo”: Admiral David Dixon Porter, R. Blake Dunnavent
- The War of Spies and Supplies: Grant and Grenville M. Dodge in the West, 1862-1864, William B. Feis
- Grant’s Ethnic General: Peter J. Osterhaus, Earl J. Hess
- Notes
- List of Contributors
- Index
