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With Union armies poised to launch the final campaigns against the Confederacy in 1864, three of its five commanders were "political generals"—appointed officers with little or no military training. Army chief of staff Henry Halleck thought such generals jeopardized the lives of men under their command and he and his peers held them in utter contempt. Historians have largely followed suit.Thomas Goss, however, offers a new and more positive assessment of the leadership qualities of these Northern commanders. In the process, he cuts through the stereotypes of political generals as superfluous and largely inept tacticians, ambitious schemers, and military failures. Goss examines the reasons why the selection process yielded so many generals who lacked military backgrounds and explores the tense and often bitter relationships among political and professional officers to illuminate the dynamics of Union generalship during the war. As this book reveals, professional generals viewed the war as a military problem requiring battlefield solutions, while appointees (and President Lincoln) focused more emphatically on the broader political contours of the struggle. The resulting friction ofte
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- Author
- Goss, Thomas Joseph, 1964-
- Publisher
- Lawrence: University Press of Kansas
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780700612635
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Political Science
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (6 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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