Search results for “[Subject: civil-general]”

• Author(s): Wayne Fanebust • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Alexander M. McCook, one of the youngest major generals in the Union army, was a member of a patriotic family from Ohi...

• Author(s): Dan Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Thomas J. Wood, Kentuckian, graduated fifth in his West Point class in 1846 and joined the staff of General Zachary Taylor. T...

• Author(s): Allen H. Mesch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) From West Point to Fort Donelson, General Charles Ferguson Smith was a soldier's s...

• Author(s): Christopher C. Meyers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military John A. McClernand was a career politician, and those ambitions and qualities continued during his Civil War se...

• Author(s): Lawrence G. Kautz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) Born in Germany in 1828, future Union general August Valentine Kautz came to Am...

• Author(s): Stephen Nicholas Siciliano • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Lauded for gallantry at Antietam and demoted for insubordination after Fredericksburg, Major General Willi...

• Author(s): Walter C. Hilderman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The son of a North Carolina governor, Theophilus Hunter Holmes graduated from...

• Author(s): Wayne Mahood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Although he never achieved the renown of Ulysses S. Grant or Robert E. Lee, General Alexander Hays was one of the great ...

• Author(s): Dennis W. Belcher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Medical student turned professional soldier David S. Stanley offered forty years of service to his country on the we...

• Author(s): Thomas K. Tate • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General This biography of General Edwin Vose Sumner emphasizes his role in developing the mounted arm of the U.S. Ar...

• Author(s): John K. Driscoll • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military From his first court martial as a cadet at West Point through his dismissal from the United States Army at the age o...

• Author(s): Frances H. Casstevens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War In June 1862, James J. Archer was promoted to the rank of brigadier general by Robert E. Lee. ...

• Author(s): Richard A. Sauers | Martin H. Sable • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Frank Bartlett was an indifferent student at Harvard when the Civil War began in 1861, but after h...

• Author(s): Jay W. Simson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War With the ascendancy of Ulysses S. Grant in late 1863, the command tone of the United States Army under...

• Author(s): Wayne Fanebust • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The dramatic battlefield deaths of brother Union Army commanders Robert L. McCook ...

• Author(s): Robert R. Laven • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Union General Philip Kearny began his career as a lieutenant with the 1st U.S. Dragoons. He studied cavalry tactics i...

• Author(s): Christopher M. Watford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) "I think that we can hold our position here against any force that the ene...

• Author(s): Ira Spar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General As the Civil War's toll mounted, an antiquated medical system faced a deluge of sick and wounded soldiers. In response, the U...