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Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff Paperback - 1996

by Stephen E. Ambrose

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"Halleck originates nothing, anticipates nothing, to assist others; takes no responsibility, plans nothing, suggests nothing, is good for nothing." Lincoln's secretary of the navy Gideon Welles's harsh words embody the stereotype into which Union General-in-Chief Henry Wager Halleck has been cast by most historians since Appomattox. In Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff, originally published in 1962, Stephen Ambrose challenges the standard interpretation of this controversial figure.

Ambrose argues persuasively that Halleck has been greatly underrated as a war theorist because of past writers' failure to do justice to his close involvement with movements basic to the development of the American military establishment. He concedes that "by all the touchstones used to judge great captains of the past, Halleck was a failure," but maintains he was nonetheless "the 'Old Brains' of the Union Army in the time of the testing of the nation."

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His story is the story of the Civil War.

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Ambrose's fine book is sound, thoughtful, and scholarly. It also demonstrates an understanding of the high command in modern war and helps to explain the divergent attitudes of Halleck's contemporaries.

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  • Title Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff
  • Author Stephen E. Ambrose
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher LSU Press, Baton Rouge
  • Publication date 1996-04-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780807120712 / 0807120715
  • Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.53 x 5.54 x 0.52 in (21.67 x 14.07 x 1.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - History - Civil War,, Halleck, H. W
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 61011740
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.7

About the author

Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002) was the author of many biographies and histories, including Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest; The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany; Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West; Upton and the Army; and a three-volume biography of Richard Nixon. It was after reading Halleck, Ambrose's first book, that Dwight Eisenhower asked Ambrose to write his biography.

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