Halleck Lincoln's Chief of Staff
by Stephen E. Ambrose
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
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About This Item
Louisiana State University Press, 1996. Paperback. Fine. Softcovers. Fine..226 pp. with bibliography and index, illustrations and maps. Biography of Henry W. Hallack (1815-1872), Civil War officer and the man named general-in-chief of the Union army after McClellan was removes after the Peninsual Campaign. With a reputation as an expert in military studies, he was nicknamed "Old Brains", he usually not present at battles, leaving execution of the strategies to subordinates. As time went on, he gained a reputation of being too conservatve, favoring defensive tactics to attacks; Lincoln would come to call him "little more that a first rate clerk" and would replace him with Ulysses S. Grant.
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- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Halleck Lincoln's Chief of Staff
- Author
- Stephen E. Ambrose
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0807120715
- ISBN 13
- 9780807120712
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press
- Place of Publication
- Baton Rouge
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- halleck henry, civil war, union, army, military, generals, commanders,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War;
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