Lincoln Takes Command - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lincoln Takes Command write by Steve Norder. This book was released on 2019. Lincoln Takes Command available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The first study to detail the important week in March 1862 when, for the first and only time in the country's history, a sitting president took direct control of military forces, land and sea, to wage a campaign with wide-ranging consequences. Abraham Lincoln ordered a beach-landing to capture Norfolk, the shelling of major Confederate installations and defenses, and guiding naval assets that helped capture two important cities (Norfolk and Portsmouth) and the Gosport Navy Yard, the best of its kind along the entire Atlantic seaboard. Based on extensive primary sources, supported by original maps and photos, footnotes, biblio, appendices, and index."--
Lincoln Takes Command
Lincoln Takes Command - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lincoln Takes Command write by John S. Tilley. This book was released on 1998-06-01. Lincoln Takes Command available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Lincoln Takes Command
Lincoln Takes Command - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lincoln Takes Command write by John S. Tilley. This book was released on 1998-06-01. Lincoln Takes Command available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NOT JUST ANOTHER CIVIL WAR BOOK. Many books have been written about the causes of the Civil War; however "Lincoln Takes Command" is different in that it was researched & written by John S. Tilley, an attorney of national stature. Mr. Tilley spent many months in Washington searching records, many of which were piled in the corner of a warehouse mixed with other non-related records. The index is very complete & you will notice that the record is given from the original source such as Ida Tarbell & John G. Nicolay, Lincoln's secretaries, Secretary of State Seward & others who served as Lincoln's inner circle & knew exactly what transpired & when. The Confederate record is from correspondence of Jefferson Davis, the governor of South Carolina & other such sources that were on the scene at the time the drama unfolded. Many people agree that "Lincoln Takes Command" is the most accurate & best indexed book on the causes of the separation of the states. The open minded reader will find in Mr. Tilley's work much that will both surprise & enlighten him. "Lincoln Takes Command" is a classic classroom text. A necessity for any serious history student's library.
Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies
Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies write by John F. Marszalek. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the summer of 1862, President Lincoln called General Henry W. Halleck to Washington, D.C., to take command of all Union armies in the death struggle against the Confederacy. For the next two turbulent years, Halleck was Lincoln's chief war advisor, the man the President deferred to in all military matters. Yet, despite the fact that he was commanding general far longer than his successor, Ulysses S. Grant, he is remembered only as a failed man, ignored by posterity. In the first comprehensive biography of Halleck, the prize-winning historian John F. Marszalek recreates the life of a man of enormous achievement who bungled his most important mission. When Lincoln summoned him to the nation's capital, Halleck boasted outstanding qualifications as a military theorist, a legal scholar, a brave soldier, and a California entrepreneur. Yet in the thick of battle, he couldn't make essential decisions. Unable to produce victory for the Union forces, he saw his power become subsumed by Grant's emergent leadership, a loss that paved the way for Halleck's path to obscurity. Harnessing previously unused research, as well as the insights of modern medicine and psychology, Marszalek unearths the seeds of Halleck's fatal wartime indecisiveness in personality traits and health problems. In this brilliant dissection of a rich and disappointed life, we gain new understanding of how the key decisions of the Civil War were taken, as well as insight into the making of effective military leadership.
The Lincoln Nobody Knows
The Lincoln Nobody Knows - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lincoln Nobody Knows write by Richard N. Current. This book was released on 1958. The Lincoln Nobody Knows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Abraham Lincoln as politician, president, and human being comes to life in all the conflicts, paradoxes, and seeming contradictions that surround him. Packed with fascinating details, The Lincoln Nobody Knows is a study of the obscure and misunderstood facets of the great statesman's career and private life."--Back cover
