Don Carlos Buell : most promising of all /
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| Author / Creator: | Engle, Stephen Douglas. |
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| Imprint: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1999. |
| Description: | xvii, 476 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Civil War America Civil War America (Series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4112369 |
| Summary: | Major General Don Carlos Buell stood among the senior Northern commanders early in the Civil War, led the Army of the Ohio in the critical Kentucky theater in 1861-62, and helped shape the direction of the conflict during its first years. Only a handful of Northern generals loomed as large on the military landscape during this period, and Buell is the only one of them who has not been the subject of a full-scale biography.<br> <br> <br> <br> A conservative Democrat, Buell viewed the Civil War as a contest to restore the antebellum Union rather than a struggle to bring significant social change to the slaveholding South. Stephen Engle explores the effects that this attitude--one shared by a number of other Union officers early in the war--had on the Northern high command and on political-military relations. In addition, he examines the ramifications within the Army of the Ohio of Buell's proslavery leanings.<br> <br> <br> <br> A personally brave, intelligent, and talented officer, Buell nonetheless failed as a theater and army commander, and in late 1862 he was removed from command. But as Engle notes, Buell's attitude and campaigns provided the Union with a valuable lesson: that the Confederacy would not yield to halfhearted campaigns with limited goals. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 476 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-465) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807825123 |
