Civil War high commands (Google eBook)

John H.. Eicher, David J. Eicher

Stanford University Press, 2001 - History - 1009 pages

Based on nearly five decades of research, this magisterial work is a biographical register and analysis of the people who most directly influenced the course of the Civil War, its high commanders. Numbering 3,396, they include the presidents and their cabinet members, state governors, general officers of the Union and Confederate armies (regular, provisional, volunteers, and militia), and admirals and commodores of the two navies. Civil War High Commands will become a cornerstone reference work on these personalities and the meaning of their commands, and on the Civil War itself.

Errors of fact and interpretation concerning the high commanders are legion in the Civil War literature, in reference works as well as in narrative accounts. The present work brings together for the first time in one volume the most reliable facts available, drawn from more than 1,000 sources and including the most recent research. The biographical entries include complete names, birthplaces, important relatives, education, vocations, publications, military grades, wartime assignments, wounds, captures, exchanges, paroles, honors, and place of death and interment.

In addition to its main component, the biographies, the volume also includes a number of essays, tables, and synopses designed to clarify previously obscure matters such as the definition of grades and ranks; the difference between commissions in regular, provisional, volunteer, and militia services; the chronology of military laws and executive decisions before, during, and after the war; and the geographical breakdown of command structures. The book is illustrated with 84 new diagrams of all the insignias used throughout the war and with 129 portraits of the most important high commanders.

Contents

• IV: 3
• V: 7
• VI: 8
• VII: 9
• IX: 12
• X: 15
• XI: 22
• XII: 23
• XIII: 29
• XIV: 37
• XV: 66
• XVI: 69
• XVII: 73
• XVIII: 79
• XIX: 83
• XX: 86
• XXI: 88
• XXII: 92
• XXIII: 97
• XXIV: 587
• XXV: 616
• XXVI: 660
• XXVII: 701
• XXVIII: 762
• XXIX: 768
• XXX: 772
• XXXI: 784
• XXXII: 787
• XXXIII: 801
• XXXIV: 807
• XXXV: 819
• XXXVI: 855
• XXXVII: 857
• XXXVIII: 864
• XXXIX: 866
• XL: 886
• XLI: 893
• XLII: 895
• XLIII: 918
• XLIV: 933
• XLV: 943
• XLVI: 969

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Page 16 - If, upon marches, guards, or in quarters, different corps of the Army happen to join or do duty together, the officer highest in rank of the line of the Army, Marine Corps, or militia, by commission, there on duty or in quarters, shall command the whole, and give orders for what is needful to the service, unless otherwise specially directed by the President, according to the nature of the case.‎

About the author

John H. Eicher is Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Miami University of Ohio and a lifelong student of the Civil War. David J. Eicher is Managing Editor of Astronomy magazine and a well-known non-academic Civil War historian. He is the author of s

Bibliographic information

• Title: Civil War high commands
• Authors: John H.. Eicher, David J. Eicher
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0804780358, 9780804780353
• Length: 1009 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); Technology & Engineering / Military Science