Civil War High CommandsBased 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. |
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Nutzerbericht - Not Available - Book VerdictThough the literature documenting Civil War military leaders is extensive, a one-volume reference that provides comprehensive biographical and background information on the thousands of leaders and ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Inhalt
XXXVI | 701 |
XXXVIII | 762 |
XXXIX | 768 |
XL | 772 |
XLIII | 784 |
XLIV | 787 |
XLVII | 801 |
XLIX | 807 |
XVII | 29 |
XVIII | 37 |
XX | 66 |
XXI | 69 |
XXIII | 73 |
XXIV | 79 |
XXVII | 83 |
XXVIII | 86 |
XXIX | 88 |
XXX | 92 |
XXXI | 97 |
XXXIII | 587 |
XXXIV | 616 |
XXXV | 660 |
LI | 819 |
LII | 845 |
LIII | 846 |
LIV | 846 |
LV | 846 |
LVI | 876 |
LVII | 883 |
LVIII | 885 |
LIX | 908 |
LX | 923 |
LXI | 933 |
959 | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
11 June 13 Sept 16 July 1st Lt 20 Sept 27 June 28 July 2d Lt 9 Apr agent appointment Army Asst Author Brig Cadet 1 July Calif Capt Ceme Cemetery Charles City Civil College command commission Congress Conn Corps Corps-Army of Northern Corps-Army of Tenn Corps-Dept County Cumberland D-Army D-II Corps-Army Dept Dist East editor Engr exchanged Farmer George Governor grade Gulf HENRY Hill Insp Iowa James John judge Lawyer legislator Mass merchant Midn Military Militia Miss Moved N.Y. Inf Navy officers Ohio Inf paroled Philadelphia posthumous Potomac Railroad rank Richmond Robert Senate South Terr tery Thomas trans U.S.A. Asst United Univ USMA Washington West York
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Seite 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.
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