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Lincoln's Generals, Paperback / softback Book

Lincoln's Generals Paperback / softback

Edited by Gabor S. Boritt

Paperback / softback

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In Lincoln's Generals , Gabor S. Boritt and a team of distinguished historians examine the interaction between Abraham Lincoln and his five key Civil War generals: McClellan, Hooker, Meade, Sherman, and Grant, providing fresh insight into this mixed bag of officers and the president's tireless efforts to work with them.

The president's relationship with his generals was never easy.

Stephen W. Sears underscores McClellan's perverse obstinacy as Lincoln tried to drive him ahead.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark E. Neely Jr. sheds new light on the president's relationship with Hooker, arguing that he was wrong to push the general to attack at Chancellorsville.

Boritt writes about Lincoln's prickly relationship with the victor of Gettysburg, "old snapping turtle" George Meade.

Michael Fellman reveals the political stress between the White House and Sherman, a staunch conservative who did not want blacks in his army but who was crucial to the war effort. And John Y. Simon looks past the legendary camaraderie between Lincoln and Grant to reveal the tensions in their relationship.

These authors take us inside the personalities and relationships that shaped the course of the nation's most costly war.

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