Lincoln & His Generals by T. Harry Williams (1952, Hardcover)

Lincoln & His Generals
by T. Harry Williams
Publisher:  Dorset Press
Copyright 1952

"Judged by modern standards, Lincoln stands out as a great war president, probably the greatest in our history, and a great natural strategist, a better one than any of his generals.  He was in actuality as well as in title the commander in chief who, by his larger strategy, did more than Grant or any general to win the war for the union."  -- from the Preface

Lincoln and His Generals is the human, dramatic and overpowering history of Lincoln as commander in chief.  It is the fascinating story of Lincoln's search for a winning general and his own emergence as a master strategist.

Here is the Lincoln who, in loneliness and doubt, bore the full burden of liquidating an archaic command system riddled with personal and political influence, and building a modern one that soon became superior to the high command of any other country at the time.  Lincoln and His Generals is not a military history of the Civil War, but the story of Lincoln's direction of the War as President and commander in chief.  We watch with awe as the picture of Lincoln slowly develops; how he sometimes fumbled and erred, but how he steadily increased in stature until he stood above all his generals.

Many figures from the War come to brilliant life in the pages that follow.  Here we find the generals Lincoln appointed, tried to use, then discarded when they failed:  McClellan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker, and many others.  Lincoln and His Generals culminates with the appearance of Ulysses S. Grant, the man Lincoln trused above all others, the general in whom he placed his ultimate confidence, the general who won the war for the Union.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages are tanned and darkening from age.  Dust cover and flaps are tanned from age.  Dust cover shows a bit of edge wear and tear and creasing.

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