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Mad Dan, Allen C. Guelzo
Mad Dan, Allen C. Guelzo
Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications
Did Daniel Sickles, the Union's most notorious general, save the day for the Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg? That's exactly what he wanted you to believe.
George Meade’S Mixed Legacy, Allen C. Guelzo
George Meade’S Mixed Legacy, Allen C. Guelzo
Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications
George Gordon Meade was 47 years old the morning of June 28, 1863, when command of the Army of the Potomac was unceremoniously dumped into his lap by General in Chief Henry Hallcck, and there is no reason to doubt Meade's protest that the move rendered him the most surprised man in the entire Union Army. Meade had never wanted to be a soldier in the first place, much less take direction of an army that at that moment was facing perhaps its most daunting challenge. But compared to his immediate predecessors, Maj. Gens. Ambrose Burnside and Joseph Hooker, what …
Union Civilian Leaders, Allen C. Guelzo
Union Civilian Leaders, Allen C. Guelzo
Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications
The American Civil War was a war of civilians. The fact that 3 million or so of them happened to be in uniform was almost incidental, since the soldiers, sailors, and officers of both the Union and Confederate armies were mostly civilian volunteers who retained close contacts with their civilian social worlds, who brought 1f9Culent civilian attitudes into the ranks with them, and who fully expected to return to civilian life as soon as the shooting was over. By the same token, civilian communities in both North and South kept closely in touch with their volunteers all through the war, …