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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Soldier to the Last: Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in Blue and Gray (edizione 2006)di Edward G. Longacre (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This military life of the senior Confederate cavalry commander in the western theater of the American Civil War is essentially "drums & bugles" history, but I did get a strange "vibe" from it, starting with the author dedicating it to the memory of kinsmen "murdered" by Union militiamen in Missouri; one wonders what Longacre really meant by such a loaded statement. That said, the portrait you get of Wheeler is of a man who one could generally depend on to carry out a mission as ordered and who was at his best screening the main body of the Army of the Tennessee, whatever his limitations as an intelligence officer and a raider. Later in his career, when recalled to service in the Army of the United States, Wheeler generally retained his virtues as an organization man, besides being committed to the vision of empire building as an instrument of Reunion. Though Longacre glosses over nothing, Wheeler is generally depicted in the best possible light, possibly making this an odd form of official history (Longacre was employed by the USAF at the time this book was written). 4821. A Soldier to the Last Mag. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in Blue and Gray by Edward G. Longacre (read 1 Jan 2009) This is a carefully researched book and covers the Civil War career of General Wheeler in careful and exhaustive detail. The trouble is I was not interested in so much detail, being far more interested in his political career after the war. The few chapters on him after the Civil War are of high interest, and he served with renown if not great ability in the Spanish-American War. After I finished the book I decided it was a good book, but while I was struggling with him thru the Civil War I kept hoping I would get to the time when the War would end. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler served in two armies, playing a major role in the development of Confederate cavalry in the Civil War's western theater, and, more than thirty years afterwards, commanded troops in the Spanish-American War. After leaving the U.S. Army to join the Confederacy, Wheeler served in artillery and infantry units before joining the cavalry. Subsequently, he fought at Shiloh, the Battle of Murfreesboro, and other engagements. As a cavalry commander in the Army of Tennessee from mid-1862 almost to the war's end, he raided Gen. William T. Sherman's lines of communication and contested his advance in the final Carolinas campaign. In addition to detailing Wheeler's Civil War experience, Edward Longacre discusses Wheeler's youth and education at West Point, his pre-Civil War service in the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen, his postwar business, his political career as a congressman from Alabama, and his colorful service in Cuba as a major general of volunteers during the Spanish-American War. Longacre also seeks to correct errors and misconceptions about this Civil War figure that have become a part of the public record, making Joseph Wheeler's life and career accessible to a new generation of readers. A Soldier to the Last will be a valuable addition to the library of anyone interested in Civil War history and U.S. military history. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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An interesting, well written and informative work. ( )