Easton Press: LINCOLN: CIVIL WAR GENERALS: GRANT: McCLELLAN: SHERMAN

Description: Easton Press leather edition of T. Harry Williams's "Lincoln and His Generals," a COLLECTOR'S edition, Illustrated with photographs of the period, one of the LIBRARY OF MILITARY HISTORY series, published in 1994. Bound in burgundy leather, the book has camel tan French moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges, a satin book marker---in near FINE condition---except for a 'blank' attached bookplate on inside fly leaf. Abraham Lincoln, who lived from 1809-1865, was born in a log cabin in KENTUCKY to illiterate and frontier parents. Lincoln was a volunteer in the BLACK HAWK WAR and later served in the Illinois State Legislature, 1831-37. He courted and married MARY TODD LINCOLN and was elected PRESIDENT of the U.S. in 1860. Lincoln never served a day in President's office when the country was not engaged in the bitter CIVIL WAR. Williams writes in Chapter one that the U.S. had in 1861 almost no army, few good weapons, no officers trained in the higher art of war, and an inadequate and archaic system of command. Lincoln's army of 75,000 volunteers Confederate General Jefferson Davis called a "posse comitatus" to round up 5,000,000 outlaws. . ." Davis was chosen to head the 11 states that had committed to him against 23 states formally still in the Union with Lincoln. T. Harry Williams, distinguished historian at Louisiana State University, focuses on those generals who were advising Lincoln. John C. Freemont occupies more pages than W.T. Sherman, although Sherman was worth ten Fremonts as a general. The incompetent N.P. Banks gets more space than the able George H. Thomas. Some readers say they could do with less of McClellan and more of Grant. So could have Lincoln, but it was his horrible predicament to be saddled with McClellan before he found Grant. Williams writes that "this book is the only work that treats Lincoln as a war director---with him as the dominating figure---from the perspective of modern war. Williams discusses other leaders including: General McClellan at Antietam Battlefield, John C. Fremont, Nathaniel P. Banks, Ambrose Burnside, John C. McClernand, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, William S. Rosecrans, Joseph Hooker, John Pope, Henry W. Halleck, and Don Carlos Buell. In the Preface, Williams writes that "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." 368 pages, including an index. I offer Combined shipping.

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