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Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff

Author(s): Stephen E. Ambrose (Author) (Author)

Publisher: LSU Press
Publication Date: 30 April 1996
Edition: Illustrated
Language: English
Print length: 250 pages
ISBN-10: 0807120715
ISBN-13: 9780807120712

Book Description

Halleck originates nothing, anticipates nothing, to assist others; takes no responsibility, plans nothing, suggests nothing, is good for nothing. Lincoln’s secretary of the navy Gideon Welles’s harsh words embody the stereotype into which Union General-in-Chief Henry Wager Halleck has been cast by most historians since Appomattox. In Halleck: Lincoln’s Chief of Staff, originally published in 1962, Stephen Ambrose challenges the standard interpretation of this controversial figure.

Ambrose argues persuasively that Halleck has been greatly underrated as a war theorist because of past writers’ failure to do justice to his close involvement with movements basic to the development of the American military establishment. He concedes that “”by all the touchstones used to judge great captains of the past, Halleck was a failure,”” but maintains he was nonetheless “”the ‘Old Brains’ of the Union Army in the time of the testing of the nation.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Ambrose has exhaustively researched his subject, and the result is a penetrating examination and provocative reappraisal of Halleck’s capacity as a military commander, and of his close association with President Lincoln.”–New York Historical Quarterly

“Ambrose’sﬁne book is sound, thoughtful, and scholarly. It also demonstrates an understanding of the high command in modern war and helps to explain the divergent attitudes of Halleck’s contemporaries.”–Civil War History

From the Back Cover

Ambrose’s fine book is sound, thoughtful, and scholarly. It also demonstrates an understanding of the high command in modern war and helps to explain the divergent attitudes of Halleck’s contemporaries.

About the Author

Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002) was the author of many biographies and histories, including Band of Brothers: E Company, 506^th Regiment, 101^st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest; The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany; Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West; Upton and the Army; and a three-volume biography of Richard Nixon. It was after reading Halleck, Ambrose’s first book, that Dwight Eisenhower asked Ambrose to write his biography.

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