Joseph E. Johnston : a Civil War biography / Craig L. Symonds.
1992
E467.1.J74 S95 1992 (Mapit)
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Title
Joseph E. Johnston : a Civil War biography / Craig L. Symonds.
Author
Symonds, Craig L.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
039303058X
9780393030587
0393311309 (pbk.)
9780393311303 (pbk.)
9780393030587
0393311309 (pbk.)
9780393311303 (pbk.)
Imprint
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©1992.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 450 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Call Number
E467.1.J74 S95 1992
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.7/3/092
B
B
Summary
"General Joseph E. Johnston was in command of Confederate forces at the South's first victory--Manassas in July 1861--and at its last--Bentonville in April 1865. Many of his contemporaries considered him the greatest Southern field commander of the war; others ranked him second only to Robert E. Lee. To Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, he was the Union's most skilful opponent. But Johnston remains an enigma. His battlefield victories were never decisive. He failed to save Confederate forces under siege by Grant at Vicksburg, and he retreated deep into Georgia in the face of Sherman's march. His intense feud with Jefferson Davis ensured the collapse of the Confederacy's western campaign in 1864, and made Johnston the focus of a political schism within the government. Craig Symonds gives us a rousing narrative of Johnston's Civil War, and the first rounded portrait of the general as a public and private man."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-436) and index.
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Table of Contents
West Point
Indian fighter
The Florida coast
Lydia
War in Mexico
The 1850s : pathfinder, peacekeeper, filibusterer
Promotion and resignation
First command
Manassas
Genesis of a feud
The Peninsula
Seven Pines
Louis T. Wigfall
Command in the West
Vicksburg
The paper war
The Army of Tennessee
Dalton and Resaca
Shield and sword
"We have not cavalry enough"
"You are hereby relieved"
Commanding the lost cause
The battle of the books
"Funeral and resurrection."
Indian fighter
The Florida coast
Lydia
War in Mexico
The 1850s : pathfinder, peacekeeper, filibusterer
Promotion and resignation
First command
Manassas
Genesis of a feud
The Peninsula
Seven Pines
Louis T. Wigfall
Command in the West
Vicksburg
The paper war
The Army of Tennessee
Dalton and Resaca
Shield and sword
"We have not cavalry enough"
"You are hereby relieved"
Commanding the lost cause
The battle of the books
"Funeral and resurrection."