Make no mistake, the Confederacy had the will and valor to fight.
But the Union had the manpower, the money, the materiel, and, most
important, the generals. Although the South had arguably the best
commander in the Civil War in Robert E. Lee, the North's full house
beat their one-of-a-kind. Flawed individually, the Union's top
officers nevertheless proved collectively superior across a diverse
array of battlefields and ultimately produced a victory for the
Union. Now acclaimed author Albert Castel brings his inimitable
style, insight, and wit to a new reconsideration of these generals.
With the assistance of Brooks Simpson, another leading light in
this field, Castel has produced a remarkable capstone volume to a
distinguished career. In it, he reassesses how battles and
campaigns forged a decisive Northern victory, reevaluates the
generalship of the victors, and lays bare the sometimes vicious
rivalries among the Union generals and their effect on the war.
From Shiloh to the Shenandoah, Chickamauga to Chattanooga, Castel
provides fresh accounts of how the Union commanders—especially
Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, and Meade but also Halleck,
Schofield, and Rosecrans—outmaneuvered and outfought their
Confederate opponents. He asks of each why he won: Was it through
superior skill, strength of arms, enemy blunders, or sheer chance?
What were his objectives and how did he realize them? Did he
accomplish more or less than could be expected under the
circumstances? And if less, what could he have done to achieve
more—and why did he not do it? Castel also sheds new light on the
war within the war: the intense rivalries in the upper ranks,
complicated by the presence in the army of high-ranking non-West
Pointers with political wagons attached to the stars on their
shoulders. A decade in the writing, Victors in Blue brims with
novel, even outrageous interpretations that are sure to stir
debate. As certain as the Union achieved victory, it will inform,
provoke, and enliven sesquicentennial discussions of the Civil War.
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