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Courage Above All Things - General John Ellis Wool and the U.S. Military, 1812-1863 (Hardcover)
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Courage Above All Things - General John Ellis Wool and the U.S. Military, 1812-1863 (Hardcover)
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For a half century, John Ellis Wool (1784-1869) was one of
America's most illustrious figures - most notably as an officer in
the United States Army during the War of 1812, the Mexican-American
War, and the Civil War. At the onset of the Civil War, when he
assumed command of the Department of the East, Wool had been a
brigadier general for twenty years and, at age seventy-seven, was
the oldest general on either side of the conflict. Courage Above
All Things marks the first full biography of Wool, who aside from
his unparalleled military service, figured prominently in many
critical moments in nineteenth-century U.S. history. At the time of
his death in 2016, Harwood Hinton, a scholar with an encyclopedic
knowledge of western history, had devoted fifty years to this
monumental work, which has been completed and edited by the
distinguished historian Jerry Thompson. This deeply researched and
deftly written volume incorporates the latest scholarship to offer
a clear and detailed account of John Ellis Wool's extraordinary
life - his character, his life experiences, and his career, in
wartime and during uneasy periods of relative peace. Hinton and
Thompson provide a thorough account of all chapters in Wool's life,
including three major wars, the Cherokee Removal, and battles with
Native Americans on the West Coast. From his distinguished
participation in the War of 1812 to his controversial service on
the Pacific coast during the 1850s, and from his mixed success
during the Peninsula Campaign to his overseeing of efforts to quell
the New York City draft riots of 1863, John Ellis Wool emerges here
as a crucial character in the story of nineteenth-century America -
complex, contradictory, larger than life - finally fully realized
for the first time.
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