Based on nearly five decades of research, this magisterial work is
a biographical register and analysis of the people who most
directly influenced the course of the Civil War, its high
commanders. Numbering 3,396, they include the presidents and their
cabinet members, state governors, general officers of the Union and
Confederate armies (regular, provisional, volunteers, and militia),
and admirals and commodores of the two navies. "Civil War High
Commands" will become a cornerstone reference work on these
personalities and the meaning of their commands, and on the Civil
War itself.
Errors of fact and interpretation concerning the high commanders
are legion in the Civil War literature, in reference works as well
as in narrative accounts. The present work brings together for the
first time in one volume the most reliable facts available, drawn
from more than 1,000 sources and including the most recent
research. The biographical entries include complete names,
birthplaces, important relatives, education, vocations,
publications, military grades, wartime assignments, wounds,
captures, exchanges, paroles, honors, and place of death and
interment.
In addition to its main component, the biographies, the volume also
includes a number of essays, tables, and synopses designed to
clarify previously obscure matters such as the definition of grades
and ranks; the difference between commissions in regular,
provisional, volunteer, and militia services; the chronology of
military laws and executive decisions before, during, and after the
war; and the geographical breakdown of command structures. The book
is illustrated with 84 new diagrams of all the insignias used
throughout the war and with 129 portraits of the most important
high commanders.
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