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Halleck - Lincoln's Chief of Staff (Paperback)
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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.
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