02843nam 2200613 a 450 991045203370332120200520144314.00-8078-7708-5(CKB)1000000000467135(EBL)413250(OCoLC)476236512(SSID)ssj0000185960(PQKBManifestationID)11182805(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000185960(PQKBWorkID)10217236(PQKB)10870404(MiAaPQ)EBC413250(Au-PeEL)EBL413250(CaPaEBR)ebr10273438(CaONFJC)MIL930666(EXLCZ)99100000000046713520051103d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJohn M. Schofield and the politics of generalship[electronic resource] /Donald B. ConnellyChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20061 online resource (488 p.)Civil War AmericaDescription based upon print version of record.1-4696-1460-X 0-8078-3007-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-450) and index.Early years -- Saving Missouri -- Take care of Missouri -- If both factions shall abuse you -- Escape to the front -- The Franklin-Nashville campaign -- To the east--to the end -- Soldier-statesman -- Secretary of War -- The rocky road of reform -- The mistake of my life -- Uncertain future -- Incremental reformer -- In retirement and in retrospect.In the first full biography of Lieutenant General John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906), Donald B. Connelly examines the career of one of the leading commanders in the western theater during the Civil War. In doing so, Connelly illuminates the role of politics in the formulation of military policy, during both war and peace, in the latter half of the nineteenth century.Connelly relates how Schofield, as a department commander during the war, had to cope with contending political factions that sought to shape military and civil policies. Following the war, Schofield occupied every senioCivil War America.GeneralsUnited StatesBiographyCivil-military relationsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865CampaignsElectronic books.GeneralsCivil-military relationsHistory355.0092BConnelly Donald B886434MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452033703321John M. Schofield and the politics of generalship1979521UNINA