02817nam 2200613 a 450 991081402850332120230828223759.0979-88-908790-5-90-8078-7708-5(CKB)1000000000467135(EBL)413250(OCoLC)476236512(SSID)ssj0000185960(PQKBManifestationID)11182805(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000185960(PQKBWorkID)10217236(PQKB)10870404(Au-PeEL)EBL413250(CaPaEBR)ebr10273438(CaONFJC)MIL930666(MiAaPQ)EBC413250(EXLCZ)99100000000046713520051103d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJohn M. Schofield and the politics of generalship /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, 1861-1865CampaignsGeneralsCivil-military relationsHistory355.0092BConnelly Donald B1689069MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814028503321John M. Schofield and the politics of generalship4063800UNINA