LEADER 03884nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910454959003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-04064-3 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674040649 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786811 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000125422 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11136734 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000125422 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10027237 035 $a(PQKB)10110401 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300286 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300286 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10314298 035 $a(OCoLC)923110353 035 $a(DE-B1597)585480 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674040649 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786811 100 $a20040323d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCommander of all Lincoln's armies$b[electronic resource] $ea life of General Henry W. Halleck /$fJohn F. Marszalek 210 $aCambridge, MA $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2004 215 $aix, 324 p., [18] p. $cill., ports 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-01493-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [261]-307) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tPrologue -- $t1 Born to Gentility, Educated to Elitism -- $t2 Army Engineer at Home and Abroad -- $t3 War and Peace in California -- $t4 From Soldier to Businessman -- $t5 From Peace to War -- $t6 Commander of the Western Theater -- $t7 Supreme Commander -- $t8 War by Washington Telegraph -- $t9 The Western Generals Bring Success -- $t10 Chief of Staff under Grant -- $t11 From War to Peace -- $tBibliographical Essay -- $tAbbreviations Used in the Notes -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIllustration Credits -- $tIndex 330 $aIn the summer of 1862, President Lincoln called General Henry W. Halleck to Washington, D.C., to take command of all Union armies in the death struggle against the Confederacy. For the next two turbulent years, Halleck was Lincoln's chief war advisor, the man the President deferred to in all military matters. Yet, despite the fact that he was commanding general far longer than his successor, Ulysses S. Grant, he is remembered only as a failed man, ignored by posterity. In the first comprehensive biography of Halleck, the prize-winning historian John F. Marszalek recreates the life of a man of enormous achievement who bungled his most important mission. When Lincoln summoned him to the nation's capital, Halleck boasted outstanding qualifications as a military theorist, a legal scholar, a brave soldier, and a California entrepreneur. Yet in the thick of battle, he couldn't make essential decisions. Unable to produce victory for the Union forces, he saw his power become subsumed by Grant's emergent leadership, a loss that paved the way for Halleck's path to obscurity. Harnessing previously unused research, as well as the insights of modern medicine and psychology, Marszalek unearths the seeds of Halleck's fatal wartime indecisiveness in personality traits and health problems. In this brilliant dissection of a rich and disappointed life, we gain new understanding of how the key decisions of the Civil War were taken, as well as insight into the making of effective military leadership. 606 $aGenerals$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xCampaigns 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGenerals 676 $a973.7/41/092 700 $aMarszalek$b John F.$f1939-$0872481 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454959003321 996 $aCommander of all Lincoln's armies$92205942 997 $aUNINA LEADER 01843nas 2200601-a 450 001 996213499703316 005 20230822164704.0 011 $a1447-0756 035 $a(OCoLC)49930711 035 $a(CKB)954927739822 035 $a(CONSER)--2006242256 035 $a(DE-599)ZDB2079101-X 035 $a(EXLCZ)99954927739822 100 $a20020605a19969999 s-- - 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research 210 $a[Melbourne, Vic.] $c[Blackwell Science Asia] 215 $a1 online resoure 300 $aRefereed/Peer-reviewed 311 $a1341-8076 531 $aJOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY RESEARCH 531 $aJ OBSTET GYNAECOL RES 531 $aTHE JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY RESEARCH 531 $aJ OBSTET GYNAECOL RE 531 $aJ. OBSTET. GYNAECOL. RES 606 $aGynecology$vPeriodicals 606 $aObstetrics$vPeriodicals 606 $aObstetrics 606 $aGenital Diseases, Female 606 $aObstetrics 606 $aGynecology$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00949684 606 $aObstetrics$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01042994 608 $aPeriodical 608 $aPeriodicals.$2fast 608 $aPeriodicals.$2lcgft 615 0$aGynecology 615 0$aObstetrics 615 0$aObstetrics. 615 2$aGenital Diseases, Female 615 2$aObstetrics 615 7$aGynecology. 615 7$aObstetrics. 676 $a618.1005 712 02$aAsia and Oceania Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 712 02$aNihon Sanka Fujinka Gakkai (1949- ), 906 $aJOURNAL 912 $a996213499703316 996 $aThe Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research$91887852 997 $aUNISA