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 01572nam 2200373Ia 450 001 996387748003316 005 20200824132439.0 035 $a(CKB)4940000000085741 035 $a(EEBO)2240924553 035 $a(OCoLC)ocm42475080e 035 $a(OCoLC)42475080 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000085741 100 $a19991002d1673 uy | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn||||a|bb| 200 14$aThe sinners sobs, or, The sinners way to Sions joy$b[electronic resource] $eplainly demonstrating the absolute necessity of true godly sorrow for the sinners safety : with many cogent reasons and arguments, and brief exhortations to poor sinners ... to return ... to him who delights to shew mercy : as also the terrible contdition of such who come not in this way, whom God will find another way to deal with /$fby Matthew Killiray 210 $aLondon $cPrinted for William Thackeray ...$d1673 215 $a[2], 20, [1] p 300 $aAdvertisement: p. [1] at end. 300 $aImperfect: stained and tightly bound, with loss of print. 300 $aReproduction of original in: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. 330 $aeebo-0189 606 $aRepentance$vEarly works to 1800 606 $aSin$vEarly works to 1800 615 0$aRepentance 615 0$aSin 700 $aKilliray$b Matthew$01007425 801 0$bEAE 801 1$bEAE 801 2$bWaOLN 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996387748003316 996 $aThe sinners sobs or The sinners way to Sions joy$92320773 997 $aUNISA