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More Important Than Good Generals: Junior Officers in the Army of the Tennessee

Jonathan Engel

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Description:The Union’s forgotten mid-level officers and their commitment to the causeMore Important Than Good Generals is an in-depth study of the Army of the Tennessee’s junior officers––the company and field grade lieutenants, captains, majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels. While many studies have examined generals and common soldiers, Civil War armies’ “middle management” has been largely ignored. Officers had a substantially different array of duties than the soldiers they commanded and the generals above them, resulting in a drastically different wartime experience. Moreover, it is not only Civil War officers who have been overlooked but also the army Grant and Sherman commanded––the Army of the Tennessee––despite the fact that it was one of the most victorious armies of the war.Pushing back against the commonly accepted narrative of disillusionment among officers, Engel concludes that the Army of the Tennessee’s company and field grade officers endured the war’s trials with their moral and political ideology intact. Further, rather than becoming indifferent to the Union cause, Engel argues that the reverse was often true: officers who started off racist or disinterested in the issue of enslavement became advocates of emancipation.Engagingly written and meticulously researched, More Important Than Good Generals is a lasting work of scholarship that will appeal to Civil War historians and general readers alike.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with More Important Than Good Generals: Junior Officers in the Army of the Tennessee. To get started finding More Important Than Good Generals: Junior Officers in the Army of the Tennessee, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The Union’s forgotten mid-level officers and their commitment to the causeMore Important Than Good Generals is an in-depth study of the Army of the Tennessee’s junior officers––the company and field grade lieutenants, captains, majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels. While many studies have examined generals and common soldiers, Civil War armies’ “middle management” has been largely ignored. Officers had a substantially different array of duties than the soldiers they commanded and the generals above them, resulting in a drastically different wartime experience. Moreover, it is not only Civil War officers who have been overlooked but also the army Grant and Sherman commanded––the Army of the Tennessee––despite the fact that it was one of the most victorious armies of the war.Pushing back against the commonly accepted narrative of disillusionment among officers, Engel concludes that the Army of the Tennessee’s company and field grade officers endured the war’s trials with their moral and political ideology intact. Further, rather than becoming indifferent to the Union cause, Engel argues that the reverse was often true: officers who started off racist or disinterested in the issue of enslavement became advocates of emancipation.Engagingly written and meticulously researched, More Important Than Good Generals is a lasting work of scholarship that will appeal to Civil War historians and general readers alike.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with More Important Than Good Generals: Junior Officers in the Army of the Tennessee. To get started finding More Important Than Good Generals: Junior Officers in the Army of the Tennessee, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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