Searching for Irvin McDowell
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Searching for Irvin McDowell

The Civil War's Forgotten General

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Searching for Irvin McDowell

The Civil War's Forgotten General

About this book

Irvin McDowell was a prominent figure during the early months of the Civil War. With so much at stake, he was called upon to lead the Union's largest Eastern Theater army. Pressed by the media and President Abraham Lincoln to move into Virginia and defeat the Confederates gathering there, McDowell led his neophyte army out to the plains of Manassas and was soundly defeated. McDowell went on to hold an independent command in northern Virginia during the Peninsula Campaign and serve in the Army of Virginia under Maj. Gen. John Pope during the disastrous Second Bull Run Campaign. Despite his significant contributions, a lack of personal papers left him in obscurity. Authors Frank Simione Jr. and Gene Schmiel used available sources to create a reliable and readable synthesis of the man and his career to fill a sizable gap in the historiography. Unless or until his private papers surface, Searching for Irvin McDowell will stand as the best treatment available.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: Pre-Civil War
  8. Chapter 2: Organizing an Army
  9. Chapter 3: Advance to Bull Run
  10. Chapter 4: Victory and Defeat
  11. Chapter 5: Finding Fault
  12. Chapter 6: The Puppet General
  13. Chapter 7: The Road to Manassas, Again
  14. Chapter 8: Second Bull Run: The Scourge of Manassas
  15. Chapter 9: Courts of Inquiry
  16. Chapter 10: Life in Obscurity: Nightmare of the Porter Case
  17. Appendix A: General McDowell at Liberia
  18. Appendix B: McDowell’s Strange Hat
  19. Bibliography
  20. The Authors