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Halleck
Lincoln's Chief of Staff
Stephen E. Ambrose
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Lincoln's Chief of Staff
Stephen E. Ambrose
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"Halleck originates nothing, anticipates nothing, to assist others; takes no responsibility, plans nothing, suggests nothing, is good for nothing." Lincoln's secretary of the navy Gideon Welles's harsh words embody the stereotype into which Union General-in-Chief Henry Wager Halleck has been cast by most historians since Appomattox. In Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff, originally published in 1962, Stephen Ambrose challenges the standard interpretation of this controversial figure. Ambrose argues persuasively that Halleck has been greatly underrated as a war theorist because of past writers' failure to do justice to his close involvement with movements basic to the development of the American military establishment. He concedes that "by all the touchstones used to judge great captains of the past, Halleck was a failure, " but maintains he was nonetheless "the 'Old Brains' of the Union Army in the time of the testing of the nation."
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HistoireINDEX
Alabama River, 181, 185
Alexander the Great, 132, 211
Alexandria, Louisiana, 121
Alexandria, Virginia, 72–74
Allegheny Mountains, 39
Alton, Illinois, 191
Andrew, John, 146
Antietam, Battle of, 84, 85
Antietam Creek, 84
Antietam, Maryland, 86, 88, 92, 160
Appomattox Court House, 198
Aquia Creek, 69, 94
Arkansas Post, 116
Army of the James, 187
Army and Navy Journal, 211
Army of Northern Virginia, 83, 132, 142, 165
Army of the Potomac, 39, 59, 60, 69, 72, 79, 84, 94, 101, 104, 131, 133, 136, 137, 145, 149, 153, 155, 161, 164, 177, 187, 197
Army of Virginia, 64, 71, 80
Arnold, Isaac, 117
Atlanta, Georgia, 46, 58, 145, 156, 159, 165, 179, 183, 186
Augusta, Georgia, 183
Baldwin, Mississippi, 55
Baltimore, Maryland, 138, 174, 177
Banks, Nathaniel P., 112, 117, 122, 124, 127, 131, 145–48, 156, 168, 169, 207, 209
Beauregard, P. G. T., 8, 25, 26, 41, 45, 46, 55, 63; at Corinth, 47–54
Belle Plain, Virginia, 165–66
Belmont, Battle of, 21
Ben Hur, 175
Berlin, Maryland, 95
Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, 170
Big Black River, 119, 121, 128
Blaine, James G., 60
Blue Ridge Mountains, 94
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 5, 91, 148, 164, 172, 211
Bonaparte, Napoleon III, 146
Bowling Green, Kentucky, 18, 20, 23, 26, 27, 29, 35, 39, 41
Bragg, Braxton, 59, 88, 89, 91, 92, 107, 123, 125, 126, 148, 150, 151, 155
British Columbia, 211
British Parliament, 107
Browning, Orville H., 113
Buell, Don Carlos, 18, 20, 23, 26–36, 39, 43, 49, 52, 93, 106, 150, 168, 207
takes Nashville, 35
at Shiloh, 45
Chattanooga expedition of, 56–59
and Kentucky campaign of, 88–92
Bull Run, second Battle of, 74–76, 79, 88, 105
Burnside, Ambrose, 68, 71, 72, 92, 99, 101, 102, 106, 127, 152, 154, 159, 164
and Fredericksburg campaign, 94–99
at Knoxville, 155–56
Butler, Benjamin, 14, 60, 117, 168, 170–73, 197, 207, 209
Cairo, Illinois, 15, 18, 19, 36, 110, 191
California Constitutional Convention, 8
Canby, Edward, 170, 174, 183–84, 194
Cedar Mountain, Battle of, 71, 72
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, 177
Champion Hill, Battle of, 121
Chancellorsville, Battle of, 132
Chancellorsville, Virginia, 137, 167
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, 186
Charleston, South Carolina, 9, 46, 182, 187
Chase, Salmon P., 68, 153
criticizes Halleck, 76, 103
Chattahoochee River, 178
Chattanooga, Tennessee, 46, 57, 59, 60, 88, 90, 153–57, 159, 160, 165
Battle of, 155–56
Chicago, Illinois, 192
Chicago Tribune, 53
Chickamauga, Battle of, 152, 189
Cincinnati Commercial, 53
Cincinnati, Ohio, 91, 102, 117
City Point, Virginia, 172, 176, 178, 183, 185, 196, 197
Clarksville, Tennessee, 29, 35
Clausewitz, Karl von, 5, 107, 211
Columbus, Kentucky, 18, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 39, 41
evacuated, 36
Corinth, Mississippi, 41, 43, 46–59, 61, 63, 145
Cullum, George W., 19, 30, 36, 212
Culpepper, Virginia, 94
Cumberland, Maryland, 141
Cumberland River, 18–20, 23, 25
Curtis, Samuel, 17, 22–25, 32, 41–43, 56, 63, 125
Davis, David, 93
Davis, Jefferson, 14, 54, 179, 199–20...