Citizen-general : Jacob Dolson Cox and the Civil War era /
The wrenching events of the Civil War transformed not only the United States but also the men unexpectedly called on to lead their fellow citizens in this first modern example of total war. Jacob Dolson Cox, a former divinity student with no formal military training, was among those who rose to the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | War and society in North America (Athens, Ohio)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Citizen of the Western Reserve: maturing in peace, girding for war
- A citizen-general secures (West) Virginia
- Citizen-general on the national stage: the Maryland Campaign
- Citizen/political general: political wars outside the mainstream
- Division and army commander: the Atlanta Campaign
- Citizen-warrior: the Franklin-Nashville Campaign and war's end
- From citizen-general to state and national political leader
- Citizen-statesman
- Civil War historian
- Renaissance man in the Gilded Age.