Robert Wooster is retired Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He is the author of several books, including The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775–1903, and The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783–1900.

"Wooster shows the heavy and versatile work that a biography can do. Not only is this the definitive biography of Schofield, it is also a masterful and engaging study of the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth century." —Rory McGovern, author of George W. Goethals and the Army: Change and Continuity in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"Distinguished military historian Robert Wooster has written another splendid book. His judicious, exhaustive, and entertaining biography of this important American military leader is essential reading." —Brian McAllister Linn, author of Real Soldiering: The US Army in the Aftermath of War, 1815-1980"Wooster shows Schofield, the least discussed commanding general of the nineteenth-century U.S. Army, warts and all. As astute, forward-looking, and at times controversial as Scott, Grant, or Sherman, Schofield was both Renaissance man and representative of his army. A worthy bookend to Wooster's biography of Nelson Miles—each among the best biographies of nineteenth century U.S. Army leaders." —Samuel J. Watson, editor of the Oxford Handbook of American Military History

Robert Wooster is retired Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He is the author of several books, including The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775–1903, and The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783–1900.

"Wooster shows the heavy and versatile work that a biography can do. Not only is this the definitive biography of Schofield, it is also a masterful and engaging study of the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth century." —Rory McGovern, author of George W. Goethals and the Army: Change and Continuity in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"Distinguished military historian Robert Wooster has written another splendid book. His judicious, exhaustive, and entertaining biography of this important American military leader is essential reading." —Brian McAllister Linn, author of Real Soldiering: The US Army in the Aftermath of War, 1815-1980"Wooster shows Schofield, the least discussed commanding general of the nineteenth-century U.S. Army, warts and all. As astute, forward-looking, and at times controversial as Scott, Grant, or Sherman, Schofield was both Renaissance man and representative of his army. A worthy bookend to Wooster's biography of Nelson Miles—each among the best biographies of nineteenth century U.S. Army leaders." —Samuel J. Watson, editor of the Oxford Handbook of American Military History

Robert Wooster is retired Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He is the author of several books, including The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775–1903, and The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783–1900.

"Wooster shows the heavy and versatile work that a biography can do. Not only is this the definitive biography of Schofield, it is also a masterful and engaging study of the U.S. Army during the late-nineteenth century." —Rory McGovern, author of George W. Goethals and the Army: Change and Continuity in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"Distinguished military historian Robert Wooster has written another splendid book. His judicious, exhaustive, and entertaining biography of this important American military leader is essential reading." —Brian McAllister Linn, author of Real Soldiering: The US Army in the Aftermath of War, 1815-1980"Wooster shows Schofield, the least discussed commanding general of the nineteenth-century U.S. Army, warts and all. As astute, forward-looking, and at times controversial as Scott, Grant, or Sherman, Schofield was both Renaissance man and representative of his army. A worthy bookend to Wooster's biography of Nelson Miles—each among the best biographies of nineteenth century U.S. Army leaders." —Samuel J. Watson, editor of the Oxford Handbook of American Military History