William Francis Bartlett

Biography of a Union General in the Civil War

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Frank Bartlett was an indifferent student at Harvard when the Civil War began in 1861, but after he joined the Union army he quickly found that he had an aptitude for leadership and rose from captain to brevet major general by 1865. Over the course of the war he was wounded three times (one injury resulted in the loss of a leg), but he remained on active duty until he was captured in 1864. His political stance gained him some national fame after the war, but he struggled with repeated business stress until tuberculosis and other illnesses led to his early death at age 36.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-03-11
Mått152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt295 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor215
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786441464

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. “He Was Not a Close Student”: Prelude to War 2. “Captain Bartlett Is One of the Noblest Fellows”: The Harvard Regiment 3. “One of the Most Complete Slaughter Pens Ever Devised”: The Battle of Ball’s Bluff 4. “Our Regiment Met with the Greatest Loss”: The Road to Yorktown 5. “We Are Learning Subordination Without Complaining”: The 49th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 6. “Oh, How Good Berkshire Water Would Sell Here”: The Department of the Gulf 7. “We Thought Him Too Brave a Man to Be Killed”: Port Hudson 8. “I Must Do the Best I Can”: Into the Wilderness with the 57th Massachusetts 9. “Danger of Being Hit Any Minute”: The Siege of Petersburg 10. “It Was Pandemonium Let Loose”: The Crater 11. “A Horrible Dream Which I Can Never Forget”: Prisoner of War 12. “I Think It Would Be Hard to Find Two Happier People”: War’s End 13. “United We Are Invincible”: The Postwar Years 14. “No Greater or Purer Hero”: Frank Bartlett’s Legacy Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

“a fine work”—North & South; “for more than a century Bartlett’s legacy essentially disappeared. Luckily, authors Richard A. Sauers and Martin H. Sable have rescued this general’s memory through the publication of their eloquently written and superbly researched biography. The authors do an excellent job of placing Bartlett in the larger context of the war, but do not make the mistake of losing sight of their subject in discussions of strategy and tactics. Sauers and Sable are to be commended for this volume which rescues a true American hero from obscurity”—Civil War News.