| Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All Contributor(s): Engle, Stephen D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1469617102 ISBN-13: 9781469617107 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Military - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 99-18485 |
| Series: Civil War America |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.67 lbs) 496 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Major General Don Carlos Buell stood among the senior Northern commanders early in the Civil War, led the Army of the Ohio in the critical Kentucky theater in 1861-62, and helped shape the direction of the conflict during its first years. Only a handful of Northern generals loomed as large on the military landscape during this period, and Buell is the only one of them who has not been the subject of a full-scale biography. A conservative Democrat, Buell viewed the Civil War as a contest to restore the antebellum Union rather than a struggle to bring significant social change to the slaveholding South. Stephen Engle explores the effects that this attitude--one shared by a number of other Union officers early in the war--had on the Northern high command and on political-military relations. In addition, he examines the ramifications within the Army of the Ohio of Buell's proslavery leanings. A personally brave, intelligent, and talented officer, Buell nonetheless failed as a theater and army commander, and in late 1862 he was removed from command. But as Engle notes, Buell's attitude and campaigns provided the Union with a valuable lesson: that the Confederacy would not yield to halfhearted campaigns with limited goals. |
Contributor Bio(s): Engle, Stephen D.: - Stephen D. Engle is associate professor of history at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. |