Description: Easton Press leather edition of Bruce Catton's "Mr. Lincoln's Army: The Army of the Potomac," a COLLECTOR'S edition, published in 1990. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has camel tan French moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges, a satin book marker---in FINE condition. [This is the first volume in a trilogy of books by Catton. ] Abraham Lincoln, who lived from 1809-1865, was born in a log cabin in KENTUCKY to illiterate and frontier parents. Lincoln was a volunteer in the BLACK HAWK WAR and later served in the Illinois State Legislature, 1831-37. He courted and married MARY TODD LINCOLN and was elected PRESIDENT of the U.S. in 1860. Lincoln never served a day in President's office when the country was not engaged in the bitter CIVIL WAR. In h1861, the U.S. had almost no army, few good weapons, no officers trained in the higher art of war, and an inadequate and archaic system of command. Lincoln's army of 75,000 volunteers Confederate General Jefferson Davis called a "posse comitatus" to round up 5,000,000 outlaws. . ." Davis was chosen to head the 11 states that had committed to him against 23 states formally still in the Union with Lincoln. It is common knowledge that the North had a huge advantage in both material and manpower. However, the North's lack of effective military leadership negated those advantages. Catton discusses the leaders and the battles at Bull Run, Antietam, and the Peninsular campaign. General McClellan, who was thirty-five when the war began, was a West Point graduate and had done well as a young subaltern in the Mexican War but ultimately President Lincoln was forced to remove him from leadership. Catton concludes that McClellan did the best he could and that he worked under terrible handicap, some of which he created himself, especially in his selection of Allan Pinkerton---who was a fine man for running down train robbers---but was completely miscast as chief of military intelligence. Other personalities include: General Ambrose Burnside, General Nathaniel Banks, General Abner Doubleday, General John Gibbon, General John Fremont, General William Buel Franklin, General George Gordon, General A.P. Hill, General Henry Halleck, General Ulysses S. Grant, General William Tecumseh Sherman, and General Joseph Hooker. T. Harry Williams, distinguished LSU historian has written: "Judged by modern standards, Lincoln stands out as a great war president, probably the greatest in our history, and a great natural strategist, a better one than any of his generals. He was in actuality as well as in title the commander in chief, who, by his larger strategy, did more than Grant or any general to win the war for the Union." "Mr. Lincoln's Army" ends with the Battle of Gettysburg which Catton deemed the psychological turning point in the war for both the Northerners and Southerners. 363 pages, including a Bibliography, Notes and an index. I offer Combined shipping.
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Binding: Leather
Signed: No
Publisher: Easton Press
Subject: Lincoln and His Civil War Generals
Year Printed: 1990
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Illustrator: Period Photographs
Special Attributes: Luxury Edition, Kinkel Frontispiece
Region: North America
Author: Bruce Catton
Personalized: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Lincoln and His General in Civil War
Character Family: Lincoln, Freemont, Buell, Grant, Sherman, Burnside, Meade
