Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All

Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All

Author Type

Faculty

Colleges and Divisions

Arts and Letters

Department

History

Document Type

Book

Description

"A conservative Democrat who argued for limited war aims, 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. He examines Buell's disputes with such figures as Andrew Johnson (then military governor of Tennessee), Henry W. Halleck, George B. McClellan, and Abraham Lincoln. In addition, Engle offers a detailed look at events in the Western Theater during the fall and winter of 1862 and shows how quarreling among Union commanders slowed Northern progress in that vital region." "Engle also devotes considerable attention to the ramifications within the Army of the Ohio of its commander's proslavery leanings. Buell's orders and pronouncements concerning contraband slaves and the treatment of Confederate civilians placed him at odds with a significant portion of the men under his command - a fact that suggests that antislavery sentiment within the ranks of the Union army was more pronounced than previously believed."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN

0807825123

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Publication Date

1999

Publisher

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Keywords

Don Carlos Buell (1818–1898), United States Army of the Ohio (1861-1862), Tennessee campaigns, Kentucky campaigns, Civil War campaigns, Western Theater, Union Army operations, military strategy, 1861-1865 war, regional battles, United States Civil War

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | History | United States History

Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All

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