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- catalog abstract ""General Joseph E. Johnston was in command of Confederate forces at the South's first victory--Manassas in July 1861--and at its last--Bentonville in April 1865. Many of his contemporaries considered him the greatest Southern field commander of the war; others ranked him second only to Robert E. Lee. To Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, he was the Union's most skilful opponent. But Johnston remains an enigma. His battlefield victories were never decisive. He failed to save Confederate forces under siege by Grant at Vicksburg, and he retreated deep into Georgia in the face of Sherman's march. His intense feud with Jefferson Davis ensured the collapse of the Confederacy's western campaign in 1864, and made Johnston the focus of a political schism within the government. Craig Symonds gives us a rousing narrative of Johnston's Civil War, and the first rounded portrait of the general as a public and private man."--book jacket.".
- catalog contributor b3541896.
- catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns.".
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description ""General Joseph E. Johnston was in command of Confederate forces at the South's first victory--Manassas in July 1861--and at its last--Bentonville in April 1865. Many of his contemporaries considered him the greatest Southern field commander of the war; others ranked him second only to Robert E. Lee. To Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, he was the Union's most skilful opponent. But Johnston remains an enigma. His battlefield victories were never decisive. He failed to save Confederate forces under siege by Grant at Vicksburg, and he retreated deep into Georgia in the face of Sherman's march. His intense feud with Jefferson Davis ensured the collapse of the Confederacy's western campaign in 1864, and made Johnston the focus of a political schism within the government. Craig Symonds gives us a rousing narrative of Johnston's Civil War, and the first rounded portrait of the general as a public and private man."--book jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "West Point -- Indian fighter -- The Florida coast -- Lydia -- War in Mexico -- The 1850s : pathfinder, peacekeeper, filibusterer -- Promotion and resignation -- First command -- Manassas -- Genesis of a feud -- The Peninsula -- Seven Pines -- Louis T. Wigfall -- Command in the West -- Vicksburg -- The paper war -- The Army of Tennessee -- Dalton and Resaca -- Shield and sword -- "We have not cavalry enough" -- "You are hereby relieved" -- Commanding the lost cause -- The battle of the books -- "Funeral and resurrection".".
- catalog extent "xiv, 450 p. :".
- catalog identifier "039303058X".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Norton,".
- catalog spatial "Confederate States of America".
- catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973.7/3/092 B 20".
- catalog subject "Confederate States of America. Army Biography.".
- catalog subject "E467.1.J74 S95 1992".
- catalog subject "Generals Confederate States of America Biography.".
- catalog subject "Generals United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891.".
- catalog tableOfContents "West Point -- Indian fighter -- The Florida coast -- Lydia -- War in Mexico -- The 1850s : pathfinder, peacekeeper, filibusterer -- Promotion and resignation -- First command -- Manassas -- Genesis of a feud -- The Peninsula -- Seven Pines -- Louis T. Wigfall -- Command in the West -- Vicksburg -- The paper war -- The Army of Tennessee -- Dalton and Resaca -- Shield and sword -- "We have not cavalry enough" -- "You are hereby relieved" -- Commanding the lost cause -- The battle of the books -- "Funeral and resurrection".".
- catalog title "Joseph E. Johnston : a Civil War biography / Craig L. Symonds.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".