Since it was first published in 1952, Lincoln and His Generals has remained one of the definitive accounts of Lincoln’s wartime leadership. In it T. Harry Williams dramatizes Lincoln’s long and frustrating search for an effective leader of the Union Army and traces his transformation from a politician with little military knowledge into a master strategist of the Civil War. Explored in depth are Lincoln’s often fraught relationships with generals such as McClellan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker, Fremont, and of course, Ulysses S. Grant. In this superbly written narrative, Williams demonstrates how Lincoln’s persistent “meddling” into military affairs was crucial to the Northern war effort and utterly transformed the president’s role as commander-in-chief.
- ISBN10 0880293314
- ISBN13 9780880293310
- Publish Date 1 December 1989 (first published 12 February 1967)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 March 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dorset Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 367
- Language English