Challenges of Command in the Civil War: Generalship, Leadership, and Strategy at Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Beyond: Volume 1: Generals and Generalship (Richard J. Sommers - CH) parchment and telegrams

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the President-Elect of the United States

Eisenhower maintained an active schedule of writing

and his war would be a long and bloody one

— From an anonymous note delivered to Congressman Daniel Sickles on February 24

Challenges of Command in the Civil War: Generalship, Leadership, and Strategy at Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Beyond: Volume 1: Generals and Generalship (Richard J. Sommers - CH) parchment and telegramsChallenges of Command in the Civil War: Generalship, Leadership, and Strategy at Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Beyond, Volume I: Generals and Generalship by Dr. Richard Sommers Dr. Richard Sommers Challenges of Command in the Civil War distills six decades of studying the Civil War into two succinct, thought provoking volumes. This first installment focuses on Civil War Generals and Generalship. The subsequent volume will explore Civil War Strategy,