Halleck

Lincoln's Chief of Staff

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

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1 April 1996

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“Halleck originates nothing, anticipates nothing, to assist others; takes no responsibility, plans nothing, suggests nothing, is good for nothing.” Lincoln’s secretary of the navy Gideon Welles’s harsh words embody the stereotype into which Union General-in-Chief Henry Wager Halleck has been cast by most historians since Appomattox. In Halleck: Lincoln’s Chief of Staff, originally published in 1962, Stephen Ambrose challenges the standard interpretation of this controversialï¬gure.

Ambrose argues persuasively that Halleck has been greatly underrated as a war theorist because of past writers’ failure to do justice to his close involvement with movements basic to the development of the American military establishment. He concedes that “by all the touchstones used to judge great captains of the past, Halleck was a failure,” but maintains he was nonetheless “the ‘Old Brains’ of the Union Army in the time of the testing of the nation.”

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“Ambrose has exhaustively researched his subject, and the result is a penetrating examination and provocative reappraisal of Halleck’s capacity as a military commander, and of his close association with President Lincoln.”—New York Historical Quarterly

“Ambrose’sï¬ne book is sound, thoughtful, and scholarly. It also demonstrates an understanding of the high command in modern war and helps to explain the divergent attitudes of Halleck’s contemporaries.”—Civil War History

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Preface
The Formative Years	p. 3
From Chaos to Order	p. 11
"Give Me Command in the West"	p. 23
The Siege of Corinth	p. 41
Consolidating Recent Gains	p. 55
McClellan, Pope, and Second Bull Run	p. 64
The Guillotine for Unsuccessful Generals	p. 79
Burnside and Rosecrans	p. 94
Intrigue Along the Mississippi	p. 108
Concentrate on Important Points	p. 123
Gettysburg and Vicksburg	p. 137
Responsibility and Odium	p. 150
Chief of Staff	p. 162
Total War	p. 181
Victory	p. 196
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 219
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