The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, December 1st, 2005
Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck. By John F. Marszalek. (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 324. Prologue, illustrations, bibliographic essay, notes, acknowledgments, illustration credits, index. $29.95.)
When Maj. Gen. Henry Wager Halleck became general-in-chief of the Union Army in the summer of 1862, he was already one of the most successful men in nineteenth-century America. The recipient of a progressive education at Union College, he completed his formal schooling at the U.S. Military Academy and graduated third in hi...
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