The blackstone of military law : Colonel William Winthrop / / Joshua E. Kastenberg ; Martin Gordon, consulting editor.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 342 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- A privileged lineage
- From youth to Yale : the making of a legal mind
- Bostonian lawyer with stirrings of abolitionism
- Frontier lawyer in the Minnesota Territory
- The Winthrop brothers go to war
- A sharpshooter on the Peninsula Campaign
- From Second Manassas to Fredericksburg : "I had some pretty close escapes"
- Civil War judge advocate
- Professionalizing a "Constitutional Army" in a time of uncertainty : 1865-1895
- Professionalizing the practice of military law : Winthrop's influence cemented
- Marriage and field service under the command of John M. Schofield
- West Point professor to the end of a career
- Epilogue : retirement and death.