From First to Last : : The Life of William B. Franklin / / Mark A. Snell.
From First to Last is a complete life story of one of the most controversial yet least well known generals on either side during the Civil War. The number one graduate of the West Point class of 1843, William Buel Franklin served in the U.S. Army's Corps of Topographical Engineers and contribut...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The North's Civil War
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- 1 "A Dutiful and Affectionate Son": From York to West Point
- 2 "Fire Grape at Then1 if They Get Too Close": From the Great Lakes to the South Pass and Beyond
- 3 "I Have Thought So Much of Leaving the Army": Between Two Wars
- 4 "Rascality in High Places": Washington, 1857-1860
- 5 "The Hottest and Most Disagreeable Fire That Anyone Ever Was In": The Var Begins
- 6 "The First Great Crime of the War": From Bull Run to Yorktown
- 7 "Glory Enough for One Day": The Peninsula Campaign, April-June 1862
- 8 "It Is Likely That We Should Have Been Defeated": The Seven Days
- 9 ''We Will Try to Do Our Duty'': Harrison's Landing to Second Manassas
- 10 ''I Would Prefer to Make the Attack'': The Maryland Campaign, September 1862
- 11 "The Radical Thirst for Blood": The Battle of Fredericksburg
- 12 "Halleck Deserves Hanging": The Army of the Potomac and the Politics of Defeat
- 13 "The Army Is Literally Stuck in the Mud": Mud Marching and Mudslinging
- 14 "My Whole Campaign Has Been a Perfect Purgatory": Operations in the Department of the Gulf, 1863
- 15 "Don't You Know This Is Mutiny?": The Red River Campaign
- 16 "The Noble Army of the Shelved": Capture, Escape, and Waiting Out the War's End
- 17 "A Butterfly Kind of Existence": Colt's Firearms and a New Beginning
- 18 "A Person 'Those Life Had So Little in It to Awake Popular Enthusiasm": Public Servant Till the Very End
- SEI_.~ECTED BIBLIOGRAPIIY
- INDEX