The Edge of Glory: A Biography of General William S. Rosecrans, U.S.A. - Softcover

9780807123966: The Edge of Glory: A Biography of General William S. Rosecrans, U.S.A.
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Major General William S. Rosecrans (1819–1898) was one of the most fascinating and tragic figures of the Civil War. In September 1863 President Lincoln and Congress considered him the most able general on the Union side, but only one month later “Old Rosy” was removed from his command and then quickly forgotten. With The Edge of Glory, William M. Lamers returns this imposing, colorful figure to his rightful place in history.

Lamers examines Rosecrans’s experiences at Iuka and Corinth during the Mississippi campaign, the strategic brilliance that led to the withdrawal of Bragg’s men from Tullahoma and Shelbyville, and his role as commander of the Army of the Cumberland in the Tennessee battles of Stone’s River and the disastrous Chickamauga. Yet the demise of Rosecrans’s distinguished military career, Lamers illustrates, was not a result of his humiliating defeat at Chickamauga but of his difficult, uncompromising personality and the scorn he aroused in many of his superiors, including General Ulysses S. Grant and Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s secretary of war. Although Rosecrans fell short of greatness as a military commander, Lamers deftly shows that he did indeed reach “the edge of glory.”

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William M. Lamers was the assistant superintendent of schools in -Milwaukee.

Larry J. Daniel, a Methodist minister in Murray, Kentucky, is the author or coauthor of three books on the Civil War, including Shiloh: The Battle That Changed the Civil War.

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Lamers’ book is a superior piece of historical reporting, one that enlarges our knowledge of the specific subject and at the same time illumines our understanding of the whole war. . . . The writing is vigorous and on occasion vivid and moving. The accounts of military operations are always clear and generally balanced. (T. Harry Williams New York Times Book Review)

The Edge of Glory is first-rate. . . . Lamers’ full-length treatment has to be considered definitive. (San Francisco Chronicle)

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  • PublisherLSU Press
  • Publication date1999
  • ISBN 10 080712396X
  • ISBN 13 9780807123966
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages520
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