Военная история / Courage Above All Things: General John Ellis Wool and the U.S. Military, 1812–1863

Название: Courage Above All Things: General John Ellis Wool and the U.S. Military, 1812–1863
Авторы: Harwood P. Hinton, Jerry D. Thompson
Издательство: University of Oklahoma Press
Год: 2020
Страниц: 452
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 13 MB

For a half century, John Ellis Wool (1784–1869) was one of America’s most illustrious figures—most notably as an officer in the United States Army during the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War. At the onset of the Civil War, when he assumed command of the Department of the East, Wool had been a brigadier general for twenty years and, at age seventy-seven, was the oldest general on either side of the conflict. Courage Above All Things marks the first full biography of Wool, who aside from his unparalleled military service, figured prominently in many critical moments in nineteenth-century U.S. history.