They Also Commanded : Forgotten Generals of the Civil War

This book features: Charles Hamilton; Charles Harker; Evander Law; Lloyd Tilghman; Charles Stone; and George Stoneman.

It presents the key lessons in Command and Leadership from Lesser-Known Officers.

Even the casual reader of American history is familiar with the names Ulysses S.

Grant and Robert E. Lee; many may even recognize "Stonewall" Jackson or have heard of "Sherman's March," led by General William T.

Sherman. Students of American Civil War history are quite familiar with Generals George G.

Meade, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and A. P. Hill. But there were more than one thousand other individuals from both sides of the conflict who served as generals.

In "They Also Commanded: Forgotten Generals of the Civil War", Ronald V.

Killian profiles the lives of six officers, two Confederate and four Union, whose stories provide important facts about leadership, the life of a general, military tactics and procedures of the period, and American social experience of the time. Here the reader will meet 24-year-old Charles Harker, one of the youngest generals in the war, who lost his life as he led his troops in a suicidal assault of Kennesaw Mountain; George Stoneman, a veteran of the Mexican War, a cavalryman, and the highest ranking officer captured by the Confederates, who went on to become governor of California; Charles P.

Stone, whose Union forces were routed early in the war, sending shock waves through the chain of command; and Charles Hamilton, a future regent of the University of Wisconsin, whose attempts at personal publicity backfired and caused him to resign his commission.

Filled with occasions of unheralded bravery and ignoble behavior, each of their stories allows for a better appreciation of the range of those who commanded troops during the Civil War, and the society in which they lived.