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Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt; giving hitherto unpublished official orders, personal narratives of important military operations, and intervie

Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt; giving hitherto unpublished official orders, personal narratives of important military operations, and intervie

Haupt, Herman

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Historical FiguresFiction AnthologiesGeneral Military History

ISBN10: 9389265215
ISBN13: 9789389265217
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 28 2019
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Behind the cannon smoke, the Union fought on paper, on rails, and in tense rooms of power. Orders. Voices. Decisions. Lives at stake. In Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt, the brilliant railroad engineer and military organiser sets down a civil war memoir unlike the usual battlefield chronicle: a military reminiscences narrative built from a primary source document collection of hitherto unpublished official war orders, candid recollections, and close-range encounters with the men directing the war. From the Washington DC War Department to the lines where supply and movement meant survival, Haupt records union army railroad operations and the hard logistics that kept armies in the field. His Lincoln-Stanton interviews, alongside meetings with Halleck, McDowell, McClellan, Meade, Hancock, Burnside and others, create vivid union high command profiles that reveal competing temperaments, priorities and pressures, and illuminate Abraham Lincoln wartime leadership under relentless strain. Valuable to casual readers for its pace and immediacy, and prized by civil war history researchers for the texture of decision-making in 1860s union army history, this historical memoir reprint edition stands as a direct window onto how strategy was communicated, contested and carried out. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. A rare, humane record of command, confusion, and consequence today. For collectors of Civil War classics, it offers an authoritative, atmospheric window onto decisions that shaped a nation.

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