Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Historiography and the Making and Meaning of Greatness Biographies Joseph Reid Anderson Clara Barton Henry Ward Beecher Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard Judah Philip Benjamin Thomas Stanley Bocock Braxton Bragg Joseph Emerson Brown Joseph Lawrence Chamberlain Salmon Portland Chase Jay Cooke Charles Anderson Dana Jefferson Finis Davis Varina Howell Davis Dorothea Lynde Dix Frederic Douglass Josiah Gorgas Ulysses Simpson Grant Henry Wager Halleck John Bell Hood Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter Thomas Jonathan Jackson Andrew Johnson Joseph Eggleston Johnston Robert Edward Lee Abraham Lincoln James Longstreet George Brinton McClellan Steven Russell Mallory George Gordon Meade Christopher Gustavus Memminger Oliver Perry Morton Benjamin Morgan Palmer Edward Alfred Pollard David Dixon Porter James Alexander Seddon Raphael Semmes William Henry Seward Philip Henry Sheridan William Tecumseh Sherman Edwin McMaster Stanton Alexander Hamilton Stephens Thaddeus Stevens Charles Sumner George Henry Thomas Walt Whitman Louis Tresevant Wigfall Index

About the Author

CHARLES F. RITTER is Professor and Chairperson of History at the College of Notre Dame in Maryland. He is coauthor, with Jon L. Wakelyn, of American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910 (Greenwood, 1989). JON L. WAKELYN is Professor of History at Kent State University. He is the author of several books, including Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy (Greenwood, 1977), Web of Southern Social Relations (1985), and Southern Pamphlets on Secession (1996).

Reviews

"The essays are accurate, objective, and authoritative....[T]he scope of the entries, the particular context provided by focusing on the war, and the readability of the prose mean that the volume will be a useful addition to public and academic libraries."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

?Civil War buffs will welcome this biographical dictionary...a valuable feature is an extended commentary and analysis of some of the outstanding items of the vast historiography about the Civil War.?-Library Journal

?The essays are accurate, objective, and authoritative....[T]he scope of the entries, the particular context provided by focusing on the war, and the readability of the prose mean that the volume will be a useful addition to public and academic libraries.?-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

?This volume makes good reading for pleasure by any Civil War buff....History students in colleges and universities will find it invaluable for course and research assignments....This book is highly recommended for all libraries and individuals with an interest in the Civil War.?-American Reference Books Annual

?Undergraduates and general readers will find this volume to be a boon in their initial search for facts and interpretations about forty-seven selected leaders of the American Civil War. Historians will find cogent essays surveying the lives and failures or accomplishments of a diverse group of politicians, journalists, religious leaders, military commanders, and other public figures.?-Journal of Military History

"Civil War buffs will welcome this biographical dictionary...a valuable feature is an extended commentary and analysis of some of the outstanding items of the vast historiography about the Civil War."-Library Journal

"This volume makes good reading for pleasure by any Civil War buff....History students in colleges and universities will find it invaluable for course and research assignments....This book is highly recommended for all libraries and individuals with an interest in the Civil War."-American Reference Books Annual

"Undergraduates and general readers will find this volume to be a boon in their initial search for facts and interpretations about forty-seven selected leaders of the American Civil War. Historians will find cogent essays surveying the lives and failures or accomplishments of a diverse group of politicians, journalists, religious leaders, military commanders, and other public figures."-Journal of Military History