Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders

1986 reprint ; xxiv, 679 pages : portraits ; 25 cm ; ISBN 0807108227 ; OCLC 64590858 ; Companion volume to: Generals in gray ; black cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; This classic reference work includes biographical sketches and a rare collection of photographs of all 583 men who attained the rank of general in the Union Army. Here are the West Point graduates and the political appointees; the gifted, the mediocre, and the inexcusably bad; those of impeccable virtue and those who abused their position; the northern-born, the foreign-born, and the southerners who remained loyal to the Union. ; Ezra J. Warner, also the author of Generals in Blue, died in 1974. A native of Lake Forest, Illinois, he was an investment counselor in La Jolla, California, and was well known in Civil War circles as a shrewd and tireless researcher. ; FINE/FINE.