Civil War High Commands

Based on nearly five decades of research, this magisterial work is a biographical register and analysis of the 3,396 people who most directly influenced the course of the Civil War, its high commanders: presidents and cabinet members, state governors, general officers of the Union and Confederate armies, and admirals and commodores of the two navies.

Author: John H. Eicher, David J. Eicher
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 06/01/2002
Pages: 1040
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 5.84lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 2.13d
ISBN: 9780804736411

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/15/2001 pg. 156
Choice 01/01/2002 pg. 857
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2002 pg. 188
Rec Ref Bks for Small/Med Libr 01/01/2002 pg. 82
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 50

About the Author
John H. Eicher is Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Miami University of Ohio and a lifelong student of the Civil War. David J. Eicher is Managing Editor of Astronomy magazine and a well-known non-academic Civil War historian. He is the author of several books on the war, most recently Mystic Chords of Memory: Civil War Battlefields and Historic Sites Recaptured and The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography.