Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac

From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac

The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War.

President Lincoln oversaw, argued with, and finally tamed his unruly team of generals as the eastern army was stabilized by an unsung supporting cast of corps, division, and brigade generals. With characteristic style and insight, Stephen Sears brings these courageous, determined officers, who rose through the ranks and led from the front, to life.

• On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
• Gettysburg
• Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary
• Meade and Lee After Gettysburg: The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign, from Falling Waters to Culpeper Court House, July 14-31, 1863
• Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
• Grant
• The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln's General, Master Builder of the Union Army
• A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater (Civil War America)
• A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War
• Chancellorsville