 Robert
E. Lee on Leadership:
Executive Lessons in Character,
Courage, and Vision
by H. W. Crocker III
Robert E. Lee was a leader of extraordinary talents who
inspired an out-gunned, out-manned army to legendary heights. The man who
Teddy Roosevelt called "the very greatest of all the great captains that
the English-speaking peoples have brought forth," lived a life that was a
model for anyone who seeks to shoulder the profound responsibility of leading
others.
Robert E. Lee on Leadership is the first book to present Lee's story
in a way that today's business leaders and managers can use to achieve executive
success. Author H. W. Crocker III illustrates the general's character, vision,
and indomitable spirit in a page-turning narrative that captures the essence
of true leadership. This book includes chapters that apply Lee's executive
acumen to the tough battlefield of today's marketplace.
Hardcover - 248 pages (May 1999) Prima Publishing; ISBN:
0761516808
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Friendly Fire In The Civil War
by Webb Garrison
On May 2, 1963, Stonewall Jackson was on the verge of the greatest victory
of his career at Chancellorsville, Virginia. Shortly before 10 p.m. he rod
through the woods to find where the Federals had set up their lines. As he
returned, his own men, in the noise and confusion, opened fire, wounding
Jackson several times. One of the Civil War's first heroes died eight days
later.
Stonewall Jackson's death is but one example of Yankee killing Yankee or
Confederate killing Confederate in the American Civil War. Here is Jackson's
story and 150 other instances of friendly fire. Although public attention
was drawn to friendly fire in the Vietnam and Gulf wars, cases of friendly
fire date back centuries. But no war was as intense and chaotic in terms
of friendly fire as the Civil War. Most instances were accidental, but there
are also instances of deliberate fire upon comrades.
Friendly Fire in the Civil War strips away the romanticism of the Civil War
through stories of defective ammunition, accidental shootings, blinding smoke,
mistaken uniforms, inexperienced troops, unknown passwords, and deliberate
firing on mixed groups by officers willing to sacrifice their own men to
kill the enemy.
Hardcover; Rutledge Hill Press; ISBN:
1558537147
Soldier of Tennessee : General Alexander P. Stewart
and the Civil War in the West
by Sam Davis Elliott
From Booklist, May 1, 1999:
Elliott chronicles a distinguished yet unsung military career, adding usefully
to knowledge of the Civil War in the West. A graduate of West Point, Alexander
P. Stewart (1821^-1908) spent most of his civilian career as a professional
educator. In the war, he went with his native Tennessee and became one of
the Confederacy's highest ranking officers, rising from major of artillery
to lieutenant general as the last field commander of the Army of Tennessee.
His career is scantily documented (e.g., no physical description of him
survives), yet he appears to have been a sound tactician, taken good care
of his men, and avoided the political backbiting that disfigured the careers
of so many other western Confederates. After the war, he returned to teaching
as a professor at Ole Miss. Resigning in 1886, he later completed his public
career by establishing the Chickamauga Battlefield Park for the National
Park Service. A straightforward and useful biography of a straightforward
and useful man.
---Roland Green Copyright© 1999, American Library Association.
All rights reserved
General Alexander P. Stewart (1821-1908) has garnered little attention from
historians. In this biography, Sam Davis Elliott removes Stewart from the
shadows of history by tracing the life of this influential general, providing
the first in-depth analysis of his critical role in the Civil War's western
theater. A West Point graduate, Stewart served in the Army of Tennessee from
its days as the Tennessee Provisional Army in 1861 to its final surrender
in April 1865. He participated in nearly all the battles the army fought
- including those at Belmont, Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga,
Missionary Ridge, New Hope Church, and Spring Hill, and during the Atlanta
campaign - rising from the rank of major to lieutenant general. Always a
gallant fighter and a calm, confident leader, "Old Straight" - as he was
soon known for his steadfastness in battle - took over General Leonidas Polk's
command when Polk was killed near Marietta, Georgia, and eventually led the
Army of Tennessee's battered remnant in its final stand against William Tecumseh
Sherman at Bentonville. At the war's end, Stewart was the ranking Confederate
officer from Tennessee, and at the time of his death in 1908 he was the ranking
Confederate survivor. More than the story of one man, Soldier of Tennessee
conveys the triumphs and failures of the Confederate effort in the West and
a divided nation's efforts at reconciliation. As Elliott demonstrates, both
the Volunteer State and the Army of Tennessee may have had more flamboyant
soldiers fight under their banners, but none was more constant than "Old
Straight."
Hardcover - 352 pages (May 1999) Louisiana State Univ Pr;
ISBN: 0807123404
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