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Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All, by Stephen D. Engle
Chapel Hill: Univ.of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 476 pp. Illus, maps, notes, biblio., index.. $45.00. ISBN:0-80782-512-3.
A solid biography � surprisingly the first ever � of one of the lesser lights of the Civil War. Engle takes a good look at Buell�s early career, during which he seemed, as the book�s sub-title indicates the �most promising of all� the officers in the army, who, despite some bright moments, turned out to be a poor commander.
Well-written, the book has a lot of good word-portraits and some very clear analysis of Buell�s essentially Jominian views on warfare and his inability to understand the political dimensions of the conflict.
Reviewer: A. A. Nofi
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