The edge of glory : a biography of General William S. Rosecrans, U.S.A.
Major General William S. Rosecrans in 1862 commanded the important Department of Western Virginia. In 1863 he was leading the second-largest Union army to the great victory of Stone's River. Yet the demise of Rosecran's distinguished military career the author states was because of his difficult, uncompromising personality and the scorn he aroused in many of his superiors, including General Grant and Edwin Stanton, secretary of war
Print Book, English, 1999
Louisiana pbk. ed
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1999