Critique: Exceptionally well researched, written, organized and presented, "
Winfield Scott's Vision for the Army: Mobilizing the North to Preserve the Union" is an original and strongly recommended contribution to the growing library of American Civil War histories.
For his part, Brown called on generals
Winfield Scott, Eleazer Ripley, and Peter B.
Although McPherson's thorough research supports the humorous Jabba-the-Hut-like portrait he paints of the aged and obese General
Winfield Scott (48) and the entertaining character assassination he performs on General George McClellan, his disparate treatment of these and other leaders undercuts his stated purpose for writing the book by causing the reader to question the fairness and accuracy of his analysis of Lincoln.
Louis Globe Democrat, looking askance at the Democratic Party's 1880 standard bearer, the eminently respectable war hero
Winfield Scott Hancock, editorialized that the nomination "no more changes the character of Democracy than a figurehead of the Virgin on Kidd's pirate craft would change it into an honest ship." I like the backhanded Catholic reference, lest readers forget that the Democracy is the party of rum, Romanism, and rebellion.
Houston and
Winfield Scott, General-in-Chief of that war, are likewise showcased.
Whether that meant New England colonists fighting off marauding native Americans in 1675;
Winfield Scott's Infantry storming the Mexican fortifications at Chapultepec; Doughboys clearing enemy trenches in World War I; or World War IPs bitter fighting at Normandy, Aachen, the Huertgen Forest and Manila, the outcome of the fight hung on the determination and resiliency of Americans fighting at the small unit level.
Winfield Scott's expeditionary army on the beaches south of Vera Cruz ("the first large-scale amphibious operation in U.S.
Winfield Scott to begin rounding up the Cherokees, moving them into stockades in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee.
Written by
Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell, it tells of a man mailing a letter to his girlfriend after an argument.
(1) This article uses an abbreviated examination of
Winfield Scott's Mexico City campaign to provide perspectives on both the evolving character of warfare and the preeminent challenge confronting America's contemporary operational planners--that is, how to translate ascendancy on the conventional battlefield into achievable and enduring political success.
And so, I should note that for more than a century, William and Mary's senior and most famous military alumnus was General
Winfield Scott of Vera Cruz fame.
A It was written by Otis Blackwell and
Winfield Scott for his 1962 movie Girls, Girls, Girls.
During the Mexican War, Semmes spent time in a blockade ship off the Mexican coast and ashore with Gen William Worth, Gen
Winfield Scott's deputy.
