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13 de jun. de 2024 · After Lieutenant Gen. Ulysses S Grant, his subordinate, had captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, Halleck was rewarded with command of all the forces in the West. Taking immediate command of his 3 united field armies after Shiloh, he proved to be an incapable field commander in his only campaign, the Corinth Campaign.
Henry W. Halleck, “Old Brains,” was the Union Army General who commanded the Department of Missouri (succeeding John C. Frémont) before his appointment as General in Chief in July 1862. Halleck was a military theoretician who was a good administrator, a bad field commander and an ineffective strategist—which he demonstrated by his collapse before and after the Second Battle of Bull Run.
“Halleck originates nothing, anticipates nothing, to assist others; takes no responsibility, plans nothing, suggests nothing, is good for nothing.” Lincoln’s secretary of the navy Gideon Welles’s harsh words constitute the stereotype into which Union General-in-Chief Henry Wager Halleck has been cast by most historians since Appomattox.
Henry Wager Halleck (January 16, 1815 – January 9, 1872) was a United States Army officer, scholar, and lawyer. A noted expert in military studies, he was known by a nickname that became derogatory, "Old Brains." He was an important participant in the admission of California as a state and became a successful lawyer and land developer. Early in the American Civil War, he was a senior Union ...
17 de dic. de 2004 · In the summer of 1862, President Lincoln called General Henry W. Halleck to Washington, D.C., to take command of all Union armies in the death struggle against the Confederacy. For the next two turbulent years, Halleck was Lincoln's chief war advisor, the man the President deferred to in all military matters.
11. Henry Halleck was a master of administration, logistics, and the politics necessary at the top of the military hierarchy, but exerted little effective control over field operations from his post in Washington, DC As general-in-chief he refused to give orders to his subordinate commanders, instead offering advice, but leaving the final decisions up to the generals in the field.
12 de ene. de 2021 · Henry Wager Halleck, from the Great Generals series (N15) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands MET DP834774.jpg 1,589 × 2,906; 1.57 MB Letter signed H.W. Halleck, Head Quarters, Department of the Missouri, St. Louis, to His Excellency Gov. Gamble (Hamilton R. Gamble), March 24, 1862.jpg 3,120 × 5,101; 1.86 MB
