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Article: Scott a pompous but able professional.(ARTS & CULTURE)(THE CIVIL WAR)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 29, 2003
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Byline: Michael P. Riccards, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Even with the enormous body of Civil War historiography, we are still short some major biographies of important figures of the time. Such is the case with Winfield Scott, President Lincoln's first commanding chief of the armies. In fact, until recently there were few treatments of Scott published after 1937.
Then in the late 1990s, John Eisenhower and later Timothy P. Johnson sought to fill the gap. As expected, Mr. Eisenhower focused on Winfield Scott and the expansion of American nationalism; and Mr. Johnson labeled Scott as a glory-seeking elitist who was a political and social conservative ...