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Article: Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2001
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Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All. By Stephen D. Engle. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 476. $45.00.)
Despite having commanded the Department and Army of the Ohio, and having occupied Nashville, fought in the battle of Shiloh, and participated in the Perryville (or Stones River) Campaign, no biography of Major General Don Carlos Buell has been published previously. Noted historians of the American Civil War have had few positive words for Buell. A "gloomy minded general"; a "firm disciplinarian" who "lacked charisma"; timid and fearful--so Shelby Foote, James McPherson, and Kenneth Williams respectively ...