| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

George Thomas: Virginian for the Union. By Christopher J. Einolf. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xii, 413 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3867-1.)
In 1996 John F. Marszalek remarked that the Union general George H. Thomas (1816–1870) never seemed to receive the respect that he, his Army of the Cumberland, and his later biographers believed he deserved. His chroniclers therefore have felt the need to defend him from what they have perceived as unfair detractors. (Steven E. Woodworth, ed., The American Civil War, 1996, p. 339) Although Freeman Cleaves (Rock of Chickamauga, 1948), Francis F. McKinney (Education in Violence, 1961), and Wilbur Thomas (General George H. Thomas, 1964) wrote competent biographies of Thomas, the Rock of Chickamauga has not been the subject of a modern critical study.	1
Christopher J. Einolf's biography is well researched, fast-paced, and decidedly fair. "In making race, slavery, and Southern Unionism a central theme of the biography," Einolf explains, "I am trying to correct a long-standing imbalance in Civil War historical writing, which has emphasized purely military history at the expense of the political and social issues that surrounded the fighting" (p. 10).	. . .

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