| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2 | The History Cooperative

John F. Marszalek. Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2004. Pp. 324. $29.95.
With this work, John F. Marszalek fills a large gap in the nineteenth-century U.S. historical record. Despite the considerable roles played by Henry Wager Halleck in disparate fields, no other full biography of the man exists. The few extant studies focus on his Civil War career, with the most notable being that of Stephen E. Ambrose dating to 1962. In some ways, this lacuna is unsurprising, because Halleck is best known as the bureaucratic chieftain of the Union armies, or as the book's subtitle would have it, "Commander of All Lincoln's Armies." However, Marszalek maintains that this flawed general deserves a much more prominent place in American history than his Civil War record would accord him.	1
In preparing this life of Halleck, Marszalek certainly did his homework. Because the Halleck papers are scattered, the author dug into repositories from the U.S. Military Academy to the California State Library as well as Halleck family documents in private hands. Adding to the authoritative nature of the volume is its extensive scholarly apparatus, with forty-six pages of endnotes, plus twenty-seven well-chosen illustrations spanning Halleck's life. Missing are the two or three maps that might profitably have traced Halleck's peregrinations.	. . .

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