| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Commanding the Army of the Potomac. By Stephen R. Taaffe. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. x, 284 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1451-6.)

Finally, historians of the Civil War are moving out of the grand shadows cast by Bruce Catton and his protégé, Stephen W. Sears, and undertaking long overdue reexaminations of the Army of the Potomac. In just the past few years, John Hennessy, Russel Beatie, Jeffry Wert, and others have published studies that offer useful insights into the men who belonged to that hard-luck army, their four years of bitter struggle with their political masters in Washington and with the Army of Northern Virginia, and their final triumph at Appomattox. Here, Stephen R. Taaffe adds to that literature with a study of the men who achieved corps command in the Army of the Potomac.

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