| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

John M. Schofield and the Politics of Generalship. By Donald B. Connelly. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xvi, 471 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-3007-0.)

This engaging biography addresses all phases of the military career of John M. Schofield, beginning with his days as a West Point cadet in 1849 to his retirement as commanding general in 1895. Thereafter, he served as an informal adviser to President William McKinley in 1898. Donald B. Connelly persuasively contends that while Schofield displayed competent or skilled combat leadership as a Federal general in the Civil War, he was at his best in dealing with politics. According to Connelly's well-researched account, Schofield adeptly negotiated the labyrinth of civil-military relations during the Civil War and Reconstruction and usually handled internal army politics astutely. Though Schofield was not infallible, Connelly maintains that he seldom put a foot wrong during his army service.

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