Courage Above All Things: General John Ellis Wool and the U.S. Military, 1812-1863

by Harwood P. Hinton and Jerry Thompson

For a half century, John Ellis Wool (1784-1869) was one of America's most illustrious figures--most notably as an officer in the United States Army during the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War. At the onset of the Civil War, when he assumed command of the Department of the East, Wool had been a brigadier general for twenty years and, at age seventy-seven, was the oldest general on either side of the conflict. Courage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806167246
• ISBN13: 9780806167244
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.6" x 9.3"