William Babcock Hazen: The Best Hated Man

by Edward S. Cooper

At West Point, William Babcock Hazen made a life-long enemy of Custer by arresting him, and during the Civil War he made enemies of Rosecrans and Sheridan. After the war Grant came to hate him. These men accused Hazen of stealing, of cowardice in the face of the enemy, of causing the loss at Chickamauga, of being a dupe of the Indians, and they banished him to Fort Buford in the far northwest. Hazen's life debunks the myth of men who fought side by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838640893
• ISBN13: 9780838640890
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 369 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.