History News Notes
Stephen R. Taaffe, who was awarded his Ph.D. in History by Ohio University in 1996, has published Commanding the Army of the Potomac with the University Press of Kansas. Based on numerous collections of primary sources, the book re-examines the dismal early record of the Union Army by looking at thirty-six Union corps commanders,their political machinations, their limited abilities, and their inability to command effectively and to work with superiors such as Generals George McClellan, Ambrose Burnside, Joseph Hooker, George Meade,and Ulysses S. Grant. The book is a completely new take on the early struggles of the Union Army and has received critical acclaim.
This is Taafe’s third book after MacArthur’s Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign and The Philadelphia Campaign. He teaches at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas.
