Summary of Bruce Catton's Glory Road

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#1 The effects of war on the national well-being were not always positive. In 1862, there were many sides to see, and not all of them were positive. The Federal government had finally nerved itself to remove General McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac, and the deep significance of this act was not lost on various Northern leaders of the Democratic party.

#2 There was a folk saying that followed the expanding frontier: It’s good to be shifty in a new country. In 1862, there were many opportunities for the shifty.

#3 General Hooker was a man who could be converted to the cause of abolition. He was close to the Vice-President, Hannibal Hamlin, who was a stalwart among the abolitionists.

#4 Hooker was a friend of Berry’s, and he recommended him for promotion. He said he would do everything he could to help Berry get the promotion. He also wanted to see Berry given command of the division he once led.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822522282

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The effects of war on the national well-being were not always positive. In 1862, there were many sides to see, and not all of them were positive. The Federal government had finally nerved itself to remove General McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac, and the deep significance of this act was not lost on various Northern leaders of the Democratic party.

#2

There was a folk saying that followed the expanding frontier: It’s good to be shifty in a new country. In 1862, there were many opportunities for the shifty.

#3

General Hooker was a man who could be converted to the cause of abolition. He was close to the Vice-President, Hannibal Hamlin, who was a stalwart among the abolitionists.

#4

Hooker was a friend of Berry’s, and he recommended him for promotion. He said he would do everything he could to help Berry get the promotion. He also wanted to see Berry given command of the division he once led.

#5

Hooker was aware that as far as Halleck was concerned, the word of Joe Hooker might not carry much weight. However, he was not opposed in all things by Halleck. The battle of Antietam had an individual hero, and that hero was Hooker.

#6

The war was already successful from a cold and calculating viewpoint, but Hooker was not satisfied with that. He wanted to be a general, and he wanted to be able to handle things better than his superiors.

#7

General Buell had the command of the eastern Kentucky and Tennessee region, and he was charged with quieting the troubled border region. He had many difficulties in recent months, one of them being a complete inability to get along with Governor Morton.

#8

The case of Brigadier General Jefferson C. Davis, who shot General Buell’s most trusted lieutenant, was not handled properly by the military. Davis was released to the civil authorities, and any Union general who contemplated the matter was bound to conclude that Governor Morton was a man of great influence.

#9

The Iron Brigade, which was made up of four regiments from Wisconsin and Indiana, had been whittled down to a mere thousand men by the time of the Battle of Antietam.

#10

The bounty man was a new addition to the Army of the Potomac in 1862. He was a recruit who had enlisted for money, and he was bringing into the army many men whose primary concern was the acquisition of sudden wealth.

#11

The old volunteer regiments were the last reservoir of the original hope, enthusiasm, and incredible lightness of spirit with which the war had begun. The war was ultimately about this spirit, and if the war was going to be won, it was what would win it.

#12

The 24th Regiment took off for the East just before the Battle of Antietam, where the Army of the Potomac fought against the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. The regiment was feted along the road en route east.

#13

The Iron Brigade, along with most of the rest of the army, went into camp near a little town called Falmouth, a mile or so upstream from the colonial city of Fredericksburg.

#14

The Army of the Potomac sprawled over a wide area to the north and east of Fredericksburg, and its main lines of supply ran back to the Potomac River landings. Over the 15 or 20 miles of atrocious roads which crossed this country, all of the food, clothing, ammunition, and other supplies