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“Happiness Is Not My Companion”: The Life of General G. K. Warren

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Happiness Is Not My Companion”
The Life of General G. K. Warren

David M. Jordan

The valorous but troubled career of the Civil War general, best known for his quick action to defend Little Round Top and avert a Union defeat at Gettysburg.

Gouverneur K. Warren, a brilliant student at West Point and a topographical engineer, earned early acclaim for his explorations of the Nebraska Territory and the Black Hills within the 1850s. With the start of the Civil War, Warren moved from teacher at West Point to lieutenant colonel of a New York regiment and was once soon a rising star within the Army of the Potomac. His fast action at Little Round Top, bringing Federal troops to an undefended position before the Confederates could snatch it, helped to save the Battle of Gettysburg. For his service at Bristoe Station and Mine Run, he was once awarded command of the Fifth Corps for the 1864 Virginia campaign.

Warren’s peculiarities of temperament and personality put a cloud over his service on the Wilderness and Spotsylvania and cost him the confidence of his superiors, Grant and Meade. He was once summarily relieved of his command by Philip Sheridan after winning the Battle of Five Forks, just eight days before Appomattox. Warren continued as an engineer of distinction within the Army after the war, but he was once made up our minds to clear his name before a board of inquiry, which conducted an exhaustive investigation into the battle, Warren’s conduct, and Sheridan’s arbitrary action. Then again, the findings of the court vindicating Warren were not made public until in a while after his death.

For this major biography of Gouverneur Warren, David M. Jordan utilizes Warren’s own voluminous number of letters, papers, orders, and other items saved by his circle of relatives, in addition to the letters and writings of such contemporaries as his aide and brother-in-law Washington Roebling, Andrew Humphreys, Winfield Hancock, George Gordon Meade, and Ulysses S. Grant. Jordan presents a vivid account of t

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