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11. Henry Halleck was a master of administration, logistics, and the politics necessary at the top of the military hierarchy, but exerted little effective control over field operations from his post in Washington, DC As general-in-chief he refused to give orders to his subordinate commanders, instead offering advice, but leaving the final decisions up to the generals in the field.
Henry Wager Halleck (1815-1872) The Civil War career of the much-maligned Union commander in chief and chief of staff, Henry W. Halleck, was summarized by Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles as he "originates nothing, anticipates nothing. . . . takes no responsibility, plans nothing, suggests nothing, is good for nothing." This ...
Henry Halleck was a general in the United States army.He was born in 1815 in New York. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1839. He fought in the Mexican-American War.During the American Civil War, he became the commander of the Union armies in the Western Theater in 1862. In July 1862, Lincoln made Halleck the general-in-chief of all Union armies.
Henry Wager Halleck (January 16, 1815 – January 9, 1872) was a United States Army officer, scholar, and lawyer. A noted expert in military studies, he was known by a nickname that became derogatory, "Old Brains." He was an important participant in the admission of California as a state and became a successful lawyer and land developer. Early in the American Civil War, he was a senior Union ...
Henry Halleck (1815-72) was born in Waterville, New York. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1839, and served in the Mexican War of 1846-48. He retired from the army in 1854 to practice law, but after the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 he reentered the service with the rank of major general. He commanded the Department of the Missouri from November 19 ...
Henry Wager Halleck (Westernville, Nova York, 16 de gener de 1815 – Louisville (Kentucky), 9 de gener de 1872) fou un oficial de l'exèrcit dels Estats Units, jurista i universitari. Fou també un expert reputat en ciències militars, la qual cosa li valgué el sobrenom de «Old Brains» (literalment, vella intel·ligència).
25 de oct. de 2019 · Despite Grant’s rousing victory, Halleck believed himself to be far and away the military and intellectual superior of the unprepossessing Illinoisan. After all, Halleck had once been lionized as one of the Army’s best and brightest too. Henry Wager Halleck was born in Westernville, N.Y., on January 16, 1815.
